This collection of papers is intended to help develop a rationale for the gathering and use of data in 2-year colleges. Problems of data as experienced by a state director, a college administrator, an institutional research office, and a national community junior college information service are discussed. Some conclusions were: (1) state agencies…

Tracing the impact of specific federal laws and regulations on such private college concerns as residence hall housing requirements, student privacy rights, race and sex discrimination, the demise of "in loco parentis," student discipline and "due process," and compulsory chapel, the author suggests appropriate responses of religious colleges to…

Racism in Australian schools is indicated by an attitude survey which reveals that teachers from traditional classrooms believe that Aboriginal students will do less well than White students, whereas teachers from an open school predict that Aboriginal children should do as well as White children, given equal ability. (Author/EB)

Given the trends in technology and the resultant shift in cost patterns, the question arises as to the best role for the central computer center at a college or university. Managers should try to choose a strategy that enables the institution to exploit emerging technology while maintaining continuity in the provision of their services. (Author)

Suggested ways of planning and conducting high quality teacher preparation programs are discussed under major headings of student selection, sequential courses and experiences, and program design. (HD)

Discusses alternative instructional arrangements in teaching of values. Suggestions include values as a course or major, discussing values in all subjects, values in out-of-class experiences and counseling settings. Student personnel programs, institution's financial commitments and combining lectures with counseling suggested as means to ensure…

Author states that "...potential /of lifelong education in the arts/ for helping to add to and define meaning in human life would be vastly expanded if it...were treated as a basic skill in constant need of refurbishing." (Author/RW)

Colleges are appointing senior-level people to handle public relations. Concerns about the public's skepticism include: setbacks in Congress, attacks on moneymaking operations, academic quality, dissatisfaction of employers, cynicism about college sports, anxieties about cost, competition for resources, scandals, etc. (MLW)

Describes the strategies, participants, and activities of the University of Alabama's Project Growth which successfully demonstrated that, with encouragement and training, women and minorities could become more visible, could be appointed to positions challenging the upper limits of their gifts and skills, and could be more productive as…

A study was conducted to compare faculty perceptions of how their institutions were functioning. Institutions were similar with respect to support systems and missions and other organizational and student characteristics. Findings related to the University of Hawaii's portion of the study are reported and discussed. (BC)

A commentary on the emergence of an age beyond industrialism which paints a new vision of industrial enterprise and which evolves around challenges to American core values which reflect a new quest for individuality and for personal enhancement through continuous learning. Three major challenges are described followed by suggestions for the new…

Focuses on school desegregation as a result of institutional policies, on the legal and extralegal policies that generated and perpetuated racial segregation in public education. (Author/RK)

Describes the motivation, planning, implementation, evaluation, and restructuring of a course in Critical Care Nursing developed by faculty and inservice educators from several hospitals. (Editor/TA)

This paper proposes a model, based on chaos theory, that explores strategic planning in higher education. It notes that chaos theory was first developed in the physical sciences to explain how apparently random activity was, in fact, complexity patterned. The paper goes on to describe how chaos theory has subsequently been applied to the social…