As educational enrollments, resources, and confidence decline, complexity, ambiguity, and dissatisfaction increase. This mixture of growth and decline creates an adverse environment for educational leaders. History shows, however, that adversity can have important uses and profound advantages. Leaders can use adversity to help define new and more…

The conventional concept of educational efficiency, adapted from the technical-industrial sector, is inappropriate for public schools. In the technical industrial sector, there is widespread agreement about the desired outcome: profit. Yet there is very little public agreement about the proper goals of schooling. Even if agreement on goals could…

A study was undertaken to determine the extent to which "Choice" provides librarians with an adequate evaluation of the best books in the field of western American history in a reasonable amount of time. To assess the overall coverage, the titles of all the books reviewed in "Western Historical Quarterly" from 1970 to 1974 were searched in…

Designed to assist police departments in improving the productivity of their patrol operations, this volume on specialized patrol and a companion volume on routine patrol operations are intended for use by various sizes of departments. The volume of specialized patrol focuses upon the appropriate use and effective operation of specialized patrol…

The benefit-cost relationship analysis concerns the cost effectiveness of employment and training in the Water Distribution Division of the Dallas Water Utilities Department and deals specifically with 104 entry workers hired to become pipe fitters. Half of the entry workers were enrolled in the Public Service Careers (PSC) training program and…

Business officers should function as members of institutional management teams whose responsibilities include devising more effective ways to collect, present, and evaluate business and financial information for governing boards and academic administrators. The challenge is to find ways to encourage institutional administrations to consider the…

Most universities have been organized as non-profit public or private institutions. Their objectives have not been clearly defined nor has their behavior been well understood. In practice, the management of universities is carried out by administrators who depend largely on government funding and/or private donations. They are subject to various…

If we are to reduce wastage in higher education, we must first understand, and then combat some practices found in educational institutions. Specifically, we must discourage: over-staffing, power politics, and statistical juggling. Each institution of higher learning, each community, each state, should examine objectively the possibilities of…

Stresses the need to find the most economical ways to organize instruction in higher education in the Soviet Union. Concludes that concentration of specialist training in specific areas within a limited number of educational institutions will promote efficient utilization of resources. (Author/DB)

Delegation involves responsibility and authority for each staff member in the 4-H program. (ABM)

An industrial training cost-effectiveness model developed at Bowling Green State University and used in several practical situations is evaluated with definitions of terms, structured training program costs, training returns, and data collection and analysis procedures. The authors emphasize that money spent for structured training is an…

In the community college setting, particularly one in which innovative approaches to instruction are being introduced, demands on faculty time are constantly increasing. For faculty, available time is a constant; the only way to increase it is to reorder it. Means for reordering and allocating time effectively are suggested. (JDS)

Methods and criteria for evaluating the instructional effectiveness of computer-assisted training systems are outlined and discussed. (MSE)

A discussion of France's National Evaluation Committee for higher education describes its origin and the rationale for its creation, the place it fills within higher education in that country, details of its first year's activity, typical procedures for institutional evaluation, and its general evaluation criteria. (Author/MSE)

A study based on data from Norway's four universities shows that administrative load for academics tends to decrease with increasing department size. However, large departments have relatively higher administrative costs than small ones, and in departments where administrative and office functions are poorly developed, academics spend more time on…