This paper suggests that education leaders who would create learner-centered schools should define and understand the prevailing organizational structures and educational processes of their schools and determine whether or not these subsystems support or oppose one another. This report examines the use of a self-assessment, diagnostic tool (the…

This report discusses lessons learned by the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) about improving and maintaining safe, humane institutions. Chapter 1, "Why Focus on Conditions of Confinement?" explains that many facilities do not meet minimum standards of care, and discusses the role of institutional conditions and links…

The success of an institution in recruiting students is directly related to how well it projects its own uniqueness. (GB)

This article describes the roles of the community mental health worker in institutional change. Four examples of programs aimed at helping students effect change at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are discussed. (Author)

Coordinating administrative efforts in representing the college is necessary to not only attract but also to retain new students. (Editor)

Discusses the interrelationship between environment and behavior in institutional settings and derives therefrom some understanding of the nature of decision that determines how people live. (Author)

The old discrete functions of college, hospital, and clinic have evaporated, thus the thought-action problem for educators today revolves about the issue of what students mean by relevance. (Author/MF)

Describes the facilities provided to Fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. The Center's early development and growth is reviewed. Interviews with several Fellows are reported. The author comments on the expected role of the Center in the 1970's. (LC)

Counselors must face their responsibility as environmental manipulators in order to deal with increasing problem of extortion among students. They must try to correct the behavior without exposing the victim to possible retaliation and be aware of far reaching implications such as the possibility of drug use among extortionists. (CJ)

Explores the recent literature on proprietary schools, focusing on the characteristics of proprietary schools and the distinctions between proprietary schools and community colleges. Poses the questions of whether proprietary schools are converging with community colleges and whether proprietary schools are a threat to community colleges. Urges…

Discusses linguistic insights that may be pertinent both to reconsidering the desirability and tenability of the principle of plurilinguistic equality and to the day-today practice of multilingual institutional communication. (Author/VWL)

Examined appointments of academic administrators in higher education to identify success rate of women relative to proportion of their representation; to identify and characterize emerging alternative career pathways in colleges and universities; to compare success rate for position types of internal candidates with external higher education…