Describes efforts at the University of Richmond to streamline services for students, resulting in the renovation of space to include the offices of undergraduate admissions, financial aid, registrar, and bursar. The "one-stop shopping" approach has been praised by staff and students alike. (EV)

Explores the theme of self-censorship in libraries in relation to new technologies. Highlights include the results of investing in high-cost electronic resources at the expense of traditional, lower-status formats; the effect of information technologies on literacy and historical records; and market censorship, including centralization and…

This article focuses on the migration of the best practices of a one-stop setup to a communication center allowing for a one-stop shop experience via phone. Specifically, the article describes how enrollment managers at Ferris State University chose elements of their one-stop student service center to migrate into the Enrollment Services…

Identifying the traditional function of the trustees as that of maintaining a balance between accountability and autonomy, and pointing out the threat to that role inherent in the new emphasis on accountability and the development of systems of public higher education, the author outlines prospects for the seventies and the challenge for trustees.…

Theories concerning the organizational dynamics underlying the dispersion of institutional research activities within colleges are proposed. Two theoretical arguments concern whether or not a centralized, monopolistic institutional research office will be found on a given campus: the informational legitimacy argument and the limited attention…

A centralized marketing and promotion office may or may not be a panacea for a continuing education program. Five major advantages to centralization of the marketing and promotion function are minimization of costs, a school-wide marketing strategy, maximization of the school image, enhanced quality control, and building of technical expertise of…

Statement issued by the NCEA Department of School Superintendents on May 1, 1969.

No country in Europe, with the exception of France, provides specially designed professional preservice programs to prepare educational administrators. This is partly because administrators have little power, being controlled at one level by central politicians and administrators and at the institutional level by teachers and teacher unions.…

This paper discusses the present training of Australian educators and the administrative organization of Australian public education and argues that the current system stresses the technical aspects of education while undervaluing the importance of personal relationships and communication skills for teachers. The author emphasizes the importance…

This monograph compiles eight papers discussing faculty collective bargaining experiences in eight different states. Part I contains articles on four states where faculty collective bargaining was in existence before 1971: Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Part II includes discussions of some more recent experiences in Hawaii,…

This manual of the Centralized Processing Center (CPC) was published in 1966 by the Texas State Library as an introduction to, and explanation of, its services. The CPC is defined as a service center which receives requests for material from member libraries, then orders, receives, classifies, catalogs, prepares catalog and shelf list cards, and…

This report describes the system design of a regional computer center for the libraries of New England State Universities. The function of this center is to provide library technical processing service to the participating libraries. These services will include: (1) catalog data file creation and maintenance, (2) catalog data file search and…

This report considers universities as information systems because their effective operation is based on the storage, processing, and communication of various types of information. Three basic types of information systems (administrator-, teacher-, and researcher-oriented) are discussed in an attempt to understand each system's operation from the…

An automated service center was established to assist in developing improved and extended instructional materials services for all teachers and students in the public and private schools of an eleven county area in New York state through offering coordinated and automated purchasing, cataloging and processing of all forms of instructional…

An examination of the issues of centralized control and parity of esteem in Canadian systems of higher education. Includes a profile of Canadian college systems in the various provinces placing them in three categories (unitary, binary, and ternary) on the basis of purpose, administrative structure, and articulation with universities. (JT)