Shows how to foster creative thinking by using materials and exercises based on metaphor. Explains how to use metaphor-based readings from nonbusiness sources. Includes a reading list and application examples. (Contains 54 references.) (SK)

Personal account of her first-year experience as superintendent of Washington County Public Schools in Hagerstown, Maryland. (PKP)

Examines the political and social changes that have inspired the Wise Use/Property Rights organizations operating in the American West. Discusses issues surrounding the actual numbers of people involved in the movement, public sentiment, and strategies used by key activists. (LZ)

Discusses evaluation for human performance improvement and organizational success. An expanded framework that builds on the traditional four-level training evaluation framework is suggested that includes strategic and tactical planning, performance improvement, organizational development, customer satisfaction, total quality, societal…

Discusses total quality management principles and expands conventional total quality programs to go beyond client satisfaction by including societal usefulness. Highlights include contributing to future well-being; paradigm shifts; and integrating quality management plus and strategic planning to create synergistic organizational improvement. (LRW)

Reports the results of a survey of the Association for Assessment in Counseling (AAC) members concerning the organization's activities, its journal, its newsletter, strategic planning goals, and convention activities. Results indicate that there is widespread agreement with AAC mission and identity statements, and support for all nine planning…

Information technology (IT) presents universities with new challenges and opportunities. This paper identifies three principles to guide IT management: consideration of IT when formulating strategic plans; integration of IT management to enhance recognition of economies of scale and opportunities for technical substitution; and direct user…

Multiple task forces of business graduate students developed strategic plans for local organizations and analyzed them as "living cases." Such field-based projects are relevant and realistic. (SK)

Since (British) colleges became responsible for strategic planning in 1993, further education managers have encountered criticism for being either too inefficient or too business-like. A study examining 53 college strategic plans suggests that planning occurs within a national strategic vacuum and uses diverse plans and processes. (22 references)…

Revisits the few articles and notes written from a feminist perspective that appeared in "College Composition and Communication,""College English," and "English Journal" in the early 1970s. Focuses on feminist retrospective accounts--re-visions of composition written since the mid-1980s. Speculates on the positive and…

Describes the application of strategic-planning principles at Gainesville College (Georgia) in the 1980s, the commitments the college made to both specific and general planning objectives, and the results over time as reflected in enhanced institutional effectiveness. Concludes that any strategic plan must be implemented daily and must be…

Describes "The Counseling Psychologist's" (TCP) format and content, policy issues, editing experiences, and the interplay of professional and social forces during the years of 1997 to 1998. Focuses on the journal's mission to extend the tradition of the TCP by building on its many strengths. (GCP)

Presents a general framework for financial modeling in college planning, and applies the model to a representative, small, liberal arts college. The model allows administrators to explore the financial consequences of curriculum, staffing, workload, average class size, scholarship, and enrollment decisions in terms of both short- and long-term…

A few years ago, the Williamson County (Tennessee) School District developed a strategic plan to encourage volunteers' participation. The plan includes a vision, goals, and objectives; strategies for increasing community involvement; recognition for all volunteers (via the Shining Apple Award); and program evaluation. (MLH)

Describes development and implementation of a four- page strategic plan at Colby-Sawyer College (New Hampshire). Notes initial small group meetings of faculty and staff to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Explains the resulting plan's format which is organized around eight critical areas, three institutional goals, and…