Examines educational facility management within the context of a learning organization to help facilities meet twenty-first century challenges and the advance of technology. A learning organization is defined along with its characteristics and core concepts. Also discussed are the leadership role and measures for developing a learning…

Discusses the impact of institutional culture on collaboration among nursing faculty. Explores facets of collaboration: strategic planning, origins of change, group dynamics, and community building. Contains 25 references. (SK)

Surveys of business school deans in 1995 (n=243) and 1998 (n=151) regarding total quality management (TQM) practices revealed increases in mission and strategy development, goal setting, and use of advisory boards and cross-functional teams. Few are using TQM to manage core learning processes. (SK)

Considers the value of consciously applying marketing language to educational efforts. Urges that market analysis might lead composition administrators to go with some flows that at first might seem best resisted. Presents an introduction to marketing rhetoric. Considers examining the current "plan" for marketing composition and its effects,…

Discusses information technology and human performance technology (HPT) and considers the potential of performance technology to improve business results. Topics include the strategic value of HPT in organizational governance, developing leadership capability, team building, fostering collaboration, and corporate culture change; and the need to…

Takes a general look at mergers between universities and colleges, considering the reason to merge, the strategies for merging, and issues involved in merging. Reviews a particular case in point, the merger of Eastern Montana College-Montana State University, and weighs both the positive and negative results of that merger. (TB)

Discusses how a communications department can thrive and what allows for it to be reduced and threatened with extinction. Provides specific advice for survival: (1) avoid isolation; (2) pursue political positioning; (3) seek support and strong leadership; (4) capitalize on contributions of adjunct faculty; and (5) develop departmental…

Excerpts from a coming book, "Intentional Design and the Process of Change" identify 13 lessons from the authors' 20 years of experience in change management and strategic planning in higher education. Emphasis is on leadership principles for managing the process of change. (DB)

Compared law school mission statements with questionnaire responses about the school's program, overall direction, and values. Found that while many law schools are addressing issues effectively, they are not doing so through the use of a mission statement. In some areas, top-ranked schools have a significantly different focus, and there are major…

Introduces a new, comprehensive planning and change concept for universities, "change creation," that encompasses both strategic planning and a transition process for the organization from "what is" to "what should be." After exploring change, why it often fails, and the tenets of change creation, presents its steps. A few are: leadership team…

Describes some dramatic changes in the author's reading instruction, an example of how reflection leads to action in a reflective learning community. Uses her observations to reflect on the reading processes of her young readers and the materials being used to support them as developing readers. (SG)

Proposes strategic planning and training initiatives that can be used to facilitate the development of diverse self-directed work teams. Offers practical implications for effective functioning of diverse self-directed teams in the workforce. (Author)

Explores how radical, strategic re-thinking in postsecondary education dormitory facility planning has been stalled due to reliance on too many assumptions. Also examined is how assumptions have shaped master planning. (GR)

Describes the steps involved in a performance improvement program in the context of a large multinational corporation. Highlights include a training program for managers that explained performance improvement; performance matrices; divisionwide implementation, including strategic planning; organizationwide training of all personnel; and the…

Asserts that strategic planning can be a powerful tool in helping an organization like the National Association for Developmental Education to reinvent itself to better meet today's and tomorrow's needs. The strategic planning process involves the asking of several basic questions: "What do we want to be in the future?"; "Who are…