This examination of the operation of teams in the Pilot Communities Program is chiefly historical in character. Based on intensive examination of proposals, evaluation studies, reports, memoranda, and interviews with personnel involved in the program, it was written by two university professors who had not been involved in the actual program. The…

The New College Experimental Teacher Education Program at Hofstra University was developed to provide a field-centered experience for undergraduates interested in pursuing careers in elementary education. The Teacher Innovator Program at Columbia University's Teachers College provided the major theoretical ideas and concrete materials for the…

This paper examines the no-growth phenomenon in higher education. A framework is presented for viewing what is occurring in higher education as it seeks to resume a dynamic state of growth. Borrowing from Schumpeter's five categories of innovations by which business firms seek to gain a competitive edge over their rivals, an analytical framework…

The papers in this volume are: Learning to Be; Staff Development for Student Development; A Humanistic Approach to Educational Management; Inservice Education, A Total Staff Involvement; Community Colleges as Political Institutions; Student Development--Where Are We Going; Of Time and Modules--The Organization of Instruction; Measuring Student…

This document reports on an investigation which surveyed process analysis and documentation concepts, practices, and standards in light of the need for communicating the processes and outcomes of educational research and development. The survey demonstrated that the areas of impartial process analysis and documentation are both important and…

The Crestwood Community-Based Learning Experiences Project was undertaken to test the feasibility of conducting an out-of-school learning program and to determine the cost of establishing such a program. For 3 months, 6 teachers and 206 fifth-grade children participated in a total of 20 field experiences which were implemented at three levels: a)…

Campus facilities for students who wish to pursue an academic degree but cannot attend the campus offering the degree present a challenge to the institution. This paper discusses the design of physical facilities after only a brief discussion of instructional techniques and passing reference to the formidable problems of transition from…

After listing the constraints on publicly-supported institutions, the author insists that higher education institutions are still free to revitalize liberal education, shorten the curricula, revise subject matter requirements, and even to alter drastically the internal system of governance. Higher education is crowded with tasks solely within the…

There are many institutions that utilize the learning contract as a framework within which learning is described. At Empire State College, the learning contract is a term used to imply a solid commitment to a plan of study developed by a student and a faculty member after whatever deliberation both deem necessary. The learning contract specifies…

Dimensions and perspectives of the external degree as a potential thrust for the University System of Georgia, are explored in this report. Emphasis is placed on a definition of terms, significant developments in the external degree movement, the scope of educational decisionmaking required in planning external degree programs, forces and…

Technology, the systematic application of organized knowledge to practical tasks, has much to offer education, but a great deal must be done to realize this potential. Over $1.2 billion has been invested in technology by the United States Office of Education in the last decade alone, but educational technology is still in its adolescence; for…

This report investigated which of seven kinds of information would be most valuable in helping students make a decision concerning personal adoption of a new educational practice. Three hundred education and noneducation majors from the University of New Hampshire completed questionnaires containing seven information sources: a) personal…

The 1966 meeting of the Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with accelerated educational change. The following speeches were presented: (1) "Access to Higher Education: Implications for Future Planning" by Richard Pearson; (2) "The Differentiated Youth: A Challenge to Traditional Institutions" by Joseph D. Lohman; (3) "Teaching…

To obtain quantitative measures of the extent, popularity, or desirability of innovations and changes in education for the professions, a questionnaire asking the current proportion, recent significant increase or decrease, and desirability of future increase or decrease about each of fifty trends in professional education was sent to the…

The basic thesis of this paper is that less hassles, less interference, new cultural values, and current social trends make "now" a good time for improving schools. The author suggests that change is slow in coming because administrators are reluctant to take action while they are still in the throes of a dilemma over whether schools should…