In November 1969 Marymount College organized the Innovation Workshop as a first step toward institutional renewal. The workshop's objective was to heighten the consciousness of students and faculty about the need for change in the undergraduate experience. (Author)

A motivational system, the Contingency Management System, uses contracts in which some amount of defined task behavior is demanded for some interval of reinforcing event. The Reinforcing Event Menu, a list of high probability reinforcing behaviors, is used in the system as a prompting device for the learner and as an aid for the administrator in…

This article described a pragmatic approach for conducting the institutional research that an organization must do in order to remain a dynamic entity, i.e., one which develops and changes within its environmental setting. (Author/RK)

Considered a number of factors which operate across any type of change endeavor at any level which ultimately influence the success of an innovative effort. In this case these factors are the level of public and student sentiment. (Author/RK)

While much of American higher education is cutting back, the two-year colleges are expanding, even though the value of some of their methods remains unproven. (Editor)

Author feels that changes must soon come about in improving education because the traditional system is economically untenable. (GB)

Author describes her efforts to model effective teaching behavior. (GB)

Article presents the NCET Research on the need to collate and disseminate information on innovations in industrial training and the related fields of further and higher education in the United Kingdom. (Author)

A discussion of computer networks for educational purposes, primarily for information storage and retrieval. (HB)

A look at the ALOHA SYSTEM research project at the University of Hawaii, which developed and built a computer-communication network based upon the use of UHF radio broadcast channels for console to computer and computer to computer communication. (Author)

Developments of alternative schools are reviwed, emphasizing differences in five types of public school options and the similarities of these types in respect to their social education programs. (Author/KM)

Analyzes the expansion of women's studies on college campuses since 1965. (RB)

Library schools need to address the question of professional preparation in relation to their present programs. In addition to the author, statements are made by Ralph Blasingame, Martha Boaz, George Bobinski, Margaret Chisholm, Guy Garrison, Norman Horrocks, Jean Lowrie, Kenneth Shaffer, Roy Stokes, and William Summers. (4 references) (SJ)

Lists articles and books for both students and teachers on the subject of futurism. (GB)