Learning Resources

Abstract: The use of efficiency-oriented criteria is a contreversial means of evaluating educational processes. In this article, the author presents what she calls "The View from Washington." This speech was delivered at the SCUP/ADAPT workshop "More for Less: Academic Planning With Faculty Without New Dollars," held in April 1974 near Chicago.

Abstract: Through design or redesign of conventional structures, the physically and visually handicapped can easily use many conveniences and facilities previously unavailable to them. The authors describe several efforts to enable the handicapped to learn about the physical structures of their community and to move about their environment more freely.

Abstract: In this article, the authors continue their survey of options available to small colleges threatened by declining enrollments. Their article in the volume 3, number 6 issue of Planning for Higher Education, "Demographic Planning: An Action Approach," focused on a method for community colleges to anticipate changing social patterns. Here, they suggest the range of alternatives available to private institutions able to adapt to new conditions.

Abstract: Controversies over the extent and duration of projected enrollment declines have made the techniques involved such predictions a matter of interest to everyone involved in educational planning. This survey of current methodologies and problems in forecasting at the state and institutional level was written by Edward H. Lyell, director of planning and management systems, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, and Patrick Toole, associate professor of engineering design and economic evaluation, University of Colorado, Boulder. Their analysis may contribute to equipping a broader audience for discussions in this field.

Abstract: Community colleges, which usually serve a definable regional base, are in a good position to obtain reliable long-term forecasts of future demand. The demographic modelling approach developed at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, has enabled the college to anticipate changing social patterns and to assist other community institutions in their parallel efforts in planning. The results are reported below by Harold L. Finch, vice president, Johnson County Community College and Joyce Smith, assistant dean, Rockhurst College.

Abstract: Over the past two decades, national enrollment projection studies have experienced an uneven level of success in the accuracy of their predictions. An awareness of the limitations of existing projection techniques has been heightened by the growing realization that existing definitions of enrollment are inadequate. The article that follows examines the best known national enrollment studies in terms of methodologies, objectives and assumptions. The authors, Wayne L. Mangelson, Donald M. Norris, Nick L. Poulton, and John A. Seeley, also suggest directions for developing new approaches in this critical field. Mangelson is director of educational development, Michigan Municipal League. Norris is a Rackham predoctoral fellow at The University of Michigan. Poulton serves as research associate in the office of academic planning and analysis at the University of Michigan. Seeley is a partner in the Formative Evaluation Research Associates. All four are Ph.D. candidates at The Center for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Michigan.

Abstract: The following case study of the origins of the University consortium Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan tells an unusual story. In contrast to the general pattern of most consortia (direct cooperation between institutions), this Center involves the development of joint programs by the extension units of three distant universities and one local college. The early steps taken in establishing the Center are described by Donald D. Fink, director of the consortium.

Abstract: The Society's West Coast Regional Long Range Planning Workshop, held January 17-19, 1974 in San Diego, was entitled, "Academic, Physical and Community Planning: Opportunities for Intergration." John Vasconcellos, California Assemblyman, chairman of the California Joint Legislative Committee on the Study of the Master Plan for Higher Education, and a participant in the workshop, stated that this title failed to convey the urgent necessit for cooperative planning between educational and community institutions. His alternative title, "The Necessity for Connectedness," met with general approval. At the workshop, Charlotte Mitau, president of the St. Pau, Minnesota Board of Education, pointed to the need for increased participation by higher education in the training of personnel and the preparation of curricula for primary and secondary education. P.R. Theibert, special assistant to the president at Hofstra University and consultant to Educational Facilities Laboratories, focused on artificial turf and membrane roofs as leading examples of the evolution of the school gymnasium into the open multi-use recreational facility. the exerpts below from the remarks of these two workshop participants illustrate the range of options available to administrators seeking to make educational resources available to the entire community.

Abstract: Skyrocketing interest rates and soaring construction costs are taking their toll on college and university building programs. Campus planners, especially those at small private colleges, are looking at previously unexplored ways to economize. At St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, plans are under way to recycle a seven-year residence hall for use as a library. The circumstances leading up to the development of the project are described in the following article by Kenneth Curley, director of public relations at the college.