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Abstract: Suggests a number of potential changes colleges and universities could make to better serve their populations and utilize their facilities. A revised academic calendar, competence-based exams, and integration of student employment into the academic programs are among the changes proposed which, taken together and implemented across institutions, the author contends could markedly transform the higher education system in the United States.

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In-House Master Planning

By: Charles Hight,John Lincourt

How one university decided to shape its own master plan.

From Volume 24 Number 3 | Spring 1996

Abstract: In an attempt to reduce or eliminate the problems associated with hiring outside architects to draw up master plans, the president of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte created an in-house master planning task force to oversee the bulk of the master planning efforts. Outlines the various stages the task force underwent in the planning process, including educating its members about campus design, creating a vision, determining essential values, and drawing up guidelines for the planning process.

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Is Education Biased Against Religion?

By: D. G. Hart

From Volume 24 Number 3 | Spring 1996

Abstract: Book Review: Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma, by Warren Nord. University of North Carolina Press. 1995. 458 pages. ISBN 0-8078-4478-0.

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Learning from the Great Leaders

By: Larry Donnithorne

From Volume 24 Number 3 | Spring 1996

Abstract: Book reivew: Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, by Howard Gardner. Basic Books, 1995. 341 pages. ISBN 0-465-08279-3.

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The Amazing World Wide Web

By: Dorothy Reidelbach

It may be big as the printing press, the telephone, and the motor car. What should colleges be doing to use it well?

From Volume 24 Number 3 | Spring 1996

Abstract: Summarizes the brief history of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), and discusses three campus planning issues that have resulted from the rapid expansion of the Web: how can institutions best use the Web to support teaching, research, recruitment, and public relations, ensure that what goes out from their campus is accurate and of high quality, and devise guidelines for information dissemination from individuals or departments?

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The Assessment Mania and Planning

By: Gerald H. Gaither

The pressure to report output measures is increasing. What's it all about? What should colleges do?

From Volume 24 Number 3 | Spring 1996

Abstract: Documents the shift in focus on assessment in the 1980s to focus on accountability in the 1990s. More and more frequently, the author contends, assessment is being linked with planning as a means of determining if the academic plan is working. Offers suggestions for collecting data to demonstrate an institution is operating efficiently and in concert with the overall institutional plan.

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