Learning Resources

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: The long-term planning concerns of colleges and univerisities have been shifting in recent years. Emphasis is increasingly being placed upon the exploitation of all higher education resources through regional or state coordination, and upon the adjustment of services to the changing educational and vocational needs of society. The Ninth Annual Conference of The Society for College and University Planning, held in Denver July 14-17, 1974, examined the causes and reults of these new developments. Some indications of the conference's successful presentation of the issues involved can be found in the presence in Denver of representatives from statewide education agencies and unversity systems, legislators, and officers of consortia. These individuals, amounting to one-fifth of the nearly 500 present, comprise a new constituency at Society meetings. This report on the conference explores the implications of the new priorities in higher education.

Abstract: This is the fifth of seven articles to address the problem of what higher education can do to meet the space needs of new programs and wider constituency, without resorting to new building. One way to meet space needs is for two or more institutions to establish a cooperative effort that makes better use of existing facilities. This effort can range from administrative acts such as cross-registration, a common calendar, joint purchasing and storage, and library cooperation, to ambitious collaboration in academic, athletic and other programs. Not uncommon are joint efforts between academic and non-academic groups. The impact such efforts have on space use is outlined in this article, along with examples. A larger selection of over sixty case studies on cooperation is on hand at Eduational Facilities Laboratories. These may be obtained on request from EFL, 477 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10022. The information of these articles and for the complementary case studies, compiled for EFL by Jane Lord and Stephen A. Kliment, resulted from a project jointly funded by the Office of Experimental Schools of the National Institute of Education (U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare), and by Educational Facilities Laboratories.

Abstract: This is the sixth of seven articles to address the problem of what higher education can do to meet the space needs of new programs and a wider constituency, without resorting to new building. One way to meet space needs is to obtain facilities on an interim basis. Such facilities may be bought, leased, or used rent-free. This solution applies both to brand new institutions planning a permanent capmus and to existing ones faced with a sudden but only temporary space need. Various approaches are given in this article, along with examples. A larger selection of thirty case studies is on hand at Educational Facilities Laboratories. These may be had on request from EFL, 477 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10022. The information for these articles and the complementary case studies, compiled for EFL by Jane Lord and Stephen A. Kliment, resulted from project jointly funded by the Office of Experimental Schools of the National Institute of Education (U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare), and by Educational Facilities Laboratories.

Abstract: This is the last of seven articles published in the April, June, and August issues of Planning, which have addressed the alternatives available to institutions of higher education in meeting the space needs of new programs and new attitudes, as well as a wider constituency, without resorting to new building. Administrators are finding ways to restructure campus housing in order to reflect shifting student attitudes to their college living environment. A review of general approaches is supplemented by examples selected from a group of ten in-depth case studies that are available on request from Educational Facilities Laboratories, 477 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10022. The information for this article and the complementary case studies was developed by Erman B. Striner under a project funded by Educational Facilities Laboratories.

Abstract: Academic planning at many collegesand universities has recently focused on early admission programs for high school students. Written by Dr. George Williams, director of special academic planning at University of Denver, the article that follows examines the pros and cons of the policy and surveys a variety of options available to educational institutions.

Abstract: Looming over New York City's Upper East Side and Central Park is the new Annenberg tower of the Mt. Sinai Medical Center. The building is the largest single structure in the world combining hospital and community health service, and medical school and research facilities. The thirty-one story, $152 million (privately raised) building opened in May, 1974. 45% of the structure, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, contains hospital facilities providing health care for 165,000 residents of East Harlem. The rest of the building is occupied by the six-year-old School of Medicine, which transforms the 122-year-old Mt. Sinai from a teaching hospital into a complete medical center. The school has affiliated wit City University of New York, and includes a Graduate School of Biological Science. The medical school currently has 224 enrolled students, with 65 in the first-year class; this number will rise to 100. The photogrpahic essay which follows describes some of the learning facilities on one of the two floors for first and second-year students, which include 128 individual work-study units, laboratory equipment, and advanced audio-visual teaching equipment for each class. The essay was written by Dr. Edra L. Spilman, associate dean and professor of medical eduation at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

Abstract: The disparity between advanced educational preparation and training and subsequent employment opportunities raises major questions regarding traditional academic expectations and lifestyles. In this article, Loring M. Thompson, vice president for planning at Northeastern University, offers some suggestions for a new relationship between educational institutions and scientists, writers, artists, and other highly-specialized creative individuals.

Abstract: Safeguarding the morale and vitality of educators has become a central question in this time of trenchment for most educational institutions where cost effectiveness is a major concern. The continued well-being of faculty and administrators, and their joint role in educational planning, was a major concern at a workshop convened by the Society for College and University Planning, in cooperation with Academic Development and Planning in Transition. The workshop was held at the Nordic Hills Conference Center near Chicago from April 17-19, 1974. The speech which follows was the opening addres, delivered by Stephen K. Bailey, vice president of the American Council on Education. The complete preceedings of the workshop will be published this fallas a cooperative venture of the Society and Educational Testing Service.

Abstract: The development of an open-ended list of ways in which to increase the effective participation of faculty in university planning efforts was the goal set by David G. Brown, provost of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in his address to the SCUP/ADAPT workshop, "More For Less: Academic Planning With Faculty Without New Dollars." The complete proceedings of the workshop, which was held April 17-19, 1974 at the Nordic Hills Conference Center near Chicago, will be published this fall as a cooperative venture of the Society and Educational Testing Service.