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Peer reviewedSteeh, Charlotte; Schuman, Howard – American Journal of Sociology, 1992
Reports results of a study examining racism among young white adults using 12 racial policy questions. Evaluates cohort effects and events of the period in shaping racial attitudes. Discusses the effects of education and school desegregation on racial attitudes. Concludes that racial tolerance and liberalism are not decreasing. (DK)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Cohort Analysis, Desegregation Effects
Download full textLozier, G. Gregory; Chittipeddi, Kumar – 1985
The integration of issues management into the institutional strategic planning process at Pennsylvania State University is discussed. The significance of issues management as an organizational process is also considered. Stages of the issues management process are: (1) scanning the external environment to identify strategic issues; (2) analyzing…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning, Decision Making
Lenth, Charles S. – 1985
Background materials are presented on demographic trends, economic changes, financing patterns and governance decisions affecting community colleges in the western United States. Following an executive summary, chapter I provides an overview of the characteristics of public community colleges and the particular challenges they face. Chapter II…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Economic Climate, Economic Factors
Phi Delta Kappa, Bloomington, IN. – 1984
This handbook is designed to aid school administrators, policy-makers, and teachers in bringing a "futures orientation" to their schools. The first part of the book describes a "futuring process" developed as a tool for examining alternative future probabilities. It consists of a series of diverging and converging techniques that alternately…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends
Brouse, Deborah E.; Wasserman, Pamela B. – 1989
Intended to introduce young people to the remarkable interconnectedness of people and the environment, this middle school teaching kit is designed to give students an understanding of important population and environmental concepts while promoting a sense of individual responsibility for stewardship of the earth. The teaching modules in the kit…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Enrichment, Ecology
PDF pending restorationGoranson, Donald G., Ed. – 1992
Designed for secondary students, the 20 lessons in this volume promote education for, with, and about older adults and prepare students to participate in the changing world. Lessons 1-3 explore attitudes about aging through word association, confront the aging process, and examine values regarding time. Lessons 4-6 study aging in different times…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Aging Education, Ancient History, Attitude Change
