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New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, 2007
"A Blueprint for Excellence", New Jersey's long-range plan for higher education, adopted in 2003, aims to make the state stronger, more competitive, and a better place for all to live, work, and go to school. This document reports progress-to-date in achieving plan objectives: enrollment and the number of degrees awarded have increased,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Long Range Planning, Higher Education, Family Income
McMahon, Eleanor M. – Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development, 1997
The challenge in university governance is to provide sufficient autonomy to sustain academic vitality while ensuring that this energy is directed toward the broad public interest. Maine and New Jersey, two very different states, have been experimenting with structural changes, primarily decentralization, to balance autonomy with accountability.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Decentralization, Governance
New Jersey State Commission on Higher Education. – 1996
The draft Master Plan was developed in response to requirements of the New Jersey Higher Education Restructuring Act of 1994. The plan proposes a vision and broad policy recommendations for New Jersey higher education into the next century. The focus of the plan is on the critical needs of the state and how higher education can help in addressing…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Development, Higher Education, Long Range Planning
Macro International, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1994
During the summer of 1993, site-visit teams visited Arkansas, Arizona, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon to interview the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) lead agency staff about each state's child care management information system (MIS). The state information work group and experts recommended states with innovative, unique, and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Government Role, Long Range Planning
Lowenkron, Ruth; Ponessa, Joan – Education Law Center, 2005
The long range facilities planning (LRFP) process presents a wonderful opportunity for New Jersey's school districts to re-examine and strengthen their long term planning for educational adequacy in 21st century school facilities. It provides an opportunity for districts to work closely with the special education community to ensure that New…
Descriptors: Long Range Planning, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design, Disabilities
Shelly, Paul A. – American School Board Journal, 1983
The author describes his own school closure procedures in the Paramus, New Jersey, school district of which he is superintendent, advocating long-range planning and an emphasis on the educational benefits of such closures. Also included is advice on when and how to lay off administrators. (JBM)
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Opportunities, Job Layoff, Long Range Planning
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Nespoli, Lawrence A.; Gilroy, Hollie A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1999
Discusses changes occurring in New Jersey's 19 community colleges since the State Board of Higher Education was abolished in 1994. At campus level, colleges have found less state regulation and much more autonomy, enabling them to respond more quickly and effectively to local needs; capital and state funding have also increased. Long-term success…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Planning, Institutional Autonomy
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1980
This report describes the major approaches to participatory planning used by seven states in responding to the requirement for a three-year Adult Education State Plan of the 1978 Amendments to the Adult Education Act. (Information was collected during two visits per state to California, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and New…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Cooperation
Ponessa, Joan – Education Law Center, 2004
This report presents a brief history of the Abbott School Construction Program, describes the implementation to date, lays out some current challenges, and outlines lessons learned from the process so far--what is known now about how such an initiative should be planned and carried out. The report is intended to illuminate the complex process of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Construction, Construction Programs, Program Implementation
New Jersey State Commission on Higher Education. – 1999
As the new millennium begins, the Commission on Higher Education urges the Governor and Legislature to enhance New Jersey's commitment to higher education and build on college and university strengths to meet the challenges of the future. The state's increasing investment to support college and university operations and facilities, student…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
New Jersey State Coll. Governing Boards Association, Inc., Trenton. – 1994
This is the final report on long range planning for financial support for and investment in New Jersey's state colleges. Opening sections summarize the findings of the Advisory Commission on Investing in the State Colleges charged with examining the issues, origins, membership, charge and general principles of that Commission, the economic, social…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Blue Ribbon Commissions, College Role
Meglis, Jr., Edward – School Business Affairs, 1999
A long-range facilities plan includes anticipated large expenditures and contingencies. The plan should include an overview of existing facilities, enrollment projections, program changes, and projected capital improvements. A school-planning checklist is provided. (MLF)
Descriptors: Architects, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Check Lists, Community Involvement
Austin, Susan; And Others – 1989
This paper presents a set of general observations about state-sponsored school improvement initiatives with data from several sources. One major source is the Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), implementation study, "Facing the Challenge: Selected Programs and Practices of the Urban Initiative's Operation School…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Squires, David A. – 1986
This paper analyzes mastery learning as an alternative to curriculum planning and discusses implementation of the strategy in a prekindergarten through eighth-grade school district in Red Bank, New Jersey. The paper briefly describes district schools and circumstances affecting the school board's decision to implement mastery learning; discusses…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Theories
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, 2005
A Blueprint for Excellence includes seven principal state objectives, along with action components and outcome measures, to achieve the following vision for the state: New Jersey and its colleges and universities embrace their shared responsibility to create and sustain a higher education system that is among the best in the world, enabling all…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Master Plans, Higher Education, Educational Quality
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