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Darden, Mary Landon – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2009
In a world progressing with dizzying acceleration into the Information Age, the slow, measured approach of the traditional university can place administrator, faculty member, and student alike at a disadvantage. To move into this brave new world, the academic animal needs tools. "Beyond 2020: Envisioning the Future of Universities in America" is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Legal Problems, Continuing Education, Governance
Hargreaves, David H., Ed.; Hopkins, David, Ed. – 1994
Development planning has recently become a commonly adopted strategy for school improvement in the United Kingdom. Development planning is a description and more formal explication of the process and actions required to plan and manage change with the intention of improving the school. The chapters in this book report on the "state of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Rowley, Daniel James; Lujan, Herman D.; Dolence, Michael G. – 1998
This book examines concepts of strategic planning and management for a future in which institutions of higher education must meet the needs of the information age lifelong learner. It attempts to identify the strategic options that academic and administrative leaders need to consider. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 looks at bases…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Weiler, Hans N., Ed. – 1980
Some of the assumptions on which earlier models and approaches in educational planning were predicated have turned out to be over-simplistic, limited, or altogether not appropriate for the complex nature of the development process in many developed and, especially, underdeveloped societies. Recognizing these problems, the International Institute…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Settles, Barbara H., Ed.; And Others – 1993
Noting the increasing challenges faced by families today, this book explores demographic, social and economic, and technological issues affecting the dynamics of and planning process for family well-being. Chapters in the book are: (1) "Expanding Choice in Long Term Planning for Family Futures" (Barbara H. Settles); (2) "Recent Demographic Change:…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aging (Individuals), Decision Making, Demography
Miller, Richard I. – 1999
This book identifies and discusses key issues for the future of American higher education. An introductory chapter focuses on the nine contributions by higher education recommended in Clark Kerr's 1981 Carnegie Council Report. The following 10 chapters focus on specific issues in the following areas: (1) changing demographics; (2) minority access…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Change Strategies, College Administration