How do evolving academic priorities influence the review and reform of a pioneering general education program?

Entering the UC Merced campus and turning onto Scholars Lane, students saw, in this order, large cow pastures surrounding the campus, tall chainlink fences enclosing construction materials, orange fences stating "limits of construction," and across the small road, the residence facilities. Students who were willing to brave this…

Budget reforms adopted at the University of Montana and by the Arkansas state higher education system illustrate a variety of strategies for long-range planning. These efforts include reform of faculty collective bargaining, funding based on productivity enhancement, and a multiyear fiscal plan encompassing both operating and capital budgets. (MSE)

New roles for professors and student affairs staff and new opportunities for their cooperation in institutional change can solve many educational problems without additional funds. (Editor)

Intellectual property, the knowledge created within the institution in the course of research carried out by its faculty, students, and staff, is an asset unique to colleges and universities and represents a significant opportunity for enhancing the present and future economic position of an institution. (MSE)

Ways in which a nontraditional institution has established formal structures to support comprehensive institutional development and has faced the problems of statewide cutbacks are described. (Author/LBH)

The role of statewide governing and coordinating boards to represent a statewide, public interest point of view within that structure, avoiding partisan politics and partisanship among educational institutions or interest groups is discussed. Three functions of the statewide postsecondary agencies are identified: planning, program and budget…

Institutions must address the purpose and context of assessment, keeping in mind the dual complementary goals of an effective organization--individual growth and well-being, as well as the achievement of collective goals. Guidelines for planning and implementing assessment for improvement are presented. (MLW)

Describes some of the career counseling needs of a variety of women and methods by which counselors can best facilitate attitude changes in women to increase their motivation for educational and career development. Counseling for career development is stressed focusing on increasing the career options open to them. (Author/JT)

Leaders must take advantage of opportunities for change, know when to act and when not to act, have faith in their own judgment, take risks, and enjoy building their institutions. A strong institution ultimately measures a college president's leadership. (Author/MSE)

Changing demographics, public expectations, and economic circumstances mean that traditional measures of postsecondary educational quality may need to be supplemented. The California Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education is looking at options for responding to the demand for better programs and teachers. (MLW)

Thirty-nine specific recommendations, adapted from a rigorous mission statement reached through a participatory process at Notre Dame University, indicate the range of the chief academic officer's involvements. (Author/MLW)

Institutions must address planning, budgeting, training, organizational, and policy issues as they confront the explosion in use of computers. Five recommendations include identify goals for information services, assess information assets, develop an investment plan for information services, review policies and allocation and budget procedures,…

This Catholic college for women in St. Joseph, Minnesota, is adopting components of systematic institutional development in its planning and budgeting. Four programs are integrated: institutional research, the management information system, management development, and management planning. (LBH)

In 1990, Tufts University (Massachusetts) became the first major university to establish environmental education and protection as institutional priorities. The day-to-day environmental impacts of a university make it an ideal laboratory for exploring new ways to reduce hazards, improve efficiency, reuse and recycle waste, and develop incentives…