The understandings gained about academic planning--particularly under conditions of institutional stress--are perhaps the most significant aspects of the University of Vermont's recent experience in building a planning process. The need for realistic goals is emphasized. (LBH)

North Central College in Illinois designated 1986-87 as a planning year. One of the major objectives of the Five-Year Master Plan, the development of a computerized planning model later used in a board of trustees planning conference, is described. (MLW)

The four cornerstones of an enrollment management program are identified: institutional commitment, strategic planning, integration, and evaluation. The Enrollment Management Task Force at California State at Los Angeles adopted a model for strategic planning that is designed to provide decision support for managing university enrollments. (MLW)

If universities are to deal with the problems of declining enrollment and funding, they must combine both political and economic considerations, placing more responsibility on the administrators who now have to decide not only what to do but how to do it. (MLW)

The institutional planning, budgeting, and monitoring system used by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, which provides continuous development, evaluation, and modification operating in advance of rather than in reaction to potential administrative crisis, is described. (MSE)

If planning is to succeed in higher education, radical changes must be made in the way in which the process is conceptualized and implemented. Philosophical assumptions and operational guidelines are identified, and a strategic planning process model is described. (MLW)

According to the director of Higher Education Management Services for the New York State Education Department, the offices of admissions and student financial aid have long been excluded from the institutional planning process. In an era of projected enrollment declines and increased competition, these offices need to assume a critical new role.…

The role that "furniture" or architectural items such as benches, waste receptacles, and lighting standards can play in defining the campus as an aesthetic unit is examined. The evolution of such objects that have proven pleasing, functional, and durable at the University of Michigan is shown. (Editor/LBH)

The growth of government participation in higher education planning over the last two decades is discussed from the dual perspective of a college planning officer at Western Washington State College, and also a Washington state senator. It is noted that the state-federal planning establishment has flourished after the great growth period in U.S.…

An antidote to some probable effects of population patterns and the economy upon the academic community are proposed by the vice-president for planning at Northeastern University. He suggests that a steady commitment to the development of new course topics will ensure that postsecondary education remains innovative and attractive to the…

In a discussion of the history and function of institutional research, the field is described as a continually evolving part of the higher education community. The author cautions that the tendency to emphasize the compilation of raw data at the expense of data analysis must be checked, as institutional research coordinates with planning efforts.…

The experiences of the University of Michigan in developing its Flint campus since the mid-1970s and the use of the Critical Path Method are described. The usefulness of the method during several phases of development is highlighted. (MSE)

An approach to faculty development activities that combines individual initiative with program needs in order to effect a more cost efficient and program effective system is described. The rationale for the convergence of developmental activities is given and a plan for the implementation of a feasible working model is described. (Author/MLW)

A landscaping approach aimed at integrating greatly contrasting building types and materials resulting from unplanned growth used these elements to create design continuity; paving, planting, landscape furniture, planting and lawn protection, signs, lights, placement of posters and notices, and bicycle racks. (MSE)

An annotated bibliography is presented in order to increase the awareness of planners and other administrators about the decision-making process, cognitive limitations, and available decision aids (in particular, decision support systems) that can have an important positive impact on strategic planning. (MLW)