In cases where college institutions are facing situations with too much or too little space, there must be drastic revision in educational programs to provide economical use of buildings. One solution is to redeploy campus space and to alter the timing of programs. Examples considered include year-round campus use, off-campus programs,…

Factors leading to dissatisfaction with planning processes are identified, barriers to successful planning are described, and proposed solutions suggest a set of minimum characteristics applicable to all academic planning systems. Implementation of a program review system is discussed. (Author/LBH)

Information systems in higher education are not effective, it is suggested, because currently only formulators and users are involved with them, when planners and policy makers should also be involved. Ways of meeting needs or anticipated demands for information should be assessed on three criteria: structure, frequency, and accuracy. Implications…

The more successful planning approaches lie in mobilizing the organization's support and readiness for planning, creating a climate in which successful planning can occur, involving constituents in the planning process, careful attention to communication, and the attention given to proper dissemination of process results. (MLW)

Designing a cost planning requires attention to the external environment, as well as an understanding of the relative influence of facts, as opposed to values, in resource allocation processes. A context for selecting design characteristics of a planning process is established. (MLW)

An approach to cost analysis that begins in the department, the lowest organizational level, is discussed, using tables designed to outline the distribution of instructional staff resources and academic program characteristics such as enrollment, student characteristics, curricula requiring the course, and staff cost data, by course. (MSE)

The vice president for education and research of the Ford Foundation finds that in the last decade important changes have occurred not only in higher education's "planning environment" but in general attitudes toward planning as well, and that a sound plan for the future seems likely to become a top priority in both foundation and…

An account of planning's evolution at American University emphasizes the importance of building flexible working relationships among the various representatives of the university community and the planning staff, in support of the faculty-student relationship at the core of the learning process. (Editor/LBH)

This is the eighteenth in a series on the use of instructional technology at 24 colleges and universities. Florida Atlantic University was one of the first in the nation planned around the use of instructional media, and as such, it had to proceed while learning from its own trials and errors. Specific difficulties are described. (Editor/LBH)

Outlines the experiences of two private colleges (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and the University of Dallas, Texas) in their successful conversion of found space in other building types to small theaters for use by the performing arts. (Author/DN)

Describes the efforts of two small, private institutions that have committed themselves to an innovative and sensitive plan for renewal which benefits the colleges and is designed to meet community needs. (Author/JN)

Most small colleges face difficult decisions during the 1980s regarding their institutional identity and educational goals. Forces acting upon college administrators today tend to favor comprehensiveness at the expense of distinctiveness. Society will be served better by an array of distinctive small colleges, each having a character of its own.…

Energy savings through improved operation and maintenance of buildings and through implementation of energy conservation measures are discussed. Energy master planning--an approach to major retrofit and occupancy for existing college buildings, and energy conscious design and occupancy for new buildings--is advocated. (MLW)

The importance of a proper charge to the planning office is discussed as a means of achieving integrated planning. It is suggested that the planning office's role should be clearly coordinative in nature and that planning must be a regularly scheduled activity resulting in the allocation, reallocation, and effective use of resources. (Editor/LBH)

Neither the typical academic nor the average journalist understands well what the other does. There has been a major shift in the way the American press treats education, and education leaders and scholars must learn to deal with the media differently. This requires openness, responsiveness, and competence in the college public affairs office.…