Methods of academic resource planning for research-oriented colleges and universities are explored. Focus is on resource allocation that is not strictly related to overall institutional enrollment level, but with the desirability of maintaining a minimum or "critical mass" levels of program breadth and quality. The purpose of critical…

In 1993, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's governing board mandated peer evaluation for nontenured faculty. Participants in the American Association for Higher Education's peer review project feared the mandate would taint efforts to introduce faculty to collegial approaches to peer review. However, negative fallout from the mandate…

Writing teachers at the University of Oregon have established working relations in three different ways with teachers outside their department. First, they have set up sections of a required composition course to be taught in conjunction with courses in other disciplines; workshops to develop skills in handling students' writing are conducted for…

Using original source documents, secondary sources, and the author's personal knowledge, this ten-chapter monograph traces the development of the Illinois junior and community colleges from 1946 through 1980. While focusing on the characteristics, functions, and legislative mandates of the colleges in the 1940's, Chapter I also summarizes the…

Three types of surveys were developed to obtain specific recommendations from key educational personnel for improving preservice teacher education programs. Deans, directors, and chairpersons of Florida teacher education programs provided profiles of faculty and students; the institution's standards for admission, selection, and retention of…

As a supplement to the various program documentation manuals issued by the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB), this three-part guide presents general procedures to be followed by the Illinois community colleges in implementing state policies concerning the submission of required data to the ICCB's Management Information System (MIS). Part I…

The status of instruction/research employees in Missouri state-supported higher education institutions during 1978-79 was examined by HEGIS discipline divisions. The employees' status was examined with respect to numbers of full-time and part-time employees, percentage part-time, and percentage with tenure. The implications of this information for…

A survey of 95 Pennsylvania institutions of higher education was undertaken in November 1979 to: (1) determine the current state of professional development activities, (2) discover the types of professional development resources that institutions could share, and (3) disclose the kinds of professional development services perceived to be most…

The development and use of the faculty staffing forumla for Colorado, prepared by the Association of Public College and University Presidents (APCUP), is examined, and a recent major attempt to update or modify the formula is described, along with the outcome. Based on the work of representatives from many campuses, a large scale computer…