Changes in the balance of power over higher education require increased leadership by state coordinating boards and their directors. (Editor)

This report focuses on the increasing number of problems clustered around state coordination of academic programs in community colleges. State directors and their staffs are becoming concerned with preventing duplication and ineffectiveness and with positive long-range planning. Data are based on questionnaires mailed to state agencies responsible…

This information manual from the Coordinating Council for Higher Education in California is divided into three sections. Section one contains the Donahoe Higher Education Act, Council Special Rules of Order, Council Membership, Method of Appointment and Terms of Office of Council Membership, Council Members' Addresses, Council's 1972-73 Budget,…

This document portrays the rationale, scope, and basic assumptions underlying the planning for and coordination of postsecondary education in Michigan. Michigan's postsecondary institutions must address a pluralistic society. In addressing the diverse learning needs of the state's citizens, the primary responsibility of the planning and…

The Statewide Measures Inventory is essentially a list of items of information, along with concise definitions and other information of interest relevant to statewide postsecondary education planning and management. It has been designed primarily for use by state level postsecondary education planners and decisionmakers. The primary objective of…

Reflected in this plan is the commitment to a comprehensive approach to environmental education by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction. It was developed with the philosophy that rational decisions regarding environmental management can be expected only when the general public acquires an understanding of the interdependence of all…

Coordination of career education programs with total State and national efforts must be made immediately to bring career-oriented programs and offerings into the mainstream of State and local educational agencies through Statewide planning. The issues are widespread and basic--involving people, dollars, priorities and attitudes. (Author)

The authors of Statewide Reallocation through Program Priorities'' respond to the preceding commentary. (PG)

Regional planning has been proposed as a method for dealing with the various societal problems which cross local boundaries and which can be dealt with better in a wider geographic or regional context. The report of the California Postsecondary Education Commission is based on interviews, review of the existing literature, and visits to regional…

The Statewide Measures Inventory is essentially a list of items of information along with concise definitions and other information of interest, relevant to statewide postsecondary education planning and management. It has been designed primarily as a working document for use by state level postsecondary education planners and decisionmakers. The…

The Governor's Task Force on the Role of Private Higher Education in Missouri was charged with finding the answers to and making recommendations concerning the following questions: (1) What resources do the private colleges and universities of Missouri have that might be utilized by the State? (2) What solutions have other states adopted toward…

Discusses the conflict between the control or coordinating agencies of state government and the individual colleges and universities that are subject to their ministrations. (Author)

The former director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia advocates leadership by a coordinating board squarely in the middle between legislature and institutions. (Editor)

A 22-item bibliography on statewide planning is presented. (PG)

State policy for higher education in Massachusetts as elsewhere renders certain courses of action attractive while placing obstacles to other courses of action by the legislature, government officials, coordinating and governing boards, and other agencies and persons engaged in or planning for higher education. Policy may take the form of…