The author discusses an assessment of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's work over a 20-year period to improve end-of-life care in America. The case illustrates the evolution of the strategy from one focused on a multiyear randomized control trial of a series of hospital-based interventions that produced findings of "no effects" into several…

The Swedish system of higher education is discussed in two reports. The first covers basic principles of governance and organization, and general problems of higher-educational planning. The second is about planning and management at regional and central levels. (Author/ND)

Future planning in higher education must be done on the basis of goals and objectives that have been deliberately chosen. (Author)

This conference, composed of senior administrators and academics, discusses the problems of governance of higher education in Australia. In light of changing demographic factors, a depression in the labor market for graduates, changing social aspirations and the emphasis on life-long education, the attitude of the colleges will have to change, and…

Network-based management procedures serve as valuable aids in organizational management, achievement of objectives, problem solving, and decisionmaking. Network techniques especially applicable to educational management systems are the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and the critical path method (CPM). Other network charting…

Managers and researchers alike have tended to concentrate on the wrong problems in the administration of technological change. The most difficult and critical problems in the development process appear to be in the linkages that tie together all the stages between inception and application or use. (Author/WM)

One of the main inadequacies in educational management is that planning is not firmly integrated within administration. Five basic processes may be distinguished in administration. The first is planning, or determining what shall be done. The second element of the administrative process is organizing, or defining the administrative structures and…

Directed primarily at those involved in curriculum development and at teachers and students in colleges and departments of education, this book examines the reform and rapid changes in curriculum development in England. The author first examines the nature of curriculum development, the growth of the idea of curriculum, who should be in charge of…

A detailed account and critique of the 1967 Salvadoran Educational Reform places particular emphasis on the role of instructional television (ITV) and its relation as the pacesetter for the whole educational system. It discusses foreign assistance through UNESCO, The World Bank, US/AID and Japan, and comments on several feasibility studies. In…

This paper embodies three presentations given at a panel discussion on organizing, planning, and managing the local school district. The first presentation on comprehensive planning for change draws a distinction between "a priori" and "a posteriori" planning and relates these two types of planning in coping with school…

This pilot study proposed and tested an institutional development model for use under the provisions of Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The model could be used to improve the funding process and as a basis for future studies of the effects of the program. The study used a broad concept of management that incorporates all aspects of…

This article reviews the scenario planning process implemented at the College of Marin (California). Scenario planning is a creative process in which a group of people who share a common fate develop stories about different ways their future might unfold, and use these stories to make decisions about what path to take. The Global Business Network…

This paper presents: (1) an overview of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems DELPHI survey to identify changes in postsecondary education, (2) an interpretation of the results of that survey, and (3) an interpretation of the changes in planning and management that will occur when the forecasted changes in education take…

Higher education in the United States today has not only lost its favored status in terms of public and private support, but has lost, in definitions of mission and in individual institutions as a whole, even minimally agreed-upon definitions of mission and of assessment of students. (Author)