Outlines the National Council for the Social Studies' (NCSS) long range goals for 1988-1991. Stating that the purpose of NCSS is to promote social studies teaching to the best advantage of students and society, four goals, such as setting high professional standards and increasing public involvement, are discussed. (GEA)

Financial exigencies need not traumatize colleges and universities if administrators reassess missions and programs and evaluate all alternatives before beginning long-range planning. Higher education will have to adapt to a changing population, society, and needed skills. (MLW)

Issues forcing higher education to take new approaches to planning include demographic change, new educational demands, manpower planning needs, government involvement in education, and the need for variety and excellence in mass education. Flexibility, continuing innovation, democratization, and a shift in decision-making power will characterize…

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…

The financial reductions to Britain's polytechnics has been largely subjective, and the atmosphere of crisis management has damaged morale, made long-range planning difficult, and endangered educational quality. These problems may necessitate a radical restructuring of British higher education. (Author/MSE)

The enormous potential of computing in support of instruction in colleges and universities is tempered by rapid technological change, funding limitations, and organizational issues. There are some long-range strategies institutions can adopt including encouraging computing unit self-sufficiency. decentralization of support services, flatter…

Discussion of planning for change in higher education centers on premise that successful planning requires faculty to assume responsibility for outcomes rather than remaining guardians of the oversight process. Considers governance as oversight, governance based on joint responsibility, putting structure into responsibility planning, governance as…

This book focuses on education management and the change strategies needed to guide education in the upcoming years. It is intended for those who are responsible for selecting, supervising, developing, or evaluating people in leadership positions or who want to analyze their leadership performance and plan for further professional growth. The text…

This brief report summarizes a longer document with the same title. It reviews the reshaping of the college undergraduate curriculum in order to meet the new and compelling issues of the future such as accommodating diverse races and ethnic groups, incorporating global perspectives on the environment, and dealing more effectively with the human…

A two-phase study using the Delphi Technique examined the future of occupational education in central New York. The study surveyed three groups having some degree of relationship to occupational education: beneficiary groups (employers), policy making and/or influencing groups, and advisory/informational groups. The survey instrument included 134…

This study utilized the techniques of future casting to generate a series of alternative futures from which policy implications for occupational education in central New York could be derived. Using the statements of future events derived from the first phase of the study, a series of twelve alternative scenarios were developed: (1) the changing…

The basic educational needs of students of the future are often forgotten when emphasis is placed upon education reform. Several predictable trends regarding elementary and secondary schools of the future are explored. (DF)

Crucial changes in education, research, and society are decisive factors in a change strategy for university and research institution policy. Planning must now be more than physical planning and must include new qualitative features such as expert systems and new algorithms. (MSE)

The humanities today are proving far less attractive to students than in the 1960s and 1970s. Program enrollment is declining, students are criticizing the programs, and the economic situation, especially that of employment, is not conducive to interest in the humanities. Planning strategies are discussed. (MSE)

This booklet recounts an educator's musings on what education could be for his 2-year-old granddaughter. It describes the shift in pedagogical paradigms away from the diagnostic-prescriptive approach, with its focus on identification of problems and deficiencies, toward education design, with its concern for human potential and human differences.…