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Download full textGroff, Warren H. – 1981
A planning, management, and evaluation (PME) system is described as it is used by North Central Technical College to identify institutional objectives and assess the degree to which the objectives are being met. After introductory material discussing the need to determine the impact of postsecondary education on the well-being of society as a…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Institutional Evaluation, Organizational Objectives
Groff, Warren H. – 1981
This report examines two models used by North Central Technical College (NCTC) in Ohio to respond to technological and social changes affecting the training requirements of its service area. As a means of illustrating a post-factum, rehabilitative response to such change, Part I of the report describes the development and outcomes of NCTC's…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Long Range Planning, Organizational Objectives, Retraining
Groff, Warren H. – 1990
The paper describes three programs designed to produce strategic thinkers capable of improving the quality of human services in a variety of areas (business, health care and human services, government, military, and industry). The programs are: (1) a doctoral program in children and youth studies; (2) a doctoral program specialty in vocational,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Doctoral Programs, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Groff, Warren H. – 1983
The value of strategic planning for educational, business, governmental, and family institutions to make them more responsive to society and to insure their viability is addressed. The transition from an agricultural to an industrial society and then to a technological one can be described in terms of its impact on individuals, institutions, and…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship, Futures (of Society)
Groff, Warren H. – 1982
Stressing the importance of the relationship of vocational and technical education to the economy, this paper discusses how existing educational research and development (R&D) resources can assist in preparing for the computer literate, high technology, information society. After emphasizing the magnitude of the education and training industry,…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Groff, Warren H. – 1987
Institutions are created to fill societal roles. As society evolved from a primitive to an agricultural and then to an industrial stage, institutions were created to coordinate specialized functions. Education is the institution intended to provide the intellectual capital and the workforce to drive the economy of a society. The United States is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Economics, Educational Needs
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Identifies components of a comprehensive assessment of an educational institution's external environment; i.e., demographic trends, social indicators, economic trends, political change, technological advances, changes in the workplace, advances in information technologies, and value shifts. (DMM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Decision Making, Demography, Educational Environment
Groff, Warren H. – 1991
This paper examines institutional restructuring in higher education for the 1990s and the 21st century and the leadership required for that restructuring. Following an overview and a discussion of selected pertinent demographic, social, economic, technological, and political variables, the paper focuses on the strategic importance of Mid-America…
Descriptors: Developing Institutions, Economic Change, Educational Change, Futures (of Society)
Groff, Warren H. – 1982
A process for building futurism into the institution's strategic planning and human resource development model is described. It is an attempt to assist faculty and staff to understand the future and the formulation and revision of professional goals in relation to an image of the future. A conceptual framework about the changing nature of human…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, College Role, Economic Factors
Groff, Warren H. – 1980
Influences on postsecondary education, the planning function, and the challenge to management systems for postsecondary education for the 1980s are considered. It is suggested that if postsecondary education is to remain viable in the future, it must be knowledgeable of societal forces, trends, and effects as they occur in the college context and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, College Planning, College Role
Groff, Warren H. – 1994
This paper examines at how the rapid advance of technology is transforming education and educational institutions, particularly universities and higher education. The paper contends that the ultimate purpose of education is human resources development and that contemporary communication and information technologies hold the potential for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economic Factors, Educational Quality, Educational Technology
Groff, Warren H. – 1983
As our society evolves from an industrial society to a computer literate, high technology, information society, educational planners must reexamine the role of postsecondary education in economic development and in intellectual capital formation. In response to this need, a task force on high technology was established to examine the following…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Demography, Economic Development, Educational Finance
