Guidelines designed to help Maryland facilities planners, educators, and community members make informed choices about the types of facilities they will provide for secondary education services are presented in this document. The guide first describes the characteristics of at-risk students and presents an overview of dropout prevention programs.…

A study of Ontario's university student housing was undertaken to provide a province-wide information base, relate student housing to the universities' educational mission, review the legislative context, analyze statistics on demand and supply, describe institutional structures for managing housing, and assess the adequacy of government policies…

Ideas and techniques for planning and managing space and facilities in complex colleges are discussed with historical information on the growth of higher education in the United Kingdom provided as background. The University of London established a research team to determine patterns of space use and to devise methods of allocating teaching…

Because of the increasing underutilization of school facilities in Arlington (Virginia), a case study of the management of these facilities was undertaken. The purposes of the study were to discover the political interactions leading to policy decisions on the management of underutilized facilities, to determine the actual policies that resulted…

During the winter many schools have closed, or been considered for closing, in efforts to save energy. This study assesses and analyzes the impact on energy consumption of operating school facilities on an extended-day and evening basis compared with closing facilities for specified periods. The two variables examined are the extended-day program…

The 1979-80 results of a building utilization study of Toledo, Ohio, junior and senior high schools are presented in this report. The schools were ranked in eight general areas: educational adequacy, operating costs, current and projected enrollment, environment, alternate use, modernization potential, capacity, and traffic and safety. Space,…

The needs of Saddleback College for computer facilities were assessed to develop a master plan for an integrated data processing system that would satisfy both student educational needs and the administrative needs of the community college district. An analysis of computer facilities indicated that each individual division of the college had…

The first of the three research studies presented in this collection focuses on student, faculty, and staff evaluation of media production and distribution at South Oklahoma City Junior College. Results from the questionnaire surveys revealed that students used the Learning Resource Center two to three times a month, while faculty and staff used…

The closing of a school is a difficult step for everyone involved. In this review, 11 entries in the ERIC system about school closing are summarized. Included are suggestions for administrators to involve the community in the decision-making, and alternative uses of school buildings. Case studies are included that highlight how school districts…

The potential of improved space use as an alternative to new construction in Texas public colleges and universities was evaluated. Space utilization was measured in three ways, each of which viewed room use differently. The average number of hours per week that classrooms and class laboratories are in use on public university campuses was…

A mail survey of 91 past and present users of the community programing (public access) channels in the Toronto, Canada, area revealed that personal contact is most important in the diffusion of knowledge about access opportunities. Friends and colleagues were the most often cited initial source of information; but contact by the cable company…

The North Suburban Library System decided that the areas within its boundaries which are outside the taxed district/area supporting an existing library should be served by extending the service areas of the existing municipal, township, and district libraries, either through contract or by employing the provisions of present library district law.…

This final report discusses a project designed to study increased use of the 16 vocational-technical (VT) schools in Connecticut to serve more individuals of high school age; compare advantages and disadvantages of feasible alternatives; and recommend viable approaches for increasing facility use for serving more individuals. Chapter I outlines…

Using Drexel Institute of Philadelphia as a case study, Educational Facilities Laboratories investigated six areas of inquiry facing an urban university contemplating expansion--(1) economics of high-rise building, (2) economics of constructing low building units which can be vertically expanded at a later date, (3) conversion of industrial…

This survey of the literature indicates that the problem of class size is not so much one of the type of subject or student, but more often a problem of teaching technique with different sizes of classes. Some authors maintain that class size in itself is not the important factor, but rather it is a factor which masks other more important…