Addresses the imperative for strategic and tactical planning to support the viability of the two-year college. Describes a process for approaching strategic planning, comprising the following steps: self-identification, self-analysis, analysis of service area, informed decision making, and the development of a marketing plan. (CBC)

Targeted as a low priority and faced with major reductions in program and staff, the Department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation at the University of Rhode Island underwent a four-year review by university administrators. Proper planning, positioning and performance have resulted in a stronger and more productive department. (MT)

Presents a short-term, classroom-based intervention emphasizing both the interactional and value-based nature of life-role planning. Offers school counselors a direction for helping teenagers with career choices and major life roles. (Author/ABB)

North East London Polytechnic's recent review of institutional aims and long-term academic strategy is chronicled, and related changes in its internal structure as a result of externally imposed financial constraints are outlined. (MSE)

To solve societal problems, both local and global, a global approach is needed. Serious diseases that are crippling present-day problem solving and planning are discussed, and the characteristics of a healthy, effective planning approach are described. (RM)

Future models for teacher education may take many forms. This article suggests that extended clinical experience will improve teacher education programs. An internship program implemented at the University of Pittsburgh is presented as an example program. (DF)

Individual schools should have committees to help establish long- and short-range school improvement plans utilizing information supplied by the school principal. Identification and achievement of specific objectives are the goals. (MLF)

Institutional advancement as a profession has not put enough emphasis on formal research. Research helps to analyze media, define audiences, and target publications, as well as help in conducting long-range planning, marketing programs, and fund-raising campaigns. (MLW)

Written program plans that state specific objectives and responsibilities will help ensure that patrons are provided with more than just a facility with equipment and supplies. Suggestions for developing specific activity plans are offered. (DF)

South Carolina has enacted a comprehensive act that contains more than 40 new programs and a comparable number of improvements in existing programs. Cites 26 elementary school reforms that will be phased in by 1989. (MLF)

Hungary's effort since the 1970s to establish short-term objectives for higher education to meet immediate needs and to undertake a complex, comprehensive development plan to the year 2000 is similar to many countries' attempts to meet wide-ranging educational and economic needs in a changing social and economic climate. (MSE)

Futures research, like anthropology, is an undertaking that can change the researcher by bringing to light doubts and questions most people prefer to ignore. A futurist discusses his intellectual evolution since he started to study the future 17 years ago, sharing insights that came to him along the way. (RM)

"Strategic planning combines a campus's strengths and leadership capabilities with an analysis of trends, markets, and the competition to come up with an academic strategy," George Keller reports in an interview. Strategic planning and its importance to CASE members are discussed. (MLW)

The author discusses the components of effective volunteer programs describing different programs throughout the country. She points out that such programs should be carefully planned and placed within the existing school system. (MD)

This report provides evidence concerning the projected demand for substance abuse treatment services for older Americans over the next 20 to 30 years and suggests approaches for refining these projections. A work group of Federal agency representatives and university researchers was established by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…