This report gives suggestions for starting a personal money plan, provides a worksheet for developing the plan, and offers ideas for putting the plan into action. Guidelines are presented for the following steps in developing a money plan: setting short- and long-term spending and saving goals; making a timetable for reaching those goals;…

This report and update on the five-year plan for the Minneapolis, Minnesota public schools show what is proceeding as originally planned, what has been modified and why, what has been added, and who is responsible for what. A model for planning is followed by a progress report through June 1983, a chart listing each of the 121 action items in the…

Within the field of education, the act of planning implies that the schools are more than passive pawns in the hands of socioeconomic forces. The current profound demographic changes, which will continue to reshape the nation and its schools in the coming decades, make strategic planning particulary important. Implementing a strategic plan first…

This document, one of more than 100 performance-based vocational teacher education modules, covers the following objectives as it prepares pre- and inservice teachers to develop long-range program plans: (1) after completing the required reading, demonstrate knowledge of the concepts involved in developing long-range plans for a…

Strategic planning is a process deliberately designed to help educational leaders conceive of the kinds of institutions that they would like to create to serve their students. Drawn from industry, strategic planning attempts to respond to a wide variety of factors determining the directions that schools should take in planning for the future.…

Long range planning allows an indepth analysis, to be updated yearly, of a school to determine the directions in which it needs to start moving based on the assumptions about the present and future success of the school. There is no quick fix or outside consultant that can remedy or plan for any individual school; only those intimately involved…

Based upon a planning project initiated at North Idaho College (NIC) in 1981 and approved by the Board of Trustees in 1982, this long-range plan states the mission of NIC and specifies goals and objectives to be attained in the next 3 years. First, introductory sections consider the qualities of a good long-range plan, address the responsibilities…

It is the intent of this paper to demonstrate the role of a short-term (approximiately 4-14 hours), populace-based education/training approach in the preparation of rural communities and/or regions anticipating energy development-related impact. The approach is presented in comparison with other models and is defined and outlined through the…

This master plan for library development in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania reviews the accomplishments of the five year plan for 1976-81, examines the current status and services of libraries, and establishes goals and objectives for the 1982-87 period. A review of the status and accomplishments of the original eight goals and 30 objectives is…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to help Lutheran communities assess the feasibility of starting a Lutheran elementary school and to assist ongoing schools in current operation, this handbook focuses on financial planning and accounting systems for Lutheran schools and congregations. A chart of accounts is presented as the foundation for…

Evaluating the president is tantamount to evaluating both the present conditions of the institution and also its direction. Such evaluation is not possible without comprehensive institutional planning, which can be accomplished by developing a comprehensive and quantitative profile of the institution. (LBH)

Curriculum planning must be a continual process if the program is to remain responsive to changes in society, the learner, and the most recent scholarship in the various fields. Strategic planning affords a context for increasing the probability of a systematic approach to responding to each of these key elements. (Author)

Five worst enemies to alumni offices' long-range plans are identified: failure to dovetail office plans with institutional plans, turnover in personnel, not enough staff or money to meet goals, failure to review plans regularly, and structuring plans with too little latitude to shift priorities as needed. (MLW)

The president is the institution's chief strategist and planner, but the distinction between bureaucratic and entrepreneurial planning is crucial. The bureaucrat assumes change can be kept at the periphery of the enterprise and will not affect core purposes, while the entrepreneur assumes that change is part of the enterprise itself. (Author/MSE)

Presents the steps used in developing a marketing plan for an abstracting and indexing service, based on the operating experiences of BioSciences Information Service. Organizational activities, measurements to be applied to the plan, media choices involved, and allocation of marketing funds are discussed. (Author/CLB)