Ontario's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology have been governed by the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities Act (MTCU) and related regulations and policies since their inception in 1965. In June 2002, the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002 (OCAATA) was passed by the Ontario legislature; proclamation is…

The report provides the methodology and results of a survey conducted to measure the attitudes and opinions of the community in which Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) (Nevda) is located. The members of Western Industrial Nevada (WIN) were surveyed as a proxy for community opinion, with the following objectives in mind: validate the…

This brochure describes the mission, approach, and services of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. The Center is the nation's primary resource center for assisting higher education institutions in the development, implementation, and evaluation of alcohol and drug violence prevention policies and programs that…

This essay reflects on observations made during the four-year American Council on Education (ACE) Project on Leadership and Institutional Transformation, an effort to help 26 diverse colleges and universities succeed with comprehensive or transformational change. Insights were drawn from three sources: biannual campus visits and monthly phone…

If counselors are going to perform functions different from dyadic therapeutic counseling, institutions preparing counselors must change the context and processes of their programs. The author describes the procedures he has used to equip counselors to utilize the basic principles of change with an organization as a target. (Author)

Behavioral differences were found for both mongols and normal children (mental age below 2 years) between those who lived at home with their parents and those in institutions. (Author/WY)

The findings suggest that highly reliable estimates of environmental characteristics can be obtained with scales comprising only a few items. Thus it seems that subject time and expense could be greatly saved if future studies of college environmental characteristics utilize factorially derived scales based on small numbers of items. (Author)

This article describes the findings of a replication of an identical study four years earlier. Present results show that while the institution had in its own eyes initiated many major changes, student perceptions remain relatively consistent. (Author/BY)

Data examined in the sense of the direction in which the University should be led show the goals of the student affairs staff and incoming students to be similar. Understanding the process of expectations changing into perceptions would help determine better methods for dealing with students' attitudes. (Author/BY)

H. S. Bhola's CLER (configurations, linkages, environments, resources) Model was used to plan major changes in a large metropolitan police department. Changes involved staff development, occupational socialization, performance evaluation, and result-oriented management. The model provided a satisfactory theoretical framework for analyzing…

Reviews 94 articles published between 1956 and 1981 on organizations in developing nations, examining the articles' methods, topics, geographic coverage, the author's institutional affiliation, and degree of fit between Western-based administrative theory and the data reported. Found degrees of fit strong for organizational tasks but weak for…