Much of our planning to date in higher education has focused on questions of internal effectiveness and efficiency, but, given the period of rapid social change we have entered, it is imperative that we improve our abilities to assess changes in the external environment and examine their implications for higher education. In this way we will be able to develop better goals, strategies, and plans to take advantage of emerging opportunities and head off potentially damaging developments. The chapters in this sourcebook consider the problem of assessing the external environment in planning and are primarily concerned with the contributions that traditional institutional research methods and perspectives make to institutional planning. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Institutional Research is to describe a variety of futures research techniques and to illustrate their utiltiy for strategic planning.
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Much of our planning to date in higher education has focused on questions of internal effectivenes and efficiency, but, given the period of rapid social change we have entered, it is imperative that we improve our abilities to assess changes in the external environment and examine their implications for higher education. In this way we will be able to develop better goals, strategies, and plans to take advantage of emerging opportunities and head off potentially damaging developments. The chapters in this sourcebook consider the problem of assessing the external environment in planning and are primarily concerned with the contributions that tradtional institutional research methods and perspectives make to institutional planning. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Institutional Research is to describe a variety of futures research techniques and to illustrate their utility for strategic planning. This the 39th issue of New Directions for Institutional Research. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.
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JAMES L. MORRISON is professor of education at the University of North carolina, Chapel Hill. He is on the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and serves as chair of the Special Interest Group on Futures Research, American Educational Research Association. WILLIAM L. RENFRO is president of Policy Analysis Company, Inc., 148 E. Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. He is issues management editor of The Futurist and serves on the board of directors of the Issues Management Association.
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New York, Long Range Planning, San Francisco Jossey-Bass, American Council of Life Insurance, Planning Review, The Futurist, United States, Von Karman, Education Commission of the States, Menlo Park, Seven Tomorrows, The Limits, American Educational Research Association, Association of American Colleges, New Dimension, Public Relations Quarterly, Universe Books, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California New!
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- Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows on page 49, page 52, and page 103
- State of the Nation and the Agenda for Higher Education (Jossey-Bass Series in Higher Education) by Howard Rothmann Bowen on page 59, page 67, and page 98
- Strategic Planning by Ewing on page 20, and page 104
- Using Research for Strategic Planning (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research) by Norman P. Uhl in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Getting Started by Freddie North on page 5
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- Analyzing Faculty Workload by Jon F. Wergin in Back Matter
- Analyzing Costs in Higher Education: What Institutional Researchers Need to Know by Michael F. Middaugh in Back Matter
- Higher Education as Competetive Enterprise: When Markets Matter: New Directions for Institutional Research (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research) by Robert Zemsky in Back Matter
- Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Institutional Researchers to Improve Institutional Effectiveness: New Directions for Institutional Research (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research) by J. Worth Pickering in Back Matter
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