ERIC Archive - Strategic Goals for 2000 

This is the 2000-2005 strategic plan at El Centro College (Texas). It discusses the college's mission, vision, and core values, and provides information on goals and success indicators. Goals include: (1) preparing students for careers and for transfer to four-year institutions (2) providing quality continuing/workforce education to enrich students' lives and upgrading their occupational skills; (3) offering basic literacy and developmental education; (4) implementing new technology that supports the teaching and learning environment; (5) having a student body that reflects the demographic characteristics of the Dallas county adult population; (6) creating a climate that affirms cultural diversity; (7) partnering with business, industry, and governmental entities; (8) providing students with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in a global community; (9) developing programs of education and training that are adaptive to change; (10) maintaining the campus facilities to ensure that the physical environment is conducive to effective teaching and learning; (11) measuring instruction, recruitment, retention, learning outcomes, and college services and using the results for improvement; and (12) effectively utilizing allocated financial resources and pursuing opportunities to obtain additional resources. The report describes the environmental scan component of the planning process, provides an annual planning calendar, and discusses specific objectives. The appendix lists the college staff, offices, and committees responsible for developing the strategic plan. (MKF)

 

Dicks, Henry Victor - Licensed mass murder; a socio-psychological study of some SS killers (1972)

Info

Study based on first-hand observations from interviews with former members of the SS. The Columbus Centre Series.

Brock Ghisholm - Prescription for survival (1957)

About

Looks at the issue of overall health and survival as a person's ability to function wholly in all circumstances- physical, mental, and social.

Carl Gustav Jung - Analytical Psychology Its Theory and Practice (Tavistock, 1970) 

Review

"... these lectures provide an extremely clear, readable, and at times amusing exposition of Jung's theories. In them Jung not only describes his views on the structure of the mind, giving lucid accounts of his psychological types, of the personal and collective unconscious and of archetypes, but also explains vividly his techniques of dream analysis and active imagination and the role played by transference in analytic therapy."

-- Charles Rycroft, The New York Review of Books

Francis Fukuyama - State-Building Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (2004)

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The state is an ancient human institution dating back some 10,000 years to the first agricultural societies that sprang up in Mesopotamia. In China a state with a highly trained bureaucracy has existed for thousands of years. In Europe the modern state, deploying large armies, taxation powers, and a centralized bureaucracy that could exercise sovereign authority over a large territory, is much more recent, dating back four or five hundred years to the consolidation of the French, Spanish, and Swedish monarchies. The rise of these states, with their ability to provide order, security, law, and property rights, was what made...

 

Edward H. Powley (The Tavistock Institute) - Reclaiming resilience and safety Resilience activation in the critical period of crisis (2009)

RAND - The Global Technology Revolution 2020, Executive Summary Bio, Nano Materials Information, Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications (2006)

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In 2020, areas of particular importance for technology trends will include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and information technology. The authors of this report assessed a sample of 29 countries across the spectrum of scientific advancement (low to high) with respect to their ability to acquire and implement 16 key technology applications (e.g., cheap solar energy, rural wireless communications, genetically modified crops). The study’s major conclusions are that scientifically advanced countries such as the United States, Germany, and Japan will be able to implement all key technology applications evaluated; countries that are not scientifically advanced will have to develop significant capacity and motivation before barriers to technology implementation can be overcome; and public policy issues in certain areas will engender public debate and strongly influence technology implementation.

Ervin Laszlo - System, structure, and experience; toward a scientific theory of mind (1969)

Herman Kahn & B. Bruce-Briggs - Things to come; thinking about the seventies and eighties (1972)

Robert Jungk - Tomorrow is already here (1954)

Review

An infernal tomorrow, already here- possesses and depresses one during the reading, but in final analysis forces the reader to reassess those things in our country that will never fall before the onslaughts of modern science. Even within the trammels of science there exists an oasis for ideas, Princeton's Institute of Advanced Studies. There technical developments are kept outside; ""new and true thoughts"" are explored for tomorrow; creative thinking is given its chance... A European journalist here reports his findings on the country that leads the world in its industrial and scientific development. Factories and laboratories seek to recreate a man-made cosmos; proving grounds and air fields record areas beyond belief with delicate instruments, rocket born; scientists in military guise plot conquest of distance; speed trials find terminus in California's deserts; new pioneers on the frontier of human endurance volunteer for inhuman experiments; laboratories of aviation and space medicine explore the values of protective measures. All this seems so remotely laboratory controlled that one reads it dispassionately. Then one is confronted with the march of science in agriculture, the immense impersonality of the management of huge production areas where new types of controls, new speedup processes are taken for granted; and where even the restive bulls get their outlets on fake cows, and artificial insemination is made possible half a world away. The reading and viewing public has been gradually indoctrinated with the outward evidence of the march of the atom, but closeups of the virtual slavery of the scientists within forbidden areas, the still unplumbed secrets of the dangers of radioactivity, the death of towns to make way for more and more installations, these give it all a new look. ... Kirkus Review

Alexander King - Educational Needs of Society in Transition (1985)

Erich Jantsch - Enterprise and environment (1973)

Info

This paper is the text of a presentation made at the 3rd International Management Symposium at the St. Gall Business School, May 1972.

 

Frederick Osborne - A return to the principles of natural selection (1960)

Jonas Salk & Bruce J. West - Complexity, organization and uncertainty (1987)

Abstract

We discuss a strategy for understanding some of the observed relationships between complexity, organization, and uncertainty. The approach is phenomenological and emphasizes the basically discontinuous, irregular, and uncertain aspects of sociobiological systems. Much of the discussion is motivated by the observed inverse power-laws that arise in a great many data sets, e.g. Lotka's law in sociology, Pareto's law in economics, and Zipf's law in linguistics, and concludes that even the simplest of sociobiological systems elude the deterministic description of the physical sciences. It is conjectured that the clustering property implicit in such power-law behaviour may capture a ‘deep’ property of sociobiological systems, including perhaps the observed intermittency in speciation.

 

NewScientist - Julian Huxley: How can Man improve Man (2006)

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Sir Julian Huxley believes human performance can be improved with the help of “positive eugenics”.