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)

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

Brock Ghisholm - Prescription for survival (1957)

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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) 

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"... 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)

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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)

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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)

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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”.

Robert Jungk - The big machine (1969)

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The story of the 'atom-smasher'- the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the Scientists who run it.

 

Dennis M. Bushnell - The Future of Undersea Warfare: The Shape of Things to Come (2001)

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Since the 1950s, when more than 50 percent of the nation's work force became engaged in some type of "information-intensive," activity, the United States (and the world) have been in the midst of an unprecedented Technological Revolution, currently centered around Information, Biological, and Nanoscale technologies. These technologies are all pushing the frontiers of the miniscule in a synergistic "feeding frenzy" among each other, and are causing tremendous changes in all areas of human endeavor. One of these areas is warfare. The character of these new technologies is altering both the context of potential conflicts and the diversity, effectiveness, survivability, and affordability of the techniques and material applicable to waging war.

 

Dennis Meadows & Lewis Perelman - Limits to growth: a challenge to higher education (1977)

 

Dennis L. Meadows, Alvin M. Weinberg & James Boyd - The American Future: A Dialogue (1976)

 

Dennis Meadows - Toward a Science of Social Forecasting (1972)

Dennis M. Bushnell - The bots, borgs and genetically modified humans welcome you to the future of energetics (date unknown)

John B. Calhoun - Population Density and Social Pathology (1962)

When a population of laboratory rats is allowed to increase in a confined space, the rats develop acutely abnormal patterns of behavior that can even lead to the extinction of the population.

 

Tal Brooke - Americas waning light (1995)

 

Jacques Attali - Tommorow's world elite (UNESCO Magazine) (1998)

UNESCO - Nanothechnologies, ethics and politics (2007)

 

Fred Emery - Futures we are in (1977)

 

Paulo Freire - Education for Critical Consciousness Continuum Impacts (1974)

 

Dennis M. Bushnell - Where Is It All Going (2016)

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Society now faces many major, even existential, issues that threaten our future. At the same time that accelerating changes are converging to create enormous potential problems, prospective synergistic solution spaces are emerging that offer strategies—and hope— for the human future. 

 

William Y. Elliott - The Pragmatic Revolt In Politics Syndicalism Fascism And The Constitutional State (1928)

Dennis Meadows - The dynamics of commodity production cycles (1969)

 

RAND - Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar (2009)

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This monograph presents the results of a fiscal year 2008 study, “Defining and Implementing Cyber Command and Cyber Warfare.” It discusses the use and limits of power in cyberspace, which has been likened to a medium of potential conflict, much as the air and space domains are. The study was conducted to help clarify and focus attention on the operational realities behind the phrase “fly and fight in cyberspace.” The basic message is simple: Cyberspace is its own medium with its own rules. Cyberattacks, for instance, are enabled not through the generation of force but by the exploitation of the enemy’s vulnerabilities. Permanent effects are hard to produce. The medium is fraught with ambiguities about who attacked and why, about what they achieved and whether they can do so again. Something that works today may not work tomorrow (indeed, precisely because it did work today). Thus, deterrence and warfighting tenets established in other media do not necessarily translate reliably into cyberspace. Such tenets must be rethought. This monograph is an attempt to start this rethinking. The research described in this monograph was sponsored by Lt Gen Robert Elder, Jr., Commander, Eighth Air Force (8AF/CC), and Joint Functional Component Commander for Space and Global Strike, United States Strategic Command. The work was conducted within the Force Modernization and Employment Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE. It should be of interest to the decisionmakers and policy researchers associated with cyberwarfare, as well as to the Air Force planning community

Carroll Quigley - Weapons Systems and Political Stability (1983)

Carroll Quigley, American historian and professor at Georgetown University, died January 5, 1977, leaving behind a manuscript on weapons systems and political stability, upon which he had been working on for the preceding twelve years. Very few would ever see his final work, that is, until today. For the first time in over 30 years, this manuscript is now available to the public in its entirety, unabridged and original format. Professor Quigley's Weapons Systems and Political Stability carries further toward completion the uniquely anthropological holistic analysis of history, which is the theme of his earlier works; Tragedy and Hope and The Evolution of Civilizations. Quigley's observations on the uses of war are penetrating. Throughout history, society's decisions regarding its weapons systems have been decisive in shaping human social, economic, and political decisions. Of special interest today is Quigley's division of western weapons systems over the last thousand years into five successive stages, each associated with different political system. In Quigley's social analysis the dominance of democracy in the 20th century is attributable to the acceptance in the 19th century of a weapons system that favored democracy, the hand gun and rifle. In the consequent tilt toward an atomistic society, loyalties to the once strong social structures of family, church, and workplace break down.

"Crowd Control Technologies" : An Assessment Of Crowd Control Technology Options For The European Union (An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control, 2000) 

This study grew out of the 1997 STOA report, 'An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control' and takes that work further. Its focus is two fold:(i) to examine the bio-medical effects and the social & political impacts of currently available crowd control weapons in Europe; (ii) to analyse world wide trends and developments including the implications for Europe of a second generation of so called
non-lethal weapons. Seven key areas are covered by the reports project: (a) a review of available crowd control technologies; (b) relevant legislation at national and EU levels; (c) the relative efficiency of crowd control technologies; (d) their physical and mental effects on individuals; (e) the actual and potential abuse of crowd control technologies; (f) an assessment of future technologies and their effects; and finally (g) an appraisal of less damaging alternatives such as CCTV.The report presents a detailed worldwide survey of crowd control weapons and the companies which manufacture supply or distribute them. It was found that at least 110 countries worldwide deploy riot control weapons, including chemical irritants, kinetic energy weapons, water cannon and electro-shock devices. Whilst presented as humane alternatives to the use of lethal force, the study found examples in 47 countries of these so called
non-lethal crowd control weapons being used in conjunction with lethal force rather than as a substitute for it, leading directly to injury and fatalities

 

Charles Darwin - The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (1871)

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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary musicology, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the dominant role of women in mate choice, and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society.

 

Michel Salomon - Future Life (1984)

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Interviews with eighteen distinguished scientists from around the world offer forecasts of future human physiological, psychological, and philosophical developments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Josif Maksimovitch Landowsky - Red Symphony (1968)

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Dr. Landowsky was a Russianized Pole and lived in Russia. His father, a Colonel of the Russian Imperial Army, was shot by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 revolution. The life-story of Dr. Landowsky is astonishing. He finished the Faculty of Medicine in Russia before the revolution and then studied two years at the Sorbonne in Paris, and he spoke fluent French. He was interested in the effects of drugs on the human organism, to help surgeons in operations. Being a talented doctor, he carried out experiments in this field and had achieved considerable results. The all-seeing NKVD (secret police) became interested in these works and easily discovered the real author. His specialty was very valuable for them. One day in 1936 there was a knock at the doctor's door. He was invited to follow, and he was never again allowed to rejoin his family. He was placed in the building of the chemical laboratory of the NKVD near Moscow. He lived there and was forced to carry out various jobs given to him by his masters, he was a witness at questionings, tortures and the most terrible happenings and crimes. This book is an exact recorded report of the questioning of the former Ambassador in France, C.G. Rakovsky during the period of the trials of the Trotskyists in the USSR in 1938, when he was tried together with Bukharin, Rykoff, Yagoda, Karakhan, Dr. Levin and others. The questioning took place in French by this agent. The doctor was present in order to put drug pills unnoticed into the glass of Rakovsky, to induce energy and a good mood. Behind the wall the conversation was registered on apparatus, and the technician who operated it did not understand French. Then Dr. Landowsky had to translate into Russian, with two copies, for Stalin and Gabriel. Secretly he dared to make a carbon copy, which he hid anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Correa Moylan Walsh - Climax of civilisation (1917)

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Standing by itself, the present work is offered as a new exposition of the cyclical theory in the philosophy of history. It attempts to describe the course which all civilizations naturally run, and to locate our position in the cycle of our civilization. This position is shown to be one near the top, or climax, and to contain premonitions of dis- integration and decline. The purpose of the work is to point out these germs of decay, and to emphasize the need of guarding against fomenting and cherishing them.

 

 

Herman Kahn - World Economic Development (1979)

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This book examines the prospects for world economic development. It focuses primarily on the period from 1978 to 2000 and pays particular attention to the earlier part of that interval. The book examines some of the more immediate problems and issues associated with the process of economic growth.

Hazel Henderson - The Politics of the Solar Age (1981)

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We are now at a critical moment in history. The stresses now occurring globally are largely due to limited perspectives, ancient ideologies, and defunct economic models. Yet, 2015 can be the year when the great transitions envisioned and promoted by forward-looking individuals and groups in many places around the world can be truly launched in academia, public, private, and civic sectors worldwide. These transitions show that stress is evolution’s tool and that breakdowns do drive breakthroughs! This article reviews the progress achieved to date and outlines the reasons for optimism that humanity is on the brink of achieving the long-wished-for goal of universal, equitable, and sustainable prosperity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Klaus Schwab and Pamela Hartigan - Social Innovators with a Business Case: Facing 21st Century Challenges One Market at a Time (2006)

 

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If there is one thing about which public and corporate leaders around the world today can agree, it is the ever-growing importance of innovation. The search for innovative solutions to the world’s myriad local, national and global challenges has become a clarion call rallying people across multiple borders defined by nation, industry, and academic discipline. Yet policy making reflects deep ambivalence about innovation. The cheerleading over innovation exists in contrast to the myr- iad institutional, legal, regulatory, and educational impediments to the work of innovators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Y. Elliott & Neil A. McDonald - Western political heritage (1949)

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Includes The Dawn Of Political Consciousness; Political Life In The Greek City State; Plato's Philosophy Of The Ideal State And Of Law; The Nature Of Political Society, Aristotle; The Heritage Of Roman Law; The To Swords; Government In The Middle Ages; The Protestant Revolt And Its Political Effects; The Secular National State; Natural Rights And A Limited State; Revolutionary Popular Sovereignty And Conservatism; Nineteenth-Century Liberalism, British And American; Foundations Of Totalitarianism, Marxism; The Democratic Constitutional State; Toward A Constitutional World Order.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marshall Mcluhan - Radio: The Tribal Drum (1964)

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Editor's Note: This article is a chapter from Mr. McLuhan's forthcoming book, Understanding Media, slightly revised for publication in AVCR. It deals with the neglected medium of radio and interprets
radio in terms of the inherent communication content of the medium as such. Mr. McLuhan' s major thesis is that the medium is the message. The interpretation of media as unique and intrinsic messages per se parallels and complements the thesis of Edward T. Hall (The Silent Language, Doubleday and Co., I959) that culture is communication and expands and clarifies Sigmund Freud's maxim (Civilization and its Discontents, W. W. Norton & Co., I962) that all media are extensions of the human sensorium. One of the discomforting characteristics of Mr. McLuhan' s writings is that they require the reader to think for himself. The following article on radio as a message--a tribal message---incorporates this requirement and its attendant discomfort.-- C. F. Hoban.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Coleman - The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (2006)

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The Tavistock Institute for Human Relations has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual, cultural, political and economic policies of the United States of America and Great Britain. It has been in the front line of the attack on the U.S. Constitution and State Constitutions. No group did more to propagandize the U.S. to participate in WWI at a time when the majority of the American people were opposed to it.

Much the same tactics were used by the Social Science Scientists at Tavistock to get the United States into WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and both wars against Iraq. Tavistock began as a propaganda creating and disseminating organization at Wellington House in London in the run-up to WWI, what Toynbee called “that black hole of disinformation.” On another occasion, Toynbee called Wellington House “a lie factory.”

From a somewhat crude beginning, Wellington House evolved into the Tavistock Institute and went on to shape the destiny of Germany, Russia, Britain and the United States in a highly controversial manner. The people of these nations were unaware that they were being “brainwashed.” The origin of “mind control,” “inner directional conditioning” and mass “brainwashing” is explained in an easy to understand book written with great authority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonas Salk - Man Unfolding (1972)

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Salk's first book speculates on the course of humanity's metabiological evolution and suggests that our modern biological knowledge "can be extended and applied to some of the vital social, psychological and ethical problems we face". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ervin László - Cybernetics in an evolving social system (1984)

 

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Human societies can be conceptualized as natural systems satisfying four basic system criteria: Ordered wholeness; negative feedback deviation‐reducing capability; positive feedback deviation‐amplifying, self‐evolving capacity; and dual‐structural adaptation to sub‐ as well as suprasystems. While societies are obviously governable in stable, relatively organized situations, whether in totalitarian or fully participatory ways, it is concluded they are also governable during “crucial epochs” that are characterized by unstable, provisionally disorganized and unpredictable states—although different modes of governance prevail during these periods of rapid self‐evolution, when control is exercised by rapidly shifting and selectively amplifying peripheral movements. Analysis of the forms of transition governance during crucial epochs in self‐evolving social systems is important for suppressing totalitarian trends and consciously amplifying humanistic peripheral movements.

 

Club of Rome 

In 1993, in response to his experience with the Club of Rome, he founded the Club of Budapest to, in his words, "centre attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing course — from a race towards degradation, polarization and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today's transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics and global sustainability".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walter Bowart - Operation Mind Control (1978)

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Operation Mind Control - The CIA - The Making and Unmaking of a KILLER! This is the most terrifying true story ever to emerge from the united states. Walter Bowart has uncovered a huge government cryptocracy dedicated to controlling and manipulating human minds. Through hypnosis and drugs, ordinary citizens became CIA zombies, human computers, spies, trained assassins, with no control over their consciousness or consciousness of their actions. Only unexplained memory gaps, or a separate personality which emerged on a trigger cue, showed the victim that something else was amiss. Bowart's devastating account includes top secret documents cold-bloodedly outlining the cryptocracy's program, and startling new evidence to link Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan with Operation Mind Control. In the Manchurian Candidate that was fiction - OPERATION MIND CONTROL IS CHILLING FACT! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aldous Huxley - History of Tension (1957)

 

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Mr. Huxley is a distinguished British journalist and novelist. This article is based on an address given at the Conference on Meprobamate and Other Agents Used in Mental Disturbances at the New York Academy of Sciences, 18 Oct. 1956. It is reprinted here by Permission from the monograph Meprobamate and Other Agents Used in Mental Disturbances.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. D. Bernal - The World, The Flesh And The Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul (1929)

 

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Written by the pioneering scientist, theorist and activist J. D. Bernal, this futuristic essay explores the radical changes to human bodies and intelligence that science may bring about, and suggests the impact of these developments on society. Bernal presents a far-reaching vision of the future that encompasses space research and colonization, material sciences, genetic engineering, and the technological hive mind. In his view, it will be possible for the conditions of civilization to reach a state of materialist utopia. For all three realms—the world, the flesh, and the devil—Bernal attempted to map out the utmost limit of technoscientific progress, and found that there are almost no limits.