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GAP ANALYSIS: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR PLANNING IN THE PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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Date Issued:
1974
Summary:
This dissertation deals with the question of adequate planning by community colleges. Today's fast changing environmental conditions require an institutional planning process that facilitates an equally fast reaction by the college at various levels of its activities. The study describes a particular business planning method, the Gap Analysis system, a ten-step process. The system is validated by 1,429 U.S. manufacturing and non-manufacturing company executives, as a practical and effective management tool. These executives represented 705 different companies which, in turn, did not differ significantly from the U.S. business population both by size of company and by type of industry. The results show a great unfamiliarity with even rudimentary facts about community colleges on the part of at least three quarters of businessmen and their companies. There is an immediate need for better public relations and communications with the local business community. It is recommended that initiative be taken by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges to start remedying the inadequacies (internal planning and community communications) with an intensive, cooperative program of education of community college personnel across the country. Specific steps are suggested to develop such a program.
Title: GAP ANALYSIS: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR PLANNING IN THE PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
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Name(s): KAMI, MICHAEL JOHN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Buckner, Leroy M., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1974
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 246 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This dissertation deals with the question of adequate planning by community colleges. Today's fast changing environmental conditions require an institutional planning process that facilitates an equally fast reaction by the college at various levels of its activities. The study describes a particular business planning method, the Gap Analysis system, a ten-step process. The system is validated by 1,429 U.S. manufacturing and non-manufacturing company executives, as a practical and effective management tool. These executives represented 705 different companies which, in turn, did not differ significantly from the U.S. business population both by size of company and by type of industry. The results show a great unfamiliarity with even rudimentary facts about community colleges on the part of at least three quarters of businessmen and their companies. There is an immediate need for better public relations and communications with the local business community. It is recommended that initiative be taken by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges to start remedying the inadequacies (internal planning and community communications) with an intensive, cooperative program of education of community college personnel across the country. Specific steps are suggested to develop such a program.
Identifier: 11633 (digitool), FADT11633 (IID), fau:8571 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.
College of Education
Subject(s): Educational planning
Community colleges--Administration
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