Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1974

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Buckner, Leroy M.

Abstract

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.

Extent

246 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.

Identifier

FADT11633

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