The Crisis of Purpose: Definition and Uses of Institutional Goals.

Abstract

This report considers %That kinds of actdenic philosophies ere being questioned and by ODA. So..-e. of the rhetoric concerning the purrose of higher education is reviqed, revertl conceptal distinctions are d::,/n, and 'orking de:initions are offered for such terms'as 'function, pur,osel cora, And objective. General sod speeMc uses of institutional goals .:re discussed, and several :1r:1a-college studies on tools tre deseracd. Connidorntiln of the isnuns of institut4onll autone:ay tn.] -power is followed by attention to 3 strategies Zoe determining goals: by fiat, by comnittee, sni by survey. Special emphasia is riven to the uses of the Delphi Technique as a goal-determination strategy. References follow the

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