A model for long range planning in higher education

In essence this paper proposes a model for a systematic, continuous instructional planning process to develop strategies and tactics for those institutions of higher education desiring perpetuation, growth, and flexibility to meet changing needs in a changing environment and organization.The model accounts for a viable structural linkage of the many organizational components, and the several kinds of information and decision making processes which are important to the successful functioning and growth of already complex organizations.The model also, even though somewhat implicity, includes procedures which are self-orienting to the personnel involved and thus which facilitate the maintenance of a realistic, flexible, theoretically based approach to planning processes important to the well being and the growth and development of the personnel involved.