GOVERNANCE *JUNIOR COLLEGES

To analyze the planning and implementation of plans for an organization of higher education within a larger state-wide movement, this study was designed to investigate the following elements of the St. Louis County Junior College District: (1) interoraanizational relationships which evolved between local, state and national levels in preparation for and prior to the formal establishment of the new educational organization, (2) the initial goals for the new educational organization which emerged during these years of preparatican, (3) the avenues through which these goals may have been transferred to the new organization, (4) the early critical decisions made by the leadership of the new organization in establishing a social base for the organization, (5) the development of a national iunior college movement philosophy with particular reference to model of a comprehensive community lunior college embodied within it, and (6) the values of the initial administrative staff and exigent local needs as brought to the new organization by its initial student population for an understanding of the emerging character of the new organization. Four phases of research included(1) observation of both the formal and informal meetings of the Board of Trustees,(2) preliminary interviews with participants in some of the events under investigation,(3) following interviews with 36 selected persons, and (4) compilation and analysis of data. (DC