Developing a Master Plan for Alberta Post-Secondary Non-University and Continuing Education. The Planning Project; Master Planning Monograph 1.

This monograph describes the Alberta College Commission Master Planning Project, which includes all post-secondary non-university and continuing education services in the province. The areas covered are: (1) the need for planning--system efficiency and effectiveness, coordination of post-secondary education; (2) the Alberta College Commission Master Planning Project--growth and development of the college system, master planning; (3) purpose of the project--general purpose, statement of the problem, scope and limitations (organization of post-secondary education, constraints and limitations, delimitations), definition of terms; and (4) methodology--project design (purpose, establishment of goals, development of a planning model, data collection, development of data screens, and data analysis), planning model (collecting the data, analyzing the data, evaluation), and critical path (a chart conceptualizing the planning project and outlining the interrelationships of the various areas under study). (KM)