| Abstract: | This study was based on the results of a fact-finding questionnaire survey and on management theories applicable to all-university type programs. One hundred percent of the Sea Grant Institutional Program directors responded to the questionnaire. One of the purposes of the model was to provide program directors a suggested means to identify elements existing in a university on which the nucleus of a Sea Grant Program can be built. A second purpose was to suggest some possible techniques for setting objectives and evaluating their attainment. A written evaluation checklist was prepared, tested, modified as a result of the test, and presented as one of the results of the study. Another of the purposes of the study was to suggest some ways of encouraging faculty and student identification with the objectives of the program. Means of administrative control is a key element in program management. The study sought to identify the administrative problems and needs of the Sea Grant Institutional program. The model offers a number of suggested techniques for control. Committee assignments to perform several control functions are recommended. Yet the model recognizes that many control functions are more appropriately conducted by an individual coordinator, and suggests ways of control by coordination. These coordinative functions are based on a set of management propositions recently formulated by James D. Thompson which appeared to be especially applicable to this study. Then, based on the suggested control mechanisms, two administrative structures for the program officer were formulated. This formulation began with the placing of the program directorate in what appeared to be the most appropriate location in the university hierarchy and worked downward through the two suggested administrative structures. The two structures were based on: (1) a subject matter formulation and (2) a functional formulation. The functional formulation was recommended for immediate implementation because universities had tended to cling to a departmentalized structure. Subsequent conversion to a subject matter formulation was recommended because of the interdisciplinary nature of the program. |
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