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Evaluation of Integrated Planning Systems in California Community Colleges
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Buckley, Jerry L.; Piland, William E. – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2012
California community colleges are experiencing unprecedented levels of sanctions from their accrediting agency. A survey of planners in these colleges reveals a wide gap between current practice and perceived importance of integrated planning practices, as well as misalignment in budgeting methods. Statistically significant gaps were identified…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Sanctions, Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Mission
Comparing Academic Library Spending with Public Libraries, Public K-12 Schools, Higher Education Public Institutions, and Public Hospitals between 1998-2008
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Regazzi, John J. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
This study compares the overall spending trends and patterns of growth of Academic Libraries with Public Libraries, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and hospitals in the period of 1998 to 2008. Academic Libraries, while showing a growth of 13% over inflation for the period, far underperformed the growth of the other public institutions…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, School Libraries, Special Libraries
After the Budget, What Next? Ohio's Education Policy Priorities. An Analysis of House Bill 153 (the Biennial Budget) and Other Education Legislation from the First Half of 2011, and What Still Needs to Happen
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Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2011
Ohio has made tremendous strides in education reform over the past half year. Yet even regarding these accomplishments, the work is not done. Virtually all of the state's recent education policy changes come with implementation challenges and sustainability concerns. This paper presents a list that offers praise for the positive changes Ohio has…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
Making Sense of Dollars and Cents
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Sorenson, Richard – Principal, 2010
Principals must devote a vast amount of time and energy to campus funding and budgetary issues because budgeting and accounting procedures are an integral part of an effective instructional program. In fact, a principal's role in the budgetary process significantly impacts both budget development and instructional planning. Principals who fail to…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Needs Assessment, Accounting, Principals
A Costing Model for Project-Based Information and Communication Technology Systems
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Stewart, Brian; Hrenewich, Dave – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
A major difficulty facing IT departments is ensuring that the projects and activities to which information and communications technologies (ICT) resources are committed represent an effective, economic, and efficient use of those resources. This complex problem has no single answer. To determine effective use requires, at the least, a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Computer Mediated Communication
Colorado Children's Budget 2012
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Buck, Beverly; Cuciti, Peggy L.; Baker, Robin – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2012
The "Colorado Children's Budget 2012" examines the state's commitment to investing in the well-being of children. It tallies up Colorado's actual and planned investment during the past five years (Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2009 through FY 2012-2013) on programs and services in four areas: Early Childhood Learning and Development, K-12…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Health Services, Budgeting, Children