To meet demand for increased funding, in a period of probable declining investment returns, colleges and universities must fine-tune their asset suballocations to enhance returns. While the institution should adhere to major asset allocation classes, there can be much flexibility, and enhanced return, in shifting suballocations within the major…

The thesis that the nature of the planning and budgeting processes is affected by the resource environment in which they take place is demonstrated in a case study of Cuyahoga Community College. Increasing planning difficulty in the 1980s resulting from the changing economic environment is forecast. (MSE)

A check list that reviews basic management systems is intended to help public agencies prepare for the trend toward tighter resources. (Author/MLF)

Changing times, public attitudes, and political strategies have shifted the approach to leadership in higher education from an academic to a business perspective. Colleges and universities are being asked to restructure, reinvent themselves, and rightsize, but none of these will work unless more attention is paid to the problem of revenue. (MSE)