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Maintaining Investment Success: The Importance of Asset Suballocation.
Morrell, Louis R. – Business Officer, 1997
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…
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Climate, Economic Factors, Endowment Funds
How to Think About Rising College Costs.
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Baumol, William J.; Blackman, Sue Anne Batey – Planning for Higher Education, 1995
A discussion of the changing economic climate for higher education looks at college costs in relation to other economic indicators, higher education costs in other countries, and hypothetical changes in spending and productivity in the next few decades. It is concluded that while the situation looks bleak, reconception of practices and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, Costs, Educational Change
Financing Participation in Consortia.
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Maydew, Mary Jo – New Directions for Higher Education, 1999
Examines the current interest in consortia among colleges and universities, and describes Five Colleges, Inc., one of the oldest consortiums in the United States. The advantages, challenges, and factors in such collaborative relationships are discussed, with some attention given to financial issues. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Administration, Consortia
Measures of Resource Scarcity in Higher Education.
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Pickens, William H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
Resources for higher education over the last 40 years are reviewed, with special emphasis on the abundance of the 1980s and crisis of the 1990s. Trends in government support are examined, and ways in which individual institutions can measure the adequacy of their resources to pursue their policy goals are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Change, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Surviving the Eighties. Strategies and Procedures for Solving Fiscal and Enrollment Problems.
Mayhew, Lewis B. – 1979
The survival of higher education institutions is addressed in this book. Strategies and procedures for assuring institutional vitality are outlined, based on the author's 30 years of studying and advising colleges and universities in various states of financial health. The major components of institutional vitality are enumerated, including a…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, College Planning, College Role, Cost Effectiveness
The Three "R's" of the Eighties: Reduction, Reallocation, and Retrenchment.
Mortimer, Kenneth P.; Tierney, Michael L. – 1979
Some of the responses of colleges and universities to declining enrollments and diminishing resources are reviewed. Institutions have tried to reduce the size of their operations, reallocate resources internally, and retrench a number of faculty and programs. Several approaches to reductions, reallocations, and retrenchments in specific cases,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Check Lists, College Administration, Declining Enrollment
Marketing University Outreach Programs.
Foster, Ralph S., Jr., Ed.; And Others – 1994
A collection of 12 essays and model program descriptions addresses issues in the marketing of university extension, outreach, and distance education programs. They include: (1) "Marketing and University Outreach: Parallel Processes" (William I. Sauser, Jr. and others); (2) "Segmenting and Targeting the Organizational Market"…
Descriptors: Advertising, College Administration, Costs, Delivery Systems