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Mortimer, Kenneth; And Others – 1986
Faced with scarce resources and environmental uncertainty in the past decade, colleges and universities have experimented with different modes of academic staffing, most of which are attempts to preserve or create more flexible policies and practices. In spite of tenure systems in operation at 94% of all four year colleges, institutions have at…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty Evaluation
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Myran, Gunder A., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1983
Articles in this sourcebook discuss six strategic areas of community college management: external relations, internal communication and working relationships, financial resources development and allocation, program and service development, staff development, and strategic planning. First, "Strategic Management in the Community College,"…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Layzell, Daniel T.; Lyddon, Jan W. – 1990
State budgeting for higher education is a complex, multifacted process which is influenced by conditions outside both state government and higher education including the historical traditions, political culture, economic and demographic aspects of a state. Noted is the need of higher education to compete with other policy areas for resources and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
Walters, Donald L. – 1981
The state-of-the-art of financial analysis for academic units within institutions of higher education is evaluated with attention directed to: how the cost of an academic unit is determined, how revenue is identified with academic units, how costs are analyzed, how revenues and expenditures are projected, and how the financial efficiency of an…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Cost Indexes, Educational Finance
Schriro, Dora – 1985
This monograph is written to help school administrators and policy makers, in addressing the question of safe schools, separate analytically what is "school" and what is "society" in order to better understand the real span of the school's control. The central question is: what are the characteristics of safe and effective…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Delinquency Prevention, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems
Melchiori, Gerlinda S. – 1982
The origin and extent of program reduction and discontinuance at colleges and universities, the elements of program review, and a framework for developing long-range organizational planning are considered. Program discontinuance refers to the merger of related programs, the elimination of certain degrees or programs within departments, and the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board of Education Policy, College Administration, College Planning