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Performance-Based Funding of Higher Education: A Detailed Look at Best Practices in 6 States
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Miao, Kysie – Center for American Progress, 2012
Performance-based funding is a system based on allocating a portion of a state's higher education budget according to specific performance measures such as course completion, credit attainment, and degree completion, instead of allocating funding based entirely on enrollment. It is a model that provides a fuller picture of how successfully…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Best Practices, Budgets
The Best of Both Worlds: An Application Using Micros and the Mainframe.
Shumate, Cynthia – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1985
The adaptation of a centralized budget system to relate microcomputers to a mainframe and to distribute data to departmental users for their micros is described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Management Information Systems
Business-Advisory Task Force Helps School Solve Problems. Part B: Microcomputer Program Answers "What If" Questions.
Dierdorff, William H.; Smith, Jay C. – School Business Affairs, 1984
Discusses the characteristics, development, and applications of the North Clackamas (OR) School District's long-range financial planning model, which is operated through an electronic spreadsheet. Two tables show sample outputs. (MCG)
Descriptors: Budgets, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education
Building a Software Library: How Do You Create a Library of Software That Meets Your Needs--and Doesn't Break Your Budget?
Goodson, Bobby; And Others – Electronic Learning, 1983
Software collection development recommendations from principals and educational computing specialists focus on district control of software collections, budgeting, what to purchase (e.g., games versus educational programs), computer literacy, and computers as time savers for instructors. Recommended software programs are profiled, and an annotated…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgets, Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs
World Bank Contribution to Building National HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity in Africa: Going beyond Indicator Development and Conceptual Training
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Wilson, David – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
International commitment to the human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic has grown rapidly in recent years, stimulated by the leadership of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and its cosponsors and supported by a range of new mechanisms. These include the World Bank's Multi-Country…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Countries, Public Sector
A National Periodicals Center Technical Development Plan.
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Council on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1978
This technical plan for developing, managing, and operating a national periodicals center (NPC), which was prepared at the request of the Library of Congress, is designed so that it could be used by the Library or any other agency prepared to assume responsibility for the creation of a major periodicals facility. The overall goal of the NPC is to…
Descriptors: Administration, Bibliographies, Budgets, Delivery Systems
Data as an Institutional Resource in a Planning, Management and Evaluation System.
Fox, Robert B.; Groff, Warren H. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
The relationship between data and their use in a planning, management and evaluation system in a higher education institution is discussed. Elements of the institutional planning process are detailed as well as the budgeting process and a method for relating fiscal resources to institutional goals and objectives. (Author/SF)
Descriptors: Budgets, College Administration, College Planning, Computers