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Monical, David G.; Schoenecker, Craig V. – 1979
A model that allows for the assessment of alternative funding formulas for postsecondary educational systems is described. The need for a practical planning model to fit the changing context of higher education funding is emphasized. The importance of a relatively simple funding model that will allow consideration of the aggregate impact of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Planning, Conference Reports, Educational Economics
Braun, Shepard – 1979
Budget planning strategies in the academic environment are discussed in light of the discouraging fiscal expectations confronting colleges and universities. The contextual implications of institutional planning processes are considered with specific reference to strategies available to decisionmakers at different levels of the organizational…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Change Strategies, College Planning, Conference Reports
Fritschi, A.; And Others – 1979
The relationships between the size of units within institutes, departments, and schools and their teaching, research, and service outputs or the structure of their resources was investigated at two national institutes of technology funded by the government of Switzerland. Resources and outputs were measured in terms of total expenditures, hours of…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Foreign Countries
Lyell, Edward H. – 1979
The historical pattern of resource allocation in American higher education as exemplified by public colleges in Colorado was examined. The reliance upon average cost information in making resource allocation decisions was critiqued for the special problems that arise from student enrollment decline or steady state. A model of resource allocation…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Budgeting, Conference Reports, Cost Estimates
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Thirteen papers presented at a conference on employment statistics and youth are contained in this report. Reviewed are the problems of gathering, interpreting, and applying employment and unemployment data relating to youth. The titles of the papers are as follow: "Counting Youth: A Comparison of Youth Labor Force Statistics in the Current…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Economic Factors
Schrader, William B., Ed. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1979
This conference was organized around four policy concerns: (1) the needs of handicapped, gifted, and bilingual students; (2) the use of test results to allocate federal compensatory education funds; (3) the validity of minimum competency testing; and (4) the demand for increasingly sophisticated evaluations. Garry L. McDaniels discussed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education