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Peer reviewedPowers, David R. – Educational Record, 1982
Well-defined and clearly documented guidelines and areas of responsibility and strict adherence to procedures will eliminate considerable debate and disruptions during retrenchment. These concepts apply equally to faculty, staff, program, student, and other issues. University of Pittsburgh retrenchment guidelines on faculty treatment provide…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Case Studies, College Administration
Monaghan, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
To comply with federal Title IX regulations concerning gender equity in college sports, colleges and universities are increasingly dropping men's athletic teams rather than support women's teams. By 1999, institutions must prove they have made progress toward compliance. The difficult decision to terminate teams is often also controversial; some…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, College Athletics, Compliance (Legal)
Peer reviewedMichael, Steve O. – Review of Higher Education, 1998
Provides models helpful to policymakers at state and institutional levels involved in academic program review and discontinuation, outlines levels of policy decisions for program discontinuation, and examines models that may be effective at each level. Concludes with program discontinuation-related recommendations. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Houpt, Corinne A., Ed. – 1991
The materials in this compendium are intended to assist counsel and administrators at institutions of higher education faced with the need to consider and plan for program closures. Some materials also deal with the closely related issues of financial exigency, faculty reductions, and reductions in force. Section I offers the following papers:…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Court Litigation, Financial Exigency, Higher Education
Gose, Ben – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
While college and university officials tend to say they have fraternity hazing under control due to school policies and state criminal laws, critics find the laws have been ineffective, in part because of a tendency to blame the victims. Punishment of some student perpetrators has been minimal. Liability of schools can be substantial, with…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, Court Litigation, Criminal Law
Naughton, Jim – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
As colleges cut men's athletics to provide more opportunity for female athletes and comply with federal mandates, male athletes are feeling shock and frustration. Since 1982, over one-third of colleges sponsoring wrestling have dropped their programs and men's gymnastics teams have decreased by half. Still, one study indicates only 10% of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Athletes, College Athletics, Compliance (Legal)
Peer reviewedRose, Homer C., Jr.; Hample, Stephen R. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1981
Lessons and strategies for the institutional researcher dealing with faculty reduction are reviewed: developing a database; defining circumstances necessary for retrenchment; developing policies regarding participation and program discontinuance; examining alternatives; reviewing role and mission statements, legal standards and procedures;…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, College Planning, College Role
Download full textMingle, James R. – 1982
Adjustments that state policy-makers and institutions of higher education will need to make as they face cutbacks in public support and declining enrollments are described, based in part on a research project on retrenchment in higher education conducted by the Southern Regional Education Board. Given the long-term contractual obligations of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, College Planning, Declining Enrollment
Melchiori, Gerlinda S. – 1981
Results of a 1979 survey of 46 states on patterns of program reduction are presented, and the institutional shrinkage process currently being implemented at the University of Michigan is examined. Additionally, several hierarchical and sequential reduction strategies, including Balderston's budgetary strategies, are reviewed. At the University of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
Wisconsin Univ. System, Madison. Board of Regents. – 1975
A plan for reducing or consolidating institutions and programs of the University of Wisconsin (UW) is presented, based on a request by Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey in 1975. The Governor's basic fiscal and enrollment assumptions are identified, and the findings and recommendations of the UW system President John Weaver are presented. Part 1…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Advisory Committees, College Planning
