Characteristics of academic departments that affect resource allocation to departments by the college or university are discussed, especially in times of retrenchment. Attention is focused on the ability of academic departments to maintain or increase their share of the resources allocated by the central governing board. Relevant departmental…

Attempts to utilize nonpolluting solar energy for home heating and electrical power are examined. (DE)

This article provides a description of the immediate food shortage problem, possible solutions, and four specific areas in which social studies teachers can explore the problem with students. (DE)

The paper offers a framework for examining the organization and governance of summer sessions that best support the college or university's institutional mission of teaching. Discussion centers on issues of legitimacy and integrity that arise when summer sessions deviate from the primary responsibility of meeting the academic needs of students.…

This document describes the resource allocation and targeting provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Act of 1984 and identifies and evaluates some policy options. An introduction outlines the aims and scope of the report. Section 2 describes grants for handicapped and disadvantaged vocational students, addressing the evolution of federal aid…

Case studies of two colleges of very different financial status are contrasted to illustrate principles of leadership during both good economic times and difficult times. Visits and interviews at four prospering colleges and four colleges under financial stress were conducted to determine the financial state of each college and the role of…

Assessment strategies that colleges and universities design to evaluate the effectiveness of their academic programs should be compatible with other institutional improvement strategies. This paper stems from work done by the Outcomes Assessment Project in International Education, a project that attempts to assist institutions in measuring the…

This chapter of "Principles of School Business Management" analyzes the types of budget preparation that are used in school districts across the United States. The chapter proposes as a basic premise that the budgetary process is inherently political, and states that some budgeting methods may provide more useful political information…

The purpose of the hearing on June 15, 1982 was to hear testimony from the administration, from Indian tribes and organizations, and from tribally controlled community college representatives on S.2623, a bill that would amend and extend the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978. Representatives who testified from the…

The attractive features of various strategies for resolving a simulated commons dilemma (a paradox in which a long-term benefit requires the individual to forego immediate gain) were determined in conditions where 40 groups of college age participants (total number = 136) were acting as a world policy making body or local advisory group when there…

This publication reports on a recent study that compared the new Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) with its predecessor, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study was conducted to determine how the JTPA limit on money for program administration affected the type of individual served and the training provided in the…

The use of a robust statistical technique to implement a decentralized faculty allocation procedure at a medium size public university is discussed. The least median of squares (LMS), a regression technique introduced by Rousseeuw, was used instead of the usual least sum of squares, or least squares. The LMS technique was used to assist in the…

Implementation of a systematic approach to allocation of limited resources for the accomplishment of priority objectives for the St. Louis Park Public Schools (St. Louis Park, Minnesota) was established in 1986, in an effort to provide enhanced, understandable financial reporting and to demonstrate that school district resources are being used to…

The Objective-Based Assessment, Planning, and Resource Allocation System (OAPRAS) that was developed and implemented at Middlesex County College is described. The integrated self-assessment planning and budgeting system was developed in 1981. The central purpose of OAPRAS was to link resource allocation decisions to the prioritized objectives that…