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Catania, James C. – 1980
Program evaluation at Waukesha County Technical Institute consists of two phases: a review of student enrollment, job placement, and program costs, which occurs every two years; and a comprehensive review of program content, student job performance, and instructional effectiveness, which occurs every five years. A schedule for conducting program…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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Glazer, Judith S. – The Review of Higher Education, 1984
The development of free tuition policy at the City University of New York is traced, focusing on four phases of the policy cycle: initiation, implementation, evaluation, and termination. This study was intended to add to general models of the policy termination process now in circulation. (MLW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Costs, Decision Making, Educational Policy
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Brown, Ralph S. – Academe, 1983
The themes of the 1982 annual conference of the American Association of University Professors are outlined. They include the importance of planning, selective versus across-the-board retrenchment strategies, definitions and problems of financial exigency, program reduction, and affirmative action claims. (MSE)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Administration, College Faculty, Conference Proceedings
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)
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Matthews, Jill Julius; Broom, Dorothy – Australian Universities' Review, 1991
This article recounts the origin, in 1976, of the Women's Studies Program at the Australian National University, the lack of administrative support received by the program, and its current declining status. Stressed are the difficulties such an interdisciplinary program faces at an institution organized on traditional departmental lines. (DB)
Descriptors: Departments, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Administration
Lively, Kit – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1993
Oregon State University and Southern Oregon State College have responded to state budget cuts with fundamental changes in academic programs and departments. Reductions are being made according to state guidelines for eliminating programs, rather than skimming broadly. Faculty are angered about personal and scholarly losses. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Strategies, Financial Exigency, Financial Problems
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Brantley, Frank – Journal of Dental Education, 1991
A challenge now faced by dental school administrators is to maintain the feasibility of federally funded postdoctoral general dentistry residency programs when institutional, educational, and economic priorities stretch institutional limits. Some existing programs can offer ideas and insights through their diverse and nontraditional funding…
Descriptors: College Administration, Dental Schools, Dentistry, Educational Finance
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Groothuis, Douglas – Theory and Research in Education, 2004
This article finds Michael's Hand's argument for the abolition of faith schools to be deficient because key premises of his argument seem false. I argue that the concept of knowledge that Hand employs in arguing that no religious proposition is known to be true is overly strict. I reject Siegel's attempt to amend Hand's argument to make it…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Reader Response, Spiritual Development, Program Termination
Lakin, Charlie; And Others – Policy Research Brief, 1993
This Policy Research Brief summarizes longitudinal national statistics on the number and characteristics of persons with mental retardation and related conditions living in state institutions, their movement into and out of those institutions, the costs of state institutions, and the growing numbers of closures of these institutions. Findings are…
Descriptors: Community Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Individual Characteristics, Institutionalized Persons
Lincoln, Yvonna S.; Tuttle, Jane – 1983
Program discontinuance at colleges and universities is often linked to issues of program demand and quality. However, neither low demand nor low quality is sufficient for program discontinuance without a judgment on the criterion of the centrality of the program to the institution's core mission. Colleges' retrenchment and survival mechanisms…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, College Role, Core Curriculum
Floyd, Carol Everly – 1983
Academic program review is analyzed in regard to purposes, process, schedule and timing, criteria, and decisions. Attention is also briefly addressed to the organizational entities that oversee the process of state-level program review. The purposes of program review are linked to budgeting decisions, mission delineation, and potential program…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Planning, College Programs, Decision Making
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1988
During fiscal year 1988, the public community colleges of Illinois completed the final year of their first five-year cycle of program review. The statewide program review process was implemented in 1983 for the evaluation of both instructional programs and student and academic support services. Reports submitted by the colleges in 1988 indicate…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Business Education, Community Colleges, Program Evaluation
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Griffith, Robert – Academe, 1993
A University of Maryland at College Park administrator offers his perspective on a recent retrenchment process that resulted in program closings. He describes the dialog between administration and faculty and credits the faculty with important support and participation in difficult decision making. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty
Lanier, Judith E. – National Forum: Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1993
It is argued that, when a university's resources are insufficient to undertake serious, responsible change in education, the institution should close its school of education and put its resources into high-quality programs elsewhere. Perpetuating low-quality education programs is seen as an insupportable alternative. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Role, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Lewis, Theodore; Konare, Amadou – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1993
Minnesota and Wisconsin technical college personnel (25 presidents, 63 counselors, 23 placement officers, and 34 alternates) considered training-related labor market information most important in program maintenance decisions; advisory committee input for program modification decisions; employer input for adding programs; and cost for dropping…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Job Placement, Labor Market, Occupational Information
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