The number of decision-makers in higher education has increased, and resolution of issues has gravitated toward the state level. Since World War II the trend has been toward centralizing authority in state higher education coordinating and governing boards. Issues such as access and aid to higher education or statewide collective bargaining…

This paper discusses resource allocation at the school level, concentrating particularly on school-based budgeting. School-based budgeting is a process calling for preparation and administration of a budget for the allocation of the individual school's resources by the school principal, usually in consultation with staff and parents. The paper…

Discusses the impact of citizen revolt against taxes and governmental spending on community colleges in relation to recent state legislative developments, focusing on the states in which community colleges rely heavily on local tax support. Considers effects on community college autonomy and growth. (MB)

Summarizes the work of the Parliamentary committee that both investigated broadcasting in Great Britain and concluded that the present system ensures freedom for broadcasters and programing variety for the public. (JMF)

Differing concepts and operationalizations of institutional autonomy in the Spanish higher education system are compared, and their implications for the process of higher education reform are discussed. (MSE)

Leadership strategies that encourage voluntary compliance are compared with those that are more assertive and demanding. Specific problems and possibilities challenging those who would lead movements of institutional reform are outlined. (CB)

Ways in which institutions may either foster or frustrate the kinds of beliefs and attitudes conducive to self-respect and self-esteem are explored. Patterns of authority in the schools of a democratic society must be examined with this fact in mind and shaped in ways that most fully develop the self-respect and self-esteem of all students. (CB)

A history is given of actions leading to the award of a differentiation grant to Trent University (Ontario). Advantages and disadvantages of this type of grant are discussed, and the grant's effect on institutional autonomy is investigated. (CJB)

Argues that institutions should be free to define their missions, manage fiscal affairs, and determine organizational actions. At the same time they have the responsibility to report the degree to which their goals are being met, manage funds adequately, and provide financial accounting reports. (JOW)

This book examines the challenges posed to the leadership of the world's universities and their vision of the role of higher education in society through speeches delivered by key personalities to major conferences sponsored by the International Association of Universities. Following an introduction, "Voices of Constancy, Voices of Change: Higher…

The effectiveness and efficiency of decision making in Canadian universities are discussed in relation to the same processes in British and German institutions, in relation to other complex systems, and in terms of institutional autonomy and current pressures toward greater external control. (MSE)

The rush to regulation has made college and university presidents and other campus officials less accountable for every phase of campus activity. As state boards and federal agencies transfer decision making from institutions to higher levels, they disperse the authority and accountability that they have sought to foster. (MLW)

This essay discusses several factors which led to the regulation of American higher education by the federal government. Various arguments supporting the position that higher education should be regulated in a different way than business are presented. (EB)

Whether university research can be organized and, if so, what organizational measures can be taken to make university research efficient is discussed. It is concluded that a university researcher requires freedom of action for his/her research work and the mass university must shrink to a university for the elite. (Author/MLW)

Attempts to broaden Karabel's (1984) concept of interests to include differences in philosophy, ideology, institutional character, and changing social contexts as a way of understanding discrimination in admissions to elite colleges. Suggests that elite colleges have increased autonomy and are less dependent on traditional constituencies. (SK)