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Download full textJonas, Stephen; And Others – 1996
This handbook guides college and university business officers, from small liberal arts colleges to community colleges to research universities, through the complex set of decisions and actions associated with replacing financial management systems. It lists the steps necessary to evaluate an institution's current hardware, network, and software;…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Change Agents
Ayewoh, Michael Ehi – 1985
Needs and concerns of 35 black students enrolled at Mansfield University in spring 1985 were assessed. Biographical information and opinions of the respondents were obtained using a questionnaire, which is appended. Characteristics of the sample include: 66.67 percent were males and 33.33 percent were females; 22 of the students were 18 to 21…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Black Students, College Environment, College Students
Parelius, Robert James – 1981
Hypothetical and actual problems in the organizational, professional, collegial, and client relationships of college faculty were studied. A list of hypothetical problems was derived from a systematic literature search, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 faculty of history, biological science, political science, and business…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Environment, College Faculty, College Instruction
Hoeber, Daniel R. – 1981
An Orientation/Self-Management course was developed at Mercy College, Detroit, to reduce the high attrition rate (95%) among conditionally admitted full-time (CAFT) students, i.e., those admitted with less than a "C" average upon high school graduation. The course focused on the student as an adult, vital, growing, and independent person; the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1979
The Strengthening Developing Institutions of Higher Education Program--under Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965--is evaluated. The program is intended to assist institutions struggling for survival and isolated from the main currents of academic life. More than 800 institutions had participated in this Office of Education (OE) program…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Change Strategies, Developing Institutions, Educational Improvement
Rollins, Richard A.; And Others – 1977
The relationship between government and Bishop College in regard to federal funding and the effect of federal compliance is examined. The four significant impact components that comprise the study are historical impact, statistical impact, federal impact (positive and negative aspects), and operational/functional impact. Basic instruments used to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Budgets, Case Studies
Burhorn, John F. – 1980
Decision-making responsibility in small private liberal arts colleges as perceived by faculty, presidents, and trustees is examined in light of the growing pressures of the 1980's on the institutions. Problem areas identified through a literature survey were the acquisition and allocation of financial resources, student recruitment and retention,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
Skoner, Peter R.; Jalongo, Mary Renck – Engineering Education, 1988
Provides an overview of the courses for pre-engineering attrition. Suggests ways to improve retention rates of students in cooperative college programs. (RT)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Church Related Colleges, College Science
Madden, Margaret E. – 1997
This paper discusses management strategies based on feminist social psychological principles, applies them to the administration of small colleges, and suggests their effectiveness for dealing with intelligent and independent faculty members. The principles cited are: (1) individuals are located in a sociological context that creates differences…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Change Agents
Swigget, Glen Levin – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
The program of the subsection on commercial education of the education section of the Pan American Scientific Congress, held in Washington City December 27, 1915 to January 8, 1916 under the auspices of the U.S. Government, was so comprehensive and the papers of such value that the Commissioner of the Bureau of Education requested the assistant…
Descriptors: Business Education, Urban Areas, Industrial Education, International Trade
Blanchard, William; Malmberg, Margaret A. – 1997
This case study focused on a small liberal arts college (Lake Erie College, Ohio) over one year during which four milestone events appeared to be pivotal in increasing the willingness of the school to use institutional research for decision-making in areas of program modification and development. At the beginning of the year, the college was faced…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Degrees (Academic)
Smith, Peter – 1998
Forty-one small liberal arts colleges were visited during the 1997-98 school year in order to talk to key information technology staff and to see computing facilities. A survey containing 15 factual and 10 open-ended questions was used to gather information. This paper presents findings in the following areas and comparison with results of a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Comparative Analysis, Computer Centers
Splete, Allen P.; And Others – 1987
A survey of faculty and selected administrators of liberal arts colleges was conducted, with the goals of achieving a greater understanding of the academic workplace for faculty in liberal arts colleges and identifying ways in which the vitality, commitment, morale, and productivity of the faculty could be enhanced. A total of 9,204 faculty in 142…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Case Studies, Church Related Colleges, College Environment
Chando, Carl M., Ed. – 1978
Summaries of papers from the 1978 National Conference on Academic Advising are presented. Among the 58 papers are the following: "Faculty Advising as Faculty Development" (Howard Kramer); "Student Self-Assessment Systems and Academic Advising" (John H. Clarke, Christopher Robles, Joanne Yphantis); "Development and Utilization of a Peer Advising…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Students, Career Planning, College Freshmen
Abbs, Peter; Carey, Graham – 1977
It is argued that in an age of decelerated expansion, cultural values must replace consumption; that the local, small, and organic must replace the international, large, and synthetic. One radical college is proposed as a center for this kind of change. Its inspiration is seen in the past: stable primitive communities, classical treatises,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Environment, Educational Change, Educational History
