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Lewis, Laurie; Farris, Elizabeth – 1995
Data from the Survey on Higher Education Finances and Services were analyzed to determine whether higher education institutions (n=711) experienced operating budget cuts during the fiscal year (after the budget was initially approved) between fiscal years 1990 and 1993. While 17 percent had experienced such cuts during fiscal year 1990, this…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Class Size, College Programs, Departments
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento. – 1998
Developed by the Academic Senate Educational Policies Committee, this document focuses on program discontinuance issues faced by local academic senates. Addressed foremost is the need to identify key factors for developing a fair, equitable, and faculty-driven program discontinuance process. Although college districts are required by current…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Curriculum Problems, Educational Assessment
Braddock, David – 1991
This paper considers implications of the findings of the Texas Performance Review concerning mental retardation services, in light of decreasing numbers of students at state schools and budgetary restraints on major investments in both institutional operations and community service programs. The paper concludes that Texas should consider closing…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Ruddock, Maryann Steele – 1982
The impact of discontinuing an academic program at St. Edward's University, Texas, was assessed by measurement on three levels: first-level effects on students and faculty; second-level effects on auxiliary offices and related courses and majors; and third-level effects on productivity and a profile of majors. Majors with a higher than average…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Davis, Michael W. – AGB Reports, 1984
Substantial changes made in the college of education of the University of Tulsa, an urban private university, in the wake of declining enrollment and general questioning of institutional mission are chronicled, including the elimination of all but three programs and development of certification components in two areas. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, College Administration, College Role

Dougherty, Edward A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1981
Most administrators approach program reduction as a budget issue; in reality, it is a governance and planning issue of major importance for the 1980s. Steps in a planning process for program discontinuance (including pitfalls) are described, based on a national study supported by the Exxon Foundation. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Faculty, College Planning, College Programs
Blunt, Roger R. – Trusteeship, 1994
It is not enough for university governing boards and chief executives to decide the system must change; leadership must convince constituents that everyone has something to gain. When the University of Maryland's campuses could not reach consensus in paring programs, the system board stepped in to foster collaboration and cooperation. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies, College Administration

General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This document contains findings of a study conducted in response to a proposal that would merge the current Departments of Education and Labor. The proposal would also merge the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) with the two departments. Fiscal year 1995 budget data were used to analyze the congressmen's draft proposal and to…
Descriptors: Budgets, Categorical Aid, Costs, Economic Impact
Morra, Linda G. – 1993
This letter report by the Director of Education and Employment Issues in the U.S. General Accounting Office responds to a request from Senator Edward M. Kennedy for information on the federal costs involved for liquidation activities of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAF) in fiscal year (FY) 1992, the second year of the agreement to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Credit (Finance), Educational Finance, Federal Government
Community Service Society of New York, NY. – 1984
This report summarizes and assesses Project REAL (Return to Employment and Learning), which attempted to attack the high rate of youth crime by focusing on youth offenders who, because they committed repeated serious offenses, were likely to become career criminals. Following a brief introduction, the report describes typical Project REAL clients…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Computer Assisted Instruction, Crime Prevention, Criminals
Hample, Stephen R. – Journal of the College and University Personnel Association, 1982
Legal issues in program discontinuance and resulting lawsuits are considered, including liability to the faculty, students, and other constituencies; freedom of speech; due process; contractual obligations; legal defense; and consideration of program alternatives. A list of related resources is appended. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Programs, Contracts, Court Litigation, Due Process

Sedgwick, Alexander; Lowery, Barbara – Academe, 1983
The course of enrollments, events, and decision-making leading up to the 1980 dismissal of five faculty at Goucher College is outlined in terms of: financial exigency, termination of tenured appointments, ruptures in due process and faculty participation, and absence of a decision for program discontinuance. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty, Contracts
Lenaghan, Janet; Smith, Charles – Journal of Management Education, 2004
The experiential exercise presented here, using a dialectic process similar to that found within Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST), developed by Mason and Mitroff, offers graduate and undergraduate management students the opportunity to study a contemporary ethical problem in a new way. The ethical issues of a plant closedown…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Baquedano-Lopez, Patricia – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2004
This article examines the implementation of educational policy in a religious education program at a Los Angeles Catholic parish. It charts the elimination of Spanish-based classes ("doctrina") for Mexican immigrant children in favor of "English-only" instruction. The article offers insights into the politics of language use in everyday practice…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Religious Education, Educational Policy, Immigrants
Racino, Julie Ann – 1993
In 1978 a complaint was filed by New Hampshire Legal Assistance against Laconia Developmental Services, New Hampshire's only public institution for children and adults with developmental disabilities. The decision from the Federal district court judge in August 1981 ordered the state to devise a plan for: institutional improvement; development of…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Community Programs, Court Litigation