This report provides information on Florida's community college costs by examining changes and patterns in revenues, FTE student counts, and expenditures. A supplement to "Program Evaluation and Justification Review: Florida's Community College System, Report No. 98-06," this document analyzes community college revenue and expenditures…

This report presents the recommendations of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education concerning funding for public colleges and universities in the state for 1998-99. Two recommendations are provided by the commission. The first recommendation is a statement of the Commission's estimate of the financial requirements needed to support the…

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce submitted this report on a bill that would establish procedures to improve the identification, allocation, and assignment of radio frequencies to the electromagnetic spectrum and for other purpose. The committee proposed an amendment to this bill, and recommended that it be passed as amended. Known as the…

The Campus Level Planning Model provides seven basic steps for a planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation system at the school level. (Author/IRT)

Presents a simple matrix that is used for budgeting the machine time, people, and equipment necessary to maintain and enhance administrative systems as well as to develop new systems in an organized fashion. (Author)

The work on which this article is based has been designed to identify only the most significant facets of future research and development and planning in terms of their potential impact on the economic aspect of society. (Author)

Resource allocation processes in universities and in schools of education trap educational administration programs in a circle of disadvantage. A framework for analyzing the relationship between university resource allocation and the ability of schools of education and departments of educational administration to engage in effective curriculum…

The Education Reform Act 1988 obliges the Local Education Authorities (LEAs) to delegate budgets to the colleges within their control by means of a formula, but does not say what should happen within colleges once the delegated budget has been received. This paper reports some of the outcomes of an action learning and training program, carried out…

The main themes of a seminar conceived as a working forum for people engaged in developing new methods for determining space requirements in education are summarized. After a brief introduction, the following topics are discussed: identification of the requirements for remodeling an existing educational facility, matching the provisions determined…

Cost control is the subject of this eight-lesson, three-test food service training manual. Lesson 1 deals with financial accountability and includes 17 handouts, ranging from sample balance to quarterly report sheets. Lesson 2 focuses on budgeting principles, and lesson 3 on labor controls. Professional purchasing, receiving, and inventorying…

The relationship between revenue dispersion and several indicators of financial condition in four-year colleges and universities was studied. Revenue dispersion is a measure of the diversity of institutional income sources. It was hypothesized that revenue dispersion would be positively related to financial condition, since variants on…

Despite commonly held views concerning educators' rational decision-making behavior, there are competing interpretations of school personnels' objective, actions, and decision-making processes. Alternative explanations emphasize bureaucratic routine, administrative convenience, educator self-interest, and political motivations, rather than…

A systematic procedure is described whereby private colleges may establish long-range objectives and allocate their limited resources to programs that are most productive in fulfilling these objectives. Results of the actual application of this system to a private college are reported. (Editor)