ERIC Number: ED140719
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Publication Date: 1976-Oct
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PPBS in Higher Education: The Impossible Dream?
Newton, Robert D.
Planning-programming-budgeting systems (PPBS) have been looked on by public-sector organizations as a mechanism to improve the decision process in resource allocation. PPBS requires (1) selecting the overall long-range objectives of the organization and the systematic analysis of various courses of action leading to their attainment; (2) deciding on the specific courses of action to be pursued; and (3) translating planning and programming decisions into explicit financial requirements for resources. The use of a program budget and the application of cost-benefit analysis is necessary for the implementation of PPBS. The origins of the process are reviewed along with a detailed analysis of its problems and the reasons for its failure in the field of higher education. (LBH)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Educational Planning, Failure, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Resource Allocation, Summative Evaluation, Systems Analysis
Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Authoring Institution: Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Center for the Study of Higher Education.
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