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Brown, Judy Sorum – Business Officer, 1997
Argues that trustees, finance officers, and other leaders of institutions of higher education must redefine and expand their traditional interactions beyond discussion of budgets and balance sheets if they are to guide change instead of being controlled by it. University leaders need to focus on their roles, share information differently, use…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Advocacy, Change Agents
Picus, Lawrence O. – School Business Affairs, 1997
For any school-based-management model to succeed, the important functions of a school district's business office must be redesigned to shift authority and support for most fiscal decisions to school site. Some of the complexities of shifting the fiscal management to schools include technology, transportation, maintenance and operation, risk…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Decision Making, Educational Equity (Finance)
Jenkins, Wiliam A.; Mezera, Danielle R. – Business Officer, 1997
A Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) program designed to instill workplace values in the institution's business and finance areas is described. Program elements include a focus on the values of a specific work group, acknowledgment of the relationship between work performance and institutional success, and recognition of the good work of…
Descriptors: College Administration, Employee Attitudes, Higher Education, Organizational Climate
Moore, Samuel A., II – School Business Affairs, 1990
With many impending retirements of school business officials, school districts and universities should collaborate in assuring smooth transitions in the nation's school business offices. Forward planning includes offering internships in the school business office and extensive cross-training for presently employed specialists. (MLF)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Internship Programs
Dunklee, Dennis R. – School Business Affairs, 1989
School districts should develop a risk management program with policies and procedures that demonstrate reasonable care and that include regular inspection of all buildings and grounds. Highlights areas of potential legal difficulty. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Administrator Responsibility, Athletic Equipment, Court Litigation
McIntyre, Jim – Business Officer, 1991
Several experts in the field of college financial administration offer their insights into the emerging relationship between high technology and financial management, focusing on the role of the institution's chief business officer. Topics include efficiency, cost effectiveness, organizational communication, homegrown vs. packaged software…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs
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Bray, David M. – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1990
A discussion of the relationship between the university and industry in research looks at the challenge of balancing the academic institution's pursuit of entrepreneurial and sometimes precedent-setting industry relationships with its responsibility for ensuring the integrity of its scientific enterprise. Development of reasonable policy for…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Cheating, College Role
Vance, Carl B. – Business Officer, 1991
Voluntary severance plans for college employees offer a possible solution to the problem of limiting labor costs in an inflationary economy, particularly when mandatory retirement is eliminated. The severance package must be carefully budgeted, constructed, and communicated to the employees, and the institution must be disciplined in carrying it…
Descriptors: College Administration, Costs, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices
Klinger, Donna – Business Officer, 1999
Gina Kranitz, the new chair of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) board of directors, the first from the community college sector, is profiled, and her plans for the next year, including several major initiatives for the association, are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Careers, Change Strategies
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Caruthers, J. Kent; Lazell, Daniel T. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1999
Introduces the concept of college and university campus master planning, describes factors and actors in the process, discusses the relationship to capital budgeting, and offers a typical master planning and capital-budgeting process as illustration. Developing a comprehensive institutional master plan can profoundly affect the institution's…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Budgeting, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets)
Gross, Anne C.; Bachinger, Mary M.; Whalen, Edward L. – Business Officer, 1998
A National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) task force has developed a process guide, list of policy issues and unsolved questions, and recommendations for colleges and universities to use in complying with the reporting requirements of the Tax Relief Act of 1997, which provides parents of college students with tax…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, Compliance (Legal), Federal Legislation
Burkybile, Sharon; Goodman, Jon – School Business Affairs, 1999
School districts are subject to many audits each year. Offers a guide to school district business officials on managing their various audits effectively to maximize the benefits of each audit and minimize public-image damage and disruption. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Audits, Guidelines, Mass Media Effects
Jenny, Hans H. – 1996
This manual covers cost accounting applications and techniques as they apply to institutions of higher education, focusing mainly on the different methods of allocating costs. The manual covers four major costing topics: aggregate institution and systemwide costs; major academic and administrative program costs; academic and administrative…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Shaw, Ira M. – 1985
Before school districts and administrators' associations begin negotiations, seven proposals that provide the basis upon which adversaries can discuss the proposal's merits must be considered. (1) Establish language that would permit an administrator to teach one period a day (month or week). This proposal allows substitution in the event of…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education
Faust, Paula J., Ed. – 1983
A comprehensive introduction to all phases of college fund-raising is presented in 14 chapters. Attention is directed to the philosophy behind development, development's role in institutional advancement, and the personal qualities that lead to success in fund-raising. Basic principles also are covered for the following: annual giving, the capital…
Descriptors: Business, Capital, Donors, Educational Finance
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