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Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1983
Chapter 1 of this manual for school district officials, board members, and students of school administration introduces educational programs, expenditures, and revenues as the three basic considerations of budget making. While chapter 2 discusses major aspects of the general fund budget (resources availabale to finance the school district's…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Budgeting, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Hill, Frederick W.; And Others – 1982
This bulletin examines the role and function of the school business administrator and offers practical information applicable to both administrators and institutions employing and evaluating them. After a brief introduction concerning the history of school business administration, the publication describes the responsibilities of the position, its…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Swiger, John; Klaus, Allen – Business Officer, 1996
A process for college and university decision making and budgeting for capital outlays that focuses on evaluating the qualitative and quantitative benefits of each proposed project is described and illustrated. The process provides a means to solicit suggestions from those involved and provide detailed information for cost-benefit analysis. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Budgeting, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Administration
Desrochers, Lindsay Ann – Business Officer, 1994
Portland State University (Oregon) has substantially changed its administrative organization through multiple, interrelated strategies: consolidation of units; streamlining of middle management; staff training and professional development; a quality initiative; campus technological conversion; and joint ventures with a sister institution. A clear…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Change Strategies, College Administration
Plakidas, Shirley – 1986
Qualifications needed by professionals who staff the college student union are suggested as criteria for job candidates and as information for aspiring union professionals. After considering goals of the college union, desirable qualities of student union staff are identified. The number of staff positions required will vary according to the size…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, College Stores, Cultural Activities
Everett, R. E.; And Others – 1996
This book updates the classic text "Public School Fund Accounting Principles and Procedures" (Tidwell 1960). The book is designed to be used primarily as a textbook at the graduate level with students training to be school administrators, school business administrators, or principals. A list of topics covered include an overview of school…
Descriptors: Bookkeeping, Budgeting, Budgets, Educational Finance
Ginsburg, Sigmund G., Ed. – 1993
This book presents human resources issues that will affect the financial management of colleges and universities as they move into the 21st century. It examines how business managers and human resources managers must balance human resources management policies and practices against the financial demands on the institution. It discusses the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Finance, Employment Practices
Welzenbach, Lanora F., Ed. – 1982
This revised handbook sponsored by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) is seen as the authoritative reference for higher education administrators because it reflects the consensus of the profession, achieved through systematic and thorough review by hundreds of business officers. The book is divided into…
Descriptors: Accounting, Budgeting, Business Administration, College Administration
Bliss, James O. – 1983
The Missouri School Profile System is composed of six profiles drawn from pre-existing databases, with the data organized in a manner useful to school districts for comparison purposes and returned to school districts for their use. Use of such a system should reduce or eliminate the need for special school district studies of finance or pupil…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Mauger, Kinga J. – Business Officer, 1992
DePaul University (Illinois) has addressed the problem of delays in employer reimbursement of tuition costs by extending payment due dates and treating reimbursement as pending financial assistance. Since implementation, enrollment in courses designed specifically for adult students have increased, and withdrawals have decreased. One-third of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, College Administration, Enrollment Influences
Wood, R. Craig – 1986
This chapter of "Principles of School Business Management" reviews several concerns that must be addressed by school business administrators in districts facing declining enrollments and the need for reductions in force. The chapter first looks at the business administrator's significant role in planning for retrenchment. The chapter then…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Contracts
Albright, Brenda N. – Business Officer, 1998
A national survey of 31 college business officers at state and land-grant colleges and universities finds that, although several states have given greater management flexibility to colleges and universities, many campuses operate in a highly regulated mode, with layers of external, and frequently internal, rules. Most difficult business officers…
Descriptors: College Administration, Construction Programs, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
Jones, Thomas N.; Baldwin, Grover H. – 1986
This chapter of "Principles of School Business Management" looks at the law affecting collective bargaining by public employees (with particular emphasis on the schools), reviews the methods used to resolve disputes before and after agreements are signed, and considers the responses that management can make to issues raised during negotiation. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Compensation (Remuneration)
Williams, Alicia R.; Protheroe, Nancy; Parks, Michael C. – 2003
This annual survey is a collection of data on salaries and wages of 23 professional and 10 support positions selected to represent the full range of public-school employees. This current volume presents data collected in fall 2002 from 620 school systems employing some 1.4 million people (full-time employees only) for the 2002-03 school year. Also…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Bus Drivers, Compensation (Remuneration), Contract Salaries
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1990
This fourth edition of a guide for independent school business managers has been produced in looseleaf format so that changes may be made promptly as decisions of regulatory bodies require modifications in current practice. Fourteen chapters are organized under three broad topic headings. Chapters in part 1, Accounting and Financial Reporting,…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Budgeting, Certified Public Accountants, Computer Uses in Education
