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Download full textTravis, Jon – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
American public higher education is in trouble. Besieged by declining state and Federal support for more than 30 years, public colleges and universities are facing a "game-changing" set of challenges that threaten to alter the very nature of the institutions. As two recessions withered state budgets in the first decade of the 21st…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Educational Trends, Retrenchment
Hodgkinson, Harold L. – 1988
A description of the State of Arizona and its educational system is presented as a working paper in a final report by the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. Facts about the state include the following: indications are that the present growth in Arizona will continue for at least a decade more;…
Descriptors: Competition, Demography, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Talbott, Mary J.; Church, Kathleen – 1988
A literature review on evaluation and assessment of undergraduate education is presented as part of the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. It is designed to provide an overview of certain evaluation frameworks that have been used in higher education, present some approaches used…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning, Educational Quality
Barak, Robert; And Others – 1988
Information on a review of the decennial review process required by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) for every academic department in each Arizona university is presented as part of the final report by ABOR's Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. Revision in the review process and eight policy statements are discussed, and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Ewell, Peter T. – 1988
The results of visits by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems to Arizona's three public universities to observe the status of institutional effort to assess the quality of undergraduate education are presented as a working paper in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Johnson, Edward – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this document organizes the responses of Arizona's universities to questions on statutory and regulatory barriers to greater efficiency. Each statute, regulation, or policy is noted with commentary and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Sherberg, Esther; Cetone, Kristin L. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness this study presents the results of meetings with representative staff advisory bodies, staff groups, and individuals at Arizona's three public universities to discuss their views of their role within the system.…
Descriptors: Competition, Efficiency, Employer Employee Relationship, Higher Education
Caldwell, Roger L. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this document presents statistical data on the transition of Arizona's universities, consolidating many ad hoc analyses. It lists selected data that helped identify and develop Task Force issues and describes the…
Descriptors: Change, Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Competition
Coopers & Lybrand, New York, NY. – 1987
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this document presents a review, designed to raise questions, of the Task Force's purpose and scope statements. The primary portion of the study was a series of interviews with 105 Arizonans (holding key…
Descriptors: Blue Ribbon Commissions, Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Davis, George H. – 1988
The results of a survey on administrative services at Arizona's three universities are presented as one of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. This survey of faculty, staff, and student perceptions of the quality of service provided by selected academic…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency
MacVicar, Robert – 1988
The issue of the degree to which program duplication among two or three of Arizona's universities diverts resources from other priority needs of higher education is addressed as one of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. Specific arguments for the…
Descriptors: College Programs, Competition, Educational Economics, Educational Quality
MacVicar, Robert – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness examines the needs of rural Arizona for educational services and proposes means for the provision of those services that can be offered by public universities. Seven sections look at the demography of rural…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Competition, Demography, Distance Education
Caldwell, Roger L. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this document focuses on the normal and documented activities that could be described as leading to strategic choices and implementation efforts in the Arizona universities. The strategic planning literature is…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competition, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Church, Kathleen – 1988
The results of the Student Reaction to College survey, given to students at Arizona's three public universities, are presented as one of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. Results indicate the following: students from all three universities are very…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency
MacVicar, Robert – 1988
As a part of the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, the history of statewide planning for postsecondary education in Arizona is presented. In 1974, the Board of Regents adopted a long-range planning document with statements of what it would not do to limit university aspirations…
Descriptors: College Planning, Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency
