Addresses issues raised for public colleges and universities as a result of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) requirements concerning inclusion of depreciation on an institution's Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Assets. Provides a sample impact analysis and financial statements for a hypothetical university to…

Given the relatively few positions on the governing boards of public colleges and universities, every trusteeship is important. Along with the respect appropriately afforded trustees and regents comes special obligations, responsibilities, and high expectations from many sources. How boards can cope with the expectations and ambiguities inherent…

The Ohio Board of Regents has prepared this document to provide detailed but easy to use information about higher education and the role that it plays in shaping Ohio's economy. The document tries to anticipate questions that might be asked of policymakers by their constituents. Information needed by policymakers to answer those questions, has…

This guide, from the Commission d'Evaluation de l'Enseignement Collegial (Quebec), was prepared in collaboration with an advisory committee composed of persons from both public as well as private colleges. It aims to provide institutions with the necessary information to plan and implement their institutional self-evaluation. It has also been…

This booklet for trustees of institutions of higher education offers guidelines concerning the distinction between policy making and administration and the relationship of policy making to administration. It stresses the importance of keeping policy making and administration separate and of communication and consultation between the chief…

This comprehensive reference document incorporates the 1997 Master Plan Policies updated and amended with policies adopted by the Illinois Board of Higher Education since the 1997 edition. As a compilation, it includes relevant sections of the comprehensive master plans of the 1960s and 1970s and issue-related policies developed in the 1980s and…

This is an executive summary of two long-range higher education planning reports completed at the outset of the 21st century by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. They are "Providing for Progress: California Higher Education Enrollment Demand and Resources into the 21st Century" and the companion "Policy for…