The three most important factors limiting successful adoption of curriculum materials are identified: (1) teachers are not risk takers, (2) programs lack funding to be properly implemented, and (3) no provisions are made for "aftercare." Includes discussion and a table listing problems in curriculum development. (MD)

This completely redone edition is meant to be a primer on the financial responsibilities of trustees of colleges and universities and on complex trends and issues bearing on the responsibilities of governing boards. Trustees must deal with a complex blend of competing values, evolving information, and challenging analyses while taking into account…

This book offers the strategies and techniques that administrators, the board of education, and a group of volunteers in one school district utilized in a successful 15-month referendum battle. The book has 16 chapters. Chapter 1 examines trends, voter attitudes, and facing reality. Chapter 2 outlines the basics for starting a referendum, and…

Describes a program that develops alternate funding sources for assistantships and fellowships by inviting nonprofit community organizations and other campus departments to use communication graduate students in their business operations. (PD)

Explains how break-even analysis can help the continuing education administrator in planning by clarifying the relationship between costs, volume, and surplus revenues. Also explains the concepts of fixed, variable, and semivariable costs. (CT)

Many states and provinces are presently reviewing their state aid distribution programs. The financial circumstances that preceded this review are discussed. (MLF)

Discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a formal response to major corporate and accounting scandals, exploring its implications for higher education and promoting it as an opportunity both to reassess best practices for audit committees and executives and to refresh the ongoing dialogue with external auditors. (EV)

Bond ratings are an assessment by an independent rating agency of the credit worthiness of a bond issuer, such as a school district, on repayment of a particular bond issue. Describes the rating procedures Standard and Poor's Municipal Finance Department uses to assign bond ratings. (MLF)

Describes efforts by Georgetown College (Kentucky) to increase enrollment by 25% over five years through the use of financial aid leveraging, a package of strategies that maximize the impact of financial aid. The program has resulted in increased average admission test scores of entering students, a 35% increase in first-year enrollment, and…

Offers lessons for non-profit colleges and universities from for-profit schools: (1) establish a professional cost accounting system; (2) think of foundations as funding partners; (3) increase retention; (4) market to students as customers; and (5) promote the college as a brand. (EV)

Asserts that colleges and universities should apply the same analytical rigor to physical assets as they do financial assets. Presents a management tool, the Return on Physical Assets model, to help guide physical asset allocation decisions. (EV)

Identifies various roles of a college or university's endowment fund, such as serving as a rainy day fund, funding one-time capital requirements, and enhancing program quality. Considers implications of various roles for asset allocation and endowment spending. (DB)

Asserts that the capital planning process will largely determine the future physical character of an institution and the capability of facilities to support its programs adequately; suggests a synthesis of innovative approaches to traditional capital planning practices; and presents key elements of a recommended capital planning model. (EV)

This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students and provides pertinent evaluative and demographic statistics necessary to evaluate educational programs nationwide. "The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools" is a…

The "Local Technology Plan Guidelines" serve as the basis for the Department's annual technology data collection. This report takes a look at the data submitted by 344 school districts, examining the progress Massachusetts school districts are making in meeting the recommended guidelines. In doing so, it will gauge the degree to which…