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Top Internal Concerns for the New Decade.
Meyerson, Joel W.; Johnson, Sandra L. – AGB Reports, 1990
Priority internal administrative issues include tuition policy and financing, capital renewal and replacement, faculty and staff salaries and benefits, minority hiring and enrollment, and costs and productivity. Although costs and minority issues are more prominent than in recent past, endowment management, debt financing, and charitable…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Costs, Enrollment Rate
Take Good Care of Your President.
Grunewald, Donald – AGB Reports, 1984
To attract and keep first-rate presidents, governing boards must be more generous with salaries and benefits. Governing boards have been too modest in looking after college and university presidents. (MLW)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, College Presidents, Compensation (Remuneration), Fringe Benefits
The Price War We Don't Like to Talk About.
Jenny, Hans – AGB Reports, 1984
The negative side of academic scholarships, often considered a form of healthy collegiate recruiting, is that they are usually in the form of discounts in student costs, affecting cost in most areas of college expenditure, including faculty salaries, and causing institutions to have operating deficits. (MSE)
Descriptors: Competition, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Financial Policy
A National Failure in Education.
Rickover, Hyman G. – AGB Reports, 1983
Changes to redress the inadequacies in American education are proposed: return to the ideal of genuinely liberal education for all, a nationwide system of standardized examination as the primary basis for educational promotion, and higher pay for teachers. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academically Gifted, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Inside a Department Chairperson.
Bennett, John B. – AGB Reports, 1982
A poll of department chairpersons about personal and professional attitudes, motivations, and concerns is reported. Opportunity, challenge, and responsibility were recurring themes. Recommendations are made: giving additional released time, clarifying requirements for promotion, providing credit for accomplishments, publicizing need for unpopular…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Administration
Athletics: Time Is Running Out.
Marmion, Harry – AGB Reports, 1987
Governing boards have to understand the money-and-power issues affecting intercollegiate athletics: coaches (their compensation and the hiring process); money from revenue-producing sports; money from other sources, such as booster clubs; and the impact of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Athletic Coaches, Budgets, Cheating
Use Q Factors to Judge the Quality of Education Offered By Your Institution.
Howell, Joe A. – AGB Reports, 1987
Trustees wishing to determine how well their institutions are doing can tabulate Q factors, which "are determined by the amount of money spent in each budget area to maintain an acceptable level of quality within an institution." (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Admission, College Faculty, Decision Making
Students and Faculty Talk About Life on Campus.
Boyer, Ernest – AGB Reports, 1986
U.S. undergraduate education was studied by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in a survey of 5,000 faculty and 5,000 students. Salary, academic freedom, collective bargaining, job satisfaction, and teaching and research are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Environment, College Faculty