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Currents, 1991
Six college advancement professionals respond to a hypothetical case of across-the-board cuts in nonacademic departments by telling how they would make budgeting choices. The strategies used include involving senior advancement managers as a team, cultivating consensus, preserving priority projects, sharing responsibility among departments,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, Decision Making, Higher Education

Harding, Robert A. – Music Educators Journal, 1992
Emphasizes the need for music teachers to defend school music programs. Suggests developing advocacy objectives in the areas of communication, visibility, and classroom follow-through. Argues that children's cultural heritage and musical future are at risk if further cutbacks in music education programs are not avoided. (SG)
Descriptors: Activism, Budgeting, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Payne, John – Adults Learning (England), 1991
The legislated abolition of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) has resulted in a catastrophic decline in adult education, a market approach as opposed to ILEA's equal opportunities policies, reduction in staff, and narrowing of curricular focus. (SK)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Budgeting, Curriculum Development

Powers, David R. – Educational Record, 1982
Well-defined and clearly documented guidelines and areas of responsibility and strict adherence to procedures will eliminate considerable debate and disruptions during retrenchment. These concepts apply equally to faculty, staff, program, student, and other issues. University of Pittsburgh retrenchment guidelines on faculty treatment provide…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Case Studies, College Administration
Mingle, James R. – 1982
Adjustments that state policy-makers and institutions of higher education will need to make as they face cutbacks in public support and declining enrollments are described, based in part on a research project on retrenchment in higher education conducted by the Southern Regional Education Board. Given the long-term contractual obligations of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, College Planning, Declining Enrollment
Wilson, Robert A., Ed. – 1982
Proceedings of the 1981 University of Arizona conference on responses to fiscal stress in higher education are presented. Topics include the impact of the federal government on higher education, state and institutional responses to new federal policies, developing responses to fiscal stress, alternate perspectives on fiscal stress, and tactical…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Planning
Mingle, James R.; And Others – 1981
The retrenchment experiences of a variety of institutions--large and small, public and private--are described and evaluated using an extensive spectrum of case studies sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board. Part One discusses challenges of retrenchment (James R. Mingle) and strategies for the 1980s (David W. Breneman). Part Two,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty