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Peer reviewedLowry, Peggy S.; Walker, Celia S. – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1992
The need for additional evaluation of university research support offices is supported through a review of the literature and an informal survey of these offices in public universities and doctorate-granting colleges. Regular, periodic evaluations are recommended. The suggested model combines internal, collegial, and peer evaluation for balanced,…
Descriptors: College Administration, Collegiality, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHatch, Orrin G. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1982
To maximize freedom from personal and political conflicts of interest, decentralized mechanisms of federal program evaluations are needed. Block grants mean that state legislatures and governors will become more responsible for oversight of funds. Three proposals are presented for helping the states deal with these increased evaluation…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Budgeting, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Peer reviewedSmith, Donald K. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1980
Multicampus systems should proceed carefully in the process of academic program review, with an eye toward asking and answering questions most likely to cause institutions to confront the more fundamental questions of purpose and coherence. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Role
Download full textCronin, Michael – 1990
The paper disucsses the need for training in critical thinking and the effects of debate training across the curriculum as a teaching tool and learning mechanism. The debate training provided through the Oral Communication Program at Virginia's Radford University is described (design, implementation, results), along with data from a report on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Debate, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Millett, John D. – AGB Reports, 1982
States need to make a careful review of all instructional programs in order to determine whether each program in each state university meets an urgent state need, meets a defined standard of quality, and meets a viable standard of performance effectiveness as well as cost efficiency. (MLW)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1995
This report provides a summary and assessment of the Priorities, Quality and Productivity (PQP) efforts during 1994-95 of Illinois community colleges and independent colleges and universities, collectively, and of individual public universities. Emphasis is on implementation of recommendations of the Illinois Board of Higher Education of November,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Instruction, College Outcomes Assessment, Colleges
Collier, Douglas J., Ed. – 1980
Papers concerning higher education planning and management in the 1980s that were contributed to the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems competition for the Planning and Financing Program are presented. The papers, submitted by administrators, researchers, and a student, are as follows: "Faculty Reallocation: Plattsburgh…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty
