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Download full textChatman, Steve – 1995
An approach to obtain disciplinary specific salary information for the institution of higher education budget process by mid-winter is considered. The approach involves using current year institutional mean salaries and prior year relative average salaries by academic discipline to provide "current" salary comparisons by academic…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Cost Estimates
Fenstemacher, William P. – Association for Institutional Research, 1982
The way that institutional research directors manage their professional development and career paths was assessed, based on a survey of Association for Institutional Research members. Those contacted had been identified as successful persons in the field who had actively participated in the advancement of institutional research by contributing to…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Career Ladders, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDressel, Paul L., Ed.; And Others – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1980
The various and developing forms of governmental intervention and control affecting universities are discussed. State intervention and control, program audits and evaluations, and federal intervention are described. The cost of interventions into institutional autonomy and the negative effect on quality are seen as increasing. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Role, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Federal Regulation
Turner, John D.; Booth, Mary W. – 1979
A chronicle of the problems faced in an attempt to collect data on sociology curriculum trends in California's community college system is presented. The project was initiated in an effort to determine if other colleges in the system were experiencing the same difficulties with curriculum and enrollment in sociology courses being encountered by…
Descriptors: Centralization, Community Colleges, Conference Reports, Curriculum Evaluation
Lueck, Lowell A. – 1981
Key ingredients of long-range planning described in the literature during the last 10 years, the role of an office of institutional research, and a coordinated long-range planning process as it might occur in a public four-year college or university are described. A successful long-range planning process is characterized by centralized…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Campus Planning, College Planning, College Role
Peer reviewedHearn, James C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1980
The varying impacts of alternative financial-aid policies and delivery procedures on colleges and potential students are considered. It is concluded that there is little that financial-aid policy itself can do to counter enrollment declines, but that individual policy innovations do have some potential to redistribute enrollment. (Author/JMD)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Choice, Declining Enrollment, Delivery Systems
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. Coll. Scholarship Service. – 1985
Student loan counseling and debt management are discussed in three papers, six commentaries, and a panel discussion from a College Scholarship Service colloquium. In "Fulfilling the Institution's Responsibilities to Student Borrowers," Theodore J. Marchese discusses a shift in student financial aid marked by the ascendency of loans…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Debt (Financial), Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Montgomery, David C., Ed.; Duckwall, Julia, Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of a Florida statewide conference on quality in higher education are presented. Topics include the following: databases, the community colleges' accounting for quality, program budgeting, and trends in truth in testing. Transcripts of a panel discussion on databases and the following papers and reports are included: "Quality and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
