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Peer reviewedBingen, Franz; Siau, Carlos – Research in Higher Education, 1981
A model of departmental support expenditures is constructed. The requirements for administrative and technical staff and for operating funds of a university's academic units were analyzed, and these were related to a number of quantitative characteristics of the units. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Higher Education
Drummond, Marshall Edward – 1983
The design concept and initial development phases of academic information management (AIM) are discussed. The AIM concept is an attempt to serve three segments of academic management with data and models to support decision making. AIM is concerned with management and evaluation of instructional computing in areas other than direct computing (data…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Managed Instruction, Databases, Decision Making
Burnett, Robert W. – 1979
This study involved the development and use of a cost model to assess the economic consequences of the introduction of a year-round school (YRS) program. The cost model has two components. First, a comprehensive accounting procedure details the costs unique to a year-round calendar and estimates the costs that would have been incurred if the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Download full textBingen, Franz; Siau, Carlos – 1980
The relationship between departmental activities and the need for nonacademic staff and operating funds was analyzed using regression analysis. Support costs were broken into task categories and related to certain basic variables describing the composition and activity of the unit (e.g., number of staff and teaching load). The results were linked…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, College Instruction, Departments, Foreign Countries
Chaffee, Ellen Earle – 1982
The budget decision making process at Stanford University, California, from 1970 through 1979 was evaluated in relation to the allocation of general funds to 38 academic departments. Using Simon's theory of bounded rationality and an organizational level of analysis, the Stanford decision process was tested for its rationality through…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgeting, Case Studies, College Administration
Young, Michael E.; Geason, Ronald W. – 1982
The development of a cost allocation model at Ohio State University is discussed. The model was designed to measure the direct, indirect, and total operating costs of university operations and to recover general fund overhead costs associated with unrestricted general fund support of auxiliary enterprises and revenue-generating activities. The…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance
Kaynor, Robert K. – 1985
The value of microcomputer modeling tools and spreadsheets to help college institutional researchers analyze proposed capital projects is discussed, along with strengths and weaknesses of different software packages. Capital budgeting is the analysis that supports decisions about the allocation and commitment of funds to long-term capital…
Descriptors: Budgets, Campus Planning, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Planning
Kutina, Kenneth L.; And Others – 1986
The problem of selective renewal of basic research capability within a professional (medical) school of a major research university is addressed. Attention is directed to a strategy and process for conducting such a revitalization that includes marketing the program in a partnership modality to a local foundation. Reasons that the foundation…
Descriptors: Budgets, College Faculty, Departments, Economic Factors
Bingen, Franz; Siau, Carlos – 1982
The relationship between the costs of central administration and academic teaching and research production was studied, based on a large sample of British universities and a separate analysis of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. To determine variables important to central administration costs, a cross-sectional and intertemporal regression…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction
