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CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1988
Seven papers from the 1987 CAUSE conference's Track IV, Support Services, are presented. They include: "Application Development Center" (John F. Leydon); "College Information Management System: The Design and Implementation of a Completely Integrated Office Automation and Student Information System" (Karen L. Miselis);…
Descriptors: Administrators, Automation, College Administration, Computer Software
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1989
Seven papers from the 1988 CAUSE conference's Track I, Policy and Planning, are presented. They include: "Developing a Strategic Plan for Academic Computing" (Arthur S. Gloster II); "New Technologies Are Presenting a Crisis for Middle Management" (M. Lewis Temares and Ruben Lopez); "An Information Utility: The Light, Gas,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1989
Nine papers from the 1988 CAUSE conference's Track II, Managing Technologies Integration, are presented. They include: "Computing in the '90s--Will We Be Ready for the Applications Needed?" (Stephen Patrick); "Glasnost, The Era of 'Openness'" (Bernard W. Gleason); "Academic and Administrative Computing: Are They Really…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Information Technology
Ambrose, Charles M. – 1988
A study was conducted to see if differences in attitudes and definitions exist between faculty and administrators toward the concept of academic freedom. The purpose was to gain a better understanding of their attitudes toward, and the perceptions of, academic freedom and compare those perceptions to the academic freedom general taxonomy. Academic…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, College Environment
Boone, Jerry N.; And Others – 1988
A study is presented to determine (1) where people influential in public university governance believe various typical decisions are being made and (2) where they believe those decisions should be made. The kinds of issues that bring about most disagreement as to proper authority in governance and administration are identified. Centralization of…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
Bowman, Harry L. – 1985
Research consulting services provided by an operational research and services unit of the College of Education at Memphis State University are described. The university is comprehensive, multi-purpose, public, and urban. Of concern are activities of the unit's professional staff that involve application of research-related expertise to perform…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Consultation Programs
Weeks, Herschel P.; Bekkum, Victor A. – 1987
A project that trained four Egyptian graduates of agricultural engineering and mechanization in the field of local manufacturing processes in Iowa is described. With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, training was conducted by Iowa State University and ALMACO (a small manufacturer of agricultural machines). Training…
Descriptors: Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
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
Zeit, Alois – 1984
A redesign of the basic foreign language courses at the University of Michigan--Flint, stimulated by a need for improved enrollment and retention and for more language majors, had the result of improving faculty cooperation and teaching. Before the curriculum development effort, the program reflected individual faculty preferences and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Cooperation, Coordination
Gordon, Kenneth A. – 1985
To supplement its French faculty, the Department of Modern Languages at Central Missouri State University (CMSU) has hired foreign students through the Institute of International Education (IIE), a clearinghouse for French and German university students wishing to teach in the United States. During the 1983-1984 academic year some 35 institutions…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Second Language Programs, Employment Services
Dyck, W.; And Others – 1982
A research-oriented project to improve the effectiveness of undergraduate education at the state University of Antwerp, Belgium, is described, and the higher education system and conditions in Belgium are noted. Attention was focused on the outcome-based paradigm, according to which the primary goal of instruction is to ensure that all students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives
Brown, Laurence A., Jr. – 1982
The degree to which early enrollees in an adult distance learning program elected to take these courses rather than to enroll in traditional on-campus programs was assessed, along with the effects of participation on enrollees' ensuing behaviors and attitudes toward continuing education. The State University of Nebraska (SUN) Program was initiated…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Competition, Consortia
Tilton, Betty – 1981
An information system used to monitor the performance of transfer students who enroll at the Florida State University from Florida public community colleges is described. The information system was designed to provide offices on campus with data important to the recruitment/retention process. The reports most frequently requested include retention…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Educational Policy
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McCoy, Marilyn; And Others – 1981
Financing at the leading 100 research universities in the United States was studied during 1975-79, along with the programmatic and resource characteristics of the institutions, using data collected by the National Science Foundation and by the Higher Education General Information Survey program. The results clearly indicate that the leading…
Descriptors: Contracts, Doctoral Programs, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Novak, Rynell S.; And Others – 1978
A questionnaire was designed and administered by North Texas State University to determine why students drop out of the school. Of the 3,180 undergraduate dropouts who were surveyed, usable responses were received from 678. Demographic information on each student was obtained from the computerized student master file and was used for descriptive…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Financial Problems
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