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McGuire, Edward – 1978
Financial support to college students and public and private colleges in Pennsylvania is described. The philosophy in Pennsylvania regarding the survival of private institutions is to provide money to the students, the consumers, and let them decide which institutions fit their basic needs and goals. Pennsylvania has established the Pennsylvania…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Choice, College Students, Community Colleges
Monical, David G. – 1978
A long-range financial planning model was developed by the staff of the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board to explore the issues and problems facing the financing of Minnesota postsecondary education. The model was designed to determine the extent to which alternative general financing policies and specific funding formulas affect…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance, Enrollment Projections, Enrollment Trends
Tomei, Mario J. – 1978
The development of a staff flexibility index at Glassboro State College is presented. It was an outgrowth of retrenchment problems for tenured faculty. Institutional flexibility was defined as the continuing ability of the institution to implement new or modify existing programs, employing a rationale that sees the ability to employ new faculty or…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Declining Enrollment, Faculty College Relationship
Ezell, Annette Schram – 1979
An Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) is used to assess a health science subsystem within a Western statewide higher educational system. Institutional goals are defined as ideal conditions the institution can continuously seek to maximize or perfect. Data were collected from each college and campus responsible for health science education and for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Planning, College Role
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Heiberger, Michael H. – Journal of Optometric Education, 1987
Results of a national survey of colleges of optometry concerning the form, scope, and methods of their short-term, long-term, and strategic planning activities are presented and discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Budgeting, College Planning, Consultants
Bank, Barbara J. – 1994
This study used data from a 4-year longitudinal study of students at the University of Missouri, Columbia, to explore differences between males and females in their decisions to seek bachelor's degrees. The study focused particularly on three mediating variables: (1) performance levels, (2) expectations, and (3) attainment values. Data were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attribution Theory, Bachelors Degrees
MacTaggart, Terrence J. – 1994
Seven principles of higher education leadership may offer state college systems solutions for responding to external pressures to reform and internal pressures to satisfy faculty demands. External pressures on colleges and universities include erosion of the economic base for higher education, increasing public expectations, and criticism of the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, College Administration, College Presidents, Economic Factors
Gosman, Erica J.; Bartram, John W. – 1988
The experiences are described of the University of Colorado institutional researcher in serving on a statewide task force charged with revising the student/faculty ratio guidelines that form the basis of the faculty funding formula. Following a description of the task force structure and procedures, the methodology employed in analyzing and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Bentley, Richard; Balz, Frank – 1986
Patterns of corporate voluntary gift and tax support to colleges and universities are examined for 1965-1984, based on data from the Council for Financial Aid to Education. Growth in corporate gifts are compared with changes occurring simultaneously in tax-generated corporate support. Also considered are differences in corporate funding patterns…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporate Support, Donors, Financial Policy
Ratcliff, James L. – 1986
The reciprocal relationship of college founding and social factors in the external environment was studied in connection with the first public junior college in three states. The three cases were: Saginaw Junior College (reportedly established in 1895 in Michigan); McCook Junior College (1926, Nebraska); and Springfield Junior College (1917,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Development
Wood, Kenneth L.; Wood, Susan Hawthorne – 1981
Long-range planning techniques used by U.S. business corporations and the potential adaptation of these processes by public colleges and universities are examined. The state-of-the-art is developed by reviewing corporate strategic planning methods from the 1950s through the 1970s. Strategic planning, as defined by Drucker, is a continuous process…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Business, Business Administration, College Administration
Odell, Morgan – 1978
Information about higher education in California is presented with suggestions for Florida. Cooperation between the public and private sectors in California exists in many forms, including the support or opposition of legislation. For instance, private university presidents have publicly criticized as inadequate budget recommendations for state…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Choice, College Role, Government School Relationship
Folger, John – 1978
New directions that state legislatures have taken in regard to accountability in higher education are reviewed, along with the way that the relationship between the legislature and higher education is changing as a result of new developments. In response to public criticism that the legislature is too responsive to pressure groups, does not do its…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Decision Making, Governance
Ingram, Richard T. – 1980
Financial difficulties in colleges and universities are discussed, with a focus on a paper by Frank M. Bowen and Lyman A. Glenny, who suggest that college administrators are facing up to their responsibilities regarding fiscal and other constraints. They offer suggestions to improve policies and procedures for institutions, for governing and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Role, College Administration, College Planning
Parsons, Michael H. – 1978
The Appalachian Staff Development Consortium, comprised of three community colleges and the state college located in Appalachian Maryland, attempts to integrate staff development activities into the operational framework of the sponsoring agencies. The consortium, which is managed by a steering committee composed of one teaching faculty member and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Consortia
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