Provides advice for academic leaders in the early stages of considering making a major investment in facilities that support learning, teaching, and research in mathematics, technology, and the various fields of science and engineering. Addresses the institutional plan; building, program, and campus and environs analysis; description of needs;…

This chapter, drawing from the previous chapters, synthesizes potential directions and implications of future innovation in higher education. The focus is on innovation to address critical issues that administrators face today: the adaptability, maturity, cost structure, and efficiency of the institution.

Methods by which the college, after 90 years, began long-range planning are described along with how it moved to the cyclical model after 12 more years. (Author/LBH)

When Bruce Miller took up the position of head librarian at the University of California, Merced in 2001, the plan for the new library was to use the University of California (UC) system's rich base of support as a launching pad for something great and extraordinary: a model academic research library for the twenty-first century. This article…

Modern scientific management techniques provide college administrators with valuable planning and resource allocation insights and enhances the decision process. The planning model should incorporate assessment, strategic planning, dynamic and long-term budgeting, operational planning, and feedback and control for actual operations. (MSE)

Several types of models or schemes for strategic planning used by large business organizations are described and their usefulness for colleges and universities is evaluated. "Goals and targets" approach, long-path planning, short-period planning, business-portfolio strategy model, contingency-uncertainty approach, and the case of…

Resource-based learning and information literacy skills play important roles in the Minnesota State University System's efforts to improve undergraduate educational quality, and the library is seen as both the locus and the agent for acquiring those skills. A blue ribbon commission's 1991 report describes the academic library of the future.…

A formal environmental scanning system designed to identify emerging issues, events, or trends threatening or bringing opportunity to an institution is discussed that uses a committee to systematically collect and analyze data from a variety of sources. (MSE)

Explores how a close integration of university-level planning and budgeting is required to drive change. Discusses major professional challenges of achieving this integration, the infrastructure of an office of budget and planning, and professional pathways for planning and budgeting officers. Also describes the author's personal career path in…

An action-inquiry strategy that colleges, universities, and state agencies can use to design and test new approaches to tuition and student aid is proposed. Several institutional aid policy case studies are examined from two perspectives: as a process of rethinking the theories underlying current policy, and from the viewpoint of communication…

Higher education institutions are well positioned to assume key roles in shaping future economic development. Partnership 21, a University of Oklahoma partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration, exemplifies this potential. The challenge for those in continuing education is to recognize these roles in supporting economic development,…

Connecticut's higher education accountability focuses on using measures of employment readiness and success, including employer satisfaction surveys.

Hartwick College demonstrates that individual self-renewal and institutional change can occur together when the operating mode is consensual, leadership is facilitative, and key campus groups are creatively linked. How this is achieved with faculty and administrator cooperation is described. (Author/LBH)

Strategic planning involves analysis of risks and opportunities; financial management entails balancing risks and resources to achieve institutional goals. A framework is suggested to help college administrators integrate the two functions. (Author/MSE)

For a higher education institution to sustain excellence in the fundamental missions of teaching, research, and service, it must have a cultural context that encourages clarity of purpose, flexibility, creativity, tolerance, intelligence, meaningful communication, and willingness to learn new things and from past mistakes. All are characteristics…