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Direct linkSalluzzo, Ronald E. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1999
In higher education institutions, decisions about spending patterns are established in the budget and executed by a diverse, decentralized group of institutional managers. To make the budget a vibrant management tool, each institutional constituency must view it as a document that helps advance institutional mission as well as a way to measure…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Budgets, College Administration
Hanna, Rita M. – School Business Affairs, 1998
Because a crisis might be imminent, a written crisis-response plan is needed that clearly describes its purpose, offers guidance to individuals faced with safety issues and dangerous situations, and minimizes loss. The school-business official can serve as a central information control officer, freeing other administrators to concentrate on…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Crisis Intervention, Crisis Management, Elementary Secondary Education
Gaswirth, Marc – American School and University, 1985
School business officials can assist boards of education in negotiating with unions by gathering and analyzing data that show the real costs of proposals. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collective Bargaining, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Herman, Jerry J.; Herman, Janice L. – School Business Affairs, 1991
School-based management is rapidly becoming the centerpiece of the current school reform movement. Discusses the new roles of the school business official. (21 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Occupational Information
Napier, Rod; Sanaghan, Pat – Business Officer, 1999
College and university business officers must recognize the nature of current changes in higher education and alter their leadership methods to suit the times. Theories of leadership suggest strategies, behaviors, and abilities that business officers can use to shift from transactional to transformational leadership styles. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Educational Trends, Higher Education
Birch, Anthony D. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1985
In many colleges, the business office has been isolated from other departments. The modern college business office reflects the highly efficient and technologically supported activities found in industry that have resulted in better services to the whole institution. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Role, College Administration, Comparative Analysis
Dessoff, Alan L. – Currents, 1993
There is good reason for college fund raisers and business officers to collaborate on common financial interests. Communication is a key element of such cooperation. Other needs include agreement on accounting and reporting of institutional finances, agreement on stewardship of gifts (particularly with restrictions or endowments), and common…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administrator Role, College Administration, Cooperation
Blanchfield, Terrence A. – School Business Affairs, 1998
The school business official will be involved in many referenda over the course of a career. School budgets, capital projects, equipment acquisitions, school bus purchases, and emergency construction projects are among the most common situations requiring a referendum. A time frame is needed, and most states have guidelines spelling out procedures…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bond Issues, Budgets, Costs
Hyatt, James A. – Business Officer, 1986
An examination of financial management in higher education institutions covers the management process and related activities, organizational structure and assignment of responsibilities, interrelationships of financial management decisions and other areas of the institution, and the use and coordination of financial plans within the institution.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Reed, William S. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1999
Pressure for cost containment is growing at even very financially healthy colleges and universities. Institutions need to think concurrently about cost containment in terms of temporary, mid-term, and permanent changes to institutional operations and priorities. It may be productive to reframe the issue as "funding priorities" rather…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Planning
Nowakowski, Ben C.; Schneider, Robert – School Business Affairs, 1996
Financially troubled districts could benefit by investing in a school business manager's salary. This article discusses how business managers can save districts money or increase revenue by streamlining cash management, fiscal accounting and reporting, financial planning and budgeting, grantsmanship, construction management, insurance and risk…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administrator Role, Budgeting, Construction Management
Abramson, Paul – American School and University, 1975
The third in a series of articles on the chief business official in public school districts examines the officials' purchasing responsibility. Data are summarized in nine tables that categorize responses by enrollment size. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators, Decision Making
Peer reviewedCalver, Richard A.; Vogler, Daniel E. – Community College Review, 1985
Reports on a survey of 177 chief business officers of public community colleges regarding their responsibilities and the importance they assigned to various role functions. Highlights findings concerning the perceived importance of fiscal/financial duties; endowments as a job function; role in shared planning; and personal attention given to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Community Colleges
Haeuser, Patricia N. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2000
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…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Budgeting, Career Development
Peer reviewedDooley, Larry M. – Journal for Higher Education Management, 1991
A study at Texas A&M University investigated the role of the academic business administrator in fulfilling the institution's educational mission. A program of continuing administrator training was then implemented. Ten years later, another study examined the roles of senior academic business administrators in each of the university's colleges.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, College Administration, Higher Education
