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Bommer, Michael R.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Describes a conceptual framework for the development of a management information system including performance assessment components for linking institutional goals, library performance, and library management decision making. The operational methodology required to evaluate resource allocations consistent with aggregate user needs and delineated…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Management Information Systems, Models

Dufty, Norman F. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1976
The nature of the budgetary process is strongly influenced by the structural character of university decision-making, which is primarily political despite the use of quasi-bureaucratic devices such as formula budgeting. (Author)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Colleges, Educational Objectives, Higher Education

Anderes, Thomas K. – Planning for Higher Education, 2003
The Oregon University System developed a resource allocation model to equitably distribute state funding based on university mission and enrollments by level of instruction. A primary feature is that dollars (general fund and tuition and fees) follow the student to his or her enrolling university and are not redistributed to other programs and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Funding Formulas, Higher Education
Marsee, Jeff A. – Business Officer, 1991
Strategic planning enables colleges to direct discretionary dollars into high-impact areas that can enhance critical core activities, improving output. When the institution can disinvest financial resources in weak or noncritical core areas and redirect them through careful budgeting, it improves its chances for success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Higher Education, Long Range Planning

Newton, Robert R. – Planning for Higher Education, 2000
Offers colleges and universities some strategies when reallocation of funds is necessary. Discussion focuses on the use of facilitating teams to help department chairpersons, active promotion of reallocation in funding proposals, use of analytical databases in decision making, use of program audits, taxation policies, decentralization of decision…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Agron, Joe – American School & University, 2007
Spending by school districts on maintenance and operations increased in 2006-2007, reversing years of historic low expenditures. According to "American School & University's" 36th annual Maintenance and Operations (M&O) Cost Study, the median school district spends 9.19% of total district expenditures (TDE) on M&O, up from 7.58% the year before.…
Descriptors: Costs, School Districts, School Maintenance, Educational Finance
Alabama State Commission on Higher Education, Montgomery. – 1997
This report presents the recommendations of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education concerning funding for public colleges and universities in the state for 1998-99. Two recommendations are provided by the commission. The first recommendation is a statement of the Commission's estimate of the financial requirements needed to support the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Resource Allocation
Falcone, John; And Others – Journal of Educational Data Processing, 1975
Presents a simple matrix that is used for budgeting the machine time, people, and equipment necessary to maintain and enhance administrative systems as well as to develop new systems in an organized fashion. (Author)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Departments
Spencer, Anne C. – 1990
The Education Reform Act 1988 obliges the Local Education Authorities (LEAs) to delegate budgets to the colleges within their control by means of a formula, but does not say what should happen within colleges once the delegated budget has been received. This paper reports some of the outcomes of an action learning and training program, carried out…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Foreign Countries
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1984
Cost control is the subject of this eight-lesson, three-test food service training manual. Lesson 1 deals with financial accountability and includes 17 handouts, ranging from sample balance to quarterly report sheets. Lesson 2 focuses on budgeting principles, and lesson 3 on labor controls. Professional purchasing, receiving, and inventorying…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Food Service
Hartman, William T. – 1988
Despite commonly held views concerning educators' rational decision-making behavior, there are competing interpretations of school personnels' objective, actions, and decision-making processes. Alternative explanations emphasize bureaucratic routine, administrative convenience, educator self-interest, and political motivations, rather than…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, High Schools, Outcomes of Education

Albright, S. Christian – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1975
Describes a methodology for allocating limited research funds to individual research proposals through the use of a goal-programming approach. Presents an example using hypothetical data, which illustrates the use of the model, particularly its sensitivity to different priority weighting schemes. (Author/JG)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Institutional Role
Newton, R. D. – 1972
In response to increasing pressures for improvement in the management of resources, many institutions of higher education have investigated the application of planning- programming- budgeting- systems (PPBS) some have adopted it to meet the demands imposed by jurisdictional agencies, and a few have introduced it frequently in modified form into…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Higher Education
Benacerraf, Paul; And Others – 1972
This report summarizes the work done to date on a study of resource allocation in universities. This report specifically is concerned with budgeting and resource allocation at Princeton University. The document consists of 4 sections. The first section deals with the process of budgeting at Princeton as it has evolved over the last 4 years. After…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Educational Economics
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1976
This manual describes procedures and presents guidelines for using the Dade County (Florida) School System's Average Dollar Base School Budgeting System. The Dade County budgeting system approximates the resource allocation method employed by the state of Florida under the Florida Education Finance Plan and is intended to help shift the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Budgeting, Decentralization, Educational Finance