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Retrenchment: How a Small College Copes.
Duggan, John M. – AGB Reports, 1986
A small, Catholic college curtailed expenses without damaging programs by involving faculty, administration, and trustees in a detailed contingency planning process that resulted in a report stressing quality over quantity and outlining short- and long-term strategies for institutional planning. (MSE)
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, College Faculty, College Planning
Williams in the Eighties.
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Change, 1980
A report examining the conditions facing Williams College in the 1980s is excerpted. The committee was to emphasize strategies to serve two major institutional goals: maintaining a large pool of well-qualified applicants, and maintaining a faculty that is talented, well compensated and professionally committed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Faculty, College Planning, Educational Economics
A Planning Model for Small Colleges.
Vaccaro, Louis C. – AGB Reports, 1979
A model for long range planning is discussed including: identification of institutional strengths, establishing mission and goals, resources needed, resources available, resource allocations, periodic evaluation, and revising plan based on evaluation. Presidential leadership and faculty involvement are necessary for completing the task. (MLW)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, College Faculty, College Planning, College Presidents
Future Uncertain: A Tenure Case Study (With a Suggested Analysis) of a Small Private College.
Habecker, Eugene B. – 1980
Issues related to reevaluation of tenure at "Exeter College," a fictitious small, private college, are examined. Based on analysis of financial resources, students and faculty ratios, and systematic effects of tenure at Exeter, a mandate for tenure reevaluation was established. The following areas were reviewed: the relationship between tenure and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Affirmative Action, Case Studies, Change Strategies
The Impersonal Campus. Options for Reorganizing Colleges to Increase Student Involvement, Learning, and Development.
Smith, Virginia B.; Bernstein, Alison R. – 1979
Based on extensive research, this book questions the benefits assumed to accrue from enlarging American colleges. The application of the industrial economies-of-scale model to academic institutions is challenged, since the purpose of academic institutions is not production but learning. Evidence is cited of hidden "diseconomies" of scale on large…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Planning, College Role
Perspectives on the Current Status of and Emerging Policy Issues for Liberal Arts Colleges. AGB Occasional Paper No. 10.
Mohrman, Kathryn; Amadeo, Jo-Ann – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1991
This paper reviews the issues facing trustees of liberal arts colleges, including such external challenges as ideological criticism, college costs, national economic trends, and competition from other types of institutions. Trustees are urged to address such issues as external criticism of the institution, concerns of students and parents about…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Planning, Cultural Pluralism
Demanage Higher Education!
Sammartino, Peter – 1978
This book about the problems facing the president of a college or university is intended mainly for administrative personnel but may be of interest to college trustees, faculty members, and individuals interested in higher education. It is claimed that it is impossible economically to sustain the many non-educative activities that are borne by…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Books, Change Strategies