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Aplin-Houtz, Matthew; Munoz, Laura; Fergurson, J. Ricky; Fleming, David E.; Miller, Rich J. – Marketing Education Review, 2023
Universities found themselves unprepared for the dynamic disruption in their delivery of educational services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid transition by universities to move all classes to an online format posed unexpected challenges and highlighted the lack of preparation. One of these challenges was service failure in several…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Ethics, Student Attitudes
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Hall-Ellis, Sylvia D.; Grealy, Deborah S. – College & Research Libraries, 2013
Succession planning and management are critical parts of strategic planning for libraries in the twenty-first century. Making certain that the right people are in place with the prerequisite training and experience to assume leadership positions is a vital part of strategic planning and talent management in libraries that rely on teams of people…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Career Development, Models
Perez-Arce, Francisco – RAND Corporation, 2011
The author examines whether education increases patience. Admission decisions in a public college in Mexico are determined through a lottery. He finds that applicants who were successful in the draw were more likely to study in the following years. He surveyed the applicants to this college almost two years after the admission decision was made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preferences, Outcomes of Education, College Students
Fain, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Financial stewardship by college governing boards too often stops at balancing the budget. That was the message two finance experts presented last week during the annual meeting of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Furthermore, the yearly budget exercise can give trustees a misperception of their institutions'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governing Boards, Trustees, Educational Finance
Zorich, Diane M. – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008
In preparation for the 2008 Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI 6) focused on humanities research centers, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) commissioned a survey of digital humanities centers (DHCs). The immediate goals of the survey were to identify the extent of these centers and to explore their financing,…
Descriptors: Humanities, Cultural Centers, Electronic Publishing, Interdisciplinary Approach
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McIntyre, Chuck – Planning for Higher Education, 2004
Using a case study, this article describes a method by which higher education institutions construct and use multiple future scenarios and simulations to plan strategically: to create visions of their futures, chart broad directions (mission and goals), and select learning and delivery strategies so as to achieve those broad directions. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Strategic Planning, Simulation, Models