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Biwer-Al-Yacoubi, Connie – 1985
The operation and maintenance (O&M) of public school buildings and equipment has become more complex over the years, requiring increased training of personnel, more responsible management, and greater expenditure of school resources. This monograph provides basic guidelines for establishing a program to respond to these administrative…
Descriptors: Building Operation, Cleaning, Custodian Training, Operating Expenses
Abramson, Paul – American School and University, 1974
A national survey indicates that the cost of operating and maintaining schools has risen more than 13 percent in the last year. The main thrust of inflation has come not through salaries but through goods and services purchased. (Author)
Descriptors: Costs, Data Analysis, Educational Finance, Labor Force
Landry, Lawrence L. – AGB Reports, 1980
An effective energy conservation program, it is suggested, will require institutional changes and capital costs. The energy problem is seen as not simply a technical problem but a management one requiring the attention of the entire campus community. Some energy saving tips are provided, including quick fix items and investments. (MLW)
Descriptors: Campus Planning, College Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Energy
Updating School Board Policies, 1971
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Costs, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Direct linkGreen, Alan C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1981
Although colleges and universities have been aggressive in making capital improvements to conserve energy, their efforts have been hampered by limited capital funds. Decisions about capital investments tend to be complex because of the interrelatedness of conservation strategies and the need to consider the cost advantage of alternatives.…
Descriptors: Building Operation, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Buildings, Energy Conservation
Zachar, Sy – New Directions for Higher Education, 1980
The issue of whether institutions of higher education should cost account space and physical plant operating and maintenance expenses to their academic programs is examined. Space costing is cited as a philosophical base for cost accounting space, operating, and maintenance expenses to the individual academic unit of an institution. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Facilities, Facility Planning, Higher Education
American School and University, 1977
Placing the space costs with the operating budget of the college or department enables the administration to see more completely the total cost of the academic program and encourages energy conservation. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Operation, Cost Effectiveness, Departments, Energy Conservation
Download full textZacher, Sy – 1977
The costs of owning and operating physical facilities are consuming an increasing share of the budgets of colleges and universities. In the past, academic and operating units of colleges have viewed their space as a free commodity and often used it extravagantly. Space costing is a method of cost accounting the space and operating and maintenance…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Building Operation, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance
COOPER, LLOYD G.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THIS REPORT FROM TEXAS WESTERN COLLEGE CONCERNS THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED AND CURRENT PRACTICES IN TEXAS SCHOOL PURCHASING DEPARTMENTS. TWO SURVEYS WERE CONDUCTED BY THE COLLEGE TO INVESTIGATE TWO AREAS. ONE WAS TO DETERMINE SUPERINTENDENTS' PURCHASING PRACTICES BY SCHOOL SIZE, WHILE THE SECOND WAS TO DETERMINE, ALSO BY SCHOOL SIZE, THE LEVEL AND…
Descriptors: Consultants, Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedMcGuffey, Carroll W.; Brown, Carvin L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1978
The effects of school size and school plant utilization on pupil costs of maintenance and operation (M & O) in a large city school system in the South were investigated. School size is significantly and negatively related to pupil costs of M & O. Utilization rate, computed by dividing average daily attendance by the design capacity of the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Facility Utilization Research
APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, Alexandria, VA. – 1997
This report presents comparative data on facility management costs and staffing based on responses from 213 U.S. postsecondary educational facilities during 1995-96. Contained within four diskettes, it lists information from both private and public institutions, grouped in sections identical to the survey. The sections are: general data; personnel…
Descriptors: Campuses, College Administration, College Buildings, Comparative Analysis
Hansen, Shirley J. – 1993
A Canadian national study provides provincial data on the country's publicly funded school facilities including school building age, student achievement and school condition, fiscal condition, maintenance, and energy usage. The study reveals that education ministries and school systems have engaged in an aggressive building program in the past two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Building Obsolescence, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Adams, Matthew C. – Facilities Manager, 1998
Discusses the financial and operational difficulties inherent in community college facilities management. It explains why the primary source of plant operation cost and waste starts with satisfying the scheduling and changing educational needs of its students. Problems in planning and executing major maintenance activities are also addressed. (GR)
Descriptors: Building Operation, Community Colleges, Educational Facilities, Facilities Management
New York State Office of the Comptroller, Albany. – 1992
A profile of the economy and efficiency of the White Plains City School District is offered in this report. Specifically, a financial audit was conducted to answer the following question: Has the district acquired, protected, and used its resources economically and efficiently? Selected district practices were audited by the New York Office of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgets, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness
Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1980
Comparative data on physical plant costs and staffing in higher education for 1978-79 are presented. Questionnaires were sent to member institutions of the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges (APPA) and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Unit cost summaries and wage and…
Descriptors: Campuses, College Administration, College Buildings, Comparative Analysis
