Responding to Financial Retrenchment: Lessons from the Albany Experience.

Volkwein, J. Fredericks

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Publication Date: 1984

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Responding to Financial Retrenchment: Lessons from the Albany Experience.

Volkwein, J. Fredericks

Journal of Higher Education, v55 n3 p389-401 May-Jun 1984

By terminating 26 degree programs, 3 departments, and 3 schools and colleges, the State University of New York at Albany generated a pool of resource for reallocation to programs with greater need and priority. The difficulties of accomplishing this and the lessons for other campuses are described. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Financial Problems, Higher Education, Needs Assessment, Program Termination, Resource Allocation, Retrenchment

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