ERIC Number: ED496414
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1068-1027
EISSN: N/A
A Fresh Blueprint for Building Maintenance
Hammond, Ulysses B.; Miller, Cheryl L.
Trusteeship, v12 n6 p1-5 Nov-Dec 2004
As campuses react to budget cuts and increasing programmatic demands, the competition for resources among constituencies is increasingly intense. In this environment, reinvesting in campus facilities becomes challenging because, quite simply, the financial commitment can be immense. Unfortunately, many campus constituencies fail to understand the long-term costs of underfunding facilities reinvestment. In this article the authors describe one college's effort to build an active campus constituency for facilities stewardship and assess the state of each facility, and the methods used to lay out an ongoing plan for facilities maintenance and improvement.
Descriptors: Maintenance, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Budgets, Budgeting, Costs, Resource Allocation, Planning
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: Administrators
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Location: Connecticut
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