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Managing Universities: Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective. Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
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Bleiklie, Ivar, Ed.; Enders, Jürgen, Ed.; Lepori, Benedetto, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2017
This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger managerial structures and leadership control. It further asks whether current organisational and decision-making structures can be explained by public reform policies. The book offers a coherent,…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, College Administration, Decision Making
Decision Making in Multi-Unit Institutions of Higher Education.
Kintzer, Frederick C. – 1984
A study was conducted to determine the location of authority in multi-unit two-year colleges. Inquiry forms listed 84 practices categorized as general (e.g., accreditation), business, curriculum, instruction, administrative personnel, teaching personnel, non-teaching personnel, research, services, student development services, and relationships…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Administration, Community Colleges, Decentralization
SUNY Management Flexibility Program. Program Audit.
New York State Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review, Albany. – 1989
This audit assesses implementation of the University Operating Flexibility Act by the State University of New York (SUNY). The legislation was designed to give SUNY more autonomy to make daily operating decisions, in order that SUNY could better compete with other major higher education institutions nationwide. The legislation empowered SUNY to…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, Educational Change, Expenditures
A New U.
Cohen, Barry G.; Gallo, Robert P. – Business Officer, 1999
Over a decade ago New Jersey granted significant financial and operating autonomy to its state colleges. A look back to 1986, when the legislation was being implemented, identifies elements that enabled the successful transfer of responsibilities from the state to the campus. These included three categories of specific autonomies: cash management,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Finance
The Management of Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography.
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Schofield, Allan, Ed. – 1995
This document provides an annotated bibliography of Commonwealth (formerly the British Commonwealth) university management functions. Selection criteria included the following: items had to be practical and designed to support institutional management, be applicable to most Commonwealth higher education systems, and wherever possible be available…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Decision Making
Standards and Quality in Higher Education. Higher Education Policy Series 37.
Brennan, John, Ed.; de Vries, Peter, Ed.; Williams, Ruth, Ed. – 1997
The papers in this book reflect current debates on academic standards and quality assurance, and speak from the perspective of institutional leaders and national quality bodies and higher education researchers. Included are reports on the progress of several international quality initiatives and studies on the impact of external quality assurance…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Change Strategies