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Currents, 1991
Six college advancement professionals respond to a hypothetical case of across-the-board cuts in nonacademic departments by telling how they would make budgeting choices. The strategies used include involving senior advancement managers as a team, cultivating consensus, preserving priority projects, sharing responsibility among departments,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, Decision Making, Higher Education
Download full textFranceschini, Louis A., III – 2002
The Memphis Restructuring Initiative (MRI) was an attempt at comprehensive school reform in Tennessee that ended with a whimper. Its downfall seems to involve some sort of "schismogenesis" or "inversion," in which many teachers violently reacted against being overworked and overwhelmed, culminating in the easy discarding of 8…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Influences, Program Administration
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento. – 1998
Developed by the Academic Senate Educational Policies Committee, this document focuses on program discontinuance issues faced by local academic senates. Addressed foremost is the need to identify key factors for developing a fair, equitable, and faculty-driven program discontinuance process. Although college districts are required by current…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Curriculum Problems, Educational Assessment
Braddock, David – 1991
This paper considers implications of the findings of the Texas Performance Review concerning mental retardation services, in light of decreasing numbers of students at state schools and budgetary restraints on major investments in both institutional operations and community service programs. The paper concludes that Texas should consider closing…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Blunt, Roger R. – Trusteeship, 1994
It is not enough for university governing boards and chief executives to decide the system must change; leadership must convince constituents that everyone has something to gain. When the University of Maryland's campuses could not reach consensus in paring programs, the system board stepped in to foster collaboration and cooperation. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies, College Administration
Brown, Valerie L. – 1992
This articles examines litigation which has been generated as a result of fiscal cut-backs at institutions of higher education and looks at the rights and obligations of college and university administrators and students as well as possible future trends. A first section details the effects of budget reductions at California state institutions…
Descriptors: College Students, Contracts, Court Litigation, Financial Exigency
