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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
Franceschini, 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
Black, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1991
The zero-based curriculum model can help school boards and administrators make decisions about what to keep and what to cut. All instructional programs are ranked and judged in categories ranging from required to optional. (MLF)
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Sadovnik, Alan R. – 1994
This book provides a sociological and historical analysis of the evolution and demise of a state college's educational opportunity program, the goal of which was to compensate for unequal pre-college education and provide equal opportunities for economically and educationally disadvantaged students. The program was an example of a special…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Labeling (of Persons)
Alabama State Commission on Higher Education, Montgomery. – 1991
The report addresses the problems being faced by the state of Alabama's postsecondary educational system during the current recessionary period, and to be expected in the years ahead, and makes recommendations on how these financial burdens can be dealt with while simultaneously increasing educational quality. The report explains that Alabama's…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Financial Exigency
Mortimer, Kenneth P.; And Others – 1985
Academic staffing practices used at four-year colleges and universities are identified, and recommendations are offered for achieving staffing flexibility in the face of conditions such as scarce resources. In addition to considering faculty flow models (e.g., Markov models and simulators) as a management/planning tool to evaluate personnel and…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Contracts, Early Retirement