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Trussel, John M.; Bitner, Larry N. – Business Officer, 1996
To be useful for management decision making, the college or university's cost accounting system must capture and measure improvements. Activity-based costing (ABC), which determines more accurately the full costs of services and products, tracks improvements and should proceed alongside reengineering of institutional accounting. Guidelines are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Decision Making, Higher Education
Download full textHorsley, Donald – 1990
The understanding and management of the changes called for by fundamental restructuring are discussed in this sixth guidebook in a series of nine video conferences on school restructuring. Offered are a summary of school improvement over the last 30 years, a systems framework for individual and team changes, and strategies for organizational…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Schmuck, Richard A. – 1987
When school psychologists adopt an organization development perspective they are acting on a cluster of related concepts: (1) that because schools are social organizations, school effectiveness depends on the school's organizational culture; (2) that attempts to institute educational reforms only work when the reforms and the school culture mesh;…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Change
Hirshon, Arnold – 1986
Based on telephone interviews with 12 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries, this report presents the underlying reasons for the libraries' decisions relating to the design and implementation of automated library systems. The survey results are summarized, a list of respondents is provided, and profiles of present and planned…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Advisory Committees, Decision Making, Equipment Evaluation
Jonas, Stephen; And Others – 1996
This handbook guides college and university business officers, from small liberal arts colleges to community colleges to research universities, through the complex set of decisions and actions associated with replacing financial management systems. It lists the steps necessary to evaluate an institution's current hardware, network, and software;…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Change Agents
Van Dusen, Gerald C. – 1997
The "virtual campus" is a metaphor for the electronic teaching, learning, and research environment created by the convergence of several relatively new technologies including, but not restricted to, the Internet, World Wide Web, computer-mediated communication, video conferencing, multi-media, groupware, video-on-demand, desktop…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Educational Development
Van Dusen, Gerald C. – 1997
Today there is a pressing call for technology o provide expanded higher education opportunities to a wide spectrum of present and potential clientele. This digest summarizes a larger report of the same title which examines the implications of teaching on the "virtual" college campus. It briefly examines the following questions: (1) what…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Managed Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education
