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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
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Gumport, Patricia J. – Journal of Higher Education, 1993
A discussion of college and university retrenchment based on interviews with 40 faculty and 20 administrators at 2 research universities looks at programs threatened with termination as terrains contested among academic fields, where wide divergences in professional/discipline-based power become evident. Results appeared to have less to do with…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competition, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
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
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Grosenick, Judith K.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1991
Results of a survey of 145 special education administrators in 27 states are presented under 4 headings: student identification practices; service delivery; student exit procedures; and program evaluation practices. Findings indicate student identification procedures are fairly well developed, whereas student exit and evaluation practices are less…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Disorders, Delivery Systems, Educational Practices
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Michael, Steve O. – Review of Higher Education, 1998
Provides models helpful to policymakers at state and institutional levels involved in academic program review and discontinuation, outlines levels of policy decisions for program discontinuation, and examines models that may be effective at each level. Concludes with program discontinuation-related recommendations. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Brantley, Frank – Journal of Dental Education, 1991
A challenge now faced by dental school administrators is to maintain the feasibility of federally funded postdoctoral general dentistry residency programs when institutional, educational, and economic priorities stretch institutional limits. Some existing programs can offer ideas and insights through their diverse and nontraditional funding…
Descriptors: College Administration, Dental Schools, Dentistry, Educational Finance
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Cope, Robert; Delaney, George – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 1991
Four key criteria used in academic program review (quality, centrality to institutional mission, competition, and demand) are defined and discussed. They are then applied to the process of strategic planning for an unspecified private university. Decision-making matrixes and their use are illustrated. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, Competition
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Diment, Galya – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Describes and reflects on the experience of the University of Washington's Slavic languages program when faced with termination in 1995, including the initial response of faculty, staff, and students; the successful effort made to garner support from other institutions, alumni, business, and organizations; relations with the legislature;…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Second Language Programs, Declining Enrollment
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Silberman, R. K.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
A survey of 69 faculty members from 32 universities offering preparation programs for teachers, orientation and mobility specialists, rehabilitation teachers, and doctoral-level leadership personnel serving people with visual impairments raises concerns about the future viability of such programs, in light of state budget cuts, faculty recruitment…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Educational Trends, Financial Problems