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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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Seeley, John A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1981
The contemporary context and some recent trends affecting college program reviews or evaluations, current options in purposes and practices, and impacts on programs and institutions are discussed. It is recommended that the process be viewed as a contribution to the general knowledge base for campus constituencies rather than as "right answers"…
Descriptors: College Planning, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Powers, David R. – Educational Record, 1982
Well-defined and clearly documented guidelines and areas of responsibility and strict adherence to procedures will eliminate considerable debate and disruptions during retrenchment. These concepts apply equally to faculty, staff, program, student, and other issues. University of Pittsburgh retrenchment guidelines on faculty treatment provide…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Case Studies, College Administration
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Bowen, Howard R. – Academe, 1983
The art of retrenchment is in selecting among the available budgeting options that fit a given institution at a given time. One option that deserves increasing consideration is across-the-board cuts. In coping with student demands, institutions should also be concerned for curricular integrity and liberal learning. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgets, College Administration, College Curriculum, Decision Making
Lincoln, Yvonna S.; Tuttle, Jane – 1983
Program discontinuance at colleges and universities is often linked to issues of program demand and quality. However, neither low demand nor low quality is sufficient for program discontinuance without a judgment on the criterion of the centrality of the program to the institution's core mission. Colleges' retrenchment and survival mechanisms…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, College Role, Core Curriculum
Floyd, Carol Everly – 1983
Academic program review is analyzed in regard to purposes, process, schedule and timing, criteria, and decisions. Attention is also briefly addressed to the organizational entities that oversee the process of state-level program review. The purposes of program review are linked to budgeting decisions, mission delineation, and potential program…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Planning, College Programs, Decision Making
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Griffith, Robert – Academe, 1993
A University of Maryland at College Park administrator offers his perspective on a recent retrenchment process that resulted in program closings. He describes the dialog between administration and faculty and credits the faculty with important support and participation in difficult decision making. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty
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Miller, Gerald Ray – Academe, 1993
A University of Maryland at College Park faculty member describes the recent retrenchment process, focusing on the role of the faculty senate and the academic planning advisory committee in decision making. The administration is credited with conducting an open and decisive process. (MSE)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty
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
Melchiori, Gerlinda S. – 1981
Results of a 1979 survey of 46 states on patterns of program reduction are presented, and the institutional shrinkage process currently being implemented at the University of Michigan is examined. Additionally, several hierarchical and sequential reduction strategies, including Balderston's budgetary strategies, are reviewed. At the University of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
Zimmer, Bruce – 1995
How institutional research can improve the quality of institutional performance of colleges and universities in the face of funding constraints is discussed. An example of the use of instructional research to assist in documenting institutional quality in Australia is noted. Institutional research uses data collection, analysis, and interpretation…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cooperative Programs, Decision Making, Educational Quality
Wilson, Robert A., Ed. – 1982
Proceedings of the 1981 University of Arizona conference on responses to fiscal stress in higher education are presented. Topics include the impact of the federal government on higher education, state and institutional responses to new federal policies, developing responses to fiscal stress, alternate perspectives on fiscal stress, and tactical…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Planning