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Frost, Susan H. – 1991
A newly organized small college model for a decentralized institutional research office was described and evaluated. Using Hearn and Corcoran's six external or organizational forces (external environment, personalities or individual interests, management styles, power arrangements, microcomputing and telecommunications, and structural and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWhitehead, Edwin C. – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1988
The founder of the Whitehead Institute (Massachusetts) describes the issues and challenges encountered in establishing a private research institute, focusing on the evolution of the institute's affiliation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Autonomy, taxes, the differences between academic and industrial organizations, and defining…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Medical Research
Download full textHeverly, Mary Ann – 1991
Responding to the call for higher education to adopt a new paradigm in managing its administrative processes, an Institutional Research Office at Delaware County Community College (DCCC) in Pennsylvania made a two-year effort to use a Total Quality approach in its management. Total Quality Management is a Japanese movement based on the teachings…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Data Analysis, Formative Evaluation
