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Institutional Research's Role in Strategic Planning
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Voorhees, Richard A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
Institutions that have organized and centralized their data enjoy an obvious advantage in grappling with strategic planning and other issues. As the drumbeat for accountability, planning, and demonstrating effectiveness to internal and external stakeholders intensifies, the stature and importance of institutional research offices on most campuses…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Institutional Research, Institutional Role, Role Perception
Creating the Infrastructure for Graduate Education and Research at a New Research University
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Alley, Keith E. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
Building undergraduate and graduate programs simultaneously highlighted the tensions between disciplinary-based undergraduate programs and interdisciplinary graduate programs.
Descriptors: Research Universities, Graduate Study, Masters Programs, Institutional Role
Student Services for Significant Survival
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Dewey, Mary Evelyn – New Directions for Higher Education, 1975
It is argued that student services can save themselves by helping assure the significance and survival of the institution at large. The suggested strategy includes an assessment of underdeveloped areas and resources (staff, facilities, etc.) and their redeployment in new programs to meet institutional needs, e.g. commuter student or community…
Descriptors: College Role, Higher Education, Institutional Role, Organizational Development