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Lebesch, Anna M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2012
The community college environment is complex and dynamic, requiring constant monitoring. To ensure that workforce education, a core component of community colleges' missions, remains aligned with colleges' environments, responsive to employers' needs, suited to students' interests and abilities, and current in content and technology, it is…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Evaluation, Information Utilization, Labor Market
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Valcik, Nicolas A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2007
The purpose of this research is to discuss development of the Logistical Tracking System (LTS)1 and evaluate the changes in processes and procedures at the University of Texas-Dallas (UT-Dallas) that were due to implementation of a new type of technology. The chapter elaborates on the positive and negative aspects of designing and constructing a…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning, Facilities Management, Higher Education
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Winstead, Philip C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1982
Colleges and universities, it is suggested, can enhance their effectiveness by adopting a systems approach to organizing, planning, decision-making, and evaluating. A decentralized, participative model that emphasizes systematic planning and management by objectives is presented. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning, Higher Education
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Freeman, Thomas M.; Simpson, William A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1980
A case history is presented that recounts the evolutionary development of a unified evaluation, budgeting, and planning system at Michigan State University. It is a system that is strongly based on the collection and analysis of department, college, and institutional data. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Planning
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Howard, Richard D.; Rogers, Brenda H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1991
The article proposes that the key to tracking and evaluating the academic progress of college students, particularly at complex institutions, is development of a longitudinal tracking system with flexibility to support a diverse community of users and applications. Considerations for efficient maintenance and effective use of such a system are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Information Utilization, Institutional Characteristics
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Heydinger, Richard B. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1980
The conditions facing postsecondary education during the 1980s, it is suggested, call for institutional planning styles that are comprehensive, systematic, public, regular, and expansive. The formal democratic style is described as a comprehensive planning process that requires all departments to submit their plans to the college. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Budgeting, College Planning, Data Analysis
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Dunn, John A., Jr.; Mayer, Nina – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
Although different in nature from academic activities, college fund raising also requires planning and management. To develop more responsive executive information systems, development officers must take the lead, ask the right questions, and work closely with campus institutional researchers, registrars, enrollment managers, and computer…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Admissions Officers, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs
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Adelman, Stanley I. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1995
The evolution of the student tracking system at Amarillo College, a Texas community college, is chronicled for three stages: (1) early efforts; (2) participation in the development of a consortium-based longitudinal student tracking project beginning in 1986; and (3) more recent developments. Tools and techniques used at each stage are discussed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Students, Community Colleges
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Borden, Victor M. H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1995
A discussion of new technologies and strategies for monitoring college student progress identifies four stages of developing information systems: (1) problem definition and systems specification; (2) data extraction and synthesis; (3) data analysis; and (4) dissemination. Some trends in use of data sources, analysis types, tracking capabilities,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education