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Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
A diverse society has created a diverse education system, which in turn requires diverse and complex mechanisms of quality control. The diversity and complexity of the industrial, service, and knowledge-based economy, with its vast variety of occupations and dynamic labor markets, heavily influences the curricular structures and academic profiles…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Needs, Quality Control, Accountability
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Heverly, Mary Ann; Cornesky, Robert A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1992
Increasingly, higher education institutions are using Total Quality Management (TQM) as a vehicle for delivering cost-effective programs and services. The TQM philosophy is that quality can be improved by ceaselessly improving the processes that support the institution's mission. TQM is applicable to institutional research and planning as well as…
Descriptors: College Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency, Higher Education
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McDaniel, Olaf C. – Higher Education Management, 1996
A study of the use of performance indicators in assessing the quality of higher education investigated the potential contribution to quality control of 17 indicators. It is concluded that of the 17, only 7 have high or medium impact, while 10 have low to marginal impact. Concerns regarding government use of performance indicators intended for…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Griffith, Susan R.; And Others – 1996
This paper describes first year implementation efforts of Southwest Texas (SWT) State University to develop a system to integrate planning, budgeting, assessment, and quality to improve the delivery of education and other services to all the institution's customers. The document addresses the common situation when an organization already has…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning
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Maydew, Mary Jo – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1992
A college's administrative services and support units must give attention to improving quality and service just as instructional units do. Greater efficiency and productivity among noninstructional units can have a significant impact on institutional feasibility. Cost reduction is most effective when there is a common understanding of core…
Descriptors: College Administration, Costs, Efficiency, Evaluation Methods
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Lozier, G. Gregory; Teeter, Deborah J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
Understanding the principles underlying the Total Quality Management approach is essential to using it effectively in higher education. These include establishing a customer-focused mission; creating a vision; improving the process continuously; using systematic analysis; promoting participation; and recognizing the college or university as a…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Institutional Research
Fasano, Carla; And Others – Journal of Tertiary Education Administration, 1995
An experimental program at the University of Woollongong (Australia) identified a quality management framework, developed indicators of institutional performance, created a database for user-defined information needs, and provided access to information at all institutional levels. The project explored use of performance indicators and demonstrated…
Descriptors: College Administration, Databases, Decision Making, Higher Education
McLaughlin, Gerald W.; Snyder, Julie K. – 1992
This paper describes the application of a Total Quality Management strategy called Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) to the projects and activities of an institutional research office at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. PDCA is a cycle designed to facilitate incremental continual improvement through change. The specific steps are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Higher Education, Institutional Research
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Newton, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2000
Reports on a five-year ethnographic, longitudinal study of a British higher education college during a process of change in quality assurance. Identifies tensions experienced during the process and stresses the influence of context, the unpredictability of change, and the lack of simple prescriptions for managing change projects. (DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, Ethnography
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Gappa, Judith M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
Three models for college and university decision-making about scarce resources are outlined: (1) shared governance, (2) corporate management, and (3) total quality management. Two underlying principles of all the models are, first, that faculty are the heart of the institution and, second, that successful institutions are governed through the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Business Administration, College Administration, Governance
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Woodhouse, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1995
Strategies for promoting efficient control of quality in colleges and universities are examined. It is proposed that integration of external review and institutional self-evaluation can be used to support the goals of accountability, efficiency, and institutional effectiveness. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Quality, Efficiency, Evaluation Methods
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Hanson, Emil O. – College and University, 1995
Benchmarking, associated with quality management philosophy currently common in higher education institutions, identifies processes considered to be the standard to emulate. A benchmark student administrative services area represents the best related processes brought together in one institution. A benchmark institution is described. It is argued…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, College Administration, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Johnson, F. Craig – 1991
This paper reports on applications of quality tools, developed for industrial settings, to educational management and instruction at three technical education centers. The necessary data were collected by the centers as they prepared for registration to the International Standards Organization Quality Assurance Standards. Application was made of…
Descriptors: Charts, Check Lists, College Administration, Evaluation Methods
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Chambers, Robert H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1984
A strong institutional self-study will focus on five questions: (1) Is the school meeting its declared purpose? (2) Is the study objective? (3) Does it show an intent to improve the institution? (4) Does it help enhance the institution's distinctiveness while maintaining programatic balance? and (5) Does it see self-renewal as ongoing in the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Administration, College Faculty, College Role
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Dooris, Michael J.; Teeter, Deborah J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1994
Total Quality Management methods can build on conventional performance indicators to enhance their usefulness in monitoring and improving quality and effectiveness in higher education institutions. Experience with these methods at colleges and universities, particularly in several academic and administrative areas at Pennsylvania State University,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning, Decision Making
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