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Download full textRoss, Cynthia S.; Gardiner, John J. – 1988
Two decades following the publication of David G. Brown's "Criteria for Pruning Programs," (which recognized that traditional financial support to higher education was decreasing and proposed 10 guidelines for evaluating existing programs) a study was developed to determine what criteria are actually being used by comprehensive…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning, Evaluation Criteria
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
Barak, Robert J. – 1984
Criteria used by states for review and approval of academic programs were investigated in 1983 based on a survey of boards of education of states belonging to the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO). The survey revealed an overall increase in state-level program review activity. While the general criteria for program review and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
van Rosmalen, Karel; Otten, Christ – 1986
A nationwide process in the Netherlands is discussed in which a number of specific disciplines were concentrated in one or a few Dutch universities. The decisive roll of political arguments and consequences for future government and academic planning are addressed. Both universities and government believed that ongoing retrenchment could no longer…
Descriptors: College Programs, Decision Making, Dentistry, Evaluation Criteria
Hammond, Martine F.; And Others – 1987
Internal and external pressures that affect college program discontinuance schemes were investigated, based on minutes of the Kansas State Board of Regents and three other government-related groups/subgroups. During 1972-1986, a total of 206 programs were merged or discontinued. In 1972 a policy was enacted whereby masters programs that had…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Board of Education Policy, College Programs
Melchiori, Gerlinda S. – 1982
The origin and extent of program reduction and discontinuance at colleges and universities, the elements of program review, and a framework for developing long-range organizational planning are considered. Program discontinuance refers to the merger of related programs, the elimination of certain degrees or programs within departments, and the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board of Education Policy, College Administration, College Planning
