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Saunders, Laura – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
This chapter explores the relationship between strategic planning and budgeting. It describes how community college leaders can use strategic and foundational plans (academic, facilities, technology, and financial) to drive budgets and resource allocations in supportĀ of institutional goals and objectives. Finally, it identifies challenges of doing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Budgets
Lass, Leslie; Parcell, Abby – Achieving the Dream, 2014
Three community colleges--El Paso Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, and Patrick Henry Community College--incorporated technology into the curriculum to support student progress in mathematics through developmental education. Each college took its own path: El Paso developed a self-accelerated emporium-style computer lab, Patrick…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Strategies, Developmental Programs, Educational Change
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Banta, Trudy W., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2012
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) SLO-Based Grading Makes Assessment an Integral Part of Teaching (Nagy N. Bengiamin and Christina Leimer); (2) Editor's Notes: Assessing Assessment's ROI (Trudy W. Banta); (3) Assessment Plans: A Tool for Sanity (Shannon M. Sexton); and (4) Lessons from…
Descriptors: Grading, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Educational Practices
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Jain, Dimpal; Herrera, Alfred; Bernal, Santiago; Solorzano, Daniel – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
In California, the majority of students of color who enter postsecondary education do so in the community colleges. However large numbers of them leave and do not transfer to four-year institutions; in particular to highly selective pubic four-year colleges and universities. By using the theoretical perspective of critical race theory, transfer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Change Strategies, Articulation (Education)
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Shults, Christopher – Community College Review, 2008
Increasingly hostile and turbulent environments have rendered top-down, problem-focused management structures inadequate for competing in the ever-changing postsecondary knowledge industry. The community college abundance model (CCAM), a strengths-based approach to performance enhancement in community colleges, is presented as a viable…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Positive Reinforcement, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness
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Wyman, Robert – Community Services Catalyst, 1972
Author suggests that many frustrations in program development can be eliminated by utilizing the critical path'' method developed by the aerospace industry. (CB)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Services, Critical Path Method, Program Development
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Henry, Thomas C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
The top priority for college and university administrators should be to ensure that their instructional programs, and thus their entire institutions, are managed in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Proper management of fiscal resources determines the degree to which institutions are open and affordable. Review of the current…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Management Systems, Effective Schools Research, Institutional Advancement
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. School Planning and Building Research Section. – 1967
Regulations are presented pertaining to the planning and construction of colleges of applied arts and technology including basic principles involved in planning such facilities. Material from a wide variety of sources is condensed in outline form regarding the following topics--(1) college students, staff, programs, (2) the area and its needs, (3)…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Critical Path Method, Educational Programs