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Download full textLincoln, 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
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
Ruddock, Maryann Steele – 1982
The impact of discontinuing an academic program at St. Edward's University, Texas, was assessed by measurement on three levels: first-level effects on students and faculty; second-level effects on auxiliary offices and related courses and majors; and third-level effects on productivity and a profile of majors. Majors with a higher than average…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedDougherty, Edward A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1981
Most administrators approach program reduction as a budget issue; in reality, it is a governance and planning issue of major importance for the 1980s. Steps in a planning process for program discontinuance (including pitfalls) are described, based on a national study supported by the Exxon Foundation. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Faculty, College Planning, College Programs
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. – 1981
Results of a 1979 survey of 46 states on patterns of program reduction are presented, and the institutional shrinkage process currently being implemented at the University of Michigan is examined. Additionally, several hierarchical and sequential reduction strategies, including Balderston's budgetary strategies, are reviewed. At the University of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
