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Knirk, Frederick G.; And Others – 1981
Educators who have to develop proposals must be concerned with making effective decisions. This paper discusses a number of educational systems management tools which can be used to reduce the time and effort in developing a proposal. In addition, ways are introduced to systematically increase the quality of the proposal through the development of…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Decision Making, Educational Development, Management Systems
Bowman, Patrick Awalt – 1971
The problem of managing computer facilities at educational institutions is examined. User categories are defined, and the interrelations between user requirements and the goals/objectives of the facility are discussed. Enumerations of the factors that influence computer facility operations is also accomplished. In addition, management information…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computers, Costs, Data Processing
Griggs, Robert J.; And Others – 1974
Goodwill Industries of America, Inc. developed a management information system designed to provide rehabilitation workshop managers with information needed to make sound administrative decisions, statistics to measure the outcome of these decisions in terms of service to the handicapped, and the financial resources needed to deliver the services.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing

Dickson, Gary W. – AEDS Journal, 1970
Discusses control of management information systems and finds a similarity in management of research and development activity. Part II will appear in AEDS Journal, Volume 4, number 2, December 1970. (JF)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Decision Making, Information Systems
Cohen, Eugene E. – Studies in Management, 1972
The requisites for the development of sophisticated and meaningful information systems being applied in varying degrees in universities and colleges are discussed. It is suggested that a philosophy that provides for an adequate, reasonable amount of computer power for administrative use is mandatory, and that users should not be slaves to the…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases
Pasquier, Jacques; Sachse, Matthias – 1974
Costing principles are applied to a university by estimating unit costs and their component factors for the university's different inputs, activities, and outputs. The information system used is designed for Fribourg University but could be applicable to other Swiss universities and could serve Switzerland's universities policy. In general, it…
Descriptors: Accounting, Computer Programs, Conference Reports, Cost Indexes
Driscoll, Glen R. – Studies in Management, 1974
The management of change, with implications for a systems approach to administration, is examined in terms of the uses made of technological and methodological devices. Institutions now have machinery that can present data useful in decision making in a variety of formats; which can build models for expenditure, for student and faculty…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Programs, Cost Indexes, Data Processing
Matson, William – 1975
The Portland Public Schools have developed a model to evaluate support services of the system. Services rendered are defined by goal statements and evaluated by recipients of the services. A computer-based system maintains the service goals of each support unit, selects goals, prepares an appropriate questionnaire for each of 66 different groups…
Descriptors: Administrators, Ancillary Services, Computer Programs, Databases
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1974
Three phases of the project are identified: (1) measuring the cost, per student for each course of study; (2) calculation of the cost per student per course of study in the new institutions and analysis of the sensitivity of the cost per student to the number of students involved and the changes in the educational method; (3) measuring the return…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development
Vigilante, Richard P. – 1981
This monograph introduces educational administrators at a variety of levels to the basic concepts and procedures in the successful implementation of educational computer systems. In the first section, the units and functions of the computer are defined, and the administrative, research, and instructional applications of educational computing are…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computer Science

Kerstetter, Philip P. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1983
The article describes methods used at Gallaudet College to manage information needs regarding personnel, budgets, project timelines, and facilities, using both the mainframe computer and microcomputers. Considerations in the development and maintenance of databases and in the decision to use a mainframe or microcomputers to maintain records are…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Deafness, Decision Making, Management Information Systems
Sanders, Susan; And Others – 1978
This text provides educational administrators with a working knowledge of the problem-solving techniques of PERT (planning, evaluation, and review technique), Linear Programming, Queueing Theory, and Simulation. The text includes an introduction to decision-making and operations research, four chapters consisting of indepth explanations of each…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Decision Making
Canipe, Stephen L.; And Others – American School and University, 1983
A School Retrofit Design Analysis System (SRDAS) provides energy modeling analyses of school buildings. SRDAS has three subprograms that consider first, roof, windows, walls, floors, and infiltration sites; second, costs per student, compliance with national energy consumption norms, and electricity costs projections; and third, financial savings…
Descriptors: Administrators, Building Operation, Computer Programs, Decision Making
Masters, Robert J., II; Munsterman, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Data Processing, 1975
Describes a department-level budgeting system that uses computer assistance. (IRT)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Computer Programs, Data Processing
McGhee, Charlotte – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1984
The way in which Brandeis University moved its administrative data processing capability to an interactive online database environment is described. Brandeis installed a sophisticated program generator that provides a complete tool for system development and lifecycle management. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Processing
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