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Raider, Melvyn C. – 1972
This document presents a 143-item bibliography concerning program planning budgeting systems and decision making, budgeting, and planning within the context of higher education. Citations are categorized according to books, articles, monographs, reports, and other sources. (MJM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Decision Making, Higher Education, Program Budgeting
Raider, Melvyn C. – 1975
Although the program-planning-budgeting system (PPBS) has been used in higher education to improve planning, budgeting, and decision making, examination had not been conducted to determine if the technique was consistent with planning, budgeting, and decision-making "theory." This paper reports the findings of such a theoretical…
Descriptors: Administration, College Administration, Decision Making, Higher Education
Etherington, Edwin D.; Vancil, Richard F. – Coll Univ Bus, 1969
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Decision Making
Simpson, Jeanne – 1995
Based on one educator's interactions with writing center personnel over the past dozen years--and not based on empirical research--the following are among the most common perceptions that writing center personnel hold with regard to central administration: (1) central administration prefers to keep writing centers powerless and marginalized; (2)…
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Chaffee, Ellen Earle – 1981
Administrators in higher education feel mounting pressure to link planning and budgeting as resources become more scarce and environments more uncertain. Instead of turning to theoretically prescribed planning/budgeting systems as solutions, microeconomics provides a means of thinking about individual consumption that helps shed light on the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Budgeting, College Administration, College Planning
Volkwein, J. Fredericks – 1977
During 1974-76 the campus of the State University of New York at Albany engaged in an elaborate decision-making process that resulted in the phasing out of some academic programs and the loss of many faculty and staff. To comply with externally mandated budget reductions the university found it necessary to set priorities among its programs and to…
Descriptors: College Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Higher Education
WILLIAMS, HARRY – 1966
A PROGRAM BUDGET IS A POLICY AND PLANNING DOCUMENT WHOSE GOAL IS TO DEFINE PROGRAM ELEMENTS AT AS HIGH A LEVEL OF AGGREGATION AS POSSIBLE WHILE REMAINING CONSISTENT WITH A DESIRABLE LEVEL OF HOMOGENEITY. THERE ARE THREE MAJOR PHASES OF PROGRAM BUDGETING--PLANNING, PROGRAMING, AND BUDGETING. DISCUSSIONS OF A UNIVERSITY BUDGET, DECISION MATRICES IN…
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Decision Making
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Manns, Derrick – Planning for Higher Education, 2004
The capital renewal and replacement of the nation's public higher education facilities has been a growing problem for several decades. While the need for new and improved facilities has increased over the years, many campuses simply have too many aging infrastructures that are too costly to replace. This, at a time when we have less than …
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Facilities Improvement, Campuses, School Maintenance
Terrey, John N. – 1968
The first part of this document describes the following four new managerial tools available to the educational administrator: Planning-programming-budgeting, systems analysis, PERT or the critical path method, and the Delphi technique which employs the systematic solicitation and collation of expert opinion to achieve consensus in the formulation…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Annotated Bibliographies, Colleges
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Muston, Ray A. – New Directions for Student Services, 1980
Program budgeting systems should be viewed as a comprehensive approach to decision making. They are tools intended to guide the manager through all the essential steps in the planning and resource allocation processes. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Allen, Richard; Chaffee, Ellen – 1981
The practices of program budgeting, costing, and strategic planning in higher education are examined. It is suggested that many postsecondary administrators and other groups have viewed a particular technique as the answer to their problems and converted a valid management technique into a management fad. Program budgeting, a system whereby the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, College Administration, College Planning
SMITH, LESTER S. – 1967
THE EFFICIENT USE OF THE UNIVERSITY'S LIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES INVOLVES ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS THAT SPREAD ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF CHOICE. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO IDENTIFY BASIC CONCEPTS INVOLVING THE ALLOCATION OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES. THE BUDGET IS EMPHASIZED AS A TOOL WITH WHICH THE DECISIONMAKER CAN FOCUS AND SHARPEN HIS GRASP OF…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgeting, Budgets, Cost Effectiveness
Jensen, Arne; And Others – 1972
This document reports the working papers of a research project designed to develop quantitative management techniques applicable to the university environment. The University of Copenhagen was selected as the target institution for the research. Presentation of the papers is divided into four parts: introduction, general information and overview…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, Educational Economics, Foreign Countries
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Schmidtlein, Frank A. – Planning for Higher Education, 1990
Conclusions from two studies (including a three-year nationwide study of higher education institutional planning) concern types of planning (strategic, program, facility, operational, budget, and issue-specific), and limitations (the limited powers of prediction and the political character of planning and budgeting). Types of budgeting processes…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Administration, College Planning
Parden, Robert J., Ed. – 1970
This conference on program budgeting was planned to accomplish four objectives: (1) provide a basic orientation for academic administrators by defining program budgeting, and explaining how it might help their institutions; (2) interpret the vocabulary of systems analysis; (3) identify the different levels of involvement at which an institution…
Descriptors: Administrators, Conference Reports, Decision Making, Educational Planning
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