Higher education has long been viewed as a social elevator. The path to a higher education credential, however, is complicated for students from low-income and/or minoritized communities. This report provides a snapshot of digital tools designed to help students with college exploration, college admissions, and financial planning. To set the…

The Medical Center of the University of Oklahoma Foundation has devised a system which gives instant financial data on current status of grants, endowments, scholarship and loan funds. (Editor/PG)

Buying time on a computer can frequently eliminate the need for direct acquisition of expensive hardware and a supporting staff, while still providing the required data processing support. (Author)

Brigham Young University has been selected by the National Science Foundation to see if a new computer assisted instruction (CAI) system can help to alleviate some of higher education's financial problems. (Author/PG)

Previous financial planning and resource allocation models have generally been designed for specific types of institutions in specific countries. A set of design characteristics that help make a model internationally applicable are identified, and an American modeling system implemented at the University of Louvain is described. (Author/MLW)

A compromise between off-the-shelf and tailor-made financial assessment programs for computer use is the modeling system called Education Financial Planning Model (EFPM) developed by EDUCOM. Potential advantages and problems are examined, and potential for further development and uses is discussed. (MSE)

The cost of providing adequate computer service is imposing an extraordinary strain on the budgets of many institutions of higher education, particularly small to medium sized institutions that do not have large, federally-funded research programs. They face 2 critical problems: (1) how to obtain sufficient computer services for student use so…

The implementation process and resource requirements of the University of Connecticut Budget Office's online decision support system are described. Successes and failures of shifting to a fully interactive budget review and development process are also reviewed. Special attention is given to the personnel problems and analytical challenges…

Ohio Wesleyan University has responded to the challenge of costing in colleges and universities by implementing a computer-based costing system, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. This document describes the Ohio Wesleyan system that provides direct instructional cost per student enrolled for each individual course section, as…

A study was conducted in 1974 to assess the state of academic computer use both at the national level and at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), and to recommend strategies for the development and maintenance of quality computing facilities at UTC. The report summarizes findings collected during faculty surveys, discussions with…

This document provides the definitions and procedures for the costing portion of the NCHEMS Information Exchange Procedures (IEP). Also included is an overview of the eight steps and more detailed activities to be performed by institutions using related computer software to conduct the IEP cost study. The IEP cost study implementation steps are:…

In January of 1979, the Contracts and Grants Office at Utah State University implemented a computerized system to keep track of pending research proposals, as well as active grants. The automation process used is described from its conception, design, and implementation to future enhancements. (Author/MLW)

Conference proceedings for the Conference of University Administrators include summaries of conference sessions, along with Austin Pearce's paper, "The Needs of Industry: What Are They?" Sessions focused on: forming a university company, financial diversification, financial modeling, stock exchange investment and universities, funding of…

Interactive video (computer-controlled video instruction) has the potential to transform the educational delivery system in public education, including bringing down educational costs. Fiscal demise of public education, current uses of technology in education, interactive video courseware, production considerations, and future prospects are…

A new allocation model for teaching and nonteaching staff has been developed at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. The model may be characterized as highly normative, leading to lump sums to be allocated to academic departments. These departments in turn are free, within constraints, to budget their activities differently than is…