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Smith, August W. – AEDS Journal, 1976
Descriptors: Administration, Higher Education, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
Cerullo, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Data Processing, 1976
The content of the basic course differs depending on whether the school offers an information systems curriculum or multiple systems courses or it offers only one course or the student chooses to take only one course. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Accounting, Course Content, Higher Education, Information Systems
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. – 1972
This document serves to display several of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) tools as they relate to California State University, Fullerton, which is serving as a pilot implementation site for the California State University and Colleges System for the application of currently available NCHEMS products. Full…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Higher Education, Management Information Systems
Kriegbaum, Richard – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1980
When proactive decision making is essential in college administration in the future, a management information officer may emerge as chief coordinator on many campuses. She identifies, clarifies, informs, and coordinates key institutional decisions, conceives the institution as a set of decision systems and promotes integration of these systems.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Coordination, Decision Making
Shoemaker, William A. – College Management, 1974
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Higher Education, Management Development, Management Information Systems
Bernbom, Gerald – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1993
The key issue for management of campuswide information systems in higher education is content management: selecting what to include, organizing it, labeling items meaningfully, keeping content up-to-date, and presenting information in a useful way. Information technologists, librarians, and information providers on campus can all contribute to…
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Processing, Higher Education, Information Management
Sandin, Robert T., Ed. – 1974
This document presents four articles each suggesting that a systems approach is the most practical way of dealing with the complex problems of university planning and administration. The articles are: Students, Systems and Education as Experience; Specifications for a Management Information System for Universities; Systems Analysis and University…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Barton, Allan – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1988
For strategic financial planning, institutions must determine their objectives and priorities, and adapt resource planning decisions to them. They must think in terms of efficient resource use and operational effectiveness. Strategic planning requires flexibility to adapt to changing environments and reallocate resources, and needs an effective…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, Economic Factors, Efficiency
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Opel, William – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1993
Systems dynamics, a computer-based tool for visualizing how parts of an organization work together over time, is a valuable tool in administrative decision making. Feedback loops among elements mimic complicated behavior in real or imagined situations. An experiment using the technique with a simple research funding model validated its utility.…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making, Financial Support, Higher Education
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
Wesolowski, Zdzislaw P. – 1974
In response to the demand for accountability in higher education, colleges have adopted business techniques of planning and management systems in the form of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation System (PPBES). The system approach to educational administration consists of three interrelated concepts: (1) input, (2) process, and (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Community Colleges, Decision Making
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Vogel, Douglas R.; Wetherbe, James C. – Planning and Changing, 1984
Describes the characteristics and application of a methodology for developing a strategic, long-range organizational information plan that will permit coordination of information subsystems within a university's computerized information system. The University of Minnesota's application of such a methodology provides illustrative examples. (PGD)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, Long Range Planning
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Racioppo, Vincent C.; Foxley, Cecelia H. – New Directions for Student Services, 1980
Provides an understanding of what MIS (Management Information Systems) is and how it can assist the student services administrator in planning and decision making. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Management Information Systems
Nwagbaroacha, Joel O.; And Others – 1975
PPBS is a process by which priorities among the kinds of services a college may provide are weighed, objectives are stated in operational terms, alternative means to accomplish the given objectives are analyzed, and a choice among competing means is made according to criteria for efficient utilization of resources. This manual attempts to…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgets, Evaluation, Guidelines
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Moore, John W.; Langknecht, Linda F. – Planning for Higher Education, 1986
In light of the complexity of the administrative conditions in higher education institutions, academic planners must prepare for the 1980s by increasing their understanding of the institution as a political system and learning to plan under conditions of economic adversity and intense political action. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, College Planning, Decision Making
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