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Performance Funding in Illinois Higher Education: The Roles of Politics, Budget Environment, and Individual Actors in the Process
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Blankenberger, Bob; Phillips, Alan – Educational Policy, 2016
The completion agenda is the dominant theme in higher education policy in the United States today, and one of the primary strategies advocated in the agenda is performance funding in budgeting for public institutions. Illinois is one example of a state that has attempted to implement performance funding as a means of directing the behavior of…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Budgeting
Governance of Higher Education--Implementation of Project Governance
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Macheridis, Nikos – Tertiary Education and Management, 2017
This article focuses on coordination between governance actors in higher education. The object of the study is a department at a public university, seen as a multi-project environment. The purpose of this article is to illustrate and analyze project governance as a tool that allows departmental management to coordinate with the authorities, the…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Program Implementation, Coordination
Activity-Based Management System Implementation in Higher Education Institution: Benefits and Challenges
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Ismail, Noor Azizi – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how activity-based costing (ABC) technique can be applied in the context of higher education institutions. It also discusses the obstacles and challenges to the successful implementation of activity-based management (ABM) in the higher education environment. Design/methodology/approach: This paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Software, Information Systems, Foreign Countries
Integrating a Branch Chemistry Library into the Main Campus Library: Two Perspectives--An Introductory Note [and] A User-Based Perspective of an Academic Chemistry Library Relocation: People First [and] An Operations Research Approach to a Chemistry Library Relocation: Measure Often, Move Once.
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Calderhead, Veronica; And Others – Science & Technology Libraries, 1996
Three articles describe the relocation of the chemistry branch library to the main academic library at Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey) as part of a trend toward centralization. Highlights include user support for the move, including faculty and students; and the operations research methodology used for planning and implementing the move.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Branch Libraries, Centralization, Chemistry
Report of the Task Force on Preservation Practices.
Hanscom, Martha; And Others – 1985
This task force report discusses preservation practices in the University of Wyoming Library and presents recommendations for developing a more cohesive library material preservation program with a timeline for implementation. Recommendations deal with the specific areas of staffing the conservation program; condition of library materials;…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Environmental Influences, Higher Education, Improvement Programs
A Model for Information Systems Planning and Evaluation. AIR Forum 1980 Paper.
Coleman, D. R.; Bolte, J. R. – 1980
A planning and evaluation model for management information systems (MIS) at the institutional or system level in higher education is presented. The procedure provides an analytical approach for assessing the effectiveness of an existing information system utilizing a variation of the Business Systems Planning methodology developed by the IBM…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Data Processing, Decision Making