This study of the University of San Francisco provides empirical estimates for the next five years of a set of institutional variables reflecting institutional vital signs. It is intended to provide a sensitization to the fact that a time perspective is important, that the degree of fit between institutional goals and their fulfillment is a…

This paper suggests how American colleges and universities have used the Office of Institutional Research for systematic and cybernetically directed organizational intelligence. This institutional level mechanism might have some relevance for Greek institutions of higher learning. Emphasis is placed on the experience of institutional research at…