A law passed by the 1973 Minnesota Legislature required the development and implementation of an on-going budgeting process and standardized reporting format that is compatible among the University of Minnesota, The state colleges, the junior colleges, and the public vocational-technical schools. This report is divided into an introduction, a…

The emphasis of this guideline is on determining modular figures for the three main facets of the library program: (1) acquisition of library resources, (2) technical processing of those resources and (3) services to the public using those resources. The system includes the following components: (1) A Library Resources Formula which takes into…

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…

This handbook delineates the procedures recommended for the installation of a working planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS). Primary emphasis is placed on the step-by-step implementation of such a management control system. The presentation repeats the implementation cycle for the four time periods involved: (1) current year's ongoing…

The development of this management system begins with an exploration of what the library is attempting to achieve. After an investigation of the hierarchy of library objectives, it is concluded that the one objective which satisfies a set of specified criteria is to maximize the expected future exposure of university community members to documents…

A systematic approach to the management of higher education institutions is described. The methodology combines administration by objectives (ABO), a management technique that helps academic administrators structure decisions in a systematic manner, with goal programming (GP), a decision-science tool that is ideally suited to the analysis of…

The goal of the future financial manager should be to educate college personnel to the level necessary to make balanced decisions. The challenge is to maintain the current operable systems and develop new approaches to maximize scarce resources through effective communication. (RC)

The Resource Cost Model (RCM) is a resource management system that combines the technical advantages of sophisticated computer simulation software with the practical benefits of group decision making to provide detailed information about educational program costs. The first section of this document introduces the conceptual framework underlying…

The methods of operations research (OR) can make many contributions to the solution of the complex problems which beset urban education. OR techniques such as PERT are useful aids to planning school construction, budgets, and research projects. System planning models can be used to represent urban educational systems and to predict the effects of…

Every administrator bears primary responsibility for planning the accomplishment of those objectives and activities that fall in his area. When responsibility is relatively restricted, the informal and intuitive methods that constitute "sound judgment" suffice. However, as his area of responsibility widens to include increasingly complex…