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Collins, J. Stephen – Educational Record, 1983
A methodical, goal-oriented system for identifying and correcting the weaknesses of institutional management without undermining that institution's strengths and general character is described. The program, developed by the United Negro College Fund, is called the Integrated Systems Approach to Improving Management. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Higher Education, Management Systems, Problem Solving

Kells, H. R. – European Journal of Education, 1989
The forms and strategies of institutional self-regulation used in Europe for program assessment and improvement are viewed as partial structures, not integrated systems designed to fully realize the potential of the self-regulatory system. A self-regulation program review model for use in ministerial or other centrally administered systems is…
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education
Miller, Tobey L. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1982
Louisiana State University applied a wholistic philosophy to its computer applications development. The new standards provide a step-by-step plan for the entire application process, from initiation to implementation and maintenance; list required deliverables instead of rules; and allow the programer and analyst flexibility to exercise technical…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Cooperation, Efficiency
Wayne County Community Coll., Detroit, MI. – 1978
This publication represents the fourth in a six-part series describing the Management Organization Systems Technique (MOST), which was developed at Wayne County Community College to determine the goals and objectives of the college and assist in their attainment and evaluation. The evaluation component, an essential part of the control function of…
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Pruitt, William N., Jr. – 1982
The development of a Planning, Management, and Evaluation (PME) system at Voorhees College, is described. The project at the small, liberal arts college was supported by an Advanced Institutional Development Program (AIDP) grant. Primary objectives were to decrease the responsibility of the college's chief officer and to upgrade the academic…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, College Role, Higher Education
Doyle, Ken J.; Seagren, Alan T. – 1984
The impact on an organization's capacity to respond inevitably to changing needs of the many variables affecting the organization is considered, along with a framework for developing innovations, especially in a time when colleges are facing a period of contraction. A contingency approach to the management of innovation focuses on the influence of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Environment, College Planning
Slawski, Carl – 1982
A General Policy Systems Theory is outlined and its application at a university in regard to governance in the face of retrenchment is described. The way that this model of nonrigorous but holistic research supports the Purpose, Target, Results (PTR) strategy and is in turn more useful than either operations research/management or science/systems…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Case Studies, College Administration, College Planning
Anderson, John; North, Joan – 1978
Ideas for putting the principles of faculty development into program form are discussed. The pitfalls of faculty development efforts are examined: the frustration of false expectations, the problem of fully integrating the program into the college community, the challenge of maintaining program momentum over time, and the inability to secure or…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bibliographies, College Administration, College Faculty
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