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Bo Yan; Thomas Aberli – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
The annual budgeting process is a valuable opportunity for districts to systematically examine both resource use and programming. They can then use the findings to optimize resource use and improve program efficacy in ways that will lead to increased student achievement. Bo Yan and Thomas Aberli discuss three root causes for districts' inability…
Descriptors: Budgeting, School Districts, Resource Allocation, Expenditures
F. M. Hollands; R. Shand; B. Yan; S. M. Leach; D. Dossett; F. Chang; Y. Pan – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
School and district leaders make annual decisions about investing their budgets in a multitude of educational programs. Policy directives set expectations for investing in programs that show evidence of improving student outcomes. However, evaluating many simultaneously-implemented programs under typical school operating conditions is challenging.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, School Funds, Budgets
F. M. Hollands; R. Shand; B. Yan; S. M. Leach; D. Dossett; F. Chang; Y. Pan – Grantee Submission, 2022
School and district leaders make annual decisions about investing their budgets in a multitude of educational programs. Policy directives set expectations for investing in programs that show evidence of improving student outcomes. However, evaluating many simultaneously-implemented programs under typical school operating conditions is challenging.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, School Funds, Budgets
UK Department for Education, 2019
On July 20, 2015, the National Audit Office (NAO) published its report "Overseeing the financial sustainability in the further education sector." The NAO examined oversight of the financial sustainability of the FE sector in England, with specific focus on general further education colleges (GFECs) (excluding sixth form colleges (SFCs)).…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Grants, Resource Allocation, Governance
US Department of the Treasury, 2019
The federal government spends an estimated $273 million annually on financial literacy1 and education programs and activities across 23 federal agencies and entities. These programs are designed to educate Americans about a wide array of financial literacy and education topics. However, in 2012, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a…
Descriptors: Money Management, Federal Government, Literacy, Federal Programs
Rosenberg, David; Gordon, Jeff; Hsu, Betty – Education Resource Strategies, 2014
Student-Based Budgeting (sometimes called Weighted Student Funding, or Fair Student Funding, depending on the district) differs fundamentally from the traditional funding model, which distributes resources to schools in the form of staff and dollars designated for specific purposes. Student-Based Budgeting (SBB) allocates dollars to schools based…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Resource Allocation, Funding Formulas
Frank, Stephen; Hovey, Don – Education Resource Strategies, 2014
Recently, there has been growing interest in adapting Return-on-Investment thinking to education--sometimes called educational productivity, or academic-ROI. Education leaders do not seek a monetary return on their spending, rather greater student learning, or other outcomes like student citizenship, higher graduation rates, or increased lifetime…
Descriptors: Investment, Outcomes of Education, Educational Strategies, Systems Approach
Hayes, Suzanne K. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2010
The first objective of this article is to increase awareness and understanding of individual decision-making biases. The second is to provide FCS professionals with strategies to improve consumer financial decisions. Individual decision biases are presented within the context of a seven-stage decision process. Proactive consumer educators using a…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Decision Making, Bias, Investment
Jarvis, William – Trusteeship, 2010
When Commonfund and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) announced in late 2008 that they would join forces to combine their two endowment studies, which had historically been fielded and reported separately, they had high hopes for the venture, but those hopes were tempered with caution. The financial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Volunteers, Trustees
Dulebohn, James H.; Murray, Brian – Research in Higher Education, 2007
Higher education employees often participate in university-sponsored defined contribution pension plans that place the investment decision responsibility upon them. In order to examine investment decision-making behavior with retirement savings plans we investigated attitude-mediated, individual difference determinants of risky decision-making…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Investment, Employees, Retirement
Dickmeyer, Nathan – New Directions for Higher Education, 1981
Financial policies are viewed as buffers that protect the core activities of a college from fluctuation and that maximize the return of investments in all areas. Assumptions necessary for making financial policies are detailed and a strategy is outlined for developing financial policies that mesh with institutional plans. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Planning, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Financial Policy
Seymour, Daniel – New Directions for Higher Education, 1994
This article urges leaders at institutions of higher education to analyze the decision to pursue a Total Quality Management improvement strategy in the same way as any other strategy--as a return on investment. Evidence of costs and benefits of TQM from industry and campus is summarized, and barriers to a "return on quality investment" mindset are…
Descriptors: College Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Higher Education
United Nations, New York, NY. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs. – 1967
The central issue of this document is the question of how the nation's human resources can be helped to play their most effective role in development and of the extent to which this role includes some share in decision making, both in the preparation of plans and in their implementation. Emphasis is placed on the use of national planning…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Decision Making, Developing Nations
Bernstein, Melvin H., Ed. – 1991
This publication presents a collection of essays from top investment thinkers and financial commentators who share their views on the revolutionary retirement plan options now available to college and university employees. The essays were prepared for a conference that was convened by the New England Board of Higher Education in Boston to help…
Descriptors: Administration, College Faculty, Colleges, Decision Making
Hahn, Robert; Jackson, Gregory – Trusteeship, 1995
Colleges can avoid getting stuck with obsolescent and inadequate technology if governing boards can distinguish between the essential and the grandiose. This requires being clear about the purposes of the needed technology, being realistic about the outcomes, building full cost into budgets, involving faculty and staff in its use, and taking the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Computers, Costs
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