Choices about organizational design and leadership strategy must be made to create and implement an effective student affairs educational fundraising program. This chapter explains the educational fundraising process in detail, and a model institutional advancement program for student affairs is described. (Author)

Strategic planning can assist a rural school district to determine its future, rather than allowing others to determine it. Strategic planning is a discipline and a process that produces a results-based, action-oriented plan for the next 3-5 years. Organizations either ascend or decline, and strategic planning can help an organization create a new…

Enrollment management (EM) at Parkland College, in Illinois, is a comprehensive process designed to achieve and maintain optimum enrollment, focusing on recruitment, retention, and graduation rates. The primary goals of EM are to stabilize enrollment and finances, link academic programs and student services, improve services and access to…

This paper examines general systems theory as it applies to higher education institutions. Using this approach, the university is viewed as a system (comprised of subsystems) that interacts with the external environment. The first sections of the paper review general systems theory and its application to management, and examine some theoretical…

This paper describes a methodology for helping institutional research assess its roles and its effectiveness in supporting decision-making at all institutional levels. The paper discusses how to meet this goal by planning, doing, checking, and acting. Planning requires the understanding of the roles of the data custodian, the broker, and the…