Focuses on what can be done when a program fails. What are the causes for failure? What elements must be considered in the decision process? What strategies can be employed to recycle resources into more productive activities? What alternatives are available to aid in program repair or rejuvenation? (Author)

The planning process at Christopher Newport College in Virginia is described. The college has utilized an integrated planning system that incorporates qualitative and quantitative elements into a process that can adapt to the institution's unique social and political situation. (Author/SF)

Presents a method of using library patrons' perceived needs for titles as a means of ascribing scholarly journal collection support and costs to academic programs. (Author/FM)

Presents an overview of funding allocations for French language programs in Canada on the federal and provincial levels. (AM)

Despite its importance, social research receives relatively little public or federal support or regard because of the lack of visibility of its contributions. One way of improving the image and support of social research, and more specifically, educational research, may be through collaborative planning of research agendas, particularly at the…

Busing is not effective in promoting school integration. The only way to achieve school integration is through equal funding to all schools. (Author/MC)

The author discusses issues involved in reallocating declining fiscal resources within institutions of higher education and considers implications for special education. (CL)

In order to make rational budgetary decisions, higher educational institutions require information on the impact of inflation on their operations. A simple and easily maintainable model from which price indices for a particular institution can be constructed is described. (Author/LBH)

A computer-based model of the Ontario university system is presented that focuses on funding, faculty staffing, and faculty salaries from 1955 to 1995. Events in these areas are analyzed as consequences of interaction between a strongly self-equilibrating social system, the universities, and a massively disequilibrating external force, the…

The importance of a proper charge to the planning office is discussed as a means of achieving integrated planning. It is suggested that the planning office's role should be clearly coordinative in nature and that planning must be a regularly scheduled activity resulting in the allocation, reallocation, and effective use of resources. (Editor/LBH)

To meet demand for increased funding, in a period of probable declining investment returns, colleges and universities must fine-tune their asset suballocations to enhance returns. While the institution should adhere to major asset allocation classes, there can be much flexibility, and enhanced return, in shifting suballocations within the major…

Discusses how college administrators can begin to restructure their institutions so that they spend less as the students learn more. Looks at redefining academic quality, enhancing faculty productivity and student learning, student learning and the restructuring of faculty roles, and restructuring implications for academic processes and…

Concludes an earlier article analyzing how four British secondary schools' implemented a rational approach to resource management. Findings suggest a continuum between systems-based and integrative-culture forms of school-development planning and resource allocation. Integrative-culture schools with strongly shared values and flexible approaches…

Total state appropriations for higher education reached their highest level ever in fiscal 1996-97, demonstrating strength in public support for higher education and a continuing modest recovery from earlier recession. Black institutions have fared less well than others, overall. Only two states saw two-year declines. Fifteen states accounted for…

This article is an extension of the table of allocation averages devised by H. E. Brogden and presented in "Educational and Psychological Measurement" in 1959. The current table deals with up to 1000 jobs and rejection rates ranging from 0 to 90%. (Author/SLD)