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Download full textMinnaar, Phil C. – 1992
This paper presents a model for obtaining and organizing managment information for decision making in university planning, developed by the Bureau for Management Information of the University of South Africa. The model identifies the fundamental entities of the university as environment, finance, physical facilities, assets, personnel, and…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making
Grumbles, Kent; Hinkle, Dennis – 1991
This paper examines effects of combining long-range planning and computer-based modeling in institutions of higher education, with examples from application at Butler University (Indiana). The model was developed due to a need to obtain a 5-year forecast of revenues and expenditures and consists of eight dynamic submodels--one for each of the five…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
Evaluation and Training Inst., Los Angeles, CA. – 1991
Twenty-one California career-vocational educational articulation projects, commonly referred to as 2 + 2 partnerships, were jointly funded across the 1986-89 funding period and third-party evaluations were conducted in 1988-89. The longitudinal study examined the long-term effects of the original partnerships. Evaluators formed an advisory…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Hispanic Americans
Howson, H. R.; Powell, A. J. – 1983
The instructional effectiveness of using an IBM personal computer with an Electrohome Character projector and a flat screen to display instructional material was analyzed with 89 students enrolled in a course on management information systems at McGill University. The lesson used was an introduction to VisiCalc, an applications software package,…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Design Requirements, Foreign Countries
Levy, Louise – 1983
Prepared for the mental health professional or administrator who is involved in the planning, developing, or implementation of an automated information system in a mental health environment, this guide is limited to the electronic processing and storage of information for management and clinical functions. Management application areas include…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Confidentiality, Government Publications, Grants
Baumgarten, Allan; Long, Elliot – 1982
The evaluation of Minnesota's State Department of Education Information System (SDE-IS) analyzes existing problems of this administrative data processing system and offers recommendations for improving data processing support and reducing the reporting burden on school districts. SDE-IS includes all data processing systems that serve the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Costs, Data Processing
Quimbita, Grace – 1989
Student tracking systems are enabling increasing numbers of community colleges to respond to external demands for accountability with tangible measurements of student progress and institutional outcomes. Several recent trends in marketing, accountability, communications with students, and internal competition for resources have prompted interest…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedFisher, Sylvia Kay; Shibutani, Hirohide – Florida Journal of Educational Research, 1988
A generalizable systems-based needs analysis model was developed to help school district testing and evaluation offices evaluate current problems with their information processing systems and identify additional computer capabilities required to upgrade their systems. The model contains four main phases, namely: definition of the department…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Hamre, William – 1987
An overview is provided of progress in the development of a management information system for the California community colleges. First, background is presented on the current Uniform Statewide Reporting System (USRS), and problems with the system are identified and discussed (i.e., lack of student outcome information, unintegrated data, lack of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, Classification, Community Colleges
Gibson, Dudley; Wickham, Derek – 1986
Successful strategies for implementing and operating the Further Education Management Information System (FEMIS) at colleges of further education in the United Kingdom are discussed, along with the development of associated microcomputer-based decision support systems. FEMIS has been targeted at the smaller institutions that do not generally have…
Descriptors: Change Agents, College Administration, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Vasquez, Mary Britt; Johnson, Steven B. – 1985
Intended to help special education administrators, the guide presents information on resources for microcomputer application in program management. The first section offers basic information on such topics as online databases, software, database management systems, and word processing programs. Section 2 provides information on computer…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrator Role, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
Of the 64 libraries responding to a 1978 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey, 37 indicated that they used automated circulation systems; half of these were commercial systems, and most were batch-process or combination batch process and online. Nearly all libraries without automated systems cited lack of funding as the reason for not…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Automation
Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1986
Ways to improve campus management using new technology are discussed in the proceedings of the 1986 annual meeting of the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges. Paper titles and authors are as follows: "Things Are Going to Get Different" (Lou Volpe); "You Look Mah-velous! Perception Is Fact"…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Building Operation, Campus Planning, College Administration
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1988
Seven papers from the 1987 CAUSE conference's Track I, Policy and Planning, are presented. They include: "Is Higher Education Too Old for Technology" (Linda H. Fleit, Edwin J. Merck); "Approaches to the Replacement of Major Applications Systems," a panel summary (Richard Howard, A.L. LeDuc, E. Michael Staman, and Charles R.…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1988
Seven papers from the 1987 CAUSE conference's Track II, Innovative Management, are presented. They include: "Is This Creative, or What!" (Kenneth C. Blythe); "Joint Application Design: Can a User Committee Design a System in Four Days?" (Diane Kent, David Smithers); "Making It Happen without Appropriation" (Robert E.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Committees, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
