The economic equivalency index (EEI) is a statistical construct used for quantifying the value of leisure experiences to the individual and is a potentially valuable tool in justifying leisure service expenditures in park and recreation systems. (MJB)

Maintenance budgets in Seattle's neighborhood park system have been kept low through a program of work contracting that delegates routine park maintenance responsibilities to workers hired part time by the local neighborhood committees. (MJB)

The Student Health Service at SUNY/Stonybrook overcame underfunding difficulties by cooperative programs with the school of medicine (staff and materials), student participation (technical, clerical, and administrative) and campus health consumer groups (counseling, ambulance club, health store), at no cost, or low cost, to the university. (MJB)

Presents a dramatic scenario involving a legislative budget committee hearing to illustrate the often conflicting demands for program accountability and student development confronting student services departments at colleges and universities. (Author/NB)

The survey of deaf service centers in eight southeastern states looked at how these centers were established; what services they typically provide; their staffing component; the size of their operating budgets; and what unavailable services deaf people most frequently need. (Author/DB)

Reviews congressional debate concerning the 1977 National Science Foundation proposed budget. Reports major congressional debate centered on the proposed funding for the Science for Citizens program. (SL)

Multiple funding creates special management problems for the administrator of a human service agency. This article presents a useful analytic technique adapted from business practice that can help the administrator draw up and balance a unified budget. Such a budget also affords reliable overview of the agency's financial status. (Author)

Although the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), in operation for 5 years, has made rapid progress in reducing the number of children in the United States without health insurance coverage, pending reductions in federal funding, the expected reversion of SCHIP funds back to the U.S. Treasury, and growing state budget crises will…

The three-part book takes a critical look at the rise and fall of management fads in higher education since the 1960s. Part 1 introduces the fad concept and analyzes the development of seven new management systems in higher education. The chapters for Part 1 include: Chapter 1 "Seeking the Grail: The Never-Ending Quest"; chapter 2…

Wyoming has become the first State in the nation to transform the concept of program budgeting into reality in every local school district. Such budgeting procedures, which link education costs directly to instructional programs rather than to general categories of expenditures, were introduced this year in all 60 of Wyoming's local school…

One school district's experience with PPBS demonstrates that it can be an effective instrument for realistic involvement of the instructional staff in the development of system goals, objectives, and spending priorities. (Author)

Authors discuss how long term planning must be supplemented by short range plans if station goals are to be achieved. (Author)

Emphasis on the specific advantages of PPBS for principals, with special attention to evaluation as a component of PPBS and how it can improve principals' decision-making. (Editor)

The problem was a study of the development of a business education model for methods and procedures in Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS). (Author)

The federal government has made cuts in the funding for research and development purposes during the 1974 fiscal year. Data are presented showing comparative budgets of different federal agencies. (PS)