Learning Resources

Abstract: Public, coordinated faculty participation in the planning process can ensure that administrators allocating funds will be informed and guided by the wisdom of the faculty in areas of curriculum, instructional design, and performance measurement. A challenge to both administration and faculty, cooperation between them can result in stronger, more flexible academic programs and in budget decisions attentive to specific departmental objectives. This article has been adapted from the author's remarks at the SCUP Academic Planning Workshop, held in April 1975 in Boston.

Abstract: As higher education institutions shift from a growth orientation to one of redistributing existing resources, budgeting can play a major innovative role. The author describes a dynamic budgeting approach in which he isolates a number of roles in the budgetary process, shows how these roles interact, and suggests how a budget can be redesigned, according to specific need, without complete reorganization from the top. The article has been adapted from his presentation at SCUP's 10th Annual International Conference, held July 1975 in Minneapolis.

Abstract: The impact of severe economic conditions is felt unevenly by different sectors of the national economy. Colleges and universities are affected in particular ways which can be measured by several recently-developed specialized indices. William G. Bowen, president of Princeton University, has evaluatedthe effect of inflation/recession on the budgets and character of academic institutions. what follows is an abridged version of a presentation by Dr. Bowen to the Regents of the University of the State of New York Eleventh Annual Trustees Conference, held in March 1975 in New York City.

Abstract: Changing patterns of demand for higher education services have generated considerable interest in research into the factors governing the choices students make when they apply to colleges and universities. Recently, one unit of New York State government has undertaken some preliminary research into this subject. More substantial and sophisticated efforst are also under way as part of an inter-agency cooperative research project which has as its objective the development of a model of the demand for higher education services in New York State. This article, written by Walter T. Kicinski, chief, and Neal M. Soss, staff economist, of the Program Analysis and Review Unit, New York State Division of the Budget, describes this potentially significant effort and includes the preliminary results of research already completed.

Abstract: The Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education published a significant, two-volume study of continuing and part-time education. As its foreword suggests, the massive, 950-page document represents "the most thorough effort by any state so far to describe and rationalize, from a consumer's point of view, the extensive and continuing part-time postsecondary educational activities under way and provide the guidelines for innovative yet pragmatic public policy." The report is analyzed in this article by Curtis O. Baker, director of institutional research and planning, New York University, and Anthony D. Knerr, associate dean for budget administration, City University of New York.

Abstract: Higher education's recent financial problems have generated a series of new strategies in budgeting and the allocation of resources. An intriguing example is described in a recent 500-page report, Budgeting and Resource Allocation at Princeton University, reviewed in this article by Anthony D. Knerr, university associate dean for budget administration at the City University of New York.