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Abstract: Drawing on his experiece as Provost for Planning at West Virginia University, Raymond M. Haas deals in the following article with the importance of a proper charge to the Planning Office as a means of achieving integrated planning. He further proposes that the role of the Planning Office should be clearly coordinative in the nature--to the point where its only responsibility for actual planning should be in planning the planning process. Finally, he argues that "... integrated planning can be achieved only when planning is a regularly scheduled activity which occurs frequently, and which produces results that manifest themselves in the allocation, reallocation, and effective use of resources within the institution." The author's remarks have been adapted from his presentation at the Society's 11th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

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.