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50 Years of ERIC
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Strategic Planning in Higher Education
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Dooris, Michael J.; Kelley, John M.; Trainer, James F. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004
The authors present an overview of strategic planning, examine its history and mystique, and conclude that planning, if properly implemented, can have a powerful impact on advancing and transforming colleges and universities. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Intellectual History, Intention
Integrated Planning for Enrollment, Facilities, Budget, and Staffing: Penn State University
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Sandmeyer, Louise E.; Dooris, Michael J.; Barlock, Robert W. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004
Integrated planning promotes collaborative thinking and furnishes mechanisms for linking strategic plans with operational plans. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Implementation, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
Institutional Research To Enhance Faculty Performance.
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Dooris, Michael J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2002
Suggests that targeted, action-oriented institutional research can help a college or university better understand and more effectively use faculty resources. Profiles a multi-campus research university whose institutional research portfolio has emphasized faculty issues. (EV)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education, Institutional Research
Responding to the Challenge.
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Dooris, Michael J.; Lozier, G. Gregory – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1989
Colleges and universities will be reshaped somewhat as they change their approach to the increasingly complex and critical issue of faculty resource management in the next 10-15 years. The challenge for institutional researchers in this context is less to predict the future than to help shape it. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Practices, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Total Quality Management Perspective on Assessing Institutional Performance.
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Dooris, Michael J.; Teeter, Deborah J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1994
Total Quality Management methods can build on conventional performance indicators to enhance their usefulness in monitoring and improving quality and effectiveness in higher education institutions. Experience with these methods at colleges and universities, particularly in several academic and administrative areas at Pennsylvania State University,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning, Decision Making
Adapting Formal Planning Approaches: The Pennsylvania State University.
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Dooris, Michael J.; Lozier, G. Gregory – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1990
This paper describes how various formal planning approaches were developed and applied at Pennsylvania State University. Phases (horizontal reduction, vertical reallocation, strategic planning, and strategic management) are identified as are principles including planning for change on the margins and continuity, providing for feedback, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Case Studies, Higher Education, Institutional Research