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Myers, Gordon M. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Universities face inherent informational asymmetries. These make university budgeting prone to various challenges including moral hazard. The last forty years has seen some large research- intensive universities move from centralized incremental budgeting to decentralized Responsibility Center Budgeting (RCB). It is assumed that a faculty chooses…
Descriptors: College Administration, Budgeting, Administrative Organization, College Faculty
Szatmary, David P. – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
As other universities across the country struggle with their financial challenges, continuing education units can serve the same pioneering role in the development of new financial and budget systems. Confronted by serious financial shortfalls during the last three decades, university administrators started to focus on new budget and revenue…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Continuing Education, Continuing Education Units, Higher Education
Palmer, James C. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
Several budgeting approaches have been initiated as alternatives to the traditional, incremental process. These include formula budgeting; zero-base budgeting; planning, programming, and budgeting systems; and responsibility center budgeting. Each is premised on assumptions about how organizations might best make resource allocation decisions.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Budgeting, Budgets, Finance Reform
Griffin, William A., Jr. – 1980
Weaknesses of the traditional incremental budgeting approach are considered as background to indicate the need for a new system of budgeting in educational institutions, and a step-by-step description of zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is presented. Proposed advantages of ZBB include the following: better staff morale due to a budget that is open and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Administration, Decision Making
Caruthers, J. Kent; Orwig, Melvin – 1979
Budgeting and budget planning in higher education are considered, and the long-standing debate concerning whether budgeting is largely a technical or a political exercise is reviewed in this monograph. The roles of various participants in the budgeting process and the form of their participation, with emphasis on centralization of authority in the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Baldwin, Charles W. – 1978
Current budgeting techniques are reviewed in relation to their application to higher education, including (1) incremental budgeting, where decisions are based primarily upon former levels of expenditures, (2) zero-based budgeting, involving the establishment and ranking of "decision packages", (3) Planning and Programming Budgeting…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs
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Schmidtlein, Frank A. – Planning for Higher Education, 1990
Conclusions from two studies (including a three-year nationwide study of higher education institutional planning) concern types of planning (strategic, program, facility, operational, budget, and issue-specific), and limitations (the limited powers of prediction and the political character of planning and budgeting). Types of budgeting processes…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Administration, College Planning
Varlotta, Lori E. – New Directions for Student Services, 2010
This chapter explains what senior student affairs officers (SSAOs) and those aspiring to the position should know and do in terms of budgeting to make the transition from division to university leadership. Before SSAOs can help lead any university-wide budget process, particularly ones that unfold amid fiscal decline, they must master divisional…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Universities, Leadership
Chan, Susy S. – 1986
Issues in implementating strategic planning in higher education management are considered, along with successful strategies and problem areas in implementing an integrated planning and budgeting process at DePaul University, a comprehensive Catholic university. Key implementation issues are as follows: (1) maintaining an organizational balance…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, Catholic Schools, Change Strategies
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Hoenack, Stephen A.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1986
A study of instructional costs in a large university focuses on graduate education, draws inferences about the economic costs of incremental or marginal enrollments, and examines how the costs facing faculty differ from those incurred by the administration and the state legislature. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Costs, Educational Economics