Prioritizing academic programs and services : reallocating resources to achieve strategic balance / Robert C. Dickeson ; foreword by Stanley O. Ikenberry.
2010
LB2341 .D523 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Prioritizing academic programs and services : reallocating resources to achieve strategic balance / Robert C. Dickeson ; foreword by Stanley O. Ikenberry.
Author
Dickeson, Robert C., author.
Edition
Revised and updated.
ISBN
9780470559680 (cloth)
0470559683 (cloth)
0470559683 (cloth)
Published
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
LB2341 .D523 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1/07
Summary
"This newly revised best-selling classic Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services continues to offer a proven step-by-step approach to reallocating resources in tough times. This updated text includes templates, available also online, for prioritizing communications plans to ensure more successful campus implementation and to avoid mistakes. Based on the author's extensive consulting experiences including serving several hundred two- and four-year colleges and corporations ranging from hospitals to bank holding companies, this revised edition is necessary and timely for the current economic concerns affecting colleges and universities."--Publisher description
Note
Previous edition: 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
Series
Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
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Table of Contents
Recognizing the need for reform
Identifying responsible leadership
Reaffirming institutional mission
Defining what constitutes a program
Selecting appropriate criteria
Measuring, analyzing, prioritizing
Anticipating process issues
Implementing program decisions
Achieving strategic balance
Resources : A. Outsourcing practices in higher education
B. Sample process agenda adopted by a land-grant university
C. Criteria for measuring administrative programs
D. Case studies: excerpts from implementation plans
E. Sources of hidden costs
F. Model communication plan
G. Prioritization process and implementation.
Identifying responsible leadership
Reaffirming institutional mission
Defining what constitutes a program
Selecting appropriate criteria
Measuring, analyzing, prioritizing
Anticipating process issues
Implementing program decisions
Achieving strategic balance
Resources : A. Outsourcing practices in higher education
B. Sample process agenda adopted by a land-grant university
C. Criteria for measuring administrative programs
D. Case studies: excerpts from implementation plans
E. Sources of hidden costs
F. Model communication plan
G. Prioritization process and implementation.