Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services: Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance, Revised and Updated

by Robert C. Dickeson; Foreword by: Stanley O. Ikenberry

• ISBN13: 9780470588086
• ISBN10: 047058808X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface to the First Edition

About the Author

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

Outsourcing Practices in Higher Education

Sample Process Agenda Adopted by a Land Grant University

Criteria for Measuring Administrative Programs

Case Studies: Excerpts from Implementation Plans

Sources of Hidden Costs

Model Communication Plan

Prioritization Process and Implementation

References

Index

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