Prioritizing academic programs and services : reallocating resour ces to achieve strategic balance - Dickeson, Robert C. (San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2010)
Recognizing the need for reform -- Identifying responsible leadershi p -- Reaffirming institutional mission -- Defining what constitutes a p rogram -- Selecting appropriate criteria -- Measuring, analyzing, prior itizing -- Anticipating process issues -- Implementing program decision s -- Achieving strategic balance -- Resources : A. Outsourcing practice s in higher education -- B. Sample process agenda adopted by a land-gra nt university -- C. Criteria for measuring administrative programs -- D . Case studies: excerpts from implementation plans -- E. Sources of hid den costs -- F. Model communication plan -- G. Prioritization process a nd implementation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.
Keywords: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration; Educational leadership -- United States; Educational change -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration -- Case studies; Educational leadership -- United States -- Case studies; Educational change -- United States -- Case studies; Leadership -- United States; Needs Assessment -- United States