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Prioritizing academic programs and services : reallocating resources to achieve strategic balance / Robert C. Dickeson ; foreword by Stanley O. Ikenberry.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780470559680
ISBN: 0470559683
Physical Description: xxvi, 229 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: Revised and updated.
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

General Note:	Previous edition: 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.