Financial Self-Assessment: A Workbook for Colleges

Education & Teaching

Dickmeyer, Nathan

Schools & Teaching

Natl Assn of College & Univ

On one level this book is about administrative assessment and my concern that, guided by regional accreditation, we have been focusing on the wrong targets. We should be assessing administrative systems, not offices. This is a book on assessment.At another level, this is a book about managing change. The purpose of assessment is to locate where change is needed in our administration of a college or university. A good assessment will tell us where change will have the most impact on institutional effectiveness. This is a book on college transformation.On a third level, this book is about modeling. System assessment requires that we construct a model of the way our college does something. This is a “how-to” book on system modeling.

Assessing Administrative Systems: Guiding Change in Colleges and Universities

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Independently published

This book will assist a new department chair in understanding the terminology of budgeting and financial statements. This book explains practices and cycles that remain constant regardless of a university’s particular budgeting methodology. This book will also, most importantly, explain much of the “why” of budgeting. It will certainly cover the “how” of budgeting, but not at the perfectly detailed level which is unique to each institution. This book begins with an overview of the university budget process, shifts to understanding and creating departmental budgets and moves to grant budgets. Then the book gives context to departmental budgets by situating them within university budgets and university financial statements. The book explains not only how to build departmental and grant budgets, but how to be successful with your budget requests and how to make an impact as you serve on a university budget or finance committee. Through the budget process a department chair brings resources to his or her department. A chair’s ability to gather and control these resources depends on the chair’s ability to maneuver within the budgeting system. While having popular majors, over-subscribed courses and brilliant faculty certainly contribute to departmental success, not all university systems are without perversity. Unless a chair knows his or her way through systems like budgeting, strong departmental attributes do not necessarily lead to financial reward. This book provides a roadmap through the budgeting system maze. A new department chair needs an insider’s guide and, after a career of managing budgets and designing budgeting systems, I will open up and display these systems in order that you may successfully find your way to departmental prosperity.

Budgets and Budgeting for College and University Department Chairs: How to Maximize Department Resources

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>Chief financial officers in today's universities are so busy with the challenges of day-to-day management that strategic thinking often takes a back seat. And yet planning for strategic change can go a long way toward streamlining the very daily tasks that obscure the "big picture." Learning how to integrate strategic thinking into day-to-day management can transform an institution into a strategic organization that operates with an effective understanding of environment, mission, and values.</p>

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Higher & Continuing Education

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Finance

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