For this Discussion, you will take on the role of an administrator or manager in an education department at a college or university. As a group you are to collaboratively determine:

  • What strategies would you use to scan your internal and external environment for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?
  • How would you structure a collaborative process among stakeholders to understand your environment?
  • How would you ensure that the knowledge you gain of your financial environment directly informs your decision making and management; that is, how would you apply this knowledge?

Required Readings

Goldstein, L. (2019). College and university budgeting: A guide for academics and other stakeholders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: National Association of College and University Business Officers.

  • Chapter 2, The Political and Regulatory Environment
  • Chapter 3, The Economic Environment
    Focus on the various internal and external factors in the environment that impact the context in which financial decisions are made.

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Focus on the trends in college and university spending and revenues, and how spending and revenues interact with enrollments and degree completions.

Accreditation as a Catalyst for Institutional Effectiveness by Dodd, A. H. in New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004(123). Copyright 2004 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

What about the Rest of Us? Small Colleges in Financial Crisis by Chabotar, K. in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 42(4). Copyright 2010 by Taylor & Francis Informa UK, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Informa UK, Ltd., via Copyright Clearance Center.

Focus on how colleges with small enrollment and low endowments cope with financial uncertainty.


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