"In today's challenging economic climate, college and university administrators need reliable financial advice for helping their institutions thrive. Thoroughly revised and updated, this book is designed to help new administrators understand and become more proficient in their financial management role within the institution. Written in an accessible style, so that the book's guidance to immediate use, the book is grounded in the latest knowledge and filled with illustrative examples from across all types of institutions. This is an ideal resource for courses in graduate programs in higher education leadership and administration"--
This book explains the key issues in finance and management in higher education and provides practical guidance.
Using this book, administrators can learn to better understand the broad fiscal context of their institutions and thereby master their own role and function within the institution.
Higher Education Finance Research: Policy, Politics, and Practice fills that void. The book is structured in four parts.
Rethinking traditional rationales for public financing, contributors to this volume offer alternatives for policymakers, administrators, faculty, students, and researchers struggling with this difficult practical dynamic.
This book takes an applied approach to budgeting and fiscal administration in higher education.
This book includes access to additional content online, including models for prioritization from a variety of campuses.
A budgeting handbook for academic administrators and faculty is presented. Economic and political influences on budgeting are considered, along with sources of funds for public and private colleges, and the...
Examines the universal phenomenon of cost-sharing in higher education -- where financial responsibility shifts from governments and taxpayers to students and families.
This book contains a good deal of original research on schools' revenue sources from tuition, donations, research, patents, endowments, and other activities.
In University Finances, higher education expert Dean O. Smith • demystifies basic accounting procedures, budgets, debt financing, and financial statements • explores more unusual financial topics, such as methods for calculating fringe ...