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A Study of the Position of the Chief Financial Officer in Higher Education Institutions

Description: This study is concerned with determining the role, responsibility, qualifications, and changing trends regarding the position of chief financial officer in higher education : institutions as perceived by presidents and chief financial officers. After a comprehensive review of the literature, a questionnaire was developed, validated, and sent to the presidents and chief financial officers of 100 private and 100 public institutions which had randomly been selected. One-hundred seven presidents an… more
Date: December 1981
Creator: Setoodeh, Hassan
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Zero-Based Budgeting in American Institutions of Higher Education

Description: This study describes the status of zero-based budgeting in institutions of higher education in the United States. Purposes were to determine (a) knowledgeability of the chief financial officers about concept and techniques of ZBB, (b) Institutions' use of ZBB and other widely-used budgeting techniques such as Incremental, Formula, Planning, Programming and Line-item budgeting system, and (c) the chief financial officer's perceptions of ZBB. A questionnaire constructed from literature was mailed… more
Date: August 1982
Creator: Hatefi, Bahram
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Science in the steady state: the changing research university: contractor's report

Description: This report is divided into three main parts. The first part considers the underlying notion of interpreting science in systems terms and sketches the analytic categories necessary for that re conceptualization. Part two draws on face to face interviews with scientists to examine the possible consequences of the shift to steady state science. Part three offers a set of issues for policy and research and critically examines the idea of a steady state for science.
Date: September 1987
Creator: Hackett, Edward J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Study of Institutional Advancement in Selected Southern Baptist Colleges and Universities

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine what institutional advancement processes are currently operating in a sample of Southern Baptist 4-year colleges and universities ("what is") and how these processes compare with Wesley K. Willmer's model of an effective small college institutional advancement program ("what ought to be"). An overview of advancement literature suggested that Willmer had developed the best model of an effective, small college advancement program. Willmer's model consist… more
Date: May 1996
Creator: Melton, Douglas Owen
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Analysis of the Use of Gift Annuity Agreements at Selected United States Colleges and Universities for the Period 1988-93

Description: The objective of this research was to describe the extent to which Gift Annuity Agreements were used by United States higher education institutions in raising private philanthropic support during the period 1988-93.
Date: August 1995
Creator: McIntosh, Clifford Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Study of the Need For and Design of Graduate Study in Educational Resource Development

Description: The problem of this study is an investigation into the need for and possible content and design of a specialized program of study to develop proficiencies for resource development in higher education. The study has three broad purposes. The first is to determine if there is a need for the specialized preparation of educational resource development officers in higher education; secondly, to ascertain what competencies are required of professionals in this field; and, finally, to assemble those c… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: Reid, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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