Leadership for Academic Units: A Performance Improvement Model for Department Chairs, Deans, and Academic Vice Presidents (and those who aspire to be)

Data Requirements for Allocating and Rightsizing Resources

It is possible that there will be substantial shifts in enrollment and research expenditures between and within academic units over a period of time. As a result of the prevalence of historical incremental budget allocations in academic institutions, the resources allocated to colleges by the central administration and to departments by deans might not have changed during this period of time. Units that experienced growth had to accommodate this growth without additional resources, while departments that shrank did not have to relinquish any resources. Thus, positive change in the form of growth was, in essence, punished in that more had to be done with the same amount of resources. This ...