Using Financial and Personnel Data in a Changing World for Institutional Research: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 140 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470468513 ISBN 13: 9780470468517

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2009

Synopsis

This volume explores the ways in which financial and human resource data can be used in reporting and analysis. With public sources of revenue stagnating or declining and tuition costs increasing, the need for improved efficiences in an insitution's internal practices has become paramount. An institutional research department can use financial and human resource data to conduct analyses of institutional business practices to forecast costs and identify revenue generation. The chapter authors review the use of personnel, expenditure, and revenue data in the performance of institutional research from several perspectives:

1. the role of organizational theory in data mining efforts
2. integration of various data sources for effective analyses
3. methodologies for more efficient faculty compensation benchmarking
4. the impact of state legislative decisions on revenue streams
5. and return on investments

This is the 140th volume of the Jossey-Bass higher education report series New Directions for Institutional Research. Always timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.

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About the Author

Nicolas A. Valcik is the associate director for the Office of Strategic Planning and Analysis and an assistant clinical professor for the Program of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470468513
• ISBN 13: 9780470468517
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Valcik Nicolas A.