โ Scribed by Alton L. Taylor; Audrey M. Koch
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Problems of acquiring adequate resources for postsecondary institutions remain a challenge. Means to sustain excellence, in the fundamental missions of teaching, research, and service rest with effective strategy making in a cultural context. A cultural context for effective strategy making encourages organizational features of clarity of purposes, flexibility, creativity, tolerance, intelligence, and a willingness to learn new things and from past mistakes.
Effective strategy making is a precondition for solving problems and making decisions in a timely and exemplary manner. Strategy making represents the larger actions designed to accomplish institutional purposes supported by formal policies and management rules to operate. Effective strateges to manage resource acquisition, allocation, and reallocation have included cost containment, outsourcing, privatizing, restructunng, freezing salaries and hiring, delayng maintenance and repairs, and doing with less. Strategies for increasing resources have included increasing tuition and fee charges; enlarging capital campaigns; providing incentives for acquiring more research funds; and mgorously pursuing individual and corporate sponsors to pay for new buildings, equipment, scholarships, and endowed professorial chairs. Organizing a capital campaign, adopting quality improvement approaches, and restructuring may be new for many institutions. Needs for sustainability and survival, however, require all institutions to change the way of doing work.
Constituents, both internal and external, of an institution perceive the sustainability and survival of an institution as the responsibility of the executive level management, expecting less from faculty Renewal of institutional culture, however, requires that new ways of doing work, a precondition for effective
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