6 semester credits

Managing resources—financial, technological, human, and intellectual—is higher education leaders' most significant concern. In this course, participants focus on how leaders in higher education can effectively plan, prioritize, allocate, and track the use of resources toward achieving learning-focused goals. Candidates research and discuss the meaning of efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in higher education and ways to maximize these across the institution. Activities include analysis of various budgeting, planning, and fund-raising strategies and how these can be used to identify new and reallocated resources to enable growth and sustainability of quality programs. Candidates will also investigate research approaches appropriate to planning and resource management.