Critical Resources for Financial Impacts of Change
Intended Audience
Higher education administrators, faculty involved in campus-based change efforts; change agents on a campus; directors of centers for teaching/STEM/etc.
Overview
Have you ever felt as if you were faced with an impossible decision regarding allocation of funding or resources? In higher education we are often called upon to improve educational outcomes with scarce institutional resources. We are asked to make difficult fiscal decisions without the tools we need to determine the possible fiscal and moral implications of supporting new initiatives and projects. If you have wondered whether it is possible to make modest changes that have a great impact, while also saving money and resources, the answer is yes.
The ASCN Financial Alignment with Inclusive Teaching Effectiveness Critical Resources (FAITE) Working Group created this resource list to share tools and examples that can help with evidence-based fiscal decision making. These resources demonstrate that it is possible to invest scarce institutional resources wisely to advance your priorities. They were gathered to address questions and issues you might be facing at your institution, such as:
- Increasing learning outcomes for all students;
- Adopting instructional practices to improve retention, increased enrollment, persistence, etc.;
- Articulating and communicating the benefits of institutional change to potentially skeptical decision-makers both inside and outside the university;
- Quantifying both the cost and return on investment of implementing instructional change during transitions and over the long-term;
- Determining how to best implement institutional change into institutional budgeting, planning, and decision-making.
- What are some of the cost categories associated with implementing instructional change during transitions and long-term?
- Have the costs of instructional change initiatives been documented and has the return on investment been measured?
- Is there guidance about how to undertake such measurement at my institution?
- Are there any strategies in place for embedding considerations of potential benefits and associated costs into institutional budgeting, planning, and decision-making? What are some of these strategies?
- How can we make explicit increased learning outcomes for all students associated with instructional change?
- Other than typical benefits like improved learning outcomes and more satisfying teaching experiences, what other kinds of benefits are envisioned from improving instructional practices at the department, college or university level (e.g., retention, increased enrollment, persistence, etc.)?
- What are some ways of articulating and communicating various types of benefits to potentially skeptical decision-makers inside and outside the university?
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A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
National Research Council
Target Audience: Institution Administration, College/University Staff
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Outreach:Outreach to K12 Teachers and Students, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning
Whether and How Money Matters in K-12 Education
Margaret L. Plecki; Tino A. Castańeda
The authors review the research on the allocation of resources to support improvement of student learning in public K-12 education, including policies, methodological issues, and availability of data.
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Outreach:Outreach to K12 Teachers and Students, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning