Records are a rich source of information often receive low priority and not properly addressed in preventing Organisations from risks. It is common that organisations do dispose off records unintentionally or before the records reach its maturity due to the absence of the retention schedule. As organisations with prevailing data and information, universities ought to practice retention schedule...

A sense of fierce, global competition over resources, students, and faculty is driving universities worldwide to launch strategic exercises and branding initiatives. Universities, like corporations, articulate their vision and mission statements for brand differentiation and marketing campaigns. One result is that, with the guidance of marketing and branding consultants, universities across the...

This paper shows the general perceptions of Spanish university stakeholders in relation to the university’s annual reports and the adequacy and potential of intellectual capital reporting. To this end, a questionnaire was designed and sent to every member of the Social Councils of Spanish public universities. It was thought that these participants would provide a good example of the attitude of...

American Council on Education [2] American Council on Education Department Chair Services [3] American Council on Education Office of Women in Higher Education [4] Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) [5] Association of American Universities (AAU) [6] Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) [7] Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and...

The main aim of this study is to demonstrate how important it is for Spain’s public universities to provide information on their intellectual capital in order to satisfy their users’ information needs. So, an empirical study was conducted to analyse the opinion held by the Social Councils of Spain’s public universities regarding the need for Spanish public universities to publish information on...

ERP was the major success story of the mid-1990s (Hillegersberg and Kumar 2000). When the largest of the commercial organisations had implemented ERP packages, the ERP vendors specifically targeted midsize and smaller companies with tailored products (Avarini et al. 2000). This included universities with a module tailored specifically to them, the Student Administration module. This paper focus...

We develop a model of strategic grade determination by universities distinguished by their distributions of student academic abilities. Universities choose grading standards to maximize total wages of graduates. Job placement and wages hinge on a firm’s productivity assessment given a student’s university, grade and productivity signal. We identify conditions under which better universities set...

American Council on Education [2] American Council on Education Department Chair Services [3] American Council on Education Office of Women in Higher Education [4] Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) [5] Association of American Universities (AAU) [6] Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) [7] Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and...

There is widespread recognition of the growing importance of universities in a knowledge society and a competitive economy, and of their required role in stimulating growth through University-Industry-Government interaction. As Tadmor (2003, p.22) put it "[universities] can show the way, offer the solutions and produce the hardware to resolve the most crucial problems". While the education and ...

Many university sites are geographically distributed, with more than one installation or campus at which their students can study. While this is true of university systems, such as the State University of New York, the University of Wisconsin, the California state universities, to name just a few, there are individual universities that maintain more than one campus. Some of these campuses are t...