Cognia ™ Student Engagement Survey
Category: Student Well-Being
Despite increasing financial challenges facing much of higher education, relatively little is known about how institutions allocate resources to different activities, particularly in areas other than instruction. In this research, I used detailed personnel spending data from HelioCampus and less granular functional expenditure data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to document variations in spending patterns across institutions, examine the role of decentralized functions in administrative spending allocations, and explore factors associated with institutional spending during periods of overall budget cuts. I find that budget models and centralization are associated with spending intensity in some key spending areas and that some areas are prioritized over others when budget deficits occur.
Keywords
Higher education expenditures, administrative spending, resource allocation
Education level
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/whap-ek94
