Approach

PPBS is a process by which priorities among the kinds of serbices a college may provide are weighed, objectives are stated in operational terms, alternative means to accomplish the given objectives are analyzed, and a choice among competing means is made according to criteria for efficient utilization of resources. This nanual attempts to highlight four basic issues inherent in the development of a PPBS in higher education: (1) how the PPBS program structure of a college could be developed; (2) what output measures, parameters, or indicators are most appropriate, and how they could be organized; (3) what kind of analysis is appropriate for a college setting and how it could be conducted; and (4) what are likely strategies for development of the PPBS in operational contexts. (Author) 41********************************************************************** Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EMS are the best that can be made from the original. * *********************************************A************************