Strategic Allocation of Funds for Universities – On the Construction of Comprehensive Fund Allocation Systems

In the light of reduced state funds and limited room for manoeuvre, reform measures were inevitable for actors in policy of higher education. A result of this was the employment of performance-oriented controlling tools that take an effect on the implementation of the university’s strategic setting of objectives as well as on the improvement of the university’s executive board’s and the deanship’s operational ability to act. Single tools such as development planning, performance indicator-based allocation of funds, target agreements, Förderfonds and the appointment procedures for professors are to be integrated into a coherent system of strategic management. In addition to this, the federal and state level program- mes which have been issued in new dimensions are to be embedded into the strategic management system and overall strategy of the university.

04.07.2008 | Michael Breitbach (Gießen) & Andrea Güttner (Berlin)