Date of Award
2003
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
Programs for Higher Education
Advisor
Richard Snyder
Committee Member
Maryanne Roesch
Committee Member
Barbara Packer
Committee Member
Claudia Santin
Keywords
administrators, applied dissertation, board of directors, construction financing, construction planning, decision making, educational facilities planning, enrollment growth, facilities planning, facility expansion, fund raising, funding, implementation, limitations, nonpublic schools, private schools, project management, recommendations, risk assessment, school construction, school facilities, site selection, small private schools, student instruction, work plan
Abstract
All schools face the substantial challenge of providing adequate facilities for the instruction of students. When a small private school met with increasing enrollment levels, administrators were faced with the challenge of planning for school expansion. Construction planning required new skills and knowledge for the president of the school and the board of directors.
This applied dissertation was designed to gather data on facilities planning and school construction financing and to organize the processes and activities into a useful planning tool. The practical and logical organization of relevant collected data into a work plan to fund a new school facility constituted the terminal objective of the dissertation. The structure of the work plan was derived from project management methodology and techniques. The potential value of this work plan was in providing guidance for administrators in education who have not overseen this type of funding and building project before.
Recommendations were made for the implementation of the work plan as well as identification of possible risks during the implementation process. Limitations of the study included not addressing the decision making involved in deciding to build a new facility rather than expand current facilities or renovate or purchase an existing facility. Other critical issues not addressed were site and contractor selection.