Associate Professor, Emeritus

0307A Benjamin Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-3564
franks@umd.edu

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Joined faculty in 1980.

Dr. Schmidtlein interests include campus governance, planning and decisionmaking, and finance. Publications include-- "Why Linking Budgets to Plans Has Proven Difficult in Higher Education" and "Responses of American Research Universities to Issues Posed by the Changing Environment of Higher Education."

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• State Budgeting for Higher Education: The Political Economy of the Process. University of California, Berkeley: Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, 1977, 275. (Principal author together with L. Glenny).
  
• State Budgeting for Higher Education: Data Digest. Berkeley: Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, University of California, 1975, 376. (Co-authored with L. Glenny, F. Bowen, R. Purves, R. Meisinger, and A. Morgan).

• Restructuring and Its Aftermath: Maryland. In T.J. MacTaggart and Assoc. (Ed.) Restructuring Higher Education: What Works and What Doesn't In Reorganizing Governing Systems. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996, 157-199. (Co-authored with R. Berdahl).
  
• Administrative Structures and Decision-Making Processes. In M. Peterson and L. Mets (Eds.) Key Resources on Higher Education Governance, Management, and Leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1987.
  
• Institutional Research and Planning. In T. Husen and T.N. Postlethwaite (Eds. in Chief), The International Encyclopedia of Education, Oxford, U.K.: Pergamon Press, 1984, 2,226-2,228.
  
• Comprehensive and Incremental Decision Paradigms and Their Implications for Educational Planning. In G. Copa and J. Moss, Jr. (Eds.) Planning and Vocational Education, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983, 48-80.

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Journal Articles

• Identifying Costs of Instructional Technology in Higher Education, Tertiary Education and Management (in press)(Principal author with A. Taylor).
  
• A Framework for Examining the Costs of Instructional Technology, Research in Academic Degrees, No. 10 (June, 1999). The Journal of the National Institution for Academic Degrees, Yokohama, Japan. pp. 179-199.
  
• Assumptions Underlying Performance-Based Budgeting, Tertiary Education and Management. Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999, pp. 161-174.
  
• Common Assumptions About Organizations That Mislead Institutional Researchers and Their Clients, Research in Higher Education. Vol. 40, No. 5, October, 1999, pp. 571-587.

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• EDPL 653 Organization and Administration of Higher Education
• EDPL 656 Academic Administration
• EDPL 895 Dissertation Critique Seminar

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