Optimization of university resources management through goal programming

This chapter proposes a goal programming model that relives these limitations and offers other features as well; in it goals are faculty instruction loads, staff-to-faculty ratios, faculty distribution by rank, and teaching-assistant –to- faculty ratios. These specified goals are achieved as closely as possible, subject to constraints on the projected budget available in each year of the planning horizon and to faculty-flow constraints. The decision variables are the faculty, staff and teaching-assistant levels in each of several academic units over the planning horizon. The model provides a vehicle for long-range budget planning and resource allocation