Bibliography

Courant, Paul N. and Knepp, Marilyn. Budgeting With the UB Model at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2002 and updated 2008.

This article not only outlines the principles of responsibility center management at the University of Michigan, but details the changes that have been made since its inception there.

Curry, John R.; Laws, Andrew L.; and Strauss, Jon C. Responsibility Center Management. Washington D.C.: NACUBO, 2013.

A guide to balancing academic entrepreneurship with fiscal responsibility.

Strauss, Jon C. and Curry, John R. . Responsibility Center Management: Lessons from 25 Years of Decentralized Management. Washington, DC: NACUBO, 2002.

Strauss and Curry are the principal architects of responsibility center management. This book explores how well responsibility center management is working in its various manifestations and contrasts the promise of responsibility center management with its actual performance.

Syracuse University. Responsibility Center Management Task Force Report. Syracuse, NY: June 13, 2005.

Syracuse University is among the most recent major private universities to adopt responsibility center management. Syracuse’s Chancellor, Nancy Cantor, was Provost at the University of Michigan and the Syracuse version of responsibility center management has many of the same features as responsibility center management at the University of Michigan. This report summarizes the details and implementation plans for responsibility center management at Syracuse.

University of New Hampshire: RCM Update. Durham, NH: 2006.

The University of New Hampshire report summarizes the University’s experiences in developing a responsibility center management model and tailoring it to the University of New Hampshire’s special needs.

Whalen, Edward L. Responsibility Center Budgeting: An Approach to Decentralized Management for Institutions of Higher Education. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991.

This book is the basic primer on responsibility center management. Chapters 1 (When It All Started) and 2 (Principles of Responsibility Center Management) are included to provide an overview of the principles responsibility center management incorporates.