Managing resources and financial planning

This chapter explains the processes that language-program administrators (LPAs) can use to deploy the resources of their language programs effectively, efficiently, and equitably. A language program’s resources are usually considered to include finances, material inventory, human skills, information technology, and natural resources. In discussing resources, LPAs must also consider the broad social, political, and psychological forces that impact on their allocation. Acquiring, allocating, and coordinating resources are fundamentally driven by a language program’s strategic plan, not the budget. Because the handling of money is often the aspect of language-program management that leaders worry over the most and often delegate to others, the majority of the chapter focuses on how to manage finances in order to deploy other resources most effectively.