In the mid-1990s, several colleagues and myself worked on a medium-sized
system dynamics model of higher educational institutions. An early version
of this model is described in the following paper from the 1994 ISDC:
Frances, C., Alstyne, M. V., Ashton, A., & Hochstettler, T. (1994). Using
System Dynamics Technology to Improve Planning and Budgeting for Higher
Education: Results in Arizona and Houston, Texas. In 1994 International
System Dynamics Conference, Social and Public Policy (pp. 66). Sterling,
Scotland: System Dynamics Society.
This model was later expanded and refined by Hank Taylor, Mark Smith and
myself for several clients (including the California State University
System, University System of New Hampshire, and University of Alabama at
Birmingham). A packaged microworld version of the model with a simple UI
was also created by Shaun Kaneshiro. The company which sold these models
(Cambridge Decision Dynamics) is now defunct, and I believe that the models
have reverted to the public domain. If you were interested in examining the
models in more detail, I can confirm their public availability and provide a
copy thereof.
Nathaniel Osgood
MIT Technology & Development Program
nosgood@mit.edu