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A study of fund-raising at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) affiliated public black colleges and universities
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The value of public black colleges has been well-documented. These institutions have played an important role toward ensuring minority participation in higher education. Yet, unstable government support has threatened their survival. The... The conceptual framework, the resource dependency model, evolved from organizational theory. In resource dependency, organizations must competitively acquire and maintain resources from the environment to survive (Pfeffer & Salancik, ... The results showed that the mean enrollment for state colleges (SCU) was 3, 798, land-grant institutions (LGI) 3, 500, and two-year colleges (TYI) 931. The first fund-raising programs in SCU and LGI were established over thirty years ago...
ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA, PHI ETA SIGMA, MORTAR BOARD AND OMICRON DELTA KAPPA: THE EFFECT OF TITLE IX AS MEASURED BY THE SEX OF MEMBERS, OFFICERS, AND FACULTY ADVISERS IN 1981-82 (SCHOLASTIC AND LEADERSHIP HONOR SOCIETIES)
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Title IX on four national scholastic and leadership honor societies. The effect of Title IX on the proportion of male and female members of these organizations was compared on... A survey was mailed to the chapter advisers and presidents of 676 honor societies. Responses from 585 chapters (86.5%) were analyzed. The survey data revealed that Title IX has had a significant effect on the membership practices of honor societies. Women students hold a higher percentage of the membership and positions of leadership than men students in all four honor... Unlike the findings of previous research on sex differences in leadership assumption, this study found that female students have not yielded positions of leadership to male students in these coeducational honor societies. Except in... A significantly higher proportion of male members and officers were found in historically male honor societies, while a significantly higher proportion of female members and officers were found in historically female honor societies. The proportions of male and female members were unaffected by the enrollment size of the institution or the presence of a parallel honor society on the campus. Institutional control had no effect on the proportion of male and female... Women faculty members have not been as successful in achieving adviser roles in historically male honor societies as male faculty members in achieving adviser positions in historically female honor societies.
One Year Later: A Study of the Motivational Profiles of Students Who Participated in a Grit and Growth Mindset Themed First-Year Experience Course at an Urban Community College
The issue of low community college retention and completion rates has become an important concern in recent years. The lack of persistence among college students has led to a variety of institutional initiatives including first-year...
But I came here to learn: Students' interpretations of their experiences in a college chemistry class for non-science majors
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This work identified some of the interpretations students make about their experiences in a college-level chemistry course for non-science majors. By understanding such interpretations, chemical educators might be better able to work... In order to understand students' interpretations, several sources of data were collected or crafted including: interviews with students (and the instructor), classroom observations, documents from the class, student essays, and surveys.... Two mechanisms were used to understand interpretations students made of the classroom. First, categorization schemes the students used were studied with the goal of understanding how they categorize their experiences about knowledge, ... The primary findings of this work are two-fold, and have implications for learning, teaching and research. First, students conceptualize knowledge, teaching and learning in a variety of ways. These different conceptualizations have...
In the last few decades, the growth of administration costs on higher education campuses surpassed the growth of instructional costs. The escalating costs of higher education, which are now outpacing general price levels, have raised...
A STUDY OF THE UTILIZATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN SOLVING STATE PROBLEMS IN FLORIDA (USE)
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The purpose of this ex post facto study was to determine the extent of use by governmental entities of research funded by Florida's Service Through the Application of Research (STAR) Program and to identify factors which contributed to... The dependent variable in this study was utilization of STAR research. Statistical analyses used to determine significance at the 0.05 level indicated a positive relationship between utilization and the following independent variables: ... Eighty-seven percent of the governmental respondents reported using STAR funded research as a result of projects conducted during this three year period. Three issues consistently emerged in responses to questions asked regarding the use...
A PROGRAM OF SERVICES FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS IN PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN IRAN
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The purpose of the study was to develop a program of services for handicapped students in public postsecondary educational institutions in Iran. In order to develop the program of services a panel of experts in the field of handicapped students and/or in educational planning in developing countries was selected to react to an opinion survey questionnaire. The survey questions... Following the analysis of the data by tabulation of frequencies and percentages for each item, the program of services was refined and recommended. The major findings of the study were: (1) The panel of experts agreed with the overall philosophical base of the program of services. There was some variance of agreement concerning the program of services. (2) Services and programs for... It may be concluded that Iran, and other developing countries with similar cultural and religious background, should find the recommended program of services for handicapped people reflective of the philosophy of Islamic beliefs and...
This thesis uses a qualitative action research design involving developmental mathematics students at a community college. The students are first generation, low income, and they are enrolled in developmental mathematics. The heart of...
This dissertation explores the campus climate of a Historically Black University in the Southeastern United Sates by providing an overview of the campus' sexual assault policy and Black women students' and administrators' perceptions of...
This dissertation examined the relationship between student engagement in college and subsequent employment status and early career earnings in a public university. This study sought to understand whether or not student academic and...
Online courses have become an important part of a student's academic career. The variety and number of online course offerings grow each year. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks to current online courses, including differences...
Since the reauthorization of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act in 2018, national and state educational policies are prioritizing career and technical education (CTE). A longstanding part of the...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS IN THE ADJUDICATION OF STUDENT MISCONDUCT IN FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
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The purpose of this study was to determine what changes occurred in student procedural due process rights in four-year colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States since 1975. Changes in the composition and structure of... Data for this study was collected through the mailing of a survey questionnaire to 328 four-year colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States. A total of 220 questionnaires were returned representing a 67% response rate. Results indicated that since 1975, nine changes occurred in procedural due process rights afforded students, and six changes occurred in the composition and structure of campus judicial hearing boards. A smaller percentage of... The following changes occurred in the composition and structure of campus judicial hearing boards: (1) a smaller percentage of institutions in the 1986 study utilized more than one type of campus judicial hearing board; (2) a smaller...
Florida's 2009 Excess Credit legislation created a tuition penalty structure for undergraduate college students who attempted credit hours above a determined threshold to incentivize efficient graduation. Due to the structure of the law, ...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND CURRENT PRACTICES IN THE ASSESSMENT AND ACADEMIC RECOGNITION OF NONSPONSORED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AS REPORTED BY CAEL MEMBER INSTITUTIONS
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This study was concerned with gathering and analyzing data relative to the practices utilized by the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning (CAEL) member institutions in the assessment and academic recognition of... Problem. This study focused on determining: (1) how nontraditional assessment practices were integrated into traditional academic structures, and (2) how practitioners evaluated their assessment and credentialing process. Purpose. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency with which specific assessment and academic recognition practices were being implemented by practitioners of nonsponsored experiential learning assessment... Methodology. A modified version of a CAEL instrument was developed, validated, and mailed to the CAEL institutional membership. Each questionnaire contained a letter of support from Dr. Morris Keeton, President of CAEL, and Dr. William... Selected Findings. The findings of the study suggest that practitioners were generally consonant in how they applied and valued assessment and academic recognition practices. They were, however, uncertain concerning appropriate practices...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE GRANT-AWARDING PRACTICES OF FLORIDA'S PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS TOWARD INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
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The present study examined the 1977, 1978, and 1979 IRS 990 tax returns of 227 Florida-based philanthropic foundations in an effort to describe their grant-awarding activity toward institutions of higher education and to ascertain the... Significant descriptive findings were as follows: (1) For each year examined, institutions of higher education received higher average grant awards than other segments of the grant-seeking population. They also increased each year in... Following the descriptive analysis, chi-square tests for theoretical proportions and independence were utilized to ascertain whether certain kinds of institutions received disproportionate numbers of grants and whether there was a...
Akademi Komunitas is a policy borrowing or policy transfer in Indonesian higher education system from the U.S. community college system. This policy officially started in 2012 under the Indonesian Law No.12/2012 on Higher Education with...
Evolution of the doctrine of academic abstention in American jurisprudence
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This legal-historical study proposed to determine the current legal status of American postsecondary education in terms of academic autonomy and freedom by examining the development of the common-law doctrine of academic abstention. The... An analysis of over 700 state and federal decisions revealed that the term "academic abstention" did not appear in any reported decision but originated in the secondary literature. Judges employed a variety of synonymous phrases to... Jurists applied other legal theories to justify abstention, including in loco parentis, discretionary authority, state-federal comity, the law of private associations, and contract law. These theories have little to do with academic... The exercise of judicial abstention is a situational phenomenon. Applying interpretations appropriate to the factual aspects of each controversy and focusing on procedural, nonacademic issues, the courts have balanced the elements of...
A PROFILE OF COLLEGE STUDENT LEADERS RELATING PERSONALITY TYPES, LEARNING STYLES, AND LEADERSHIP APPROACHES
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether an identifiable profile relating personality type, learning style, and leadership approach exists for college student leaders. Subjects were 100 student leaders at The Florida State... Respondents were predominantly white (86%); female (59.0%); 20 years of age (25%); full-time (96%) and in the junior class (33%). Findings indicated that as a total group, student leaders' personality types tended to be extroverted, both... The results of this study suggest that an identifiable profile can be developed for college student leaders. Through the assessment of personality type, and leadership approach of leaders, valuable information can be...
Socialization of doctoral students refers to the learning and adjustment process through which they acquire information and knowledge about their work, department, university, and discipline. This dissertation explores characteristics...
University instructors often lack the knowledge and skills to effectively facilitate learning and teaching in the online environment. Instructors in higher education institutions (HEIs) have faced common challenges to online teaching, ...
AbstractAfter developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014, different colleges adopted the policy with various resources, perspectives, and reactions. This study seeks to...
Online graduate education accounts for the fastest rising portion of new graduate students in the United States (Allum & Okahana, 2015). Yet, their experiences are missing from the literature, and we know little about what drives their...
This dissertation presents a framework for understanding how beliefs about difficulty and talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) influence students’ subsequent decisions to major and complete degrees in those...
This study examined the factors contributing to the underrepresentation of women studying undergraduate Computer Science (CS) at Florida Research University (FRU), a preeminent public university. Even as the growing popularity of...
THE DETERMINATION OF THE VIABILITY OF THE EDUCATION PROFESSIONS DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1967 AS A VEHICLE FOR ACCESS OF ADMINISTRATORS INTO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
A study of the grading attitudes and practices of faculty who teach undergraduate courses in the College of Education at the Florida State University
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The purpose of the study was to investigate faculty attitudes toward grading, their grading practices, and their opinions regarding the development of a grading policy. The sample consisted of 107 of the 117 faculty teaching education... The following were the study findings and conclusions: (a) Faculty members generally have positive attitudes toward grading. (b) Their attitudes toward grading relate positively to their length of teaching experience. (c) Differences in... The following recommendations were made: (a) The college should consider developing a grading policy for faculty teaching undergraduate courses. (b) Inexperienced faculty should attend courses on test construction and grading policies. ...
EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF SELECTED OLDER PERSONS IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA
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The purpose of this study was to determine the educational needs and interests of selected older persons in Hillsborough County, Florida. Specifically, the study identified those needs that could be met by Hillsborough Community College.... When examining the group as a whole, Cultural Enrichment, Hobbies, Health and Medical Problems, and Recreation, were the most frequently indicated choices of learning experiences. The three subgroups were also analyzed in order to... The choices of desired learning experiences of recent participants in some type of educational class were then compared with those who had not participated. Two of the most frequently chosen desired learning experiences--Cultural...
The dissertation sought to provide insight to the unique experiences of foster care alumni in graduate education pursuits. For many, higher education serves to increase opportunities in the workforce and higher lifetime earnings; as the...
Understanding the experiences of Chicanas in doctoral study remains salient because of pervasive doctoral program attrition rates and severe underrepresentation in the professoriate. Chicanas doctoral students engage in these unfamiliar...
Intercollegiate athletics has become a business enterprise which exists and thrives on higher education campuses. As the growth of intercollegiate sport has continued, women have been noticeably absent from leadership roles in this...
Some 300 years after the founding of the first American institution of higher education, developing students into future leaders remains a central objective of contemporary colleges and universities (Astin, 1993; Johnson, 2000; Komives, ...
The purpose of this longitudinal study is to explore the relationship between the national unemployment rate and college enrollment and success outcomes (retention, and completion), controlling for student characteristics (gender, race...
A LIFESTYLE ANALYSIS OF REGISTRATION, ATTRITION, TRANSFER, AND GRADUATION OF FULL-TIME STUDENTS WHO ENTERED CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN THE FALL OF 1968
FACULTY ATTITUDES AT FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY TOWARD COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO SHARED AUTHORITY AND SELECTED DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES
The role of graphic representation and students' images in understanding the derivative in calculus: Critical case studies
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Calls for reform in the way that calculus is taught stress the importance of instruction focused on graphic as well as analytic representations of functions and derivatives. The value of calculus lies in its potential to reduce complex... In this study, two undergraduate calculus students were confronted with graphic representations for functions and their derivatives and asked to produce graphs that represented their images--their unique internal representations. Their... The study demonstrates that graphic instructional representations for functions and their derivatives, and students' concomitant images, have the potential for producing a richer understanding than that achieved by analytic study alone....
ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF MEDIUM TO LARGE MUSIC UNITS IN SELECTED STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES
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The focus of this study was the 1980-1981 status of the organization and administration of academic music units in higher education to determine whether the title of the unit and where the unit is located within the institution make any... The data were gathered from 73 institutions through the use of a mail questionnaire. Results indicated that schools and departments located in colleges which are four hierarchial levels from the presidential office were the most popular... Typical administrators, called chairpersons, spent three-fourths to full time on administrative duties but considered themselves both faculty members and administrators. Unit administrators viewed themselves as powerful influences within... When schools were compared to departments there were no significant differences found among the two units in the areas of (a) organizational structure and size with four exceptions; (b) goals and priorities; (c) formal leadership, ...
Research on college student leadership is evolving, with more scholars studying the influence of social identities on the development of student leaders. Gaps exist in the literature on how race influences leadership identity development...
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