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A Policy Analysis Of The Federally Mandated Undergraduate Desegregation Criteria Measured By Retention Strategies For Minority Students At A Senior Public Traditionally White Institution In Virginia, Robert M. Simmonds
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this research was an analysis of the implementation of the federally mandated undergraduate desegregation criteria. This research looked at the development of policy at the federal level, and the subsequent response by the State of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.;Virginia Commonwealth University was selected for this study for two reasons: (1) Virginia Commonwealth University is located in an urban setting which has the largest black population in the state, and (2) this institution has the largest target (identified by the state) of black enrollment than any other public senior institution in Virginia.;Retention strategies were used to measure …
An Investigation Into Current Evangelical College Secularization, William Arthur Wilson
An Investigation Into Current Evangelical College Secularization, William Arthur Wilson
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This study investigated the claim that some of the academically best evangelical colleges are in the process of secularizing. An instrument was developed which differentiated between evangelical and more liberal positions on religious, social, and political issues. Faculty attitudes were measured as representative of a particular college's position.;In Phase I, the DISCRIMINANT Program of the SPSS produced a predictor equation based on those questionnaire items which best discriminated between a stratified, random sample of faculty at known evangelical colleges and a similar sample at known secularized, church-related institutions. Validity of the instrument was shown as 94.59% of the evangelical professors …
Food For Thought: The Collegiate Way Of Living, David Holland Charlton
Food For Thought: The Collegiate Way Of Living, David Holland Charlton
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The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the collegiate way of living; how it began, how it developed and changed, and why institutions have adhered to it. Communal dining was emphasized in an attempt to determine why colleges have believed it to be important enough to require it of differing student populations, under widely varying circumstances, over a period of at least four hundred years.;The College of William and Mary in Virginia was selected as a case study for this project. One of America's earliest colleges, William and Mary was founded on the British (Oxbridge) model, and has required …
Implications For Research On Line-Staff Structure In College And University Management : A Content Analysis Of The Literature, Carlton Sherry Potts
Implications For Research On Line-Staff Structure In College And University Management : A Content Analysis Of The Literature, Carlton Sherry Potts
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the existing literature to determine how the line-staff structure may influence academic managers and their institutions. The study focused on identifying behavior-linked line-staff distinguishing variables on which academic line and staff managers may differ. Emphasis was placed on using information in the literature to generate new research propositions.;Forty-four documents which compared line and staff managers on one or more position, personal, and psychological variables were reviewed using a structured content analysis procedure. Twenty-one behavior-linked line-staff distinguishing variables were identified. The strength of each variable as a candidate for future research in higher …
Image, Institution And Leadership : Philip Lindsley And The Modern University Presidency 1825-1850, David Mathis
Image, Institution And Leadership : Philip Lindsley And The Modern University Presidency 1825-1850, David Mathis
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Colleges and universities have historically found that their projected image, character, prestige, and reputation is highly significant to success, even though these illusive indicators of quality may be little more than emotional responses to what people believe, rather than reality. These over-simplifications are based on filtered messages and perceptions, and when they occur, a Gestalt view results that relates to the institution as a whole. One avenue often utilized by institutions of higher education to achieve this institutional image or character is through the president or major spokesman.;One important historic case of the spokesman's role in higher education is that …