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The Perceived Roles Of Student Affairs Administrators In Public Higher Education, Luisa C. Martinez
The Perceived Roles Of Student Affairs Administrators In Public Higher Education, Luisa C. Martinez
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The field of student affairs administration could benefit from research on how student affairs administrators perceive their duties, responsibilities, and obligations, as well as how such an understanding could contribute to organizational theory, practice, and policy. The purpose of this study was to examine how administrators in student affairs perceive their role in public higher education institutions in the United States. This study examined SAAs’ duties, obligations, and responsibilities (role) using Q methodology. Although there are perception studies using Q methodology in higher education, there are fewer empirical studies on how SAAs’ perceive their roles. Consequently, this study recruited forty …