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Presidential Fundraising In South Carolina's Two-Year Technical Colleges, John Boyd Dec 2008

Presidential Fundraising In South Carolina's Two-Year Technical Colleges, John Boyd

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The purpose of this study was to explore fundraising at South Carolina's Technical Colleges. The major focus of the study was on presidential characteristics and practices along with various institutional characteristics and fundraising success. The research design was descriptive and employed various methods in the collection of data. Data were obtained from administrative sources, public documents, surveys, and interviews. The study includes general information on South Carolina's Technical Colleges, information from IRS Form 990s on 15 of the colleges, results of survey data from 12 colleges, and follow-up interview responses from 5 of the presidents who completed the survey. …


An Analysis Of Florida Public Community College Foundations' Performance Measures From 2002-2004, Karen Sanders Jan 2008

An Analysis Of Florida Public Community College Foundations' Performance Measures From 2002-2004, Karen Sanders

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The focus of this research was to examine the performance of Florida public community college foundations from 2002-2004 using performance ratios. The findings from this study may assist community college foundation leaders to better understand the performance of their own organizations, compare this performance to other similar organizations, establish relative performance standards, and influence the strategic initiatives to improve an existing foundation. This study was designed to research the financial performance measurement ratios for the 28 public community college foundations in Florida. Ex post facto data that were publicly available were utilized to acquire the information needed for the statistical …