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2006

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Will Your Money Tree Be Tainted?: The Standard Ethical Guidelines For College Foundations And The Importance Of Institutional Compliance, Heather Lynae Bremer-Miller Jan 2006

Will Your Money Tree Be Tainted?: The Standard Ethical Guidelines For College Foundations And The Importance Of Institutional Compliance, Heather Lynae Bremer-Miller

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

As private donations to higher education have increased, so too has the scrutiny about fundraising methods used to attain these monies. In some cases this increase scrutiny has led to the media uncovering unethical practices of the fundraising profession. Ethical behavior ( or the lack of it) affects the entire nonprofit sector and the fundraising profession. Today, one incident can be detrimental the entire sector's credibility. The development professional has an obligation to uphold the highest ethical standards in fundraising. But what are the standard ethical guidelines? This study was designed to determine the standard ethical guidelines for colleges· fundraising …

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Differences In Enjoyment, Motivation, And Perceived Athletic Competence Between Sport And Fitness Physical Activity Participants, Andy Briggs Jan 2006

Differences In Enjoyment, Motivation, And Perceived Athletic Competence Between Sport And Fitness Physical Activity Participants, Andy Briggs

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the study was to determine if differences existed in level of exercise enjoyment, motivation, and perceived athletic competence between college students that exercise using sport activities and college students that exercise using fitness activities. Data were collected from 188 college students from a midsize comprehensive university in the Midwest. The questionnaire was designed to tap enjoyment, motivation, perceived athletic competence, and amount of physical activity. The participants were divided into four groups according to their exercise habits: high sport/high fitness, high sport/low fitness, low sport/high fitness, and low sport/low fitness. A MANOV A test compared the four …

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United States American Students' Experience With And Orientation Toward International Diversity In A Midwestern Comprehensive University Setting, Olga V. Kostareva Jan 2006

United States American Students' Experience With And Orientation Toward International Diversity In A Midwestern Comprehensive University Setting, Olga V. Kostareva

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The growing phenomenon of globalization has directly affected all levels of postsecondary institutions as evidenced by the strong emphasis colleges and universities place on internationalizing their campuses. Among the forthstanding efforts toward campus internationalization is attracting international students to American colleges and universities. Numbers of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities have indeed been very high, placing this country in the leading position for hosting students from abroad. Hhowever, the role international students play in the overall process of internationalization has rarely been addressed. While the presence of international students is believed to contribute significantly to the intellectual …

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