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Download full textConley, Valerie Martin – Online Submission, 2004
As the age of the population continues to increase, faculty retirement issues are becoming more central to campus-level planning and management. Academic planners and senior administrators recognize that there are positive, negative, and unintended consequences associated with various retirement programs and policies, whether they are early…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Incentives, College Faculty, Teacher Employment Benefits
Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Callan, Patrick M. – 2002
This paper focuses on collaboration and cooperation as aspects of higher education in California, considering the three public systems and the independent sector. The context is the 40-year experience of growth and change in these 4 segments of higher education since the enactment of California's 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education. The first…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Competition, Cooperation, Doctoral Degrees
Yanez, Maria Lorena Hernandez – 1994
This study, written in Spanish, compared attitudes of students (N=302) and faculty (N=28) at five institutions of higher education (two public and three private) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The study explored first, whether respondents believed there are significant quality differences between private and public universities and, second, what…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Johns, Virginia; Viehland, Dennis W. – 1989
A place-to-place migration study of first-time freshmen in American four-year colleges and universities presents student migration patterns for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in Fall 1986. Migration patterns of all first-time students are reviewed, but the focus of the analysis is first-time freshmen, the most critical…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Colleges, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
Pike, Gary R.; Smart, John C.; Kuh, George D.; Hayek, John C. – Online Submission, 2005
Studies of the relationships between higher education expenditures and student outcomes are relatively rare. The present research examined the relationships between higher education expenditures and students' engagement in educationally purposeful activities. Findings indicate that the relationships between expenditures and student engagement are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Expenditures, Educational Finance
Chamberlin, Gary D.; Franklin, Kathy K. – 1997
The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of the generation born between 1977 and 1994, the "baby boom echo," on the demand for higher education and workforce development in Arkansas. Although the birthrate in Arkansas for this period does not correlate with the national trend, increased school enrollment and in-migration in…
Descriptors: College Students, Demography, Educational Demand, Employment Patterns
Edirisooriya, Gunapala; Sevier, Lou Ann – 2001
The dependency of public institutions of higher education on state tax dollars is a major source of financial instability as other state agencies demand more tax dollars for other purposes. This paper presents a new formula for higher education funding and discusses the rationale and implications of implementing the new solution, which will allow…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Fornadel, William M.; Taylor, Alton L. – 1994
This study investigated the organization, compliance, and concerns of public higher education regarding the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. A survey was developed and mailed to 480 colleges and universities selected randomly within each Carnegie Classification. Analysis of responses from 270 institutions…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal)
Hill, Nancy Smith; And Others – 1994
This paper discusses the role that the Office of Institutional Research and Strategic Planning played in providing data support, planning, and cohesiveness as Utah Valley Community College worked to become Utah Valley State College. The two tier model adopted at Utah Valley State College aspires to describe a cost-effective four-year college with…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Educational Change
Allen, Mary J.; And Others – 1990
Opinions on undergraduate psychology programs were obtained from 348 psychology alumni who graduated between 1978 and 1988, and from 101 psychology faculty who taught during this same period on eight campuses of California State University. Twenty items reflecting student development and eight items measuring program quality were factor analyzed…
Descriptors: Alumni, Attitudes, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Quality
Olson, Jeffery E. – 1991
Five economic hypotheses of what American universities value (profit, production, prestige, faculty consumption, or academic resources and activities) were tested to illustrate the implicit value framework, a conceptual framework for inferring the objective economic values of an organization from the manner in which society has defined its…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Economic Research, Educational Economics, Faculty
Duronio, Margaret A.; Loessin, Bruce A. – 1989
An analysis of fund raising outcome for private and public institutions is presented for the 5-year period between 1983/84 and 1987/88. The results of research involving intensive case studies of fund raising practices and policies in 10 dissimilar institutions with successful fund raising programs are offered. Fund raising outcomes for the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Wiley, Patricia Davis – 1989
This paper reports on the results of a research project that focused on the relationship between (1) high school foreign language study and college cumulative grade point average (GPA), and (2) high school foreign language study and college freshman English cumulative GPA in a random sample of Tennessee public college graduates in 1987-88. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Students, Grade Point Average
Summerville, Richard M.; Ridley, Dennis R. – 1990
To determine where given Virginia institutions of higher education stand in the aggregate regarding administrators' salaries among similar institutions, salary information provided by chief academic officers of eight senior public-supported institutions in Virginia for their administrative faculty was compared with data from other United States…
Descriptors: Administrators, Benchmarking, College Administration, College Faculty
Eveslage, Sonja A.; And Others – 1987
People and relationships that have helped faculty to develop their careers were studied, along with the impact of these relationships on faculty careers. Successful faculty were asked to: identify their career helpers, assess the relative impact of various career helping relationships on their professional identities, and describe the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Helping Relationship, Higher Education, Interprofessional Relationship
