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Le Blanc, Louis A.; Rucks, Conway T. – International Journal of Educational Advancement, 2009
A large sample of 33,000 university alumni records were cluster-analyzed to generate six groups relatively unique in their respective attribute values. The attributes used to cluster the former students included average gift to the university's foundation and to the alumni association for the same institution. Cluster detection is useful in this…
Descriptors: Alumni, Marketing, Discriminant Analysis, Alumni Associations
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Blecher, Lee – College Student Journal, 2006
This study utilized data from the "NCES Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS 96/01)" to explore the 6-year persistence status of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) students seeking the bachelor's degree at four-year institutions irrespective of whether they had remained at their initial institution, transferred, temporarily…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Discriminant Analysis, Consumer Science, Academic Persistence