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Presidential and Board Governance of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics: How the Players, the Rules, and the Game Are Influenced by Temples, Prestige, and Positioning
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Teresa Valerio Parrot – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many institutions of higher education are better known for their athletics programs than their academic offerings. Should a crisis arise, athletics scandal and notoriety can threaten the future trajectory and financial health of the campus. As such, lapses in intercollegiate athletics oversight can create fractures and tensions within institutions…
Descriptors: College Athletics, College Presidents, Governance, Intercollegiate Cooperation
Preventing Crises at Your University: The Playbook for Protecting Your Institution's Reputation. Higher Ed Leadership Essentials
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Barker, Simon R. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Unlike other industries, in higher education an institution's most important asset is its reputation. Yet as fundamental as it is, many leaders continue to view managing reputation as dishonest and counterproductive, a suspect process that undermines the very idea of reputation as an organic outcome of reality. When leadership credibility is on…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Educational Strategies, Values
Assessment and Rankings Efforts: The Effect on Institutional and Program-Level Change
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Schmitt, Stephanie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation considers the effects of national rankings, specifically the 2010 National Research Council (NRC)'s Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs, on higher education institutions' behavior. National research studies of graduate education require significant resources and data, yet it is uncertain how universities make…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Change, Higher Education
Making an Ethical Decision: A Utilitarian Strategy.
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Price, Sandra J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1992
By identifying and weighing the effects of an act on each constituency, a matrix based on John Stuart Mill's theories of utilitarianism illuminates and helps resolve complex ethical dilemmas. Application of the approach is illustrated with a simulated case study concerning the issue of reputation in a small private college. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Ethics
Influences and Preferences among Doctoral Applicants When Selecting a Counselor Education Program.
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White, Arden; Hernandez, Nelda R. – 1990
Two samples of doctoral program participants were surveyed for opinions about factors of relative importance in their selection of a counselor education program. Replies came from a national stratified sample of 55 programs comprising 249 recent doctoral degree graduates plus a second sample consisting of 211 doctoral program entrants. Data were…
Descriptors: College Choice, Counselor Certification, Counselor Training, Decision Making
University Image: An Information Processing Perspective.
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Parameswaran, Ravi; Glowacka, Aleksandra E. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 1995
A study investigated the perceptions of human resource managers (n=243) concerning graduates from 9 area colleges, using 40 criteria to differentiate potential employees. The results support use of the methodology by colleges and universities to investigate factors contributing to institutional image within the business community. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Choice, College Graduates, Decision Making