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Billings, Meredith S.; Terkla, Dawn Geronimo – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
A supportive campus culture is critical to institutionalizing civic engagement and instilling the principles of active citizenship. This chapter explores a model that quantitatively measures the impact of the campus environment on civic engagement outcomes.
Descriptors: Campuses, School Culture, Citizenship, Citizen Participation
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Habley, Wesley R.; Morales, Ricardo H. – NACADA Journal, 1998
A portion of the results of a national academic advising survey are reported. Advising data on 754 programs are analyzed to determine the performance of seven advising models on eight program goals and their perceived effectiveness on 11 program variables. The data also create a context for deeper consideration of the relationship between an…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Environment, Higher Education, Models
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Peterson, Marvin W. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1988
Institutional research that examines the influence of organizational and administrative factors on student learning may be critical in improving educational performance. The role that institutional researchers might play in reducing semantic confusion and enhancing understanding of how colleges and universities improve student learning is…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Instruction, College Students
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Bensimon, Estela M. – Review of Higher Education, 1989
Administrators use different organizational perspectives, or "frames," to help them understand situations, problems, and day-to-day activities. In higher education, four frames are identified as bureaucratic, collegial, political, and symbolic. Frames used by 32 college presidents are analyzed according to content, complexity,…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, College Environment, College Presidents, Collegiality
Baltzer, Jan A. – 1994
Designed as a resource for individuals who plan, manage, support, and use information technology (IT) in community colleges, this paper presents a model for strategic planning, termed the "Learning Action Plan" model. Section 1 provides an introduction to strategic planning and the Learning Action Plan model. Section 2 describes the Learning…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Planning, Community Colleges, Information Management
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Cullen, John B.; Perrewe, Pamela L. – Journal of Management, 1981
Used factors identified in the literature as predictors of centralization/decentralization as potential discriminating variables among several decision making configurations in university affiliated professional schools. The model developed from multiple discriminant analysis had reasonable success in classifying correctly only the decentralized…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, College Environment, Deans
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Winston, Roger B., Jr.; Bledsoe, Tyrone; Goldstein, Adam R.; Wisbey, Martha E.; Street, James L.; Brown, Steven R.; Goyen, Kenneth D.; Rounds, Linda E. – Journal of College Student Development, 1997
Using M. R. Weisbord's model of organizational diagnosis, researchers developed the Student Organization Environment Scales to measure students' perceptions of the psychosocial environment or climate of college student organizations. Development of the instrument is described and estimates of its reliability and validity are reported. Describes…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Higher Education, Models
Strange, C. Carney; Banning, James H. – 2001
This book offers a select sampling of concepts and models organized around a distinctive framework and reflective of themes critical to the successful functioning of higher education institutions. It is organized into two parts. Part One, "Type and Impacts of Campus Environments," offers an overview of models and concepts of human…
Descriptors: College Environment, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Higher Education
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Peterson, Marvin W.; White, Theodore H. – Research in Higher Education, 1992
Using a theoretical model of institutional culture, organizational climate, and faculty motivation, a study examined how faculty (n=1,123) and administrators (n=381) in 10 colleges differed in their perceptions, whether differences were affected by institution type, and to what extent faculty and administrators had different implicit models of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Environment, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
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White, Theodore H.; And Others – Review of Higher Education, 1993
A theoretical model of organizational and administrative climate is presented that controls for effects of individual and institutional characteristics and predicts critical dimensions of the academic workplace including academic innovation, work challenge, and professionalism. Institutional mission and goals focusing on undergraduate education…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Faculty, College Instruction
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Crawford, Gregory A. – Journal of Higher Education, 1998
A study tested a model of intraorganizational power in the libraries of 256 liberal arts colleges, focusing on power variables, environmental variables, technology level, and bases of power variables. Results indicate that technology has a direct, yet slight, influence on the bases of power. However, the overall model was not statistically…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology
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Tierney, William G. – Review of Higher Education, 1987
The implications for researchers and administrators are considered if the organizational environment is interpreted as "enacted." Objective and enacted environments are differentiated and the ways are suggested for how administrators might identify what they need to do and how they do it, given the socially constructed organization in which they…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrators, College Administration, College Environment
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Long, Samuel – Research in Higher Education, 1976
Using a sample of 460 university students, multiple discriminant analysis indicates that of four variable sets (including perceptions of university goals, academic climate, academic environment, and academic alienation), perceptions of climate and feelings of alienation exert more influence on students' attachment to the university. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, College Environment, Higher Education, Models
Miller, James L., Jr.; Erwin, J. Michael – 1982
A model for the analysis of college closing is tested and illustrated using the existing literature of college closings. Since the literature on college closing provided little analysis or material upon which theory might be developed, attention was directed to the work that has been done on the somewhat parallel subject of the closing of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Environment, Decision Making, Financial Problems
Branin, Joseph J.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1993
Describes the implementation of the Integrated Information Center at the University of Minnesota that was developed to evaluate a model for integrating information delivery in a networked campus environment. Organizational factors that shaped its development are discussed, including the lack of a campuswide information policy and a lack of…
Descriptors: College Environment, Computer Networks, Coordination, Higher Education
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