Stated Reasons for Withdrawal and Degrees of Satisfaction Among Student Persisters and Nonpersisters

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN D. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Technical College ◽  
Student Outcome ◽  
Outcome Questionnaire ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Community And Technical College ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Frequent Items ◽  
Continuing Students ◽  
Advising Services ◽  
The University

Revised questionnaire forms of t k National Center for Higher Education Management Systems' Confidential Questionnaire lor Nonreturning Students, and Student Outcome Questionnaire for Program Completers were given to students enrolled in the Community and Technical College and the General College (renamed University College) during the 1978–1979 academic year at The University of Akron. The response rate of useable questionnaires varied from 22 percent of nonreturning students (485) to 28 percent of the continuing students (485) to 28 percent of the continuing student population (2995). Discriminative analysis of demographic variables were completed to assess selection bias for student nonpersister respondents and nonrespondents. Conflict with job and studies, not enough money for school, and needed temporary break from school were reasons for withdrawal cited by more than 20 pcrcent of the student nonpersister respondents. Student nonpersisters listed the factors of counseling and advising services, financial aid opportunities, and quality of instruction more frequently as the first factors if changed, would have encouraged them to stay at the University. Student persisters listed registration processing, parking availability, and television courses as the most frequent items to be changed first in order to better serve them at the University.

Nontraditional and Traditional Student Persisters and Nonpersisters in the Community and Technical College

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN D. SMITH ◽  
MICHAEL N. SUGARMAN
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Nontraditional Students ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Technical College ◽  
School Grade ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Community And Technical College ◽  
High School Grade ◽  
The University

A study was conducted with Community and Technical College students enrolled at the University of Akron, a major urban university, during the 1978–1979 academic year. Students were divided into traditional and nontraditional persisters and nonpersisters, and if they were placed on academic probation, they were removed from the study. These students were given modified National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) questionnaires for program completers and noncompleters. The questions tested for varying degrees of satisfaction with the University and reasons for withdrawal concerning various academic, socioeconomic, and environmental press variables. In addition, selected demographic variables from the student masterfile were tested, along with the questionnaire responses in 99 research hypotheses using multiple linear regression and corrected for multiple comparisons. Results indicate that 13 hypotheses were found to significantly discriminate between traditional and nontraditional community college students. The persisting nontraditional students appeared to be more satisfied with the University concerning a few variables, greater proportion attended part-time, during the day, enrolled for less hours, and had a greater high school grade point average than their traditional counterparts. The nonpersisting, nontraditional students were similar to their persisting counterparts, except that traditional nonpersisting students had a higher high school grade point average, lived at greater distances from the school, and attended day time classes as compared to nontraditional students.

scholarly journals Measuring a University’s Image: Is Reputation an Influential Factor?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Belén Gutiérrez-Villar ◽  
Purificación Alcaide-Pulido ◽  
Mariano Carbonero-Ruz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The University

Today, the higher education sector can be considered a market and, within it, private university education is a common marketable service in the literature on higher education management. Research on the analysis of the variables that generate the university image has been the subject of numerous investigations. Although there is no generally accepted definition, most authors approach the measurement of image through multi-factor scales, with variables relating to functional and psychological elements. This research aims to contribute to study of the most determinant variables in measuring a product’s image, assessing especially the effect of the reputation construct. This was done through measuring the image of the “private university” product as perceived by citizens of Andalusia, based on a standardized model with three dimensions—functional and affective aspects and reputation. After adapting and validating the questionnaire, a two-phase procedure is performed with double validation through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The results show an adapted scale valid for measuring the image of a generic product; with presentation and discussion of a series of advantages of incorporating reputation and measuring image through models with three dimensions. This article goes deeper into the possible influence of reputation as a determinant factor in measuring image, an assumption arising from some models for measuring image, something that so far has not been sufficiently contrasted.

Robert Gipe

2020 ◽  
pp. 616-629
Keyword(s):  
Technical College ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Community And Technical College ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University ◽  
Production Company ◽  
Harlan County

Robert Gipe was reared in Kingsport, Tennessee. After earning a BA from Wake Forest University and an MA from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Gipe worked in marketing and educational outreach at Appalshop, a grassroots media production company in Whitesburg, Kentucky, a position that foreshadowed the synthesis of community outreach and the arts that has characterized his career. Beginning in 1997, Gipe served as the director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College in Harlan County....

scholarly journals Towards Developing a Pro-Entrepreneurship Internship Program: An Appraisal of Southern University Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Kazi Nazmul Huda
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Student Interns ◽  
Internship Programs ◽  
The University ◽  
Southern University

The main purpose of this research is to identify the problems of traditional internship programs conducted at tertiary level educational institutions and propose a practical model of the internship entrepreneurship program. The qualitative research method has been used here to explore the existing problems of traditional  internship programs, and rationalize the necessity of entrepreneurship internship program of Southern University Bangladesh (SUB)as an alternative to the traditional internship program. In this regard, three focused group discussions were conducted with three main stakeholders, namely the faculty guide, the internship supervisors of the host company, and the student interns. The study discovered different weaknesses of traditional internship programs conducted in the university, including the limited scope of internship, noncooperation by the host companies, and the limitation of time. However, all the stakeholders are on the same page regarding the incapacity of traditional internship programs in developing the entrepreneurial spirit and aspiration among the interns. The study proposed the SUB model as an independent way to conduct an entrepreneurship-friendly internship program at tertiary level education, which may help the concerned to overcome the challenges of a traditional internship program. This research may contribute to the body of knowledge of higher education management and may support academia to develop an entrepreneurship development centered curriculum.

To prepare students to postgraduate studies of the University: system and control mechanisms

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semen Reznik ◽  
Darya Ustinova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Model Management ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
University System ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control

The theoretical aspects of management prepare students to postgraduate studies, analysed the practice of training the teaching staff in Russian universities, a model management system to prepare students for postgraduate training, as well as mechanisms to control them. The book is intended for teachers and postgraduates of higher education institutions, as well as for all those who are engaged in research of problems of higher education management in Russia.

Information Technology in Higher Education Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-136
Author(s):  
Alexandru Lucian Manole ◽  
Cristian-Marian Barbu ◽  
Ileana-Sorina Rakos ◽  
Catalina Motofei
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
The University ◽  
Real Time Information

Information technology instruments are a very important asset in the hands of every manager. The higher education institutions make no exception from these rules. The exposure to the modern technology and communication tools is very quickly assimilated by students, who acquire the skills to address and even master it and have high expectations from the university they study in to provide them with accurate and real-time information on their particular needs. The management of the university should have at its hand data on students, including personal data, data on academic achievements of any kind, housing in hostels, due and paid tuition fees, data on research, emphasizing both resources allocated and the results obtained, even providing links to online platforms and databases that index these results. The authors approach both operational databases and decision-oriented data warehouses and will aim to capitalize their own research interests in the field of IT to synthesize a set of solutions for this type of software.

scholarly journals HIGHER EDUCA HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT FEATURES BASED ON TURES BASED ON INNOVATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 302-310
Author(s):  
Otabek Siddikovich Kahhorov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Innovative Management ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
The University

The article lists the features of innovative management of higher education. The higher education system has the principles for the implementation of scientific and innovative activities, specific problems of the effective development of innovative activities and the problems that universities must solve. It is also noted that the university is designing the development of innovative higher education services in two areas (systematically important projects of the university; innovative projects in the priorities of the university).

scholarly journals Women in Higher Education Management: Agents for Cultural and Structural Change?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Wroblewski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Women In Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Gender Specific Differences ◽  
The University ◽  
University Council ◽  
Science And Research

This article examines whether and under which conditions a rising participation of women in higher education management contributes to cultural and structural change in science and research. In Austria, the introduction of a statutory quota regulation for university decision-making bodies like the rectorate, the senate, or the university council brought about a rapid and substantial increase in the share of female rectors and vice rectors. However, there are also gender-specific differences among rectorate members: women are significantly younger than men when they take up a rectorate position and switch less frequently from a professorship to such a position. This situation and the gender expertise of the rectors and vice rectors themselves contribute to the potential for change. Explicit gender equality goals and the establishment of gender competence as a qualification criterion for all rectors and vice rectors would be needed to make use of the potential of women in the rectorate to be agents for cultural and structural change.

scholarly journals Penerapan Manajemen Mutu Terpadu Studi Transformatif pada Perguruan Tinggi

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Handi Wahyudi ◽  
Hade Afriansyah ◽  
Rusdinal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Integrated Education ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Education Management ◽  
National Education ◽  
The University

With the implementation of integrated education quality management, the quality of national education education standards will be achieved. The quality management system that is implemented with a consistent commitment will provide benefits and success for all stakeholders in higher education institutions. In achieving all the benefits and successes, it needs to be implemented based on the principles of quality management that have been established. Starting the entry of foreign universities to enliven the "competition" that already exists in the country. As one of the institutions of higher education, universities are not only seen as a center for science education, a center in research, and are centered on serving the community only, but besides that the university is able to produce new knowledge in developing community life. Competition, as experienced by companies to earn profits, includes competition in the fields of quality, price and service. The university as a non-profit entity also faces the same thing. In order for all management to run smoothly, it requires knowledge and skills that are integrated in higher education management.

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