Higher Education Administration Students' Perception of Establishing a Community College

The recency of the community college movement has prevented large scale organization and dissemination of knowledge concerning the processes and steps required to establish a community college. There is, therefore, a need for means to incorporate contemporary evidence into the curriculum of prospect...

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Published in:The Journal of experimental education 1970-10, Vol.39 (1), p.75-78
Main Author: Ranson, James T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrator education
College administration
College students
Community colleges
Cost estimates
Curricula
Educational administration
Higher education
Mathematical sequences
University administration
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Summary:The recency of the community college movement has prevented large scale organization and dissemination of knowledge concerning the processes and steps required to establish a community college. There is, therefore, a need for means to incorporate contemporary evidence into the curriculum of prospective administrators of higher education. The purpose of this study was to compare Higher Education Administration students' peceptions of a logical sequence of events for establishing a community college with a sequence of events for establishing a community college as determined by practice. The Edwards' matched-pair technique was used to rank the perceptions of the students. A sequence of twenty-nine events was selected from the literature. Each event was matched with every other, thus providing 406 decision situations. From these decisions an ordering was obtained. Using the Spearman rho correlation technique, a coefficient of 0.82 was found between the sequence of events taken from the literature and rank ordering of these events as determined by the Edwards' matched-pair technique.
ISSN:0022-0973
1940-0683
DOI:10.1080/00220973.1970.11011235