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Factors Affecting Transfer Commuter Student Persistence: A Literature Review
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Tyler Guenette – College and University, 2024
This literature review explores the transfer commuter student experience and the factors that play a prominent role in this population's collegiate persistence. It aims to provide college and university administrators a more cohesive understanding of this unique and important cohort and to enrich the field of higher ed administration as a whole.…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, Commuting Students, Academic Persistence, Administrators
Expanding the Conversation about SEM: Advancing SEM Efforts to Improve Student Learning and Persistence--Part II
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Yale, Amanda – College and University, 2010
The first article in this two-part series focused on the need for enrollment management conceptual and organizational models to focus more intentionally and purposefully on efforts related to improving student learning, success, and persistence. Time and again, SEM is viewed from a conventional lens comprising marketing, recruitment and …
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Academic Persistence, Change Strategies, Educational Change
The Public and College Programs for Academic Placement
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O'Hearne, John J. – College and University, 1974
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Objectives, Educational Programs, Higher Education
Student Recruitment: The Hard Sell?
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McAdams, Tony – College and University, 1975
Presents the pros and cons concerning advertising for recruitment using three modes of analyses - economics, ethics, and law. The author concludes that advertising is an invaluable technique for information dispersal in higher education. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Applicants, Educational Demand, Educational Supply
Factors Associated with Student Perception of University Goals
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Chamberlain, Philip C.; Pugh, Richard C. – College and University, 1978
A study was conducted at Indiana University, Bloomington, to determine whether student perceptions of university goals were related to field of study and class standing. Explanations are offered to account for the tendency of freshmen to perceive university goals more readily. (SW)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Role, College Students, Educational Objectives
University Merger: A Case of Organizational Change
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Shirley, Robert C.; Peters, Michael H. – College and University, 1976
A case study of the 1969 merger of a major state university and a small private liberal arts institution. Focus is on changes in organizational structure and major policies, impact on attitudes and behavior, reasons for problems encountered. Similarities between the problems involved in implementing university and business mergers are emphasized.…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes
Planning in Higher Education: Approaches and Problems
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Vaccaro, Louis C. – College and University, 1976
A college president discusses long-range planning in a private college and suggests problems and difficulties confronting those responsible for it emphasizing the critical ingredient of presidential leadership qualities that stimulate a spirit of dialogue and philosophizing about the nature, aims, and objectives of the institution. (JT)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Educational Objectives
Needed: Leadership in Quest of a National Role
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Ostrander, R. H. – College and University, 1971
A compact of universities could stimulate a coordinated effort by all higher education institutions to make a reexamination and reestablishment of our nation's goals to provide world leadership. (IR)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Democratic Values, Governance, Higher Education
A Simulation Model for Planning in an Institution of Higher Education
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Wager, J. James – College and University, 1976
Universities are challenged to educate their students, to administer themselves effectively, and to show fiscal responsibility. In order to meet these responsibilities, a simulation model is developed that serves as both an administrative as well as a predictive tool. (LBH)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Educational Planning