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ERIC Number: ED666326
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 202
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-5169-0655-8
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Spirituality and Leadership: A Study of Community College Chief Student Affairs Officers and Their Personal and Professional Practices as It Relates to Three Spirituality Foci
Jacqueline M. Pressey
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Morgan State University
The purpose of this study was to assess the personal and professional spiritual beliefs and practices of Chief Student Affairs Officers (CSAO) through examining three areas of spirituality as it related to purpose/meaning in life, beliefs, and connectedness to each other and this world. An initial step was to shed light on whether spirituality was present and/or utilized in community college CSAO's personal and professional beliefs and practices. Five guiding research questions used in this quantitative study were examined using survey items modified from the 2004 University of California, Los Angeles, Higher Education Research Institute's Spirituality and the Professoriate instrument. This research expanded the body of research literature by presenting new data on another targeted population with a more in-depth investigation of CSAO's demographics for possible spirituality relationship. The independent variables included state based on accrediting region of the country, location based on rural, suburban, and urban, size based on campus FTE, and the CSAO's demographics gender, age, and race. These variables are examined for possible relationships with the spirituality dependent variables (personal and professional beliefs and practices). The study surveyed community college Chief Student Affairs Officers from one state selected from each of the six targeted accrediting regions of the country. The significant correlation findings were between personal beliefs and personal practices, personal beliefs and professional beliefs, and personal practice and professional beliefs. The non-significant results indicated that personal practices do not affect professional practices. And professional beliefs do not affect professional practices. Furthermore, the personal characteristics variables (gender, age, and race) were not significant in explaining differences in personal beliefs and practices. There was also no significance between the institutional characteristics (state based on accrediting region, location based on rural, suburban, and urban, and size based on campus FTE) and professional beliefs and practices. The implications of the study suggested there is value in (a) providing human wholeness development within academia, (b) providing professional development training in policies and procedures that focus on spirituality, and (c) providing educational and counseling experiences that focus on developing students' purpose and meaning of life, beliefs, and connectedness to each other and this world. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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