Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-10, Section: A, page: 5150. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-09, Section: A, page: 3745. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-09, Section: A, page: 3747. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 32-04, Section: A, page: 1880. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1971.

The purpose of the study was to determine and compare the awareness of community college presidents and trustees regarding selected legal and otherwise designated responsibilities of presidents, boards of trustees and the State Community College Coordinating Board in Florida and to identify the information sources which influence the respondent groups. / Data were gathered using a four part survey questionnaire designed for this study and mailed to 197 trustees and 28 presidents of community colleges in Florida. Sixty-eight percent of the population responded to the questionnaire. Responses were analyzed using SPSS packaged programs which provided means and percentages as well as t tests for determining differences (p > .05). / Principle findings included the following: both respondent groups were generally aware of and in agreement regarding the responsibilities of presidents and trustees but not the State Community College Coordinating Board; presidents were more aware of the responsibilities of trustees than were trustees themselves; both respondent groups perceived the responsibilities of boards of trustees to be well defined in law but did not perceive the responsibilities of the State Community College Coordinating Board to be well defined in law; both respondent groups agreed that the State Community College Coordinating Board should be responsible for coordinating legislative activities but presidents were, and should be responsible for participating in those activities; the information sources rated most influential by presidents and trustees were very similar and included administrators, state statutes, trustees, faculty, students, and community/constituent groups. State and national media were rated as low in influence. There was no significant difference in the mean responses of presidents and trustees to 59 of the 77 items in Section I of the questionnaire. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3823. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

The purposes of this study were to (1) construct and validate a task analysis for the job of correctional sergeant in correctional institutions in Florida; (2) categorize the tasks into duties and make institutional and other demographic comparisons; and (3) identify areas of training. Data were collected by questionnaires distributed to a randomly selected sample of 83 correctional sergeants. / The data were analyzed using frequency counts, eta and factor analysis. Additionally the internal reliability of the duty areas was checked. Analysis of the data provided the basis for the following conclusions: (1) A total of 199 tasks in sixteen duty areas were validated, of which 149 tasks in eleven duties were identified as entry-level. (2) Sergeants perform entry-level tasks at least as frequently as they perform supervisory tasks. (3) Substantially more entry-level tasks performed had training than did the supervisory tasks. (4) The factor analysis results showed the tasks consistently clustering into major groups within the duties. (5) The internal reliability of each duty area was consistently high ranging from .72 to .90. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3823. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

The present study examined the 1977, 1978, and 1979 IRS 990 tax returns of 227 Florida-based philanthropic foundations in an effort to describe their grant-awarding activity toward institutions of higher education and to ascertain the strength of selected foundation variables in predicting such grant-awarding activity. / Significant descriptive findings were as follows: (1) For each year examined, institutions of higher education received higher average grant awards than other segments of the grant-seeking population. They also increased each year in their percentage share of total grant dollars awarded. (2) Fully 50 percent of Florida foundation grants and grant dollars were awarded out of state. (3) Each year, at least 50 percent of Florida foundation grants and grant dollars were awarded to institutions which had received grants from the same foundations the previous year. (4) Corporate foundations made more grants to higher education per foundation than did independent foundations, but for lesser average amounts. (5) In general, there seemed to be a direct relationship between a foundation's asset size and its number of higher education grant awards. / Following the descriptive analysis, chi-square tests for theoretical proportions and independence were utilized to ascertain whether certain kinds of institutions received disproportionate numbers of grants and whether there was a relationship between the type of institution and the variables of foundation type, asset size, geographical grant-awarding orientation, total annual grants awarded, and the purpose for which the grant was made. It was discovered that institutions did not receive grant awards in proportion to their representation in the population and that there was a relationship between the type of institution and the indentified foundation variables. Such relationship, however, did not prove useful in predicting foundation grant-awarding practices when the question was investigated by means of a discriminant analysis. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3826. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

Purpose of the Study. The purpose of this study was to determine if nurse educators in Alabama are exemplars of the health behaviors they teach concerning prevention of cardiovascular disease. The instrument to determine cardiac risk behaviors was used by permission of the Michigan Heart Association. The risks surveyed included the modifiable factors: smoking, exercise, serum cholesterol or saturated fat intake, weight, and blood pressure. Unmodifiable factors were age, sex, and heredity. Additional demographic data were obtained to make possible the preparation of profiles of the educators according to type and level of education; employment in diploma, associate degree or baccalaureate programs; years of experience; presence of unmodifiable risk factors; and presence of some cardiovascular problem. / Findings. Analysis of the data revealed that nurse educators were exemplars in moderate or low risk cardiac risk behaviors of smoking, blood pressure, and ingestion of cholesterol or animal fat. Their scores were higher than some sample populations in the categories of weight and exercise, although their total mean scores were in the average risk range. / There was no indication that higher degrees in nursing or non-nursing resulted in a significant difference in risk behaviors. There was a rise in mean risk scores with increasing years of experience which may have been attributable to age. Neither the groups with a cardiovascular problem nor those with a high risk unmodifiable factor reported lower modifiable cardiac risk behaviors scores. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3827. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

The purpose of this study was four-fold: (a) to compare the high school GPA, standardized test scores, and the first-year college GPA of black, Florida resident students enrolled in the four-year universities of the State University System (SUS) and thereby determine where the better prepared black students were enrolling; (b) to determine whether standardized test score or high school GPA was more highly correlated with college GPA; (c) to determine the trend of black student enrollment in SUS; and (d) to determine whether black students assigned to the same admission category are academically successful at black and/or white SUS universities. / The data were collected from the Admissions File and the Student Data Course File of the State University System of Florida by a computer program. Subjects were the 1599 black, full-time, Florida resident, first-time-in-college (FTIC) students and the 91, black, full-time Florida resident, junior/community college transfers (JCTF) who met the FTIC admissions requirements in 1976 and 1981. To test the hypotheses, analysis of covariance and the t-test were used. / Findings showed that (a) a dramatic inversion of the proportion of black, Florida resident students enrolled by FAMU and predominantly white Florida universities (WSUS) occurred between 1976 and 1981; (b) in 1976, all black, Florida resident, FTIC students, irrespective of academic preparation, were more successful at FAMU than at WSUS; (c) in 1981, there was no significant difference between success of FTIC students at FAMU and WSUS who met or exceeded traditional admissions requirements; (d) in 1981, FTIC students enrolled as exceptions to traditional admissions requirements at WSUS were more successful than those at FAMU; (e) there was no significant difference between college GPA of FTIC students in SUS in 1976 and 1981; (f) in 1976 and 1981, there was no significant difference between the college GPA of the FTIC students and the JCTF students; and (g) there was no significant difference between college GPA of JCTF students in 1976 and 1981. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-11, Section: A, page: 3289. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.

This case study focused on the resolution of the first lawsuit resulting in a negotiated settlement of higher education desegregation issues between a state and the U.S. Department of Justice. The study gave primary attention to the statewide higher education planning process in Louisiana as influenced by court-ordered negotiations and simultaneous preparation for trial. Easton's political systems theory was used as a conceptual framework for viewing Louisiana's public higher education system as a political system coping with both internal and external stress as the system made authoritative allocations. The historical method was used for verification of data. The findings reviewed and analyzed the case chronologically, with emphasis on the central role of the Louisiana Board of Regents and the difficulties it faced in shaping a settlement while simultaneously preparing for trial and engaging in court-ordered negotiations. Particular attention was given to the role of the three-judge court, of the expert witnesses, and of the negotiators themselves. Findings pointed up distinct weaknesses in the federal government's favored desegregation strategy, the movement of academic programs from one campus to another. Once the State of Louisiana was assured to avoiding that remedy, the pieces of a settlement began to take shape. After fifteen months of negotiations, the United States and the State of Louisiana entered into a consent decree in U.S. v. Louisiana that, although it failed to address some central questions, suggests that states similarly situated may resolve the complex issues emerging in the desegregation arena without embracing the radical remedies embodied in federal desegregation guidelines. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-11, Section: A, page: 3291. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.