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The purpose of the study was to determine whether the State supported Universities in Indiana adjust the number of selected support positions as enrollments vary. To facilitate reporting the data the study was written in five chapters. Chapter I included an overview that delineated the purpose for the study and organization for subsequent chapters.Chapter II presented a review of related research and literature directly pertaining to the study. No literature or research has been found that quantitatively describes what a minimum selected support staff should be, or what existing ratios are. Evidence exists within the literature and research to support the concept that the human resources approach to the personnel function is impacting higher education through the larger society. Evidence exists to support the notion that unions will continue to play a vital role in assuring that support services within higher education will receive a larger percentage of administrative attention within the next decade.Chapter III contained an explanation of the methods and procedures employed to derive the necessary data. The chapter contained procedures for selecting the population, methods used in the collection of data and methods used for analysis of data.Chapter IV contained the data collected from the respective Directors of Personnel Services of the selected institutions and enrollment data collected from the National Center For Educational Statistics. The data was presented in narrative form with the tables and figures utilized to report the raw data.Chapter V provided a summary of the study, findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The findings support the following selected conclusions:1. There has been a generally positive relationship among enrollments and the number of selected support staff positions during the time span stipulated within the study.2. During the time span stipulated within the study, enrollments at all universities have increased at a greater rate than selected support staff positions, although specific yearly negative relationships did occur.3. There appears to have been no conscious effort on the part of personnel directors at any institution studied to either establish appropriate support staff to student ratios or to maintain any such ratio.

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The purpose of this study was to analyze Public Law Number 326 which created the Commission for Higher Education in Indiana. The analysis of the law determined the powers delegated to the Commission, the restrictions imposed upon the Commission and the duties of the Commission as prescribed by the General Assembly. A second purpose of the study was to describe in detail four problem areas that cause trouble for statewide coordinating agencies of higher education. The four problem areas were membership on the governing board of the coordinating agency, political infringement of coordinating agency activities, reluctance of institutions of higher education to accept coordinating agencies and the failure to develop a professional staff for the coordinating agency. A third purpose of the study was to develop recommendations to help the Commission for Higher Education neutralize the effect of the potential problems.

The purpose of the study was twofold: 1) to describe the current financial conditions of the private liberal arts colleges and universities in the State of Indiana; and 2) to determine resources available to such institutions of higher education. Current financial conditions were defined as current (1973-74) operating income and expenses, including capital income and expenses.The 1973-74 issue of the Educational Directory listed twenty-nine private liberal arts colleges and universities in the State of Indiana. Twenty of the twenty-nine institutions participated in the study.The data were obtained from a review of literature, questionnaires completed by selected representatives on each of the twenty campuses, and by on-campus interviews with the academic deans of six of the participating institutions. The questionnaire and interview guide were developed from research in questionnaire techniques and a review of recent research studies dealing with financial conditions of institutions of higher education.All of the participating institutions in the study had participated in the 1972-73 state-wide study of the private sector of higher education conducted by William Jellema. Each institution appointed an on-campus coordinator for the Jellema study.The questionnaires for the study were sent to the Jellema study on-campus coordinators with the assumption that they (coordinators) would have readily available pertinent data for their respective institution. The study involved data for the academic years 1970-71 and 1973-74, whereas the Jellema study involved the academic years 1968-69 through 1972-73.The data obtained from the questionnaires and interviews were analyzed for two purposes: 1) to determine the current financial conditions of the participating institutions; and 2) to determine resource utilization.The findings are based on a review of related literature and the data presented in Chapter III:1. American higher education has had a deeply rooted commitment to a dual system of private and public colleges and universities.2. Institutions of higher education, public and private, dispense services that meet individual and societal needs. The secular nature of many of the services provided by private colleges and universities are not discernable from such services provided by state institutions.3. No United States Supreme Court case was concerned directly with the issue of governmental aid, federal or state, to private colleges and universities prior to the 1971 case of Tilton v. Richardson. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of participation of private colleges and universities in the Higher Education Act of 1963.4. Considerable evidence exists that the private sector of higher education in the United States does receive direct and indirect financial assistance from both the federal and state levels of government.5. Concern is not whether the federal and state government can give financial assistance to the private sector of higher education, but rather the concern centers on how such government assistance programs developed, the need for such programs, and the future of government funding.6. As a whole, the private colleges and universities in Indiana that participated in the study appeared to be following a national trend of declining enrollments in the private sector of higher education. The predictions are that enrollments for the private sector will continue to decline. It was predicted that by 1980, 77 per cent of the national enrollment will be in public colleges and universities.7. Tuition and fees was the greatest source of income for all twenty participating private colleges and universities in Indiana. All studies reviewed for the study reported an identical finding.8. A growing disparity between tuition and fees charged by the public and the private sectors of higher education is becoming more evident.9. Endowment is not a significant source of income for current operations for the majority of participating private colleges and universities in Indiana. 10. Eighty-one per cent of the participating private liberal arts colleges and universities in Indiana reported having an affiliation with a specific religious denomination. Over 50 per cent of the reporting Indiana institutions received no income from the church for either academic year. The church was the second smallest source of income for both academic years for the population as a whole. 11. A variety of systems are used by colleges and universities to gather and analyze data concerning their financial operations. 12. Many ways of defining resources and resource utilization in higher education exist. 13. Private colleges and universities in Indiana are involved, to various degrees, in measures recommended to increase resource utilization. 14. A surplus of revenue from current operating budgets has been replaced by deficit spending in more private colleges and universities in the 1970's than in the 1960's. More private colleges-and universities are experiencing deficits for current operations. Such deficits are larger than in previous years. 15. Forty per cent of the participating private liberal arts colleges and universities in Indiana were reported to be possibly headed for, or headed for, or actually in financial difficulty.The findings of the study support the following conclusions:1. Some of the traditional sources of income for private colleges and universities are at, or are nearing, the point of maximum ability to produce the amount of needed revenue for current operations.2. The private sector of higher education is enrolling a smaller percentage of the national enrollment of students in four-year degree granting institutions. Projections are that the decline will continue.3. The plight of the private sector of higher education has a direct bearing on public colleges and universities, and on the state and federal government.4. No nationally accepted system of data collection and analysis pertaining to the financing of colleges and universities exists. 5. There are a variety of methods through which governmental agencies, state and federal, provide direct and indirect financial support to the private sector of higher education.6. Private colleges and universities provide services of a secular nature that benefit the individual and society.The following recommendations are based on the findings and conclusions of the study.1. The private sector of higher education should realistically assess the role it is to play in the dual system of higher education in the United States. Preparation must be made for a projected decreasing percentage of students enrolled in four-year degree granting institutions.2. A comprehensive system of governmental financial assistance to the private and public sectors of higher education should be developed.3. A nationally accepted and uniform system of data collection and analysis should be developed and implemented.4. A nationally accepted definition of resources and resource utilization in higher education should be developed.5. Better utilization of existing resources in the private and the public sectors of higher education must be implemented.

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The purposes of the study were to examine: (1) the opinions of the lay faculty and the administrators regarding the role of the lay faculty in academic governance; (2) the importance of selected internal devices and impediments that facilitate or hinder lay faculty participation; and (3) the influence of the Vatican II decrees regarding lay faculty participation in governance. The population for the study consisted of 154 full time lay faculty and 31 administrators from 5 Catholic colleges in Indiana.The principal research instrument was a seventy item questionnaire directed at obtaining responses to a series of forced-choice decisional activities and encouraging written commentaries illustrating some basic issues in Catholic college governance practices. A visit to each college and a review of the college publications supplemented the responses received in the questionnaire.The principal analytical method employed was a t-test of independent groups at .05 level of probability applied to the means and standard deviations of the response on the decisional activities in Part One of the questionnaire. Percentages and the means were calculated for the responses in Part Two which was concerned with the importance of selected variables that facilitated or hindered lay faculty participation in governance. Percentages were also used in Part Three, demographic information, to construct a profile of the lay faculty and administrators at Catholic colleges. A review of the literature supplemented the statistical analysis of the data.The data were reported under the following divisions:1. Part One - The responses on the twenty-nine decisional activities concerning academic affairs, student affairs, personal and financial affairs, and public-alumni affairs were statistically analyzed to examine the difference in opinions between the lay faculty and the administration.2. Part Two - Means and percentages were employed in ranking the importance of selected variables that facilitate or hinder lay faculty participation in governance.3. Part Three - A profile was constructed using such factors as age, sex, highest degree held, years at the college, and rank to compare the lay faculty and the administrators at the Catholic colleges in the study.4. Narrative summaries supplemented the data reported in tables in each part of the study.The findings of the study support the following conclusions:1. The faculty and administrators indicated that the faculty role was more predominant in the academic affairs than in areas of student affairs, personal and financial affairs, public and alumni affairs.2. The administrators felt that the faculty role in academic governance was greater than the role indicated by the faculty.3. There were similarities in the findings of this study as compared to the findings in the Archie Dykes and American Association of University Professors studies Similarities were noted in the predominance of the faculty role in academic affairs and the predominance of the administrators role in the area of financial affairs.4. In rating the usefulness of the participatory devices, the most important finding was that, except for departmental meetings and faculty senate, none of the devices were rated very high in providing opportunities for meaningful faculty participation.5. Ranked last among the devices, the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, was nonetheless, viewed as having some usefulness in affecting faculty participation.6. The feelings that too much time was spent in meetings and committees belaboring various points, and faculty apathy, were ranked as the two most important factors inhibiting faculty participation in academic governance.7. The Vatican II decrees were viewed as exerting a mild influence upon the implementation of faculty participation in academic governance.8. The governing boards of the Catholic colleges were viewed, by the majority of the respondents, as being unavailable to the faculties.9. A majority of the respondents indicated that they were not aware of the colleges adopting the American Association of University Professors Statement on Governance.

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