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.

The purpose of the study was to develop a program of services for handicapped students in public postsecondary educational institutions in Iran. / In order to develop the program of services a panel of experts in the field of handicapped students and/or in educational planning in developing countries was selected to react to an opinion survey questionnaire. The survey questions were designed to obtain opinions regarding the quality, appropriateness, and applicability of the proposed program. The questionnaire instrument was divided into two major categories: (1) philosophical base, and (2) program of services. Panelists were asked to evaluate the items through a four-point rating scale. / Following the analysis of the data by tabulation of frequencies and percentages for each item, the program of services was refined and recommended. / The major findings of the study were: (1) The panel of experts agreed with the overall philosophical base of the program of services. There was some variance of agreement concerning the program of services. (2) Services and programs for handicapped students should be both centralized and decentralized. (3) The panel of experts was more concerned with the experience and general attitude of the director than her/his formal educational degree. (4) Responses from the two groups of experts concerning services and auxiliary aids that the university should provide for handicapped students showed different points of view. Some of the experts did not feel it is the university's responsibility to provide all different kinds of services and auxiliary aids for handicapped students with which non-handicapped students are not provided. (5) The experts from the field of disabled students were more congruent in their responses than were the experts from educational planners of developing countries. (6) Comments from the panel reflected their belief that a developing country should prioritize the services, offering those services they could afford and adding to them as they could. / It may be concluded that Iran, and other developing countries with similar cultural and religious background, should find the recommended program of services for handicapped people reflective of the philosophy of Islamic beliefs and attitudes. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-11, Section: A, page: 3290. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 4915. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Abstract Not Available / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-04, Section: A, page: 1418. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the career patterns of presidents, chief academic officers, chief student affairs officers, and chief development officers at Evangelical colleges. / Procedures. The job history of an individual in a particular occupation reflected a career strategy. When the strategy was found to be representative of a high percentage of a defined population, it was labeled a career pattern. Thompson, Avery, and Carlson hypothesized that there were four career strategies as follows: (1) Heuristic--any occupation, any organization; (2) Occupational--present occupation, any organization; (3) Organizational--any occupation, present organization; and (4) Stability--present occupation, present organization. In applying these strategies to survey responses the question arose as to what was meant by the terms occupation and organization as found in the conceptual framework. A precise system was developed for these terms which resulted in four narrow and four broad career patterns. / The population consisted of 210 four year accredited coeducational Evangelical liberal arts and Bible colleges in the United States (75 denominationally non-distinct, 82 denominationally distinct, and 52 Bible) for a total of 1,050 administrators within the five groups and 15 subgroups of administrative positions. A survey was developed and the gross number of responses was 928 or 88% and the final usable number of returned surveys was 870 or 83%. Each survey respondent was assigned one narrow and one broad career strategy based upon survey information. The entire population was surveyed. / Results. (1) The heuristic pattern was the mode career pattern in all analyses. The population as a whole demonstrated a broad heuristic/organizational percentage split of 70/30. Chief business officers demonstrated the most heuristic patterns (approximately 80/20) surpassing that of the whole population. Presidents and chief development officers were found to have heuristic/organizational splits nearly the same as the whole population. Chief academic officers and chief student affairs officers were determined to have the most organizational career patterns (approximately 60/40). All four narrow, the broad occupational, and the broad stability career patterns were dropped from analysis because of insignificant numbers. (2) The type of college did affect the career patterns. Denominationally non-distinct subgroups had heuristic/organizational splits similar to their respective group splits and closely approximated the population as a whole (69/31). Denominationally distinct subgroups were the most organizational in pattern of the three types. They demonstrated a 56/44 split. Bible colleges were the most heuristic type of college (i.e. a heuristic/organizational split of 87/13). (3) Educational training did affect the career patterns. A majority of individuals whose highest degree was the doctorate showed a higher organizational percentage than they did in their subgroup as a whole. Individuals who had the doctorate as their highest degree were more organizational than those with lower highest degree levels. Those individuals whose highest degree was the bachelors or masters had higher heuristic percentages than they did in their respective subgroups. As the degree level moved higher than the mode highest degree level the career patterns became more organizational and as they moved lower than the mode highest degree level the career patterns became sharply / heuristic. The mode major area of study by the highest degree level attained produced patterns which ranged from moderately to strongly heuristic with few exceptions. (4) The size of school, personal characteristics, and denominational affiliation change did not affect the heuristic/organizational career pattern splits. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-04, Section: A, page: 1430. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

The pattern of faculty collective bargaining in Florida public higher education is anomalous to the national pattern since bargaining is more prevalent in universities than in community colleges. Recent decisions of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S.) and the United States Supreme Court related the appropriateness of faculty collective bargaining to levels of faculty participation in academic governance decisions at Yeshiva University. To determine an explanation for the fore-mentioned anomaly an examination of levels of faculty participation in decision-making processes was conducted in ten selected Florida public community colleges and universities. The ten selected institutions are the University of Florida, The Florida State University, the University of South Florida, the University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach Community College, Tallahassee Community College, Central Florida Community College, Polk Community College, Chipola Junior College, and Edison Community College. Two of the selected community colleges are unionized, two colleges have formally rejected unionization, and two colleges have never formally voted on faculty unionization. As the result of a system-wide certification election all nine Florida state universities are unionized. / All (273) academic department chairpersons in the ten selected institutions were asked to evaluate faculty participation levels at their institutions by completing the Faculty Participation Questionnnaire (FPQ). This instrument was constructed to solicit information concerning faculty participation in governance practices based upon 19 items chosen to reflect the Yeshiva model of academic governance as described in the forementioned court decisions. / Responses from 85% of the survey population were analyzed by calculating an aggregated mean level of faculty participation for each institution. Categories of institutional types were then statistically correlated with measured levels of faculty participation in governance using nonparametic procedures. / The results indicate that faculty participation levels, in Florida as well as nationally, rise on a continuum from community colleges to comprehensive universities to doctoral degree-granting universities to major research oriented universities which achieve the highest levels of participation. / Among community colleges the pattern of faculty participation and bargaining is very different from the pattern in universities. The highest levels of faculty participation in governance among the selected community colleges were reported for unionized colleges, while the lowest levels were reported for those colleges which have formally rejected faculty collective bargaining. / Differences in levels of faculty participation in governance are most evident in relation to faculty personnel decisions. Faculty members in the selected major research oriented universities participate much more in decisions of faculty appointments, promotion, tenure, and termination than do faculty members in the selected community colleges. / Overall, faculty members in the institutions surveyed exert the greatest amount of influence over academic matters and the least amount of influence over administrative matters. / Finally, academic department chairpersons are excluded from the faculty bargaining unit in the unionized institutions which reported the lowest levels of faculty participation in governance, while chairpersons are most often included within the bargaining unit at those unionized institutions which reported the highest levels of faculty participation in governance. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-03, Section: A, page: 1020. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.