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1	Facility Matters: The Perception Of Academic Deans Regarding The Role Of Facilities in Higher Education Harris, Wallace 01 January 2014 (has links) The purpose of this study was to examine how academic deans perceived the characteristics of facility built environment and its impact on learning in higher education. Q methodology was used as the means to explore the subjective opinions of academic deans within the State of Florida regarding the facility built environment’s impact on learning in higher education. For this Q study, the concourse statements were the result of communications taken from the subject literature and participant responses to this study’s online concourse questionnaire. The resulting 32 item Q sample was sorted online by 43 academic deans, associate and assistant deans. In completing the survey, the participants ranked statements representative of the characteristics of facility built environment according to their own beliefs and subjective opinions. From the resulting data and subsequent analysis, three distinct factors emerged that represented the collective opinions of this study’s participants. The emergent factors for this study were named Traditionalist – Focused on Functionality and Universal Rationality; Modernist – Technology Conscious Seeking Innovation and Flexibility; and Abstractionist – Contextual and Expressive. Thesis University of North Florida UNF Q Methodology Academic Deans learning Space constructivism deferred maintenance traditionalist modernist abstractionist learning and educational outcomes K-12 and higher education stakeholder Construction Engineering Educational Leadership Higher Education Higher Education Administration Nonprofit Administration and Management

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Facility Matters: The Perception Of Academic Deans Regarding The Role Of Facilities in Higher Education