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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74982 |
| Contributors | JONES, SUSAN DAVIS., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 173 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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