This study investigated the extent to which student affairs offices and university development offices worked together and independently, to raise funds for student extracurricular activities. Survey research was conducted on 159 public institutions with enrollments of 10,000 or more students. Both development and student affairs offices at these institutions were asked to respond to the survey. There was a 67 percent return rate consisting of responses from 100 development offices and 110 student affairs offices. It was found that both offices generally perceived raising external funds for student extracurricular activities as shared goals. A theory of cooperation was utilized to determine if the offices worked cooperatively, competitively, or independently to raise such funds. / Neither office regarded the other in competition to raise funds for extracurricular activities. The offices were perceived to work cooperatively or independently. For specific extracurricular activities, student affairs offices perceived an independent relationship whereas development offices perceived a cooperative relationship between the offices. Consistent with the theory, offices that were more successful fund-raisers had higher cooperation than did low fund-raising offices. A statistically significant difference was also found between high and low-fund-raising offices regarding independence. The low fund-raising group was low on independence, while the high fund-raising group was high on the independent effort. This finding was inconsistent with the theory regarding independence. One would expect the low fund-raising group to be high on the independent effort since it was low on the cooperative effort. Similarly, the high fund-raising group would be expected to be low on the independent effort. / Demographic findings are also provided in this study regarding fund-raising for specific extracurricular activities and sources of external funds. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3452. / Major Professor: Jon C. Dalton. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76759 |
| Contributors | Fygetakis, Elaine Christine., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 146 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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