The purpose of this quantitative study was to survey Liberal Arts II Colleges nationally to determine the strategic marketing orientation adopted by these small, private colleges. A random sample of 198 Liberal Arts II schools were surveyed. Three top administrators at each school, the president, academic dean, and admissions officer, received the mailed surveys. The research instrument - the Academic Marketing Strategy Survey - combined questions on institutional characteristics, administrators' perceptions of the acceptability and effectiveness of college marketing programs, and the Marketing Index for Higher Education (Kotler, 1977).Findings showed little or no relationship between measures of college "success" (enrollment trend, and trend in quality of the student body), and either level of college strategic orientation, or administrators' perceptions of the acceptability and effectiveness of college marketing programs. Discriminant analysis produced some statistically significant relationships between the following institutional characteristics and other variables:1.In geographic regions with fewer Liberal Arts II colleges,admissions officers were more enthusiastic about marketingprograms in their colleges;For the smaller Liberal Arts II colleges, annual strategic planning may be problematic in its ability to produce clear and comprehensive marketing strategy.Recommendations for further research include investigating- why marketing programs seem well-accepted among administrators, while bearing so little relationship to measures of success. Correlating perceptions and levels of marketing orientation with "success" variables may be too simplistic. / Department of Educational Leadership
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/175575 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Cockrum, Jamie B. |
| Contributors | Drake, Thelbert L. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | ix, 160 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
| Coverage | n-us--- |
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