The purpose of this study was to determine the institutional goal perceptions of college presidents and chairpersons of the board of trustees of historically Black private institutions of higher education. / The basic technique used to collect the data was the mailed questionnaire. The presidents of the 50 institutions under study were mailed questionnaires. The nature of the study was described and a request was made for the names and addresses of the chairperson of the board of trustees. Responses were received from 25 presidents (50%). A questionnaire was mailed to those chairpersons identified by the presidents. Responses were received from 25 chairpersons (50%). Presidents and chairpersons were matched by institution. / The presidents were generally in agreement about the ideal emphasis that should be given to certain goals, but they demonstrated considerable disagreement about actual institutional goals. The board of trustees chairpersons as a group were in agreement about both the actual and ideal goals of historically Black private institutions of higher education. / Reliability coefficients were computed and revealed creditable reliability for the instrument. A t-test comparison of the means of the presidents' and the chairpersons' actual and ideal institutional goal perceptions demonstrated a significant difference beyond the 0.05 level of confidence. The means for the presidents' and the chairpersons' ideal institutional goal perceptions were higher than the means for the actual goal perceptions. / An analysis of variance measuring the relationship of the variance among the groups with the variance within the groups was computed for presidents, boards of trustees chairpersons, and for presidents and chairpersons combined. All computations resulted in statistical significance at the 0.05 level of confidence. / A comparison of demographic data revealed some differences between the presidents and the chairpersons in the study. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-07, Section: A, page: 1990. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75127 |
| Contributors | HEGGS, NATHANIEL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 124 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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