The value of public black colleges has been well-documented. These institutions have played an important role toward ensuring minority participation in higher education. Yet, unstable government support has threatened their survival. The purpose of this study was to determine the status of fund-raising programs at NAFEO public black institutions. NAFEO is the national association for 117 historically black colleges in the United States. / The conceptual framework, the resource dependency model, evolved from organizational theory. In resource dependency, organizations must competitively acquire and maintain resources from the environment to survive (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978). Successful institutions are those with aggressive fund-raising programs, well-connected within the environment to ensure a steady flow of resources back to the institution. / The results showed that the mean enrollment for state colleges (SCU) was 3,798, land-grant institutions (LGI) 3,500, and two-year colleges (TYI) 931. The first fund-raising programs in SCU and LGI were established over thirty years ago while five TYI programs (62.5 percent) were created between 1980 and 1991. The mean annual development budget for LGI was slightly over two-thirds that of SCU ($139,632 and \$181,606, respectively). The mean for TYI was $110,957. For total voluntary gifts, SCU received two-thirds the amount of LGI (\$464,778 and $611,107). TYI received \$139,984. Among institutional type, the mean voluntary gift total was greater for urban institutions than for rural institutions, and the mean endowment for SCU was almost twelve times that of TYI ($6,124,547 and \$530,548). The mean endowment for LGI was $4,223,841. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: A, page: 3772. / Major Professor: Louis W. Bender. / Thesis (Ed.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76799 |
| Contributors | Waddell, John Kenneth., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 170 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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