Strategic planning is a frequently used method for defining appropriate institutional responses to changing internal and external conditions. Numerous efforts have been made to adopt strategic planning styles that were originally developed in manufacturing businesses to the purposes of higher education. Despite theses efforts, community colleges have not yet developed...
This study was undertaken as a result of an interest in the
present and future purposes and functions of higher education.
American society and higher education are moving through a period
of change. Since each shapes and is shaped by the other, change in
either may require a review and...
The creation of a new business venture is a
multidimensional event, but little research has addressed
the interaction of entrepreneurial characteristics and
their relationship to new venture creation. The purpose
of this study was to propose a conceptual framework for
systematically studying the entrepreneurial personality.
The major components of the...
Background. As community colleges are increasingly composed of Millennial-aged professionals, workforce retention of those professionals is now a major priority. The Millennial generation is more diverse and more likely to be impacted by technology than any generation before them and is a generation characterized by dual-income partnerships. These and other...
The basic problem of this investigation was to determine if
peer counselors could be effective as group counselors for Educational
Opportunity Program (EOP), freshman students. This effectiveness
would be demonstrated by changes in self concept and
academic adjustment for those students who participated in the group
counseling process. This investigation...
The purpose of this case study was to describe the development
of an adult high school diploma program at Linn Benton Community
College, Specifically, the purposes of this study are: (1) the creation
of an instructional approach utilizing performance objectives as a
means of satisfying the minimum adult high school...
Research examining disparity between baccalaureate completion among "native" and community college transfer students has gained attention in recent years. Current and prior research has identified important pre-college and demographic characteristics with a positive relationship to baccalaureate completion. Yet few studies have focused on the influence of nonacademic and academic environmental...
