A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Autonomy in Thirty Community Colleges. AIR 1997 Annual Forum Paper.

Autor/inn/en	Voogt, Anita Claire; Volkwein, James Fredericks
Titel	A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Autonomy in Thirty Community Colleges. AIR 1997 Annual Forum Paper.
Quelle	(1997), (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Change Strategies; Community Colleges; Decentralization; Educational Finance; Evaluation Criteria; Finance Reform; Government School Relationship; Higher Education; Institutional Administration; Institutional Autonomy; Longitudinal Studies; Personnel Management; Public Colleges; State Regulation; Surveys; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lösungsstrategie; Community college; Community College; Decentralisation; Dezentralisierung; Bildungsfonds; Financial reform; Finanzreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Institutionelle Autonomie; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Personalmanagement; Staatliche Lenkung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	This longitudinal multi-method study assessed changes in institutional autonomy at 30 community colleges in one state. Six years after legislated changes intended to increase autonomy and create a uniform fiscal operation system had been implemented, the study found that changes in autonomy in selected fiscal, personnel, and operational matters were inconsistent and incomplete. Investigators concluded that as the resource dependency theory suggests, connections between state-legislated changes and real change at the local level are complicated and slow to develop. The paper reviews the conceptual framework; discusses related institutional characteristics, contextual variables, and political strategies; and lists the measures of fiscal, personnel, and operational autonomy used. The data were based on questionnaires completed for two unpublished institutional autonomy surveys, the first conducted in 1988 just prior to the legislated changes, and the second in 1995; the response rate for both surveys was 100 percent. Tables list the autonomy measures and some survey data. (Contains 33 references.) (CH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC