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AN INSTITUTIONAL GOAL STUDY OF SELECTED UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY LEADERS
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate institutional goals as perceived by university and community leaders of the University of Oklahoma, Norman; Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; Kansas State University, Manhattan; and the University of Kansas, Lawrence. The Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI), published by the Educational Testing Service, was utilized to ascertain the actual and preferred institutional goals as perceived by university and community leaders. The IGI consists of 90 goal statements; there are four statements for each of 20 goal areas plus ten miscellaneous goal statements. The university leadership sample was comprised of the president or chancellor, chief administrative officers in the areas of academic, student, fiscal, facilities, and extension affairs, and current leaders of the faculty and student government. The community leadership sample was comprised of the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the city commissioners. The t-test was used to determine actual and preferred institutional goal perceptions and to compare mean score responses between leaders. Significance between perceptions was determined by the use of a one-way analysis of variance. Rank order of means, as well as discrepancies between actual and preferred means were computed for each of the 20 goal areas for university and community leaders at each of the institutions studied. At the University of Oklahoma, the university and community leaders perceived the largest discrepancies between actual and preferred goal statements to be the goal areas: Individual Personal Development, Intellectual/Aesthetic Environment, Cultural/Aesthetic Awareness, Intellectual Orientation, and Humanism/Altruism. The goal areas Intellectual Orientation, Meeting Local Needs, Individual Personal Development, Vocational Preparation, Community, and Advanced Training had the largest discrepancy values at Oklahoma State University. The leaders at Kansas State University perceived the largest discrepancies to be in the goal areas Individual Personal Development, Accountability/Efficiency, Vocational Preparation, Humanism/Altruism, and Intellectual Orientation. The largest discrepancy values for the University of Kansas were in the goal areas Intellectual Orientation, Individual Personal Development, Cultural/Aesthetic Awareness, Vocational Preparation, Academic Development, and Accountability/Efficiency.
Subject Area
Higher education
Recommended Citation
BOSCO, PAT JOSEPH, "AN INSTITUTIONAL GOAL STUDY OF SELECTED UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY LEADERS" (1982). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8217517.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8217517