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STRUCTURAL POWER AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN THE MULTICAMPUS UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (NORTH CAROLINA)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of structural power, i.e. horizontal subunit power, on resource allocation at the campus level within a major multicampus university system. The research design was primarily descriptive through the use of a case study approach employing cross sectional and longitudinal data. The case study institution was the University of North Carolina system, which is comprised of sixteen campuses. Both perceptual and archival data were collected. The independent variables, the determinants of power, were grant and contract funding, FTE graduate students, and FTE undergraduate students. The dependent variables constituted the measures of structural power, and included salary increase budgets, operations budgets, the combined salary and operations budgets, and the perceptual power ratings of the campus. Multiple regression was the statistical procedure used to analyze the archival variables. Within each campus, the determinants of power were regressed on each of the three measures of power. Descriptive analysis was used with the perceptual data which were collected by a questionnaire completed by U.N.C. campus administrators.
Subject Area
Higher education
Recommended Citation
HUBBARD, ABIGAIL, "STRUCTURAL POWER AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN THE MULTICAMPUS UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (NORTH CAROLINA)" (1983). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8404813.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8404813