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SELECTED COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHIEF STUDENT PERSONNEL OFFICERS' PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENT PERSONNEL FUNCTIONS
Abstract
This study sought to investigate the perceptions held by Chief Student Personnel Officers in selected community colleges on the extent to which twenty-five student services functions are being performed and should be performed. The general proposition underlying the study was that there is a concentration on the functions which are actually performed by student services divisions and limited information regarding the functions which Chief Student Personnel Officers think should be performed. In general, it can be concluded from this study that significant relationships do exist between what is being done and should be done for certain functions in student services in community colleges. While a majority of the respondents (89 percent) perceived that evaluation Should be done to a considerable or great extent, less than half (49 percent) of the respondents reported that evaluation was being done to the same degree. In the majority of the functions investigated by this study, there were no significant differences between which functions the respondents perceive as being provided and those functions the respondents thought should be provided. Of the significant differences found in this study, all but two of these occurred when comparing the differences between the small and large groups on both institutional size and professional staff size. During the analysis of the data, the group means did indicate that although the functions were being provided and should be provided, they were not perceived to be at a high priority. Five functions were consistently ranked high, but the other functions tended to cluster in the mid-range or lower in rated importance. Other trends observed from this study were that: there are extensive offerings of student personnel functions on the community college campuses in the five state area; the Chief Student Personnel Officers perceive most functions as being offered to a considerable or great extent; and it is clear that the Chief Student Personnel Officers hold more similar views than dissimilar views regarding the various functions.
Subject Area
Community colleges
Recommended Citation
UTMAN, ROGER PHILLIP, "SELECTED COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHIEF STUDENT PERSONNEL OFFICERS' PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENT PERSONNEL FUNCTIONS" (1987). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8717266.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8717266