NURSING FACULTY IN RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES AND LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES AND PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNANCE.
Contributors: University of Nebraska--Lincoln.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Education, Administration.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This study compared nursing faculty from research universities and liberal arts colleges, their perceptions of actual and ideal participation in governance, and satisfaction with participation in governance related to the five areas of faculty, academic, and student policies, professional activities, and financial planning/policies. The National League for Nursing list of accredited baccalaureate programs was cross listed with the Carnegie classification of institutional types to identify nursing programs in Research I and II Universities and Liberal Arts I and II Colleges. After random selection, nursing deans/program directors of 25 research universities and 43 liberal arts colleges were contacted by telephone to obtain permission to survey baccalaureate nursing faculty. A packet of surveys was sent to the dean/program director; 184 nursing faculty from research universities and 189 from liberal arts college returned the surveys.

The Faculty Survey contained demographic/work-related items, Marie Childers' adapted interview questions related to governance models, and the adapted 1971 Faculty Questionnaire survey conducted by the American Association of University Professors.

The chi-square statistic of governance models and institutional type was not statistically significant. A split-plot ANOVA revealed no significant difference between institutional types and participation in governance related to faculty, academic, and student policies, and financial planning/policies. In both groups, perceived ideal level was significantly higher than actual level of participation in all five areas of governance. A significant difference between the groups was found in governance related to professional activities; faculty from liberal arts colleges had a higher level of participation in decision making related to accreditation, and community agencies and organizations.

A one-way ANOVA revealed no significant difference between the two groups in satisfaction with participation in governance related to academic and student policies, and professional activities. Faculty from liberal arts colleges were satisfied, whereas those from research universities were somewhat dissatisfied with participation in faculty policies. Both groups were dissatisfied with participation in governance related to financial planning/policies.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2742.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 1994.

School code: 0138.