Date of Award
7-21-2011
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Educational Leadership, Ed.D.
First Advisor
David Holman
Committee Members
David Cox; George Foldesy; Louella Moore; Lynn Howerton
Call Number
ISBN 9781124713724
Abstract
Higher education administrators should be accountable to students, legislators and taxpayers for the tuition rates they set and the product they produce. Therefore, an understanding of the dynamics that affect higher education finance and its structure is important. Institutions of higher education have three broad categories for the classification of funds: auxiliary enterprises, educational and general, and grants. This study concentrated on one of those classifications, auxiliary enterprises. There are changing conditions in the operating environment for auxiliary enterprises. The changing conditions include privatization, shifting institutional expectations, deferred maintenance on plant, and intercollegiate athletic deficit spending. Prior research has not addressed whether changing conditions have affected the self-sufficiency of auxiliary enterprises. The purpose of this study was to ascertain if auxiliary enterprises, in light of changing conditions, were self-sufficient. More specifically, this study was designed to ascertain if there was any difference in self-sufficiency and variance across three broad Carnegie Classifications, NCAA Divisions/Subdivisions, Major and Mid-Major Conference grouping, and athletic financial classification (2005 - 2008) for the years 2004 - 2008. There were 460 public four year NCAA member institutions of higher education. This study examined their responses to the IPEDS Finance and Institutional Characteristics Surveys distributed by the National Center for Educational Statistics. Financial data gleaned from the IPEDS database were studied using a one-way ANOVA or an independent-samples t-test to compare the influence groups (Carnegie, NCAA Division/Subdivision, Major/Mid-Major Conference groupings, and athletic financial classification). This study found that auxiliary enterprises were not always financially self-sufficient, which is at odds with its traditional role.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Craig Steven, "The Self-Sufficiency of Auxiliary Enterprises in Higher Education" (2011). Student Theses and Dissertations. 934.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/934
