Institutional Effectiveness in Two-Year Colleges: The Southern Region of the United States. From: Community College Review | Date: December 22, 1998| Author: Baker, George A. III; Todd, Timothy S. | COPYRIGHT 1998 North Carolina State University, Department of Adult & Community College Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Using institutional effectiveness criteria established by the Southern Assocation of Colleges and Schools, the authors surveyed administrators and faculty at institutions granting associate's degrees in the southern United States to elicit (a) the extent to which effectiveness components were implemented, (b) the importance placed on those components by institutional leaders, and (c) discrepancies between reported implementation and perceived importance. The data were analyzed to d...

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