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Prioritizing Critical Success Factors for Higher EducationA COST PERSPECTIVE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA
CATHERINE BURR, DM,
LEONIDAS MAGANARES ED.D.
What is the problem?
Decline of student enrollment
What ill effects does this problem create in society or its subsets?
Less students obtain academic credential to seeks better jobs
Less courses available for faculties to facilitate
Closure of campuses
Who would be interested in a study of the problem?
Higher Education AdministratorsAdmissions SpecialistsFaculties
What part of the problem can the results of this study help to solve?
Student recruitment strategyTuition and fees policy
What must be done to investigate the problem?
Analyze, describe, evaluate, test, understand, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) http://highereddata.aft.org/state/ipeds/
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/InstitutionProfile.aspx
Literature Review
Research Method and Design
Research MethodDescriptive
CorrelationalResearch Design
Quantitative Ex Post Facto
Research Question and Hypotheses
Research Question: Is there a correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina?
H0: There is no correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina
Ha: There is correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina
Data: North Carolina Higher Education 2004-2013
Thirty (30) private institutions offering Bachelor degrees (including Business related majors)
Variables
Depended Variable: Students Enrollment 2010-2013
Independent Variable: Tuition and Fees2010-2013
Regression Analysis
Data Classification by Correlation Coefficient and Coefficient of Determination
Descriptive Statistics of Tuition and Fees 2013 by Group: Strong Negative Correlation Strong Positive Correlation Weak Correlation
Conclusion and Recommendations
There is no correlation between student enrollment and tuition at private undergraduate university programs in North Carolina
Instructional approaches and implementation of new programs need to be examined as factors affecting students’ enrollment
Questions and Discussion