All Penn AHEAD Papers
Document Type
Other
Date of this Version
3-2016
Keywords
Higher education outcomes, college accountability, measuring higher education success, success metrics, barriers to completion, higher education policy agenda, college leader perceptions
Copyright/Permission Statement
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Perna, L. W. (March 2016). What Presidential Candidates Need to Know About Promoting College Student Success (What’s AHEAD: Key Trends in Higher Education No. 9). Philadelphia, PA: Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
Date Posted: 19 October 2020
Comments
This report summarizes the results of a poll administered to the alumni of the Executive Doctorate program in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania (n = 251). 115 alumni responded during the 9-day period in which the poll was open (February 16 through 24, 2016). About half (57%) of respondents work at private not-for-profit four-year institutions, 17% work at public four-year institutions, 5% at public two-year institutions, 4% at for-profit institutions, 2% in administrative units (e.g., system offices), and 2% at non-US based universities. The remaining respondents (12%) work in organizations other than colleges and universities. Nearly half (44%) of respondents hold positions that focus on administration, 28% on academic matters, 8% in student affairs, 7% in finance, and 14% in other areas.
Additional commentary is available at https://ahead-penn.org/commentarypoll9