Browsing by Subject "Universities"

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    A Better Method for Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Fundraising at Universities
    (1999) Rooney, Patrick Michael
    This article develops a new methodology for a more compre-hensive and useful analysis of the costs and benefits of fundrais-ing, as well as the total costs and net benefits associated with development efforts in general. This approach does a better job of linking the timing of return of fundraising efforts and mea-suring the actual return on investments in fundraising (as opposed to the reported return) than the widely used guidelines from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the National Association of College and University Busi-ness Officers (CASE/NACUBO) (1990). The implications are a better methodology for practitioners that they can use to enhance internal decision making and a better methodology for boards to use in evaluating performance and accountability. Recently, other large, public universities have begun using sev-eral of these concepts in the assessment of their development offices (Rooney, 1998).
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    Digital Interventions to Improve College and University Student Mental Health
    (Elsevier, 2022) Hensel, Devon J.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
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    Gene-by-Environment Interactions on Alcohol Use Among Asian American College Freshmen
    (Rutgers University, Center of Alcohol Studies, 2017-07) Luk, Jeremy W.; Liang, Tiebing; Wall, Tamara L.; Medicine, School of Medicine
    OBJECTIVE: Among northeast Asians, the variant aldehyde dehydrogenase allele, ALDH2*2 (rs671, A/G, minor/major), has been inversely associated with alcohol dependence. The strength of the associations between ALDH2*2 and drinking behaviors depends on the developmental stage, the phenotype studied, and other moderating variables. This study examined ALDH2 gene status as a moderator of the associations between parental drinking, peer drinking, and acculturation with alcohol use among 222 Chinese American and Korean American college freshmen. METHOD: Negative binomial regressions were used to test the main and interactive effects of ALDH2 with contextual factors on alcohol frequency (drinking days) and quantity (drinks per drinking day) in the past 3 months. RESULTS: ALDH2*2 was associated with more subjective flushing symptoms and longer length of flushing but was unrelated to both alcohol frequency and quantity. Peer drinking was positively associated with both alcohol frequency and quantity, but neither was moderated by ALDH2. We observed a nonsignificant trend for the interaction between parental drinking and ALDH2 on alcohol frequency, where parental drinking was positively associated with alcohol frequency only among participants with ALDH2*2. We found a significant interaction between acculturation and ALDH2 on alcohol frequency, where acculturation was positively associated with alcohol frequency only among those with ALDH2*2. Exploratory analyses stratified by Asian ethnic subgroup indicated that this interaction was driven primarily by the Korean subsample. CONCLUSIONS: Parental drinking and acculturation may facilitate more frequent drinking among those who have more intense reactions to alcohol (i.e., those with ALDH2*2) during the transition from high school to college.
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    How higher ed can earn the public’s trust after the admissions scandal
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2019-03-27) Shaker, Genevieve; Plater, William; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    Million Dollar Ready - Assessing the Factors that Lead to Transformational Gifts
    (2013-12) Osili, Una; Ackerman, Jacqueline
    Million-dollar donors have been studied extensively, but less is known about the institutions that receive their gifts. What makes them so attractive to generous donors, and what can other institutions learn from their examples? This report examines colleges and universities that benefit from donations of one million dollars or more, and identifies the characteristics that help them attract major gifts.
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    Presidential Satisfaction with Development Programs in Research and Doctoral Universities
    (2001) Nesbit, Becky; Rooney, Patrick; Bouse, Gary; Tempel, Eugene
    The increasing costs of higher education and the decreasing willingness of taxpayers to support it have amplified the importance of fundraising in the modern university. The (dis)satisfaction of the university president with his/her development program can have profound ramifications for the success of the program and the careers of the development professionals. This paper addresses a gaping hole in the academic and practitioner knowledge base: What makes presidents satisfied and/or dissatisfied with their institution’s development efforts and how do they evaluate the performance of the development program.