Year
2014
Season
Summer
Paper Type
Doctoral Dissertation
College
College of Education and Human Services
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership (EdD)
Department
Leadership, School Counseling & Sport Management
NACO controlled Corporate Body
University of North Florida. Department of Leadership, School Counseling & Sports Management
Committee Chairperson
Dr. Luke M. Cornelieus
Second Advisor
Dr. Christopher Janson
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Third Advisor
Dr. Edgar Newton Jackson, Jr.
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Gaylord Candler
Department Chair
Dr. Jennifer J. Kane
College Dean
Dr. Marsha Lupi
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine how academic deans perceived the characteristics of facility built environment and its impact on learning in higher education. Q methodology was used as the means to explore the subjective opinions of academic deans within the State of Florida regarding the facility built environment’s impact on learning in higher education. For this Q study, the concourse statements were the result of communications taken from the subject literature and participant responses to this study’s online concourse questionnaire. The resulting 32 item Q sample was sorted online by 43 academic deans, associate and assistant deans. In completing the survey, the participants ranked statements representative of the characteristics of facility built environment according to their own beliefs and subjective opinions. From the resulting data and subsequent analysis, three distinct factors emerged that represented the collective opinions of this study’s participants. The emergent factors for this study were named Traditionalist – Focused on Functionality and Universal Rationality; Modernist – Technology Conscious Seeking Innovation and Flexibility; and Abstractionist – Contextual and Expressive.
Suggested Citation
Harris, Wallace, "Facility Matters: The Perception Of Academic Deans Regarding The Role Of Facilities in Higher Education" (2014). UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 525.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/525
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