West Virginia higher education long-range enrollment and operating budget projections

THE PROBLEM The purposes of this study were (1) to project the enrollments and resulting student credit hours produced for each institution of higher education in West Virginia between 1963 and 1975 and (2), based on enrollments and other factors, to project the operating budget needs for each institution between 1963 and 1975. Projections were made for each of the twenty institutions of higher education in West Virginia and for state higher education as a whole. Primary importance of the findings was in the application by each institution in long-range institutional research and planning. PROCEDURES Enrollments for each institution were projected (1) based on the number of high school graduates in only those West Virginia counties from which an institution received most of its enrollment, (2) based on the total number of high school graduates in West Virginia, and (3) based on certain institutional admission plans and policies. The general assumption of this study was that historic trends in the enrollment environments would continue. A college financial model was used in projecting operating budgets for each West Virginia institution of higher education. The application of the model to questionnaire collected data first converted projected enrollments into number of faculty members needed under various conditions in each institution. By projecting salary trends and objectives, total dollar demands from the instructional salaries budget item were determined. The total operating budgets, based on the percentage claim of instructional salaries on the total operating budget, were then projected. Four projections of operating budgets were prepared for each institution to reflect a variety of possible conditions. The least squares method of trend projection was employed in every instance when procedures required projection of historic data. CONCLUSIONS The study revealed that if current trends in enrollments continued from 1963 until 1975, enrollments in West Virginia institutions of higher education would increase approximately 100 per cent with corresponding faculty and space requirements Increasing costs, salary levels, and other conditions revealed by the model resulted in a projected increase of approximately 200 per cent in operating budgets between 1963 and 1975. The projection of historic trends revealed a larger growth in state “Supported colleges and universities in West Virginia and the largest segment of growth being provided by out-of-state students. A variety of conditions in budgeting was found with the result that increasing enrollments cause operating budget increases proportionately larger in some institutions than in others. The study also disclosed numerous trends concerning West Virginia high school graduates, average class size, teaching loads, salaries, and budgeting practices

Reporting Expertise in Agricultural Communications, Education, Extension, and Leadership Research: The Development of an Expertise Rubric

This exploratory quantitative study assessed 149 behaviors, characteristics, and techniques considered indicative of expertise to determine what social scientists in Agricultural Communications, Education, Extension, and Leadership (ACEEL) disciplines value. A total of 731 social scientists from 25 land-grant universities across the United States surveyed in the fall of 2018 served as the population for this study. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), 10 constructs describing expertise were identified. A list of the 10 constructs was presented to faculty representing the ACEEL disciplines who helped determine what the constructs collectively measured, resulting in a label for each construct. The behaviors, characteristics, and techniques of the highest scoring constructs were used to create a rubric to assist social scientists in the systematic and intentional selection and description of the qualifications and expertise of individuals asked to serve as coders (Content Analysis), expert panelists (the Delphi method), and any contributor to social science studies in ACEEL disciplines. Use of the rubric would improve the overall consistency and transparency in how qualifications of expertise are reported in academic publications

Knockdown of interferon-induced transmembrane protein 1 (IFITM1) inhibits proliferation, migration, and invasion of glioma cells

Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 1 (IFITM1) has recently been identified as a new molecular marker in human colorectal cancer. However, its role in glioma carcinogenesis is not known. In this study, we demonstrated that suppression of IFITM1 expression significantly inhibited proliferation of glioma cells in a time-dependent manner. The growth inhibitory effect was mediated by cell cycle arrest. Furthermore, IFITM1 knockdown significantly inhibited migration and invasion of glioma cells, which could be attributed to decreased expression and enzymatic activity of matrix metalloproteinase 9. Taken together, these results suggest that IFITM1 is a potential therapeutic target for gliomas

2016 Research & Innovation Day Program

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EU/US/CTAD Task Force: Lessons Learned from Recent and Current Alzheimer's Prevention Trials

At a meeting of the EU/US/Clinical Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) Task Force in December 2016, an international group of investigators from industry, academia, and regulatory agencies reviewed lessons learned from ongoing and planned prevention trials, which will help guide future clinical trials of AD treatments, particularly in the pre-clinical space. The Task Force discussed challenges that need to be addressed across all aspects of clinical trials, calling for innovation in recruitment and retention, infrastructure development, and the selection of outcome measures. While cognitive change provides a marker of disease progression across the disease continuum, there remains a need to identify the optimal assessment tools that provide clinically meaningful endpoints. Patient- and informant-reported assessments of cognition and function may be useful but present additional challenges. Imaging and other biomarkers are also essential to maximize the efficiency of and the information learned from clinical trials

Educational borrowing through guaranteed loan programs : perceptions of Ball State University dropouts

The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions of Ball State University students who participated in the Guaranteed Student Loan Program and withdrew from school before completing a degree program. Specifically, the study was concerned with: (1) Determining the perceptions of identified students in areas of financial concern with regard to borrowing through the Guaranteed Loan Program; (2) determining the perceptions of the borrowers as related to selected personal areas with regard to borrowing through the loan program; (3) identifying the opinions of students regarding participation in the loan program as related to the appropriateness of the program, basis for eligibility, repayment plans, advice to prospective borrowers and the overall experience of borrowing through the Guaranteed Student Loan Program.A review of literature pertaining to guaranteed loan programs was made and a questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 100 students who had participated in the Guaranteed Student Loan Program but withdrew from Ball State University before completing a degree. Seventy-one borrowers returned a completed questionnaire.The analysis of data revealed that Ball State University students who borrowed through the Guaranteed Student Loan Program but left school prior to graduation were usually single at the time of borrowing but tended to marry at a later date, were not dependent on parents for financial support and came from homes of parents having a wide range of annual gross incomes. The identified dropouts were more likely to borrow through the loan program than obtain money for education expenses from any other source, did not, use the money for purposes other than education and tended not to default on repayment to the lender of the loan or declare bankruptcy. The student borrower accepted full responsibility for repayment of the loan in a majority of the cases.Ball State University dropouts did not perceive the influence of borrowing through the Guaranteed Student Loan Program as an inclination to be more susceptible to borrowing, interfering with the choice of a marriage partner or affecting decisions regarding size of family. The student borrowers perceived the loan program as a positive effect on the decision to attend college but not on the selection of Ball State University as the institution of higher education to attend.The identified borrowers indicated the amount borrowed as being appropriate, the overall borrowing experience as satisfactory but believed the basis for repayment should have been a combination of the amount borrowed and the borrower's income after leaving college.There was no significant relationship between the amount of money borrowed by the Ball State University dropouts and the use of the money for purposes other than education expenses, defaulting on repayment, necessity to borrow after leaving college due to the debt accrued by the loan, the influence of borrowing on the borrowers' ability to purchase certain consumer items, or the overall experience of borrowing through the Guaranteed Student Loan Program.Thesis (D. Ed.

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