HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORANEOUS PREDICTORS OF ALUMNI INVOLVEMENT.
Abstract
This investigation utilized literature on the nature of college environments, participation in formal voluntary organizations andsocial organizations more generally to develop a theoretical perspective on five dimensions of alumni involvement. These included measures of current identification with one's alma mater, current interest in one's alma mater, memberships in alumni organizations, visits to the home campus and financial contributions to alumni funds. On the one hand, this perspective focused on factors in the undergraduate experience which were conducive to the development of orientations compatible with alumni involvement. On the other hand, consideration was given to aspects of the current situations of alumni which inhibited or facilitated conversion of these orientations to action. Over nine hundred questionnaires were mailed to a sample of alumni who graduated from a state university in the midwest between 1928 and 1968. Nearly five hundred of these were returned and provided the data used in the analysis of dimensions ofalumini involvement.
Degree
Ph.D.
Subject Area
Sociology
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