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Predictive Modeling of Alumni Donor Behavior

Prue, Lauren - 2010

In recent years, college and universities have relied increasingly upon the charitable contributions of its previous graduates; as the costs of tuition rise substantially, development offices are facing the challenge of creating annual fund campaigns that are minimally expensive while providing...

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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...

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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …

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The impact of selected higher education institutions on single family home values: A hedonic approach with GIS application

Stewart, Spencer Daniel - 2010

The presence of a college or university in a community can be a source of great pride and economic vitality. An institution's presence, however, may also generate unintended off-site impacts, such as traffic congestion, inadequate parking, heightened crime, insufficient taxable property, and...

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Competitive advantage: The effect of market competition on the formation of strategy in small business school higher education

Richardson, Theodore R - 2006

A competitive advantage exists when either an organization's product or service offers the same benefits to consumers at a lower cost or exceeds those benefits (Porter, 1980). Well known business schools such as the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Harvard Business...

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Navigating in a building sea of change: Successful growth strategies of two private higher education institutions

Rooney, Jo Ann - 2005

There is much that continues to be written about the growing crises within higher education, both from those directly involved in its institutions and those viewing these institutions from outside of the academy. The changing environment and the need for higher education to adapt and change are...

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Equilibrium tuition, applications, admissions and enrollment in the college market

Fu, Chao - 2010

I develop and structurally estimate an equilibrium model of the college market. Students, who are heterogeneous in both abilities and preferences, make college application decisions, subject to uncertainty and application costs. Colleges observe only noisy measures of student ability and set up...

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A case study of strategic planning and competitive strategy as applied to two institutions of higher education

Battle, Conchita Yvonne - 1999

The purpose of this study was to discover whether there was a similar relationship between strategic planning and the process of competitive in higher education institutions. The case study method, in conjunction with an analysis of the literature written by George Keller, Kenichi Ohmae, and...

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Information technology, the change process, and customer service in higher education administrative services

Case, F John - 2003

Over the past ten years, integrating technology into the previous labor-intensive model of moving people and paper through physical processes has transformed service delivery in higher education. Colleges and universities have implemented software to streamline activities supported on and off...

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One mission-centered, market-smart globalization response: A case study of the Georgia Tech-Emory University biomedical engineering curricular joint venture

Burriss, Annie Hunt - 2010

One innovative, higher-education response to globalization and changing fiscal realities is the curricular joint venture (CJV), a formal collaboration between academic institutions that leverages missions through new joint degrees and research not previously offered by collaborating institutions...

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