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students and campus professionals with strong agreement about institutional focus—both “should
be” and “is”—occurs at liberal arts colleges.
■ The gap for campus professionals between “should be” and “is” is particularly striking at research
institutions, with 74.6 percent strongly agreeing that contributing to community should be a major
institutional focus, compared to just 41.9 percent strongly agreeing that this dimension currently is
a major focus (see table 4).
Table 4. Perceptions of institutional commitment by type of institution
Percent who strongly agreed
Institutional
control
Privates
Institutional type
PSRI survey item
All campuses (n=23)
Public institutions
(n=11)
Private institutions
(n = 12)
secular institutions
(n=7)
Religiously-affiliated
institutions
(n=5)
Research institutions
(n=4)
Master’s institutions
(n = 7)
Liberal Arts Colleges
(n=10)
Community colleges
(n=2)
Students
Campus professionals
The importance of
contributing to a
larger community
should be a major
focus of this campus.
The importance of
contributing to a
larger community
is a major focus of
this campus.
The importance of
contributing to a
larger community
should be a major
focus of this campus.
The importance of
contributing to a
larger community
is a major focus of
this campus.
57.8 57.7 58.9 56.5 61.7 59.4 52.9 59.8 46.2
46.2 41.0 46.9 39.9 55.5 44.6 30.6 48.2 37.6
74.3 72.6 76.9 72.3 82.9 74.6 73.9 75.1 70.5
44.3 38.2 53.5 42.1 68.3 41.9 40.6 48.8 35.3
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