The ecology of internal workplace giving at Indiana University: a case study of faculty and staff campus campaign communications and fundraising

• This collective case study examines university-specific philanthropic cultures, campus fundraising campaigns, and their impact on faculty and staff giving to the university. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data, the study documents fundraising strategies through interviews and materials analysis and assesses their results through quantitative data on characteristics of donors and their philanthropic gifts. Examination of fundraising methods reveals differences between demand and supply-side communication strategies with faculty and staff members as internal stakeholders and donors. Concentrating on the campuses of Indiana University, a large, highly diverse public institution in the American Midwest, this study includes analysis of the outcomes of the fundraising process across institutions of different sizes, demographics, and philanthropic cultures. The findings underscore the importance of exploring the characteristics that influence employee donation behaviors as context for the creation and enactment of fundraising campaigns and highlight the need for future research in the area of workplace giving.

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Selection of individuals to serve on major gift fundraising teams: a study of membership choice criteria

Major gift fundraising (MGF) is a crucial activity for large UK charities and is one that is normally undertaken by teams. This paper examines the criteria that the managements of large charities apply when selecting individuals to serve on MGF teams. It also explores possible connections between team composition and MGF success. A questionnaire exploring this matter was distributed to a sampling frame comprising 500 of the UK's largest fundraising charities, resulting in 151 replies. It emerged that MGF teams which contained people who had been chosen on the basis of their commitment to the MGF function, their communication and relationship nurturing abilities, and their wide‐ranging connections throughout an organisation were reported to perform better than teams that were not deliberately assembled in this way. The more background research was completed into an MGF prospect's circumstances and preferences and the more diverse an MGF team's composition, the higher the probability of success. However, team size did not exert significant effects on performance nor did (i) the personal status of any of a team's members or (contrary to expectations) (ii) the inclusion of individuals who knew a prospect personally. Teams with members who possessed extensive experience of MGF did not perform substantially better than others. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fundraising as organisational knowing in practice: Evidence from the arts and higher education in the UK

This paper argues for the centrality of organisational practices in occupational learning with a case study of fundraising in the non-profit UK's arts and higher education sectors. Despite the need to increase charitable giving to non-profit organisations, little is known about the work, fundraisers must do in order to carry out their jobs. We argue that fundraisers develop strategic understandings and competences within organisational environments, which they put into practice in their relationships with stakeholders within and outside the organisations where they work. Our findings suggest that one of the main ways in which fundraisers learn is by negotiating and surmounting obstacles both internally, within their organisational environments and externally, around the perception of fundraising as a profession. We thus argue for the importance of establishing a “fundraising culture” within organisational environments; a shared organisational competence where fundraising is practiced as a legitimate and strategic type of practice.     

高职物流管理专业订单培养模式实践研究

自从教育部教高[2006]16号文件颁布以来,高职的订单培养问题一直是高职教育的一个热点,但针对物流管理这类经管专业在具体的实践过程中出现了不少的问题,如何解决这些问题一直是经管类专业的重要课题。通过多年的实践,我们在对物流管理专业的订单培养过程中灵活根据用人单位的需要不断地进行人才订单培养模式的研究与实践,目前已经形成了全过程订单培养、半过程订单培养、推荐式订单培养三种主要的订单培养模式。文中对这些实践经验进行了研究与总结。     

浅谈高等职业教育的发展

文章介绍了我国高职教育的特点和发展概况,分析了高职院校的生源特点,并有针对性地提出了因材施教的方法。     

Distance and academic performance in higher education

This paper examines whether one of the determinants of academic performance in higher education is the geographical distance separating the place of study and the place of family residence. Twelve years of data on students from a public university are utilized to estimate a model of relative academic performance, with an instrumental variables two-stage least squares estimator to account for possible endogeneity bias. The results indicate that distance is a negative determinant of academic performance and provide a new factor to take into account in reflexions over the impact of the spatial organization of higher education institutions.     

基于职业能力培养的“双主”教学系统设计及应用--以高职会计专业为例

本文在调研分析的基础上,根据会计人员职业能力的基本要求,针对高职会计专业教学系统设计的现状和问题,提出了运用“双主”（教师为主导、学生为主体）教学系统设计模式改进教学的方式方法,以期在提升教师教学水平的同时,提升学生的职业能力,提高高职院校的人才培养质量。     

高职院校教育信息化建设的现状与发展趋势

随着我国经济的快速发展,社会需要大量应用型高级技术人才,因此,高等职业教育受到国家和社会的高度重视,并迅速发展成为是我国教育事业的重要组成部分。教育信息化是促进高职教育发展的关键,文章首先讨论了目前高职院校信息化建设现状,如存在缺乏统一规划、信息标准建设滞后、应用不到位、机制不完善等问题,文章最后还对高职院校未来的发展方向作了展望。     

高职教育考试考核方式改革探讨

考试是检验教师授课水平和学生学习成绩的重要手段,在整个教学环节中具有举足轻重的地位和旗帜鲜明的导向作用。本文以北京经济管理职业学院为例,结合高职教育的培养目标和人才培养特点,分析了现行考试考核方式存在的主要问题,在此基础上,试图构建一套科学客观的评价体系。     

我国高等教育融资中存在的问题及对策探讨

文章在综述国内外有关高等教育融资问题研究成果的基础上,深入分析了我国高等教育融资中存在的诸多问题,并提出了实现我国高等教育融资多元化的对策建议。     

高职院校素质教育的探索与思考

本文明确了高职院校素质教育的科学涵义,简要总结概括了国内外高职院校素质教育的做法和经验,依照高职教育人才培养目标构建了高职学生的素质教育体系,探索了高职院校素质教育的方式和途径,以及高职院校素质教育的评价体系。     

高职教育中模块化教学模式探讨--以计算机网络技术专业为例

在高职教育中依据就业岗位群进行模块化教学,有利于增强教学的针对性,强化对学生岗位职业能力的培养,培养学生综合运用知识解决问题的能力。本文以计算机网络技术专业为例,结合笔者的教学实践,对高职教育中模块化教学的设计与组织实施做了比较深入的探讨。     

城市化在高等教育规模发展中的作用

本文将国内外高等教育发展规模和城市化进程问题作为研究对象 ,探索世界各国城市化与高等教育规模联动发展的普遍规律 ,提出城市化水平是决定高等教育规模的关键因素 ,我国城市化水平的地区差异是造成地域间、省域间高等教育规模差异的决定因素。因此 ,必须加快我国的城市化进程 ,为高等教育规模的扩大提供动力和市场需求。     

浅论高职教育人才培养模式创新

人才培养模式是指以一定的教育思想为指导,为实现某种规格的人才培养目标而采取的教育教学活动的组织样式和运行方式。高职教育人才培养模式的创新,对高职院校的各方面都提出了新的要求。顺应时代变革的需要,以培养"技能型创新人才"这种新型技术型人才为目标,"规范"与"创新"并举,德育为先、实践为本、创新为魂,探索"技能型创新人才"培养的新模式,对高职教育改革发展具有特别重要的意义。     

高等教育改革下教师与学生的互动发展研究

高等教育对经济社会发展具有支撑、保障和引导作用,高等教育改革下的教师与学生互动发展一直是研究的热点。为全面反映教师与学生互动发展关系,文章分析了教师与学生互动发展的特征、层次和指标,从物理和管理两个方面来构建教师与学生互动发展指标体系,为决策提供参考。     

高等学校教育成本的影响因素分析

本文从高等学校的自身特征、宏观环境和微观环境等方面,对高等学校教育成本的影响因素进行了分析,并指出高等学校教育成本持续上升是社会发展的必然趋势。     

从数学的文化价值探讨高等数学教育

文章从数学文化价值的角度出发,结合我国高等数学教育的实际,探讨了两者间的关系。     

高职院校市场营销专业校内实训基地建设探讨

文章以广西工商职业技术学院为例,分析了其建立市场营销专业校内实训基地的必要性,并就广西工商职业技术学院建立市场营销专业校内实训基地的原则、内容、目标、步骤以及措施展开了探讨。     

Building communities of philanthropy in higher education: contextual influences

In this era of constrained and declining economic resources, institutions of higher education are turning to advancement professionals to identify and cultivate the financial resources that are becoming an increasing and larger portion of the fundamental funding of the institution. In this high stakes arena, advancement professionals have a need for the tools that can assist them in cultivating philanthropic relationships more effectively and efficiently. To that purpose, this research empirically explores ways in which the brand community construct can be adapted to philanthropic intent for non‐profit organizations to aid in the cultivation process. This paper presents the results of a survey of college alumni drawn from a commercially provided online panel, and examines the potential impact that institutional size may have upon the relationships of an alumni brand community and the community's expressed willingness to offer financial donations to the alma mater. From a theoretic perspective, this paper reveals that brand community is a significant contributor to this expression of philanthropic intent across universities of differing size. As a practical consideration, our findings produce additional evidence to affirm the notion that brand community is a robust construct that can be of value to development professionals who seek to build financial support for both small and large universities. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.