College Trustees Study, 1968 (ICPSR 7011)

Version Date: Jul 24, 2009

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Principal Investigator(s):
Educational Testing Service

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07011.v2

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Summary

This study is a large-scale survey of American college and university trustees, carried out in early 1968. Questions were asked about the respondents' backgrounds, their previous relationship to the schools, and their attitudes toward various educational policies. The respondents' activities as trustees, as well as their conceptions of the role of trustee and their political and social views, were also assessed.

Citation

Educational Testing Service. College Trustees Study, 1968. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07011.v2

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Subject Terms

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1968
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Sample

Over 10,000 trustees were initially contacted, representing the voting governing board members of 536 colleges and universities in the United States. Over 5,000 responded, for a return rate of 52.5 percent.

Universe

College and university trustees in the United States.

Data Source

mailback questionnaires

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Educational Testing Service. College Trustees Study, 1968. ICPSR07011-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-24. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07011.v2

2009-07-24 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
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