Collaborative Research: RAPID: Hurricane Response, Governance Structures, and Public Higher Education

合作研究：RAPID：飓风响应、治理结构和公立高等教育

• 批准号: 1803864
• 负责人: Alisa Fryar
• 金额: $ 6.03万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-15 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1803864&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; RAPID; Hurricane; Response

Public universities face many challenges in their efforts to operate within an environment that is both dominated by political influences and subject to the pressures of market-based competition for necessary resources. Disasters magnify the challenges of managing within this environment, especially when the institution is constrained in its ability to accommodate the unique needs of students who are facing significant difficulties after a natural disaster. The short term disruption caused by a disaster can lead to long-term consequences for public institutions, but many of these more pronounced consequences may not be fully attributable to the effects of the disaster, but instead may be a function of the inability of policy frameworks and administrative structures to adapt to the needs of public institutions and policy beneficiaries after extreme events. Especially important are the financial consequences of enrollment loss and the constraints that come with accreditation structures. This study will use administrative interviews and data on student success to examine the role of policy design in post-disaster decisions and its influence on student success. We hope that our findings will motivate discussions among federal education officials and accreditation organization leaders about the ways in which they may consider options that would enable institutions to better support students in their efforts to rebuild their lives and pursue their educational goals.Theories of publicness, political control, policy implementation, and the politics of attention mostly speak to the challenges faced by public sector leaders in times of relative stability (not in response to extreme events), and many discussions of disaster response are limited to elected officials and/or federal agencies. This project seeks to examine how these dynamics play out in disaster recovery efforts for public higher education institutions and their students. We will use a mixed methods design, with qualitative interviews of administrators and a quantitative analysis of student data. The study site is Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. The administrative interviews focus on the ways in which efforts to accommodate and support those affected by the storm were influenced by accreditation-related constraints (in this case, from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) and concerns about the effects on funding streams (tuition revenue, state appropriations, and federal financial aid). The quantitative analysis examines how the decisions immediately following the storm affected student enrollment and persistence and the extent to which these effects vary by student-level risk factors or level of storm damage for the individual's household.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

公立大学在努力中遇到许多挑战，既要在政治影响力又受到基于市场的竞争压力的必要资源竞争的压力。灾难会放大在这种环境中管理的挑战，尤其是当该机构在适应自然灾害后面临重大困难的学生的独特需求的能力上受到限制时。由灾难造成的短期破坏可能会导致对公共机构的长期影响，但是其中许多更明显的后果可能并非完全归因于灾难的影响，而是可能是政策框架和行政结构的函数，以适应极端事件后公共机构和政策受益人的需求和政策受益人的需求。尤其重要的是入学损失的财务后果以及认证结构所带来的限制。这项研究将使用有关学生成功的行政访谈和数据，以研究政策设计在后策划后决策中的作用及其对学生成功的影响。 We hope that our findings will motivate discussions among federal education officials and accreditation organization leaders about the ways in which they may consider options that would enable institutions to better support students in their efforts to rebuild their lives and pursue their educational goals.Theories of publicness, political control, policy implementation, and the politics of attention mostly speak to the challenges faced by public sector leaders in times of relative stability (not in response to extreme events), and many discussions of disaster response are limited给当选官员和/或联邦机构。该项目旨在研究这些动态如何在公共高等教育机构及其学生的灾难恢复工作中发挥作用。我们将使用混合的方法设计，以及对管理员的定性访谈以及对学生数据的定量分析。研究地点是德克萨斯州博蒙特的拉马尔大学。行政访谈的重点是适应和支持受风暴影响者的努力的方式受到与认证相关的约束的影响（在这种情况下，来自南部学院和学校协会），并担心对资金流的影响（学费收入，州拨款和联邦财政援助）。定量分析研究了暴风雨后的决策如何影响学生的入学率和持久性，以及这些影响的程度因学生级别的风险因素或个人家庭的暴风雨损害程度而有所不同。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估的支持，并认为值得通过评估的支持。