| The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the preparation of the college president through experience and training and fund raising SUCCESS as measured through donated income as a percent of institutional budget. The research followed a descriptive design, utilizing data from the Council of Christian Colleges, with 85 organizations responding and 68 qualifying due to length of tenure of president, or completed data from the Institutional Advancement Survey.; While no significance was found in any of the ANOVA testing on SUCCESS. A significant difference was found in the amount of time presidents spend in fund raising, between presidents who are strong in fund raising, and those that were only average, with strong presidents spending more time than average. A Chi Square test found that presidents who need fund raising training are more likely to have used paid consultants in their fund raising than those that do not. A Chi Square test also found that presidents who had a high level of training through trial and error had trustees that were only average in their training.; A significant, although negative, mean difference was found between presidents who had received little and no mentorship training and the ability of their boards to give gifts less than one million dollars. It was also discovered that presidents who have trained or learned fund raising through conferences, are spending less time in fund raising than those that did not.; The study however, found no direct relationship between presidents who have previous experience or training in fund raising, and organizational fund raising SUCCESS. |
