The Relationship of Community and Sponsor System Support To Selected Aspects of Adult Education Agency Functioning

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Although support from sponsoring institutions and the community is a topic frequently discussd in the prescriptive literature of adult education, support has seldom been treated as a variable in empirical studies. This article explores the relationship between adult education directors' perceptions of community support and sponsor system support and such variables as program enrollment, size of budget, recruitment difficulty, absenteeism, agency autonomy, and the amount of paid time an adult education director devotes to adult education. The units of analysis are New Jersey public school adult education agencies. While community support was found to correlate significantly with all variables, sponsor system support associated only with agency autonomy. The importance of support as a program variable was demonstrated. It was also found that commun ity support and sponsor system support are conceptually different variables that affect agency operation in different ways.

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