Download or read book The Multi-campus System's Role in Maintaining Institutional Diversity in Texas, Public Universities written by Rebecca J. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of two proportions, two-tailed z-tests were used to test Hypotheses 2 and 3 by comparing the variables between the sub-groups of universities. After the comparisons were conducted, analysis entailed looking for patterns in the similarities and differences of the comparisons. Regional competition among universities in close geographic proximity was examined using simple OLS analysis where comparisons among universities were done on a regional basis within the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin-San Antonio regions. Part II of the study explored the multi-campus systems' role in promoting diversity among constituent universities through the examination of multi-campus systems' decisions and discussions recorded in the respective board of regent meeting minutes. A basic interpretive analysis was used to find explicit or implicit evidence that multi-campus systems were aware of their role in promoting institutional diversity as well as evidence that multi-campus systems were actively promoting institutions diversity among constituent universities. Four key findings emerged from the analyses of the research hypotheses; regional competition; and the examination of the multi-campus systems' board of regent meeting minutes: 1) homogenization has occurred among the universities within this study; 2) non-research universities have not become like the research universities in this study; 3) multi-campus systems are not consistently preventing homogenization and in some cases are encouraging it; and 4) Institutional theory's isomorphic pressures do not adequately explain the homogenization observed in this study.