STUDENT AND FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF ACADEMIC ENTITLEMENT: A LOOK AT ONE SOUTHERN LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITY.

The notion of entitlement has been a topic of recent debate among academicians in the past decade. The struggle between student needs and faculty expectations has also come under scrutiny. Many factors attribute to behaviors and further understanding from each of the entities involved should be explored. This study explored entitlement from students and faculty at a land grant university in the southern United States. An instrument was utilized to gather data from a target student population (n = 1,002) and modified to be delivered to stratified sample of faculty (n = 164). A Qualtrics survey was developed and delivered to participants and data was analyzed. When analyzing results, difference between academic and personal entitlement were found among the student population. Further, gender was found significant among groups. Faculty most often with statements such as having a responsibility towards meeting student needs and lending course notes to students but mostly agreed with the statement that they felt poorly when not responding the same day to an email. The differences between these groups may be apparent based on values and beliefs and therefore further investigation should be conducted to further determine practices to bridge the apparent gap(s). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]