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College Mission Change And Neoliberalism In A Community And Technical College, Christine Mollenkopf-Pigsley
College Mission Change And Neoliberalism In A Community And Technical College, Christine Mollenkopf-Pigsley
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Administrators of 2-year colleges are working in an environment where they seek to balance the social development of the student and the community's demand for a trained workforce to achieve economic development. This balance has resulted in ambiguity about the mission and purpose of 2-year colleges. The purpose of this case study was to explore a community college's experiences with mission change by exploring the interaction between a neoliberal public policy environment and the traditional social democratic mission of academia. Harvey's conceptualization of neoliberalism was used as the theoretical framework. Data were collected through 15 semi-structured interviews with members of …
Fulfilling An Institutional And Public Good Mission: A Case Study Of Access, Renee F. Batman
Fulfilling An Institutional And Public Good Mission: A Case Study Of Access, Renee F. Batman
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Access to higher education has been and remains a critical issue, yet research typically focuses on students and programs which may overlook the role of the faculty. Through an in-depth case study, the perspectives of tenured and tenure-track faculty at a predominately White, Midwestern land-grant, research institution are described as they relate to issues of student access to higher education. The context of the case was instrumental in understanding faculty perspectives of access and centered on the fundamental notion of education as public good and its association with institutional history and mission. The findings suggest that faculty members uphold the …