Community colleges and the politics of sociospatial scale

Ayers, David F.

doi:10.1007/s10734-010-9388-5

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“…As such, the community college does not always serve exclusively the local community. Moreover, local is not fully defined nor limited by geographic boundaries (Ayers, 2010) and instead represents a broader community within city, state, national, and international contexts. Finally, the intersection of local businesses with global markets and of local immigrant populations with their home countries supports adoption of the global on the local level.…”

Section: Mission Statementsmentioning

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“…In this century, economic and sociocultural globalization practices are forcing a reinterpretation of the meaning of “local” as being both “buffered and buffeted by global processes” (Ayers, 2010, p. 310). The inclusion of internationalization into mission statements occurs in two primary ways (Whatley & Raby, 2020).…”

Section: Initial Change Initiatives: What Has Been Done?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Critical assessment of initiatives in community college international education

Raby

2021

New Drctns Community Coll

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In the 1947 Truman Commission, Zook noted a validation of international education for US community colleges and specified two recommendations for the internationalization of US community colleges. The first recommendation was to embrace internationalization in the curriculum, and the second was to create an educational context in which students could gain an international understanding. This article critically assesses the extent to which US community colleges have met Zook's (1947) recommendations. The findings show that internationalization practices are supported by US community college leadership over time, are found in American Association of Community Colleges policies, are the subject of graduate student dissertations, and are the subject of research since the 1960s. The article concludes with a comprehensive set of recommendations for community colleges to support future actionable international agendas intended to serve the next generation of community colleges and their students.

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Section: Mission Statementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Initial Change Initiatives: What Has Been Done?mentioning

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Critical assessment of initiatives in community college international education

Raby

2021

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“…Some recent empirical scholarship has explored community college degree-granting missions by analyzing institutions’ mission statements rather than looking at actual degree-granting behaviors (e.g., Abelman & Dalessandro, 2008; Ayers, 2005, 2011, 2015). Ayers (2005) found that community college mission statements adhered to neoliberal notions of curricular mission, emphasizing short-term vocational certificates that benefited statewide economic development goals.…”

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The Moving Missions of Community Colleges: An Examination of Degree-Granting Profiles Over Time

Barringer

Jaquette

2018

Community College Review

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Objective: Despite extensive debate about the curricular mission of community colleges, prior research has not sufficiently analyzed differences in the kinds of degrees (i.e., the field of study and award level) community colleges produce. Therefore, we explore both the fields of study and the levels at which public community colleges grant degrees and analyze how this has changed over time. Method: Multilevel latent class analysis is used here to estimate latent degree-granting profiles, and colleges are allocated into the profiles based on their observed degree-granting behaviors from 1987 to 2012. Results: The analysis shows that public community colleges can be allocated into five distinct degree-granting profiles over the period of study. A small minority of colleges have and continue to engage almost exclusively in a vocational mission. The two degree profiles that increased in prominence over time suggest an overall shift toward the simultaneous pursuit of transfer and vocational missions. However, a majority of colleges (68%) exhibited stable degree-granting behaviors between 1987 and 2012, indicating a relatively high level of stability in degree-granting patterns across community colleges during this period. Contribution: These patterns highlight variation across colleges and both stability and change within institutions over time. This suggests that public community colleges are simultaneously situated in strong institutional and technical environments and, thus, are subject to constraints and incentives that shape not only their stated policies but also their actual degree-granting behaviors.

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“…The present analysis takes the first of these approaches. It builds on existing research both in the field of higher education (Ayers, 2005, 2010, 2013; Connell & Galasinski, 1998; Davies & Glaister, 1996; James & Huisman, 2009; Morphew & Hartley, 2006; Taylor & Morphew, 2010) and organization and management studies more generally (Baetz & Bart, 1998; Bart & Baetz, 1998; David, 1989; Swales & Rogers, 1995; Vaara, Sorsa, & Plli, 2010). Across fields, one common method of analyzing mission statements has been content analysis.…”

Section: Review Of Related Literature and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He argued that traces of neoliberalism found within many community college mission statements contradict long-standing community college discourses such as equity and social justice. In an analysis of 421 community college mission statements, Ayers (2010) later found that larger and more urban community colleges were more likely to describe organizational mission within a global context. Ayers (2010) also identified the presence of competing globalist discourses in mission statements; specifically, he contrasted community college discourses of neoliberal globalization on one hand and those associated with global citizenship on the other.…”

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Credentialing Structures, Pedagogies, Practices, and Curriculum Goals

Ayers

2015

Community College Review

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Objective: To examine the discursive strategies deployed by community colleges to sustain legitimacy in an evolving and contradictory institutional environment. Method: Using corpus linguistics software, I compared 1,009 mission statements from 2012-2013 with a reference corpus of 427 mission statements from 2004. Results: Keywords analysis, collocation analysis, and concordance analysis suggest that mission statements have changed along four discourse trajectories: credentialing structures, pedagogies, practices, and curriculum goals. Contributions: These findings situate the community college as a point of entry into understanding the relations among institutional legitimacy and a changing cultural, political, and economic milieu.

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Community colleges and the politics of sociospatial scale

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Critical assessment of initiatives in community college international education

Critical assessment of initiatives in community college international education

The Moving Missions of Community Colleges: An Examination of Degree-Granting Profiles Over Time

Credentialing Structures, Pedagogies, Practices, and Curriculum Goals

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