Community Colleges and New Universities under Neoliberal Pressures : Organizational Change and Stability /

This book examines seven higher education organizations, exploring their interconnected lines: organizational change and organizational stability. These lines are nested within historical, social, cultural, and political contexts of two nations the US and Canada two provinces and three states: Alber...

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Main Authors: Levin, John S
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48020-0
Summary: This book examines seven higher education organizations, exploring their interconnected lines: organizational change and organizational stability. These lines are nested within historical, social, cultural, and political contexts of two nations the US and Canada two provinces and three states: Alberta, British Columbia, California, Hawai i, and Washington. The author studies the development of the community college and the development of the university from community college origins, bringing to the forefront these seven individual stories. Addressing continuity and discontinuity and identit
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XIII, 345 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137480200
Index Number: LB43
CLC: G51
Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Community Colleges -- Chapter 2 The Universities -- Chapter 3 Institutionalism as a Way to View Higher Education Organizations: Organizational Change/Organizational Stability -- Chapter 4 The Actions of Colleges, Universities, and Their Members -- Chapter 5 Policies for Higher Education Institutions -- Chapter 6 The Outcomes of Policies in Higher Education Institutions -- Chapter 7 Conclusions: The Development and Transformation of the Community College in The Twenty-First Century. .