Cultural Perspectives of Academia: Toward a Model of Cultural Complexity

Smerek, Ryan E.

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“…While a sizable body of research has examined the influence of tuition costs and financial aid on student decision making, little attention has been paid to the ways institutions disclose cost information to the public. Given the increasing reliance of students and their families on internet-based information sources in college decision making, along with the growing complexity of higher education systems and tuition policies (Poutré, Rorison, & Voight, 2017; Smerek, 2010; Wolniak, George, & Nelson, 2019), this gap in the knowledge base is problematic. Questions of equity and access also arise from findings which show that underrepresented students face disproportionate challenges in navigating informational resources such as guidebooks, websites, and search engines (Baum & Ma, 2014; Bergerson, 2009; Perna, Lundy-Wagner, Yee, Brill, & Teran, 2011).…”

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Demystifying Tuition? A Content Analysis of the Information Quality of Public College and University Websites

Davis

Wolniak²,

George

et al. 2019

AERA Open

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Colleges and universities increasingly rely on their websites to recruit students and convey information about tuition and costs of attendance. Given evidence of growing complexity in institutional tuition policies and cost-setting practices, the study examined how institutions’ websites present financial information to the public. Through content analysis of website data from 50 public colleges and universities, researchers sought to characterize patterns in the scope and quality of tuition information on institutional websites and to understand how these patterns might influence individuals’ conceptions of tuition and costs. The findings point to variation in informational quality across dimensions ranging from clarity of language use and terminology, to consistency and coherence of visual displays, which accompany navigational challenges stemming from information fragmentation and discontinuity across pages. Implications for research and improved institutional practice are discussed.

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Demystifying Tuition? A Content Analysis of the Information Quality of Public College and University Websites

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Wolniak²,

George

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“…used as a means to examine themes of conflict, resistance to authority, as well as ideational inconsistencies between different cultural values or between espoused values and actual behaviour (Martin, 1992(Martin, , 2002Ogbonna & Harris, 2015;Smerek, 2010). Though rarely acknowledged in organisational sport psychology culture research to date, these themes and the significant (sometimes destructive) influence of subcultures were problematised in a recent longitudinal study of cultural processes within a UK Olympic sport (Feddersen, Morris, Littlewood, & Richardson, 2019).…”

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“…In addition to the integration perspective already discussed, they suggested that in the differentiation perspective, rather than being a source of order and integration, culture is comparison to the integration view, less influence is attributed to leaders and their assessment of what the culture is (Martin, 2002(Martin, , 2004. Instead, differentiation researchers often privilege and actual behaviours (Martin, 2002;Smerek, 2010). It therefore naturally challenges the premise that culture is singular (i.e., there is only one culture per group) and monolithic (i.e., it looks the same no matter the angle) and alternatively offers a more pluralistic view of culture (Martin, 2002;McDougall & Ronkainen, 2019;Wagstaff & Burton-Wylie, 2018).…”

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Organizational Culture Beyond Consensus and Clarity: Narratives From Elite Sport

McDougall

Ronkainen

Richardson

et al. 2020

The Sport Psychologist

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In sport psychology, organizational culture is usually depicted as shared, consistent, and clear—the glue that holds people together so they can achieve success. There is, however, growing discontent in sport psychology with this idea of culture and extensive critiques in other academic domains that suggest this perspective is limited. Accordingly, the authors draw on narrative interviews with participants (n = 7) from different areas of sport and use Martin and Meyerson’s three perspective (integration, differentiation, and fragmentation) approach to culture alongside thematic analysis to reconstruct three “ideal cases” that exemplify each perspective. The findings emphasize a different pattern of meaning in each actors’ narrative and suggest the need to develop a broader, more inclusive concept of culture, so as not to minimize or dismiss cultural content that is not obviously shared, clear, or created by leadership; a course of action that can enhance both research and practice in the area.

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“…Faculty have several competing sub-culture identities (Smerek, 2010). At least six cultures exist simultaneously in all higher education institutions (Bergquist & Pawlak, 2008).…”

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Attentional Change: Exploring the Role of Attention in Shaping Change Decisions

Branch

Lingham

2015

AMPROC

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This dissertation is dedicated to the three people who inspired it. The first is my son, Rob. When he was 3 or 4 years old and found out that his best friend's father had a Ph.D., he turned to me and said, "You should get one of those." He still makes me laugh and shake my head nearly every day. Second, is my daughter, Erin, who forged a trail before me, managing to get her Ph.D. while also getting married, moving three times, working full-time, and staying awake part of every night with a colicky infant. She set a standard for persistence that is daunting and inspiring at the same time. And finally, I dedicate this work to Jeff Peterson, chair of my department at St. Bonaventure University, who stopped outside my classroom one day and said, "I have an idea. How would you like to get a doctorate? It would really help me out with my PQ/AQ numbers." Thank you Jeff, I wish you were still with us. I miss you. Finally, I wish my parents were alive to see this document. They would have been very proud. iv Table of Contents List of Tables .

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Cultural Perspectives of Academia: Toward a Model of Cultural Complexity

Cited by 13 publications

References 107 publications

Demystifying Tuition? A Content Analysis of the Information Quality of Public College and University Websites

Demystifying Tuition? A Content Analysis of the Information Quality of Public College and University Websites

Organizational Culture Beyond Consensus and Clarity: Narratives From Elite Sport

Attentional Change: Exploring the Role of Attention in Shaping Change Decisions

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