The Community College Mission: Present Challenges and Future Visions

McCartan, Anne-Marie

doi:10.2307/1981937

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“…Researchers of mission statements in educational institutions tend to focus on specific institutional profiles, such as community colleges (e.g. Ayers, 2015; Bragg, 2001; Fitzgerald, 2003; McCartan, 1983) or Catholic institutions (Weigert et al , 2018). Other researchers focus on specific academic divisions of colleges and universities, such as colleges of business (Davis et al , 2007; Palmer and Short, 2008), law schools (Butler, 2000), schools of social work (Holosko et al , 2015) or academic libraries (Colón-Aguirre, 2017; Salisbury and Griffis, 2014).…”

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Commonplace and common language: Kentucky's district mission statements

Ingle

Greenwell

Woods

2020

JEA

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PurposeWe sought to identify codes and themes in the mission statements of Kentucky's school districts and examine the relationship between district characteristics and the mission statements.Design/methodology/approachWe undertook a mixed methods design, specifically, a sequential transformative strategy with a theoretical lens overlaying the sequential procedures and guiding the analysis.FindingsAnalysis revealed a range of 1–7 codes per mission statement and a mean of 3.05. Generic student success and individual attention represented the most frequently occurring codes in the mission statements. Chi-square tests of bivariate association yielded no significant differences between districts by locale. Logistic regression analysis revealed that the percentage of students in the district scoring proficient or distinguished in both reading and mathematics was associated significantly (p < 0.05) with the theme of student support.Research limitationsAlthough we cannot establish causation between mission statements content and student outcomes or vice-versa, district mission statement remain a visible and public expression of why an organization exists that should guide actions and decision-making, whether instructional, financial or otherwise.Practical implicationsOur study revealed shared institutional language within mission statements across Kentucky's school district, largely without regard to local context. Our analysis suggests that federal and state policy makers are influencing mission statements more so than those at the local level.Originality/valueOur analysis provides further evidence that suggests that federal and state policy makers are influencing mission statements more so than those at the local level.

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Section: Extant Literature On Mission Statementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Commonplace and common language: Kentucky's district mission statements

Ingle

Greenwell

Woods

2020

JEA

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“…Structural looseness thus translates into cultural, identity-related tension. On another level, the missions and identities of entire institutions can diverge from governmental mandates or the interests of sponsoring organizations, such as religious bodies (Ingram 1986;Ingram and King 1995;McCartan 1983). For example, the University of Notre Dame, as a Roman Catholic institution, generated controversy by inviting President Barack Obama to speak at its 2009 commencement.…”

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Mission Statements, Physical Space, and Strategy in Higher Education

Fugazzotto

2009

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The effectiveness of higher education institutions has bases in institutional structures and cultures. However, structure and culture represent abstract concepts while institutions realize high performance in practice. Given their salience in higher education, mission statements and campus space bring structure and culture into the realm of practice. Moving from abstract to concrete, this paper shows how mission statements embody structure and culture and how physical space, in turn, enacts mission in day-to-day institutional life. By harnessing the mission-space linkage, strategy can access structure and culture for the purpose of increasing effectiveness.Key words mission statements . space . strategy . effectiveness . organizational structure . organizational culture Mission statements dictate the core activities of an organization, and physical space can define its operating territories. Mission and space are organizationally omnipresent and have notable relevance for both public and non-profit private higher education institutions. In this article, I use that relevance to establish a theoretical linkage between the two for the sake of strategic action. The first section discusses the cultural and structural bases of effectiveness in higher education, and the second shows how mission statements embody structure and culture, thus making them more concrete. The third section links mission statements and campus space. Because it impacts core institutional activities on a daily basis, I will suggest that space lends mission-and thus structure and culture-even greater tangibility. The final section draws upon the connections between mission statements and physical space to develop strategic models that seek to move institutions forward in practice. The effectiveness of colleges and universities has remained under discussion in the Innov High

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“…Recent literature (McCartan, 1983;Grubb, 1991;Dougherty, 1992;Rouse, 1994) indicates that those who now attend 2-year schools are more often female, come from families with lower family income, and have lower levels of academic achievement than their 4-year counterparts. In addition, President Clinton indicated that he expected a considerable number of welfare recipients to receive training from community colleges as they begin their transition to the labor market (Burgos-Sasscer, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%