Theorizing About the Emergence of the Community College Baccalaureate

Skolnik, Michael L.

doi:10.1080/10668920802564873

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“…The decision to extend degree‐granting authority to the colleges was a significant milestone for higher education in Ontario (Skolnik, ). The Ontario colleges were created in the 1960s to address the combined social challenges of the baby boom and a rapidly expanding, and increasingly technical, workplace.…”

Section: Policy Change In Ontariomentioning

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Higher Education Policy and Legitimacy Building: the Making of a New Academic Credential in Ontario

Hurley

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2013

Higher Education Quarterly

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Canada's province of Ontario introduced a new policy in 2000 allowing community colleges to offer a new type of undergraduate degree. This decision was a significant policy change for the government considering the nature of Ontario's binary system, where a rigid separation has historically prevailed between the university and college sectors. Drawing on multiple sources of data, this study indicates that the decision to create a new type of applied bachelor's degree generated a series of uncertainties and challenges for higher education institutions, students and government agencies. The paper highlights the need for policy makers to consider the socio-cultural aspects of higher education systems in policy design, particularly the role of legitimacy.

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Section: Policy Change In Ontariomentioning

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“…This topic comes up in almost all documentation related to the applied degrees and in any related studies (Skolnik, ; Vigil Laden, ). Based on the historic resistance of universities (Skolnik, ) to any sort of transfer arrangement, it seems unlikely that they will readily accept the B.Ap. degrees.…”

Section: Accreditation and Recognitionmentioning

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Higher Education Policy and Legitimacy Building: the Making of a New Academic Credential in Ontario

Hurley

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2013

Higher Education Quarterly

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“…Diversity of higher education provision is often thought to be desirable to serve the different needs of society. This in turn is based on the view that societies advance by developing specialised functions, which emerged from the work of Parsons (Skolnik, , p. 134) and the writing on the specialisation of roles in society by Comte, Durkheim and Spencer. Van Vught (, pp.…”

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How Different Are Higher Education Institutions in the UK, US and Australia? The Significance of Government Involvement

Moodie

2014

Higher Education Quarterly

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Governments in the UK and many other countries have long sought to promote the diversity of their higher education institutions. However, diversity is hard to define, harder to measure and even more difficult to compare between countries. Most empirical analyses of the diversity of higher education systems use categorical variables, which shape the extent of diversity found. This study examines continuous variables of institutions' enrolment size and proportions of postgraduate, fulltime and international students to find the extent of variation amongst doctoral granting and all higher education institutions in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. The study finds that there is less variety amongst all higher education institutions in the United Kingdom than in Australia, which in turn has much less variety than the United States. The paper argues that the extent of government involvement in higher education is not so important for institutional variety as the form that it takes. More tentatively, the paper suggests that the more limited the range of institutions for which government funding is available the stronger government involvement is needed to have variety among the limited range of institutions for which government financial support is available.

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“…Scholars have applied theoretical perspectives to better understand why community colleges began offering baccalaureate degrees (Levin, 2004;Skolnik, 2009;Skolnik, 2011). Much of the existing CCB literature consists of commentary on the implications of this trend for community colleges and American higher education in general.…”

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