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Community Colleges and New Universities under Neoliberal Pressures

Organizational Change and Stability

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  • © 2017

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  • Reflects upon the way or ways we view organizational change in higher education and the possible trajectory for future change
  • Critiques four community colleges to determine what organizational changes have transpired and the reasons for these changes over the period of 2000-2014
  • Examines the community college and new universities through the lens of institutional theory both to explain organizational stability and organizational change

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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 identity preservation and identity change, as well as individual organizations’ responses to government policy, Levin analyzes and illuminates those policies with neoliberal assumptions and values.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

    John S. Levin

About the author

John S. Levin is Professor of Higher Education at the University of California, Riverside, USA, where he directs the California Community College Collaborative (C4) and holds the Bank of America Professor of Education Leadership Endowed Chair. Levin is a former community college faculty member and administrator, and has held positions at three universities, including one as dean.

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