This article explores the diffusion and adoption of performance-based funding policies using framing theory. Specifically, authors examine role philanthropic foundations policy organizations in generating exporting state contexts. Findings from an analysis publications suggest that analyzed advance a specific narrative, while hindering alternative options. Analysis contexts supports this conclusion, indicating states readily adopt frame advanced by consider few, if any, alternatives.

"Economic inequality, neoliberalism, and the American community college." Community College Journal of Research Practice, 43(4), pp. 315–316

This article presents findings from a multiple-case study examining administrator choice in and use of institutional membership associations (IMAs) among Regional Comprehensive Universities (RCUs). The study's purpose was to understand what IMAs revealed about status-seeking mission-centeredness RCU administrators. Also examined how administrators leverage position their institutions the broader postsecondary field. Neo-institutional network theories guided analysis two subsets: those that...

This study examines social closure processes in the organizational field of higher education and their implications with respect to Historically Black Colleges Universities (HBCUs). Using institutional comparison-group data from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), we analyze how identity claims non-reciprocation reveal salient between-group boundaries among different types four-year colleges universities. Compared other traits that could potentially give rise this field,...

Background A substantial share of undergraduates are basic needs insecure, meaning they lack consistent access to essential material goods like food and shelter. These hardships associated with poorer academic success, but we know very little about higher education professionals’ perspectives on the matter. Purpose This paper examines how professionals perceive, understand, support college students who experience insecurity. Research Design Using data from interviews 59 work at eight...

This study explores how organizational identity is linked with behavior and change at U.S. colleges universities. Using IPEDS data from 914 public private not-for-profit four-year institutions, this analyzes institutions' claims through their self-identified comparison groups are associated Carnegie Classification between 2010 2015. Results indicate that institutions identified a higher proportion of aspirational peers set who changed over the period were more likely to be re-classified in...