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 nationsthe US and Canadatwo 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.

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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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.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Chapter 1 The Community Colleges.- Chapter 2 The Universities.- Chapter 3 Institutionalism as a Way to View Higher Education Organizations: Organizational Change/Organizational Stability.- Chapter 4 The Actions of Colleges, Universities, and Their Members.- Chapter 5 Policies for Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 6 The Outcomes of Policies in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 7 Conclusions: The Development and Transformation of the Community College in The Twenty-First Century.