How Political and Ecological Contexts Shape Community College Transfer

Autor/inn/en	Schudde, Lauren; Jabbar, Huriya; Hartman, Catherine
Titel	How Political and Ecological Contexts Shape Community College Transfer
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 94 (2021) 1, S.65-83 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schudde, Lauren)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
DOI	10.1177/0038040720954817
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Two Year College Students; Transfer Students; Transfer Policy; Political Influences; Politics of Education; Power Structure; Norms; Advantaged; Academic Advising; Information Seeking; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Normwert; Akademischer Rat; Informationserschließung
Abstract	Broad higher education contexts shape how community college students and postsecondary personnel approach transfer from community colleges to baccalaureate-granting institutions. We leverage the concept of strategic action fields, an organizational theory illuminating processes that play out as actors determine "who gets what" in an existing power structure, to understand the role of political-ecological contexts in "vertical" transfer. Drawing on interviews with administrators, transfer services personnel, and transfer-intending students at two Texas community college districts and with administrators, admissions staff, and transfer personnel at public universities throughout the state, we examine how institutional actors and students create, maintain, and respond to rules and norms in the community college transfer field. Our results suggest university administrators, faculty, and staff hold dominant positions in the field, setting the rules and norms for credit transfer and applicability. Students, who hold the least privilege, must invest time and energy to gather information about transfer pathways and policies as their primary means of meeting their educational aspirations. The complex structure of information--wherein each institution provides its own transfer resources, with little collaboration and minimal alignment--systematically disadvantages community college students. Although some community college personnel voice frustration that the field disadvantages transfer-intending community college students, they maintain the social order by continuing to implement and reinforce the rules and norms set by universities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01