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Higher Education's Assembly Line: Understanding the Impact of the College Completion Agenda on Rural Community Colleges in Ohio

Anderson, Carissa M.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2704-5888
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541598466088729

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Higher Education (Education).
Launched in 2009, the college completion agenda aims to significantly increase the number of community college graduates by 2020. While the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) (2012) believes that the goals of the completion agenda can be achieved without institutions sacrificing their mission or reducing student services, little is yet known about the impact this effort has had or is having on rural community colleges. The proliferation of performance-based funding models and the application of Resource Dependency Theory suggests that the potential impact is significant. Through collective case study and document analysis, the goal of this research was to understand the impact of the completion agenda on rural community colleges in Ohio.
Peter Mather (Committee Chair)
Michael Williford (Committee Member)
Lijing Yang (Committee Member)
Sara Helfrich (Committee Member)
238 p.
Community Colleges; Education Policy; Higher Education; Higher Education Administration
completion agenda; rural community colleges; performance-based funding; Resource Dependency Theory; Ohio attainment goal

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  • Anderson, C. M. (2018). Higher Education's Assembly Line: Understanding the Impact of the College Completion Agenda on Rural Community Colleges in Ohio [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541598466088729

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Anderson, Carissa. Higher Education's Assembly Line: Understanding the Impact of the College Completion Agenda on Rural Community Colleges in Ohio. 2018. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541598466088729.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Anderson, Carissa. "Higher Education's Assembly Line: Understanding the Impact of the College Completion Agenda on Rural Community Colleges in Ohio." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541598466088729

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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