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Conclusion: Appraising Asset-Based Themes for Policy and Practice
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Warshaw, Jarrett B.; McClure, Kevin R.; DeMonbrun, Matt – New Directions for Higher Education, 2020
This chapter presents four central themes that are distilled from the volume. First, regional public universities (RPUs) are mission-centered as access- and teaching-oriented and civically engaged institutions. Second, no matter how RPUs are sampled and classified, they are at the center of college access and equity. Third, RPUs deploy lean…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, Institutional Mission, Access to Education
A Field of Striving or Equity? Regional Public Universities and College Access
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Warshaw, Jarrett B.; DeMonbrun, Matt; McNaughtan, Jon – New Directions for Higher Education, 2020
Many regional public universities (RPUs) provide college access to diverse groups of undergraduate students and face pressures to pursue prestige in the academic hierarchy. Prior research posits that RPUs will strive for prestige because of status- and resource-based rewards that flow from increasing their admissions selectivity,…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, Access to Education, Equal Education
Between Two Fields: US Public Master's Institutions -- Striving for Prestige or Equity?
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Warshaw, Jarrett B.; McNaughtan, Jon; DeMonbrun, Matt – Higher Education Policy, 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that a field of striving compels US public master's institutions (PMIs) to pursue prestige in the academic hierarchy. We posit that, due to their unique histories of democratizing college opportunity, PMIs face conflicting imperatives from two fields: an origin one of equity and another of striving. Our hypotheses are…
Descriptors: Universities, Public Colleges, Masters Programs, Graduate Study