Meeting the challenge of gender equity in community college athletics

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (142) ◽  
pp. 93-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Castañeda ◽  
Stephen G. Katsinas ◽  
David E. Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
College Athletics

Buried Accomplishments: Institutional Isomorphism in College Athletics Mission Statements

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell E. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletics ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Athletic Department ◽  
Athletic Departments ◽  
Academic Advancement ◽  
External Pressures

Despite suggestions that mission statements represent a strategic component of organizational communication, there has been little research of these documents in athletic departments at U.S. colleges and universities. The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between mission statement content and athletic department accomplishments in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I schools (N = 343). The content analysis of mission statements revealed that athletics missions do not differentiate accomplished from less accomplished athletic programs. Athletic departments with strong traditions of promoting the academic advancement of student-athletes, achieving gender equity, and complying with NCAA rules tend to reference these distinctions in the same way as departments with less favorable histories. Grounded in institutional theory, this article describes the external pressures toward sameness rather than differentiation in mission statement content. Implications for intercollegiate athletics and higher education are discussed.

Community College Geography: A Question of Place

1996 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
John J. Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Community College

Prediction of Multiple Aspects of the Community College Experience

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford E. Lunneborg ◽  
Patricia W. Lunneborg ◽  
Renny Greenmun
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Experience
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