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The Institutional Vision of Community Colleges

Assessing Style as Well as Substance

Robert Abelman

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH

Amy Dalessandro

Kent State University, Kent, OH

Providing an accessible and adaptable education has become an increasingly daunting task for community colleges. Administrators must formulate adaptive strategies as well as purposefully articulate them. A content analysis of the mission and vision statements from a nationwide sample of community colleges was performed, and key linguistic components found to constitute a well conceived, viable, and easily diffused institutional vision were isolated. The prevalence of these components in comparison to other types of academic institutions is discussed.

Key Words: institutional vision • mission statements • community colleges • computerized text analysis • rhetoric

Community College Review, Vol. 35, No. 4, 306-335 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0091552108315604
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