From Community College to University: Institutionalization and Neoliberalism in British Columbia and Alberta.

This qualitative investigation of higher education institutional development addresses new universities that were former community colleges in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Stemming from an original study conducted nearly two decades earlier, this investigation's data were collected from the same institutions and from similar sources: institutional documents, government policies, and interviews from faculty and administrators; thus, qualifying as a longitudinal qualitative investigation. This investigation explains institutional instability and identity change as a result of new government policies and institutional norms during the period of 2000-2013. Future research can monitor the influence of neoliberal practices on the development of these new model higher education institutions in the Canadian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cette étude qualitative sur l'expansion des institutions d'enseignement supérieur porte sur l'étude de nouvelles universités qui étaient autrefois des collèges communautaires des provinces de la Colombie-Britannique et de l'Alberta. Issues d'une enquête menée il y a environ deux décennies, les données de cette étude ont été recueillies auprès de ces mêmes institutions et s'appuient sur des sources similaires : documents institutionnels, politiques gouvernementales et entretiens avec le corps professoral et les administrateurs, donnant ainsi un caractère longitudinal à l'étude. Celle-ci explique l'instabilité de ces institutions et leur changement d'identité, conséquences de nouvelles directives gouvernementales et de normes institutionnelles des années 2000 à 2013. De futures recherches pourront suivre l'influence des pratiques néolibérales sur le développement de ces nouvelles institutions d'enseignement supérieur dans un contexte canadien. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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