From Access to Outcome Equity : revitalizing the democratic mission of the community college
By: DOWD, Alicia C
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, March 2003Subject(s): College | Eficiência | Administração Patrimonial | Accountability | AcessoThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 586, p. 92-119Abstract: By expanding higher education's enrollmentcapacity, community colleges are understood by many to play an important democratizing role in the American postsecondary sustem. As public institutions, they also face demands for accountability, productivity, and efficiency, which in recent years have led to a greater market orientation. This article analyzes the ideology of efficiency and its effects on the acclaimed democratizing mission of the public two-year sector. It argues that open access in the traditional sense of nonselective, low-cost enrollment has been eroded by the stratification of educational opportunity and by declining college affordability. Technical and economic efficiency are distinct from the ideology of efficiency and that are not inherently at odds with equity goals. Performance accountability is explored as a mechanismm to collect and examine detailed student outcome data and balance efficiency concerns with a focus on equity
By expanding higher education's enrollmentcapacity, community colleges are understood by many to play an important democratizing role in the American postsecondary sustem. As public institutions, they also face demands for accountability, productivity, and efficiency, which in recent years have led to a greater market orientation. This article analyzes the ideology of efficiency and its effects on the acclaimed democratizing mission of the public two-year sector. It argues that open access in the traditional sense of nonselective, low-cost enrollment has been eroded by the stratification of educational opportunity and by declining college affordability. Technical and economic efficiency are distinct from the ideology of efficiency and that are not inherently at odds with equity goals. Performance accountability is explored as a mechanismm to collect and examine detailed student outcome data and balance efficiency concerns with a focus on equity
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