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Tiêu đề
Staking a claim: The decoupling of liberal arts mission statements from baccalaureate degrees awarded in higher education
Tác giả
Delucchi M.
Năm xuất bản
2000
Source title
Sociological Inquiry
Số trích dẫn
18
DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.2000.tb00903.x
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Tóm tắt
This study uses data from synopses of academic mission statements at 303 U.S. colleges to examine the relationship between liberal arts claims and major field of baccalaureate degrees. Hypotheses are developed from an institutionalist perspective that focus, first, on the extent to which academic mission statements are decoupled (inconsistent) from major field of baccalaureate degrees awarded at "liberal arts" colleges and, second, on the relationship between several organizational characteristics of colleges and the likelihood of decoupling. Descriptive statistics reveal that 70 percent of colleges making liberal arts claims award degrees primarily in professional disciplines. Logit analysis is used to test institutionalist hypotheses concerning the effects of denominational affiliation, selectivity, residentiality, and endowment on the probability of decoupling. Results support the institutionalist model.
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Chinese Corporation for Promotion of Humanities
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Scopus