College Promise Programs as Symbolic Politics
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2328554 |
|---|---|
| Autores | David B Monaghan (0000-0001-5116-5487, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Shippensburg, PA, USA, autor de correspondencia), Paul Attewell (0000-0003-4578-2416, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 96 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 301-323 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380407231183459 |
| OpenAlex | W4383536098 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 4 |
| Referencias citadas | 53 |
Since the Tennessee Promise's 2014 launch, 'free college' or 'Promise' programs have proliferated rapidly and converged on design features: a 'last-dollar' award and community college applicability. Researchers who study these programs' effects generally presume they are tuition-reducing endeavors. In contrast, we argue that many such programs are exercises in 'symbolic politics,' that is, they perform organizational altruism and meet survival imperatives while minimally reducing real costs. We illustrate this by detailing the creation, implementation, and results of a Promise program at a large community college. Cost concerns and the need to appeal to critical publics led the college to adopt a last-dollar design and numerous eligibility criteria. Consequently, few applicants were funded. However, many applicants believed they had received the scholarship, the college's enrollment increased, and the program received widespread acclaim. We discuss implications for higher education policy and the applicability of symbolic politics to organizational action
Action (physics) · Altruism (biology) · Appeal · Economics · Higher education · Liberian dollar · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Psychology
Can the Promise of Free Education Improve College Attainment? Lessons from the Milwaukee Area Technical College Promise
Why do people go to college? The institutional environment and the educational dispositions of community college students
The Help I Was Told I Never Would Receive”
Whose Last Dollar? Estimating the Effects of Promise Programs on Financial Aid Awards
Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization (Research in Sociology of Education)
The symbolic uses of politics
Paying the Price
The Schooled Society
From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk
Made to Fit
Managing Legitimacy
Constructing the political spectacle
Institutional Theory
The production of racial inequality within and among organizations
Place-based scholarships
What Does Free Community College Buy? Early Impacts from the Oregon Promise
The External Control of Organizations
Promise scholarship programs as place-making policy
Understanding the Promise
Tuition, Targeting, and Tradeoffs
The Politics of Designing Tuition-Free College
Can Free Community College Close Racial Disparities in Postsecondary Attainment? How Tulsa Achieves Affects Racially Minoritized Student Outcomes
Patterns of Reinvention
The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion
The Power of a Promise
Organizational Legitimacy
The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, "Post-Racial" America
A Theory of Racialized Organizations
Free College
Social Construction of Target Populations
Symbolic Politics of the State
When Whites Flock Together
Real and imagined barriers to college entry
Bourdieu and organizational analysis
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citas por año | 2 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |