Jon Mcnaughtan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Mcnaughtan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnaughtan |
| SIGNATURE | MCNAUGHTAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4357-9457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reaching for Excellence Through Equity or Prestige? US Private Master's Comprehensive Institutions and Low‐Income Students
Private master's comprehensive institutions (PMCIs) in the United States navigate pressures to expand college access and equity while striving for prestige in the academic hierarchy. To strive for prestige entails competing for world‐class status of greater selectivity, research intensity and resources, but such a pathway to excellence may, because of market‐competition, deepen institutional and student stratification in the sector. In this study…
Shared Governance in Wicked Times
Background: Shared governance is currently under attack by state agencies that seek to limit the power of institutional governing bodies. In addition, the effectiveness has been called into question by practitioners and researchers alike, which creates an additional stress on the prevailing governing structure of higher education. Purpose, Objective, and Focus of Study: Given the challenging context that higher education currently exists in with …
Creating a STEM Center Network for Increasing Underrepresented Minority Retention in STEM
Examining the Situative Progression of Teachers’ Novice-To-Expert Development in Education Policy
Professional development in policy for K–12 teachers is relatively rare despite the indelible role that teachers play in policy implementation. This study describes the experiences of five teachers who completed the 10-month Texas Education Policy Fellowship Program. Results showed that the experienced classroom teachers garnered the most policy knowledge, situated leadership development, and networks. Additionally, they sought new professional d…
A Seat at the Table”
Readiness for change
The Value of Work Flexibility
Moscas en La Leche
The Hispanic-Serving Institution designation is based on enrollment with the overarching goal to ensure specialized support for Hispanic students. Despite the intentional funding, some institutions reap the financial benefits while not bolstering resources and support for the Hispanic population, or at least without seeing positive outcomes. Past research has illustrated this through dollars spent per student by racial category and with analysis …
Reducing the Loss of Community College Students who Demonstrate Potential in STEM
Being our best
Over the last few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of student service personnel, yet demand has outstripped this growth leading to turnover and low employee satisfaction. Scholars and practitioners alike have called for increased levels of empowerment of these workers, but the outcomes of this approach need further analysis. We utilize data from a survey of international centre directors in the United States and employ…
Architects of Change or Its Victim”
Presidents have difficult roles regardless of systemic context and in times of crisis their work is especially complex. While the body of work on presidents generally is growing, understanding of their role in crisis is underdeveloped. In this study, we enhance research on presidential crisis leadership by applying the competing values framework to a unique set of interviews with 14 presidents from eight nations. Our results highlight the value t…
Leading the way–Understanding women’s university leadership during crisis through a feminist educational leadership lens
Crisis leadership in higher education has received scholarly attention before COVID-19, yet found itself even more in the focus of global leadership research since 2020. This article employs the theoretical framework of Feminist Educational Leadership (FEL) to better understand the crisis leadership of five women university presidents from three different continents and five different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through content analys…
Committed to their craft
Faculty engage in several institutional activities typically categorised as teaching, research and service. Within those activities there are numerous potential tasks, and research denotes that faculty often bemoan this work which can lead to turnover and lack of commitment. We present the job crafting framework as one way to allow faculty to be active participants in increasing their work commitment. The focus of this analysis was understanding …
Suppressing racial diversity for prestige? The conflicting imperatives of public master’s institutions
Leading at the crossroads
Research on leadership is historically biased, with little consideration for different experiences of leaders of color. In this study, we applied the integrated race and leadership framework (Ospina & Foldy, 2009) and utilized a case study approach focused on the context of institutional communication to analyze the experiences of six Black community college presidents. The study was guided by the overarching question of how racial identity guide…
Examining the continuum of Black student leadership
This qualitative comparative case study examines the leadership involvement of 11 Black collegians and how they make sense of enacting transgenerationally informed knowledge(s) as racial socialization to navigate a predominantly White institution (PWI) campus. Findings indicated participants used elder communal instruction and parental home pedagogy to inform what it means to be leaders who enact social justice while Black. Emergent themes were: …
Proximity to Power
Presidents, provosts, deans, and other upper-level administrators in higher education fit common definitions of “elites” in the context of qualitative research. Scholarship on methods specific to the field of higher education has not identified or described the unique challenges of interviewing these and other elites. The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges and share strategies for elite interviewing, with specific application to quali…
Trust or Self-Determination
Faculty job satisfaction is critical to the success of students and institutions of higher education. Satisfaction of faculty has often been tied to the autonomy of faculty to complete their work with many faculty viewing themselves as independent contractors whose roles and identities are separate from the institution’s, but the implications of this mentality are scarcely understood. This study applies the empowerment framework which encompasses…
Educators, not bureaucrats
International student services centers (ISSC) at postsecondary institutions in the United States are central to supporting international students’ transition and adjustment needs. As leaders of these units, ISSC directors are ‘managerial professionals’ (MPs), exhibiting characteristics of both traditional academic and administrative roles. These qualities mirror the requisite adaptiveness of their positions, required to navigate the complex inter…
Making Meaning of the Mid-Level Administrator Roles in International Student Service Centers
This study explores how mid-level administrators working in international student service centers make meaning of their roles and perceive the support their institutions provide. Utilizing critical discourse analysis and the theoretical framework of empowerment, this study reveals the social problems, power struggles, and avenues mid-level administrators utilize for change. Specifically, we find that participants cope with significant social prob…
Music Faculty Role and Organizational Commitment
Between Two Fields
Higher Education and Medicaid Spending
An institutional North Star
Mission statements have been a staple of higher education institutions for decades, but little is known of how they are used as a tool for institutional decision-making. Using three distinct data sources, this study relies on framing theory to analyse the perceptions of university presidents in the United States on the role of mission statements in deciding when and how to communicate. Further, we compare the espoused values of university mission…
Contentious dialogue
In recent years, technology has made it possible, and at times critical, for college and university presidents to increase their campus-wide public communication. However, there is little research that analyses these frequent and timely presidential communications. Using grounded theory, this study took steps to fill this gap by analysing the unprecedented response campuses had to the 2016 United States presidential election of Donald Trump. The …
Unrealized Potential
Our understanding of community college pathways to baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is remarkably incomplete, despite growing recognition of the sizeable role that community colleges stand to play in increasing the number of students who enter STEM baccalaureate programs, particularly underrepresented students. Here, we drew from data on nearly 3 million students to analyze participation in and navigation…
Contentious dialogue
In recent years, technology has made it possible, and at times critical, for college and university presidents to increase their campus-wide public communication. However, there is little research that analyses these frequent and timely presidential communications. Using grounded theory, this study took steps to fill this gap by analysing the unprecedented response campuses had to the 2016 United States presidential election of Donald Trump. The …
Proximity to Power
Presidents, provosts, deans, and other upper-level administrators in higher education fit common definitions of “elites” in the context of qualitative research. Scholarship on methods specific to the field of higher education has not identified or described the unique challenges of interviewing these and other elites. The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges and share strategies for elite interviewing, with specific application to quali…
An institutional North Star
Mission statements have been a staple of higher education institutions for decades, but little is known of how they are used as a tool for institutional decision-making. Using three distinct data sources, this study relies on framing theory to analyse the perceptions of university presidents in the United States on the role of mission statements in deciding when and how to communicate. Further, we compare the espoused values of university mission…
Educators, not bureaucrats
International student services centers (ISSC) at postsecondary institutions in the United States are central to supporting international students’ transition and adjustment needs. As leaders of these units, ISSC directors are ‘managerial professionals’ (MPs), exhibiting characteristics of both traditional academic and administrative roles. These qualities mirror the requisite adaptiveness of their positions, required to navigate the complex inter…
Making Meaning of the Mid-Level Administrator Roles in International Student Service Centers
This study explores how mid-level administrators working in international student service centers make meaning of their roles and perceive the support their institutions provide. Utilizing critical discourse analysis and the theoretical framework of empowerment, this study reveals the social problems, power struggles, and avenues mid-level administrators utilize for change. Specifically, we find that participants cope with significant social prob…
Moscas en La Leche
The Hispanic-Serving Institution designation is based on enrollment with the overarching goal to ensure specialized support for Hispanic students. Despite the intentional funding, some institutions reap the financial benefits while not bolstering resources and support for the Hispanic population, or at least without seeing positive outcomes. Past research has illustrated this through dollars spent per student by racial category and with analysis …
Architects of Change or Its Victim”
Presidents have difficult roles regardless of systemic context and in times of crisis their work is especially complex. While the body of work on presidents generally is growing, understanding of their role in crisis is underdeveloped. In this study, we enhance research on presidential crisis leadership by applying the competing values framework to a unique set of interviews with 14 presidents from eight nations. Our results highlight the value t…
Trust or Self-Determination
Faculty job satisfaction is critical to the success of students and institutions of higher education. Satisfaction of faculty has often been tied to the autonomy of faculty to complete their work with many faculty viewing themselves as independent contractors whose roles and identities are separate from the institution’s, but the implications of this mentality are scarcely understood. This study applies the empowerment framework which encompasses…
Between Two Fields
The Value of Work Flexibility
Suppressing racial diversity for prestige? The conflicting imperatives of public master’s institutions
Higher Education and Medicaid Spending
Unrealized Potential
Our understanding of community college pathways to baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is remarkably incomplete, despite growing recognition of the sizeable role that community colleges stand to play in increasing the number of students who enter STEM baccalaureate programs, particularly underrepresented students. Here, we drew from data on nearly 3 million students to analyze participation in and navigation…
Contentious dialogue
In recent years, technology has made it possible, and at times critical, for college and university presidents to increase their campus-wide public communication. However, there is little research that analyses these frequent and timely presidential communications. Using grounded theory, this study took steps to fill this gap by analysing the unprecedented response campuses had to the 2016 United States presidential election of Donald Trump. The …
Music Faculty Role and Organizational Commitment
Between Two Fields
Higher Education and Medicaid Spending
An institutional North Star
Mission statements have been a staple of higher education institutions for decades, but little is known of how they are used as a tool for institutional decision-making. Using three distinct data sources, this study relies on framing theory to analyse the perceptions of university presidents in the United States on the role of mission statements in deciding when and how to communicate. Further, we compare the espoused values of university mission…
Making Meaning of the Mid-Level Administrator Roles in International Student Service Centers
This study explores how mid-level administrators working in international student service centers make meaning of their roles and perceive the support their institutions provide. Utilizing critical discourse analysis and the theoretical framework of empowerment, this study reveals the social problems, power struggles, and avenues mid-level administrators utilize for change. Specifically, we find that participants cope with significant social prob…
Leading at the crossroads
Research on leadership is historically biased, with little consideration for different experiences of leaders of color. In this study, we applied the integrated race and leadership framework (Ospina & Foldy, 2009) and utilized a case study approach focused on the context of institutional communication to analyze the experiences of six Black community college presidents. The study was guided by the overarching question of how racial identity guide…
Examining the continuum of Black student leadership
This qualitative comparative case study examines the leadership involvement of 11 Black collegians and how they make sense of enacting transgenerationally informed knowledge(s) as racial socialization to navigate a predominantly White institution (PWI) campus. Findings indicated participants used elder communal instruction and parental home pedagogy to inform what it means to be leaders who enact social justice while Black. Emergent themes were: …
Proximity to Power
Presidents, provosts, deans, and other upper-level administrators in higher education fit common definitions of “elites” in the context of qualitative research. Scholarship on methods specific to the field of higher education has not identified or described the unique challenges of interviewing these and other elites. The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges and share strategies for elite interviewing, with specific application to quali…
Trust or Self-Determination
Faculty job satisfaction is critical to the success of students and institutions of higher education. Satisfaction of faculty has often been tied to the autonomy of faculty to complete their work with many faculty viewing themselves as independent contractors whose roles and identities are separate from the institution’s, but the implications of this mentality are scarcely understood. This study applies the empowerment framework which encompasses…
Educators, not bureaucrats
International student services centers (ISSC) at postsecondary institutions in the United States are central to supporting international students’ transition and adjustment needs. As leaders of these units, ISSC directors are ‘managerial professionals’ (MPs), exhibiting characteristics of both traditional academic and administrative roles. These qualities mirror the requisite adaptiveness of their positions, required to navigate the complex inter…
Leading the way–Understanding women’s university leadership during crisis through a feminist educational leadership lens
Crisis leadership in higher education has received scholarly attention before COVID-19, yet found itself even more in the focus of global leadership research since 2020. This article employs the theoretical framework of Feminist Educational Leadership (FEL) to better understand the crisis leadership of five women university presidents from three different continents and five different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through content analys…
Committed to their craft
Faculty engage in several institutional activities typically categorised as teaching, research and service. Within those activities there are numerous potential tasks, and research denotes that faculty often bemoan this work which can lead to turnover and lack of commitment. We present the job crafting framework as one way to allow faculty to be active participants in increasing their work commitment. The focus of this analysis was understanding …
Suppressing racial diversity for prestige? The conflicting imperatives of public master’s institutions
Reducing the Loss of Community College Students who Demonstrate Potential in STEM
Being our best
Over the last few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of student service personnel, yet demand has outstripped this growth leading to turnover and low employee satisfaction. Scholars and practitioners alike have called for increased levels of empowerment of these workers, but the outcomes of this approach need further analysis. We utilize data from a survey of international centre directors in the United States and employ…
Architects of Change or Its Victim”
Presidents have difficult roles regardless of systemic context and in times of crisis their work is especially complex. While the body of work on presidents generally is growing, understanding of their role in crisis is underdeveloped. In this study, we enhance research on presidential crisis leadership by applying the competing values framework to a unique set of interviews with 14 presidents from eight nations. Our results highlight the value t…
Examining the Situative Progression of Teachers’ Novice-To-Expert Development in Education Policy
Professional development in policy for K–12 teachers is relatively rare despite the indelible role that teachers play in policy implementation. This study describes the experiences of five teachers who completed the 10-month Texas Education Policy Fellowship Program. Results showed that the experienced classroom teachers garnered the most policy knowledge, situated leadership development, and networks. Additionally, they sought new professional d…
A Seat at the Table”
Readiness for change
The Value of Work Flexibility
Moscas en La Leche
The Hispanic-Serving Institution designation is based on enrollment with the overarching goal to ensure specialized support for Hispanic students. Despite the intentional funding, some institutions reap the financial benefits while not bolstering resources and support for the Hispanic population, or at least without seeing positive outcomes. Past research has illustrated this through dollars spent per student by racial category and with analysis …
Reaching for Excellence Through Equity or Prestige? US Private Master's Comprehensive Institutions and Low‐Income Students
Private master's comprehensive institutions (PMCIs) in the United States navigate pressures to expand college access and equity while striving for prestige in the academic hierarchy. To strive for prestige entails competing for world‐class status of greater selectivity, research intensity and resources, but such a pathway to excellence may, because of market‐competition, deepen institutional and student stratification in the sector. In this study…
Shared Governance in Wicked Times
Background: Shared governance is currently under attack by state agencies that seek to limit the power of institutional governing bodies. In addition, the effectiveness has been called into question by practitioners and researchers alike, which creates an additional stress on the prevailing governing structure of higher education. Purpose, Objective, and Focus of Study: Given the challenging context that higher education currently exists in with …
Political science (22 works) · Public relations (17 works) · Higher education (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (8 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (7 works)