Cecilia M Orphan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4122905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia M Orphan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Orphan |
| SIGNATURE | ORPHAN C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0428-3696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Proposed Typology of Regional Public Universities
Intermediary Public Policy Organizations and the Discursive Evasion of Systemic Racism and Racialized Violence
The 2020 health pandemic and high-profile police murders of Black people inspired national conversations about racism and police brutality. This study examined how Intermediary Public Policy Organizations (IPPOs) discursively engaged with the racialized nature of the pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd, which have increased awareness of systemic racism in society. Our discursive analysis of IPPO statements published during these events…
Policy as Potemkin Village
Performance-funding for higher education diffused across the U.S. following the Great Recession that led to funding cuts for the system. Postsecondary funding never returned to pre-Recession levels, and public colleges are held to higher expectations even as the funding they might use to meet these expectations has diminished. This is a challenge Regional Public University (RPU) leaders experience acutely. Policymakers use performance-funding to …
Life at the “people’s universities”
Imagining decolonial desires of the public good
Considering the legacies of exclusion, white supremacy, and genocide found within the walls of U.S. higher education, the public good construct is also embedded in exclusion, white supremacy, and genocide. The fact that existing notions of the public good remain intact and unquestioned of its origins means that the public good is not for all individuals of our society, particularly Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, gender diverse, and ability div…
Operationalizing funds of knowledge
State of rhetoric
Policy elites use rhetoric in speeches and press releases to provide framing that is intended to influence public opinion. These rhetorical events can be treated as instances in which speech usefully promotes particular discourses. Indeed, elected officials are able to influence how individuals think about problems and solutions through speeches and press releases. Two important rhetorical events in which political elites advance frames for socia…
How Change Unravels
This multiple-case study examined the factors promoting or impeding ideal-centered change efforts focused on reclaiming the founding civic commitments of three Regional Comprehensive Universities. Findings showed that successful change agents engaged detractors in defining the ideal and shaping the change while assessing change efforts and recalibrating their approach as needed. Successful change agents also initiated ongoing cultural engagement …
The Company Regional Comprehensive Universities Desire to Keep
This article presents findings from a multiple-case study examining administrator choice in and use of institutional membership associations (IMAs) among Regional Comprehensive Universities (RCUs). The study’s purpose was to understand what choice of IMAs revealed about status-seeking and mission-centeredness among RCU administrators. Also examined was how administrators leverage IMAs to position their institutions in the broader postsecondary fi…
Towards a More Just Society
Building Bridges, Not Fences”
HBCUs traditionally build bridges, not fences, for their neighbors. –Barbara S. Frankle In its truest sense, higher education is aimed at fostering academic achievement and educating students for good and productive citizenship. With this purpose in mind, over the past few decades there has been a proliferation of research on civic engagement. Although substantial in size and reach, the civic engagement literature is limited in terms of depth and…
Why Students Need to Be Informed about Our Looming Fiscal Crisis
Despite nearly universal concern about America's rapidly rising national debt, the United States government was $12.5 trillion in debt by the spring of 2010. Yet, few people—including college and university students—understand why we are in debt, what the many effects and dangers could be, the difficult steps necessary to reduce our deficits and debt, and the critical importance of bipartisanship and compromise. Given that young people are the na…
Building Bridges, Not Fences”
HBCUs traditionally build bridges, not fences, for their neighbors. –Barbara S. Frankle In its truest sense, higher education is aimed at fostering academic achievement and educating students for good and productive citizenship. With this purpose in mind, over the past few decades there has been a proliferation of research on civic engagement. Although substantial in size and reach, the civic engagement literature is limited in terms of depth and…
The Company Regional Comprehensive Universities Desire to Keep
This article presents findings from a multiple-case study examining administrator choice in and use of institutional membership associations (IMAs) among Regional Comprehensive Universities (RCUs). The study’s purpose was to understand what choice of IMAs revealed about status-seeking and mission-centeredness among RCU administrators. Also examined was how administrators leverage IMAs to position their institutions in the broader postsecondary fi…
State of rhetoric
Policy elites use rhetoric in speeches and press releases to provide framing that is intended to influence public opinion. These rhetorical events can be treated as instances in which speech usefully promotes particular discourses. Indeed, elected officials are able to influence how individuals think about problems and solutions through speeches and press releases. Two important rhetorical events in which political elites advance frames for socia…
Imagining decolonial desires of the public good
Considering the legacies of exclusion, white supremacy, and genocide found within the walls of U.S. higher education, the public good construct is also embedded in exclusion, white supremacy, and genocide. The fact that existing notions of the public good remain intact and unquestioned of its origins means that the public good is not for all individuals of our society, particularly Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, gender diverse, and ability div…
Why Students Need to Be Informed about Our Looming Fiscal Crisis
Despite nearly universal concern about America's rapidly rising national debt, the United States government was $12.5 trillion in debt by the spring of 2010. Yet, few people—including college and university students—understand why we are in debt, what the many effects and dangers could be, the difficult steps necessary to reduce our deficits and debt, and the critical importance of bipartisanship and compromise. Given that young people are the na…
Why Students Need to Be Informed about Our Looming Fiscal Crisis
Despite nearly universal concern about America's rapidly rising national debt, the United States government was $12.5 trillion in debt by the spring of 2010. Yet, few people—including college and university students—understand why we are in debt, what the many effects and dangers could be, the difficult steps necessary to reduce our deficits and debt, and the critical importance of bipartisanship and compromise. Given that young people are the na…
Building Bridges, Not Fences”
HBCUs traditionally build bridges, not fences, for their neighbors. –Barbara S. Frankle In its truest sense, higher education is aimed at fostering academic achievement and educating students for good and productive citizenship. With this purpose in mind, over the past few decades there has been a proliferation of research on civic engagement. Although substantial in size and reach, the civic engagement literature is limited in terms of depth and…
Towards a More Just Society
The Company Regional Comprehensive Universities Desire to Keep
This article presents findings from a multiple-case study examining administrator choice in and use of institutional membership associations (IMAs) among Regional Comprehensive Universities (RCUs). The study’s purpose was to understand what choice of IMAs revealed about status-seeking and mission-centeredness among RCU administrators. Also examined was how administrators leverage IMAs to position their institutions in the broader postsecondary fi…
Operationalizing funds of knowledge
State of rhetoric
Policy elites use rhetoric in speeches and press releases to provide framing that is intended to influence public opinion. These rhetorical events can be treated as instances in which speech usefully promotes particular discourses. Indeed, elected officials are able to influence how individuals think about problems and solutions through speeches and press releases. Two important rhetorical events in which political elites advance frames for socia…
How Change Unravels
This multiple-case study examined the factors promoting or impeding ideal-centered change efforts focused on reclaiming the founding civic commitments of three Regional Comprehensive Universities. Findings showed that successful change agents engaged detractors in defining the ideal and shaping the change while assessing change efforts and recalibrating their approach as needed. Successful change agents also initiated ongoing cultural engagement …
Life at the “people’s universities”
Imagining decolonial desires of the public good
Considering the legacies of exclusion, white supremacy, and genocide found within the walls of U.S. higher education, the public good construct is also embedded in exclusion, white supremacy, and genocide. The fact that existing notions of the public good remain intact and unquestioned of its origins means that the public good is not for all individuals of our society, particularly Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, gender diverse, and ability div…
Intermediary Public Policy Organizations and the Discursive Evasion of Systemic Racism and Racialized Violence
The 2020 health pandemic and high-profile police murders of Black people inspired national conversations about racism and police brutality. This study examined how Intermediary Public Policy Organizations (IPPOs) discursively engaged with the racialized nature of the pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd, which have increased awareness of systemic racism in society. Our discursive analysis of IPPO statements published during these events…
Policy as Potemkin Village
Performance-funding for higher education diffused across the U.S. following the Great Recession that led to funding cuts for the system. Postsecondary funding never returned to pre-Recession levels, and public colleges are held to higher expectations even as the funding they might use to meet these expectations has diminished. This is a challenge Regional Public University (RPU) leaders experience acutely. Policymakers use performance-funding to …
A Proposed Typology of Regional Public Universities
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Higher education (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (5 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)