The institutional vision of community colleges: Assessing style as well as substance

Community College Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 306-335

  Abelman, Robert ^a   Dalessandro, Amy ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Community colleges; Computerized text analysis; Institutional vision; Mission statements; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749134999     PISSN: 00915521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0091552108315604     Document Type: Article

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