Expertise
Higher EducationCommunity college history and missions, Critical organization and management studies, Curriculum processesCultural StudiesCritical discourse studies; Cultural political economy
Research Interests
community college missions, critical policy studies, organizational discourse processes, organizational sustainability
Articles
Ayers, D. F.. Techno-pedagogic discourse and the online learning assetization regime. Higher Education.Hou, M. (2023). Community college discourses of sustainability in an academic and professional corpus. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 24 (8) , pp. 1669-1686.Ayers, D. (2022). Community college leadership discourses in dissertation abstracts: 1980 to 2020. Community College Journal of Research and Practice.Ayers, D. F.. and Gonzales, L. D.. (2020). Emotional labor and mid-level leadership in community colleges. New Directions for Community Colleges 2020 (191) , pp. 43-55.Gonzales, L. D.. and Ayers, D. F.. (2017). The convergence of institutional logics and the normalization of emotional labor. The Review of Higher Education 41 , pp. 455-478.Ayers, D. F.. (2017). Three functions of the community college mission statement. New Directions for Community Colleges 2017 (180) , pp. 9-17.Ayers, D. F.. and Palmadessa, A. L.. (2016). The community college and a rising global imaginary: An analysis of practical reasoning, 1950-2013.. The Journal of Higher Education 86 , pp. 864-892.Ayers, D. F.. (2012). From governance to competitiveness: a diachronic analysis of the community college discourse of local. Critical Discourse Studies 10 (1) , pp. 99-116.Ayers, D. F. (2012). When managerialism meets professional autonomy: The university ‘budget update’ as genre of governance. Culture and Organization 20 (2) , pp. 98-120.
Presentations
Ayers, D. and Brooks, W. A.. (November , 2019). How do mission statements differ from presidents’ welcome statements: The salience of genre. Paper Association for the Study of Higher Education Portland, OR.
- 2019: Senior Scholar Award, Council for the Study of Community Colleges