Expertise
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