A Narrative Inquiry Into the Corporate Unknown: Academic-Discipline Faculty Experiences Teaching in “Pathway” Programs

• In Event: Roundtable Session 85
  In Roundtable Session: Entryways Into Academia: Complexities and Tensions

Abstract

Universities are being targeted by for-profit education service providers for privatized partnerships. These partnerships may include provisions for assumption of international student recruitment, intensive English-language program administration, and development and administration of international student matriculation “pathway” programs. Such pathway programs allow for admission of non-matriculated higher-level English language learners into mainstream universities’ credit-bearing, subject-matter courses. In this session, the presenter shares selected findings related to subject-matter content teaching faculty from a larger narrative inquiry dissertation revealing, examining, and describing faculty experiences working in universities with pathways programs vis-à-vis institutional status and curricular and pedagogical autonomy, as well as beliefs concerning student impact and consequences to host universities.

Author

• Carter Winkle, Barry University