Objective: With both policy pressures from state governments, including states’ funding behaviors, and the logic of the institution deeply ingrained over decades, community colleges face considerable challenge in reconciling conflicting values and requirements. Yet, as organizations they adapt to survive, and outcomes of adaptation may lead to an alteration of mission and identity. The purpose of this field methods research investigation is to explore and explain three states’ policies (California, Washington, and Hawai’i) and the variance in three community colleges’ organizational responses to these policies in the period of 2000-2014. Method: Data include observations, policy documents, organizational documents, and interviews of administrators and faculty at three community colleges. Results: Findings indicate that the policies and practices of these three states pushed economic, political, and social agendas onto their respective community colleges and imposed liberal market ideals and businesslike behaviors on these institutions. Individual colleges responded to external pressures from the state both by compliance with state requirements and through actions to adjust to state funding reductions. However, in so doing, community colleges endeavored to adhere to the institutional logic of the community college, which in some cases resulted in a blending of logics, the logic of the community college and the logic of neoliberalism. Contributions: This investigation holds implications for community college scholarship and for policy makers: Individual state characteristics need to be taken into consideration in research on community colleges and for the design of education policies.

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社区大学逻辑的保护：对三个州的国家政策和资助实践的组织回应

目标：由于来自州政府的政策压力，包括州的资助行为，以及几十年来根深蒂固的机构逻辑，社区学院在调和相互冲突的价值观和要求方面面临着相当大的挑战。然而，随着组织适应生存，适应的结果可能会导致使命和身份的改变。本田野方法研究调查的目的是探讨和解释 2000 年至 2014 年期间三个州（加利福尼亚州、华盛顿州和夏威夷州）的政策以及三所社区学院对这些政策的组织反应的差异。方法：数据包括观察、政策文件、组织文件以及对三所社区学院的管理人员和教职员工的访谈。结果：调查结果表明，这三个州的政策和实践将经济、政治和社会议程推到了各自的社区学院，并将自由市场理想和商业行为强加于这些机构。个别大学通过遵守州要求和通过适应州资金削减的行动来应对来自州的外部压力。然而，社区学院在这样做的过程中努力坚持社区学院的制度逻辑，这在某些情况下导致了社区学院逻辑和新自由主义逻辑的混合。贡献：这项调查对社区大学奖学金和政策制定者有影响：