ABSTRACT

Community colleges, who are dependent on state and federal funding directly and through need-based student grants, have limited power in higher education. Similarly, public universities continue to lose decision-making authority as the neo-liberal philosophy permeates higher education broadly. This is an opportune time for public community colleges and universities to enhance inter-institutional partnerships. To this end, we, a team of community college employees and university-based researchers, conducted anti-oppressive, grant funded research collaboratively. In this article, we detail the five key elements to successful anti-oppressive community college and university research including transparency, efficiency, respect, sharing resources, and trust. We argue that community colleges and their constituents should not be relegated to passive role of subject in research. Rather they should be valued as co-creators of knowledge to enhance research findings and build coalitions across public institutions of higher education.

摘要

社区学院直接依赖州和联邦资金并通过基于需求的学生资助，在高等教育中的权力有限。同样，随着新自由主义哲学广泛渗透到高等教育中，公立大学继续失去决策权。这是公立社区学院和大学加强机构间伙伴关系的大好时机。为此，我们，一个由社区学院员工和大学研究人员组成的团队，合作开展了反压迫、赠款资助的研究。在本文中，我们详细介绍了成功的反压迫社区学院和大学研究的五个关键要素，包括透明度、效率、尊重、资源共享和信任。我们认为，社区学院及其成员不应被贬低为学科在研究中的被动角色。相反，他们应该被视为知识的共同创造者，以加强研究成果并在公共高等教育机构之间建立联盟。