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critical discourse studies, cultural political economy, critical management studies
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Employment (7)

Old Dominion University: Norfolk, Virginia, US

2017-09-01 to present | Associate Professor (Educational Foundations and Leadership)
Employment
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David F. Ayers

University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Greensboro, North Carolina, US

2002 to 2017 | Assistant / Associate Professor (School of Education)
Employment
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David F. Ayers

Davidson County Community College: Lexington, North Carolina, US

1999 to 2002 | Spanish Instructor (Arts and Sciences)
Employment
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David F. Ayers

Lenoir Community College: Kinston, North Carolina, US

1995 to 1999 | Spanish Instructor (Arts and Sciences)
Employment
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David F. Ayers

North Carolina State University: Raleigh, North Carolina, US

1995 to 1996 | Residence Director (Housing and Residence Life)
Employment
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David F. Ayers

Watauga County School District: Boone, NC, US

1993 to 1995 | Spanish Teacher (Foreign Language )
Employment
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David F. Ayers

Instituto Laurens: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, MX

1993-01 to 1993-06 | Teacher: English and World History (Secundaria)
Employment
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David F. Ayers

Education and qualifications (5)

Wake Forest University: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US

Master of Studies in Law (School of Law)
Education
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David F. Ayers

North Carolina State University: Raleigh, NC, US

Doctor of Education (Adult and Community College Education)
Education
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David F. Ayers

Lancaster University: Lancaster, Lancashire, GB

2008 to 2008 | Certificate, Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Research (Institute for Advanced Studies)
Education
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David F. Ayers

Appalachian State University: Boone, North Carolina, US

1993-06-01 to 1995-08-01 | MA (Foreign Languages and Literatures / Leadership Ed Studies)
Education
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David F. Ayers

Appalachian State University: Boone, NC, US

1989-08-01 to 1992-12-01 | BS (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Education
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David F. Ayers

Professional activities (3)

Community College Review: Raleigh, NC, US

2023-07-01 to present | Editor
Service
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David F. Ayers

Council for the Study of Community Colleges: San Diego, CA, US

2019-03-29 | Senior Scholar Award
Distinction
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David F. Ayers

Watauga County School District: Boone, NC, US

1993 | Sallie Mae First Class Teacher of the Year
Distinction
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David F. Ayers

Works (22)

Techno-pedagogic discourse and the online learning assetization regime

Higher Education
2025-01-24 | Journal article
Contributors: David F. Ayers
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Community College Leadership Discourses in Dissertation Abstracts, 1980 to 2020

Community College Journal of Research and Practice
2023-09-02 | Journal article
Contributors: David F. Ayers
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Community college discourses of sustainability in an academic and professional corpus

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
2023-05-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1467-6370
Part of ISSN: 1467-6370
Contributors: Minghui Hou; David Franklin Ayers
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David F. Ayers

Diachronic Corpus of Mission Statements for NC and FL Community Colleges

2021-09-13 | Dataset
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David F. Ayers

Emotional Labor and Midlevel Leadership

New Directions for Community Colleges
2020 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

The Convergence of Institutional Logics on the Community College Sector and the Normalization of Emotional Labor: A New Theoretical Approach for Considering the Community College Faculty Labor Expectations

The Review of Higher Education
2018 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Communication conflict styles, perception of ethical environment, and job satisfaction among college and university counselors

Journal of College Counseling
2017 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Three functions of the community college mission statement

New Directions for Community Colleges
2017 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Credentialing Structures, Pedagogies, Practices, and Curriculum Goals:Trajectories of Change in Community College Mission Statements

Community College Review
2015 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

The community college and a rising global imaginary: An analysis of practical reasoning, 1950-2013

The Journal of Higher Education
2015 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

When managerialism meets professional autonomy: The university ‘budget update’ as genre of governance

Culture and Organization
2014 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1475-9551
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David F. Ayers

From governance to competitiveness: A diachronic analysis of the community college discourse of local

Critical Discourse Studies
2013 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Planning programs for community college education: Theory, policy, and practice

Understanding community colleges
2013 | Book chapter
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David F. Ayers

Professional norms versus managerialism in campus mental health centers: The experiences of eight clinicians

Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice
2013 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum

Journal of Critical Realism
2013 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1476-7430
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David F. Ayers

A critical realist orientation to learner needs

Adult Education Quarterly
2011 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Community colleges and the politics of sociospatial scale

Higher Education
2010 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Putting the community back in the college

Academe
2010 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Institutional contradiction in the community college

Community College Review
2009 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Manifestations of neoliberal discourses in a local job-training program

International Journal of Lifelong Education
2007 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Neoliberal ideology in community college mission statements: A critical discourse analysis

The Review of Higher Education
2005 | Journal article
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David F. Ayers

Understanding conflict and climate in a community college

Community College Journal of Research and Practice
2002 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1066-8926
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David F. Ayers