American Higher Education, Leadership, and Policy Critical Issues and the Public Good

Pasque argues that if a more thorough understanding of leaders' perspectives is not offered, then the dominant perspectives within academic discourse will continue to perpetuate the current ideas of higher education's relationship with society-from an economic rationalization perspective-without consideration of alternative perspectives.

Penny A. Pasque is Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She received a PhD from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan and her MS in interpersonal communication from Syracuse University. Her research includes addressing in/equities in higher education, exploring the connections between higher education and society, and uncovering complexities in critical qualitative methodologies. Pasque is finalizing the edited volume Empowering Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs: Theory, Research, Narratives and Practice from Feminist Perspectives (with co-editor Shelley Errington Nicholson) and Critical Issues in Higher Education for the Public Good: Qualitative, Quantitative & Historical Research Perspectives (with co-editors Nicholas Bowman and Magdalena Martinez) was recently released. Pasque is Committee Chair for the Center for Social Justice through the Women's and Gender Studies program at the University of Oklahoma.