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Fixed and in flux: the identity of a hospitality degree program at a Canadian community college

Fixed and in flux: the identity of a hospitality degree program at a Canadian community college This paper applies the concept of identity – typically associated with individuals and self-definition – to the study of a degree program, a collective educational enterprise. Faculty members and senior administrators at a community college in Canada with ties to the development of a hospitality degree program were interviewed. This paper examines identity within a different empirical and scalar context (a degree program rather than individuals) and in a manner that is different conceptually (addressing the idea that identity has both enduring and changing features). The competitive academic marketplace has shaped the identity of the hospitality degree program at Niagara College Canada. Commercial pressures, themselves fixed and in flux, have driven the formation of an identity that has attributes that are fixed and in flux. The notion of identity is interwoven with business imperatives and may offer guidance to hospitality degree programs in the context of a post-pandemic economic recovery. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Taylor & Francis

Fixed and in flux: the identity of a hospitality degree program at a Canadian community college

Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism , Volume 23 (1): 19 – Jan 2, 2023
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Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN
1531-3239
eISSN
1531-3220
DOI
10.1080/15313220.2022.2062523
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Abstract

This paper applies the concept of identity – typically associated with individuals and self-definition – to the study of a degree program, a collective educational enterprise. Faculty members and senior administrators at a community college in Canada with ties to the development of a hospitality degree program were interviewed. This paper examines identity within a different empirical and scalar context (a degree program rather than individuals) and in a manner that is different conceptually (addressing the idea that identity has both enduring and changing features). The competitive academic marketplace has shaped the identity of the hospitality degree program at Niagara College Canada. Commercial pressures, themselves fixed and in flux, have driven the formation of an identity that has attributes that are fixed and in flux. The notion of identity is interwoven with business imperatives and may offer guidance to hospitality degree programs in the context of a post-pandemic economic recovery.

Journal

Journal of Teaching in Travel & TourismTaylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2023

Keywords: Degree; hospitality; identity; college; interview

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