The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to discover how six community college presidents who were undergraduate English majors construct the stories of their academic and professional journeys. Findings were synthesized using three themes—boundaries, connections, and transformations—as an interpretative framework. The selected presidents crossed boundaries, made connections to ideas and people, and transformed their thoughts and actions as found in the descriptions of their academic and professional experiences. Data analyses determined that the content and context the presidents’ stories uncovered relationships between their experiences, their beliefs about higher education’s purpose, and their understanding of the community college mission.
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