David F. Ayers
Associate Professor of Community College Leadership
Editor, Community College Review
Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development
dfayers@ncsu.eduBio
David’s first professional job was teaching English and world history at Instituto Laurens, A.C., in Monterrey, Mexico. In the years following, he taught Spanish in K-12 and in community colleges. Since 2002, he has held faculty appointments in higher education and community college leadership, first at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and then at Old Dominion University. In 2019, he received the Senior Scholar Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges. He currently serves as editor of Community College Review.
Education
Master of Studies in Law School of Law Wake Forest University 2016
Certificate Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Research Lancaster University 2008
Doctor of Education Higher Education Administration NC State University 1999
Master of Arts Higher Education Appalachian State University 1995
Bachelor of Science Spanish Appalachian State University 1992
Publications
- Conclusion: Reimagining Leadership , (2026)
- Historical Overview , (2026)
- Imaginaries and the Legitimation of Community College Responses to the Energy Crisis , (2026)
- Introduction , (2026)
- Leadership Imaginaries: Cultural, Political, and Economic Contexts , (2026)
- Mission: The Evolution of a Contested Organizational Genre , (2026)
- Theory and Method , (2026)
- Vision: Knowledge or Prophecy? , (2026)
- Techno-pedagogic discourse and the online learning assetization regime , Higher Education (2025)
- Community college discourses of sustainability in an academic and professional corpus , International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (2023)
Groups
Honors and Awards
- Senior Scholar Award, Council for the Study of Community Colleges, 2019
- Sallie-Mae First Class Teacher of the Year, Watauga County Schools, 1994