When Mission Stops Governing: Mission Drift and the Quiet Erosion of Purpose in Merged Schools

When Mission Stops Governing offers a rigorous examination of mission drift in merged schools and other mission-driven educational institutions. Rather than treating drift as a matter of declining sincerity or weakened identity language, the author argues that it emerges through structural reordering: shifts in authority, governance, budgeting, scheduling, hiring, evaluation, and institutional cre...