| Public Purpose under Pressure: Examining the Effects of Neoliberal Public Policy on the Missions of Regional Comprehensive Universities. CM Orphan Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 22 (2), 59-101, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
| “Building bridges, not fences”: A history of civic engagement at private Black colleges and universities, 1944–1965 M Gasman, D Spencer, C Orphan History of Education Quarterly 55 (3), 346-379, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| An Anchor for the Region: Examining a Regional Comprehensive University's Eff orts to Serve its Rural, Appalachian Community. CM Orphan, KR McClure Journal of Research in Rural Education 35 (9), 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Introducing our nation’s rural-serving postsecondary institutions: Moving toward greater visibility and appreciation A Koricich, VA Sansone, AH Fryar, CM Orphan, KR McClure Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| State of rhetoric: Neoliberal discourses for education in state of the state addresses and gubernatorial press releases CM Orphan, RE Gildersleeve, AP Mills Journal of Education Policy 35 (3), 394-420, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Life at the “people’s universities”: Organizational identification and commitment among regional comprehensive university faculty members in the USA CM Orphan, S Broom Higher Education 82, 181-201, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| Advocates or honest information brokers? Examining the higher education public policy agenda-setting processes of intermediary organizations CM Orphan, S Laderman, RE Gildersleeve The Review of Higher Education 44 (3), 325-355, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| Strengthening rural anchor institutions: Federal policy solutions for rural public colleges and the communities they serve KR McClure, CM Orphan, AH Fryar, A Koricich Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges. Retrieved on 8 (01), 2021, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| Not all regional public universities strive for prestige: Examining and strengthening mission‐centeredness within a vital sector CM Orphan New Directions for Higher Education 2020 (190), 9-24, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Next-generation engagement scholars in the neoliberal university CM Orphan, KA O'Meara Publicly Engaged Scholars, 214-231, 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| Why regional comprehensive universities are vital parts of US higher education C Orphan Scholars Strategy Network, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| The company regional comprehensive universities desire to keep: Choosing institutional membership associations CM Orphan, GNS Miller The Journal of Higher Education 91 (2), 300-325, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| " Democracy's colleges" under pressure: Examining the effects of neoliberal public policy on regional comprehensive universities CM Orphan University of Pennsylvania, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Fostering collective impact: Measuring and advancing higher education’s contributions to civic health and equity in Colorado C Orphan, D Romero, L Diaz-Solodukhin International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community …, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Student political engagement in the co-curriculum: Understanding the role of senior student affairs officers DL Morgan, CM Orphan EJournal of Public Affairs 5 (2), 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| Operationalizing funds of knowledge: Examining a reciprocal research relationship between a White faculty member and a Latino student. L Diaz Solodukhin, CM Orphan Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 15 (2), 207, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| Unlocking opportunity through broadly accessible institutions G Crisp, KR McClure, CM Orphan Routledge, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| The role of intermediary public policy organizations in shaping the policy agenda for higher education CM Orphan, S Laderman, RE Gildersleeve University of Denver, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| The people’s universities” as legitimacy-seeking anchor institutions: Tracing the history and evolution of regional comprehensive universities from 1970–2000 L Supplee, C Orphan, A Moreno Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference …, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| Intermediary public policy organizations and the discursive evasion of systemic racism and racialized violence C McCoy-Simmons, CM Orphan, D Gándara Educational policy 37 (6), 1672-1699, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
