Category: Leadership Abstracts
Charting an Independent Course: Leading With an Entrepreneurial Spirit at Community Colleges
In this excerpt from a new League publication, Alternative Funding in Community Colleges, learn how one college met the needs of its community by using creative risk-taking and inclusive collaboration to build a new campus and a new state-of-the-art training facility on a relative shoestring.
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Investing in Change
A new report from MDC analyzes the experiences of five Achieving the Dream community colleges and the investments they have made in implementing an institutionwide improvement process aimed at increasing students' success over the course of five years. The report provides lessons for colleges, policymakers, and funders interested in embarking on a similar path toward community college improvement.
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Early College Innovation—Access and Opportunity in North Carolina
Policies Paved the Way reports on early college innovation, telling the North Carolina story from the perspective of leaders at early college high schools. It is a story of how state policies combine with educational practice to help students—especially minority and low-income students—become college ready.
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