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Higher Education: A New Way of Thinking
John D. Hauser October 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 10
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North Carolina universities and community colleges are experiencing a time when the same concepts are appearing in many places. These concepts are a zeitgeist, a way of thinking that characterizes a generation or time period, a new awareness that we participate in a world of exquisite interconnectedness. Wilkes Community College (WCC) is discovering many things worthy of wonder as leader of the Northwest North Carolina Advanced Materials Cluster, Inc.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Forty and Forward: The League Celebrates Four Decades of Innovation
Gerardo E. de los Santos, Terry O'Banion September 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 9
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Throughout 2008, the League for Innovation in the Community College will be celebrating its 40th anniversary as one of the oldest and most significant organizations in the community college world. Created in 1968 when community colleges were being established at the rate of one per week, the League became a beacon for forward-looking ideas that would influence the community college movement over the next four decades. Through its projects, programs, and practices, the League has reflected the major issues faced by community colleges while having considerable impact on those issues.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Enforced Summertime
Alice W. Villadsen August 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 8
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I recently sustained a stress fracture in my right foot and am in the dreaded black boot. My activities have been limited. No more tennis or golf. Seriously reduced and illegal driving. No long treks through airports, hikes on rocky trails, or walks on the beach. (That last one really hurts because I live on the beach in my retirement.) The radical change in my behavior has resulted in a couple of newly found pounds, and I suspect that I will find a partially atrophied foot due to its protective covering, but not all of the change is bad.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The President's Role in the Learning College: Lessons Learned
Julie Wechsler July 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 7
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Participation in the Learning College Project required the implementation of widespread changes in institutional processes and structures, in the roles and responsibilities of faculty and staff, and in the use of resources. Transformation of such magnitude has not been the norm in community colleges, where change is often incremental or localized in individual departments or divisions. Organizational cultures commonly found in higher education institutions tend to value tradition and prefer the status quo over widespread change.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Serving the Undocumented Student
Bill Wenrich June 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 6
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ContextDuring recent years, the issues surrounding the presence of undocumented immigrants in the United States have had daily political and media coverage. They generate very disparate responses, depending on the political persuasion of the observers. One group of undocumented immigrants has special issues with respect to community college student services: young people whose undocumented parents brought them to the United States as children and who have received some or all of their formal education in American public schools.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
If You Build It, Will They Come? Achieving Scale in the Diffusion of Innovations in Education
Christopher Dede, James W. Dearing, Deborah Boisvert, David McNeel, Michael Lesiecki May 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 5
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How often has this been the case? A new course or program of study, a professional development sequence, or some other initiative is successfully piloted, and the sponsoring office or organization now seeks to propagate this success across an entire department, division, institution, or collection of entities. Achieving scale in the implementation of an innovation across a target population is a common objective among leaders and administrators today in business and education.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Crossing One Off Our List of Things to Do: Academic Technology Governance
Wayne Brown April 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 4
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Governance can be defined as the process for formalizing who has input into a decision and who actually makes the decision. In the information technology (IT) profession, we also tend to add the term "alignment" when technology governance is discussed. For instance, effective governance ensures the technology department is aligned with the institution's mission. This means we aren't implementing technology for technology's sake.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College
Gail Mellow, Cynthia Heelan March 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 3
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Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College provides challenging, reflective information about community colleges that is data based, clear, and accessible. Legislators, media representatives, faculty members, leaders, trustees, or students of the community college need a grounded sense of the magnitude of the community college sector. This user-friendly book can help readers understand community colleges' mission, problems, and triumphs.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Creating and Sustaining a Campus Emergency Management Plan That Works
R. Thomas Flynn, Lee E. Struble February 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 2
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Monroe Community College administrators activated the campus emergency management plan that was developed in collaboration with police, fire, and other response agencies. The college immediately began gathering data to determine the appropriate and safe course of action for the campus in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon building, and aboard United Airlines flight 93 in rural eastern Pennsylvania. It was soon learned that several domestic U.S.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Closing the Leadership Gender Gap
Steven Jones, Bradley Johnson January 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 1
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Leadership development has for a number of years been a primary focus of both the League for Innovation in the Community College and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Given the projected high rates of retirements for college presidents and other senior administrators in the next few years, it is now even more important to develop new leaders for the future.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Saying Goodbye to the Two-Year College?
Mark David Milliron December 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 12
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Calm down. No one is talking about, advocating, or even playing with the idea that we do anything but continue the life-changing, economy-essential work of community and technical colleges. Indeed, the global movement toward this democratic, open-access education model is on the advance--and we are all working to increase its momentum. There is, however, a conversation starting about ending one of our movement's key descriptors, a descriptor that while convenient, is of little to no value. Indeed, it is more often a significant problem.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Customer Service and Student Respect: A Winning Combination
T. Hampton Hopkins November 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 11
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As the saying goes, "Some folks make you feel at home, while others make you wish you were." When visiting the various points of administrator-to-student contact on campus, does the feedback indicate that students feel at home or wish they were at home? Excellent customer service has been a strategic initiative in the private sector for many years, but higher education has been slower to accept it as a means of improving student satisfaction and retention. Those who regularly interact with students are not surprised by the growing student demand for improved service on campus.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Transitions Between CEOs: A Survey of CEOs in the League for Innovation in the Community College
Jackson N. Sasser, Larry W. Tyree October 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 10
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Transitions between community college chief executives involve and affect the institution, its governing board, the community, and ultimately the students. Yet this delicate and nuanced subject is seldom given analytical scrutiny, despite its self-evident significance to the institution directly involved.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Purpose-Driven Organizational Planning: The P-GOATS Model in Practice
Stan Brings September 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 9
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Though organizational planning, combining strategic planning and operational planning, is typically associated with the more taxing duties of community college leaders, it is regarded as necessary in realizing the college's goal of maximizing stakeholder value. It is necessary for effective and efficient management. And, while effectiveness and efficiencies may seem collectively unattainable, the P-GOATS model, with its structured approach to organizational planning, can yield results that satisfy both.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Strategic Planning, Innovations
Academic Program Review and Prioritization: In the Race or Out to Pasture?
Hank Dunn, Kathy Lee August 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 8
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The Fast Eat the SlowThe old business adage that the large eat the small has changed. Now it seems that the fast eat the slow. The world is moving at a faster pace. To survive and prosper, community colleges are required to move at a much faster pace than in the past. The establishment of new programs will require a new tempo, a change that means the academy can no longer make academic programming decisions at a glacial pace.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations

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