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Community Colleges Receive $3.5 Million From the Walmart Foundation to Train Americans Seeking Employment
League for Innovation May 2009
Volume: 22 Issue: 5
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The League for Innovation in the Community College announced today a $3.5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation designed to help Americans hit hardest by the economic downturn and provide training opportunities for those who are out of work. Eight community colleges located in areas experiencing a high rate of job loss and unemployment across the U.S. will be selected to work with their local and regional workforce development community to offer a variety of services and training to people who are seeking employment.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Let the Conversation Begin: How Do We Deal With a Rogue Trustee?
Terry O'Banion April 2009
Volume: 22 Issue: 4
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For decades community college presidents have been communicating through a private and confidential network with each other about one of the most challenging issues they face—the Rogue Trustee. This has been a closet issue in the community college, whispered about when presidents convene during state and national conferences and reviewed in private phone calls to each other in desperate attempts to seek resolution of the problem. I believe that, until now, this has been fairly uncharted territory.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community Colleges and the Economic Downturn
Kenneth C. Green March 2009
Volume: 22 Issue: 3
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The Campus Computing Project The current economic downturn has consequences for both college students and for colleges and universities.  For students of all ages, the loss of a job or the fear of losing a current job—their own employment or that of a parent or spouse—clearly affects enrollment decisions: should I go or return to college, and if so, where, and at what cost. For institutions, the budget problems affecting the states have a clear and direct impact on the resources allocated to public colleges and universities.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Employee Development as a Contributor to Organizational Growth and Effectiveness: From TQM to Blue Ocean Strategy and Beyond
Todd Aakhus February 2009
Volume: 22 Issue: 2
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Between 1990 and 2006, Rio Salado College (Rio) experienced substantial growth and evolution, implementing staff development programs centered in private-sector business models in order to position itself to serve students in a customer-centric approach. To achieve the mission of quality, flexible, accessible, and affordable higher education offerings for students, Rio adopted emerging private-sector and business approaches to staff development programs to further its mission.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Leading From Strengths: New Insights From Gallup
Gallup Press January 2009
Volume: 22 Issue: 1
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Nearly a decade ago, Gallup ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths when it unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project. The research concluded that spending time building strengths was far more productive than logging countless hours shoring up weaknesses, and it created a virtual revolution in the way people think about their natural talents.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Bridges to Opportunity for Underprepared Adults: A State Policy Guide for Community College Leadership
Community College Bridges to Opportunity Initiative December 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 12
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Increasing global competition and rising income inequality pose serious challenges for the continued economic and social vitality of the United States. Reports describing this situation are generally persuasive about the nature of these challenges, but the solutions they offer are often too broad or impractical.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Student Assistance: Providing Access for Nontraditional Students in Financial Need
Andrew L. Meyer November 2008
Volume: 21 Issue: 11
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Through strategic visioning processes, Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) has attempted to put learning first in all of its decisions. In order to fully meet its mission mandates of accessibility, affordability, meeting community needs, quality, and accountability, the college needed to value equally all instructional programs and services. True internal collaboration would increase and an organizational culture grounded in a true one-college model would emerge.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
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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.
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