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Changing a Board of Trustees From Futile to Fertile
William G. McGinnis July 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 7
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Two major challenges facing our community colleges these days are the difficulty boards of trustees have leading the institution and the ineffective and sometimes poor relationships between a college's president and its board of trustees. What makes these problems difficult is the inability of colleges to select the members of their board of trustees and the unwillingness of many trustees to educate themselves in governing and leading. Therefore, college presidents and effective trustees must learn how to work around these limitations to create a high-performing board of trustees.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Selecting Your Next Technology Leader
Wayne Brown June 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 6
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Wanted: Chief information officer. Provides strategic planning and budgeting for all aspects of academic and administrative information technology, including e-learning environment, campus networks, information security, database development and accessibility, and the integration of technology into the learning process. Proven successful experience in managing complex data network infrastructure and a telephone switch with more than 1,000 voicemail boxes on multiple campuses.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Defending the Community College Equity Agenda
Thomas Bailey, Vanessa Smith Morest May 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 5
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Community colleges are instrumental in carrying out the equity agenda in higher education, in leveling the playing field by giving all students a fair shot at college no matter where they attended high school or whether or not they come from families with resources that facilitate college success.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Passing Bond Measures in Conservative Times
Constance M. Carroll April 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 4
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Bond Measures as a Source of Capital FundsObtaining capital funds for facilities is one of a community college's greatest challenges due to the high cost of construction. With state funding becoming increasingly limited, many community colleges have turned to other methods for raising capital funds, especially bond measures, as sources of funding for new buildings and equipment. Local bond measures have become an increasingly popular means of obtaining construction funds in recent years, especially in cash-strapped California.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community Colleges as Emergency Shelters: The Alabama Plan
Alice W. Villadsen, Bob Romine March 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 3
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Colleges throughout the nation have often been included within community emergency and evacuation plans. For instance, LeeCollege in Baytown, Texas, became a short-term evacuation site for those fleeing hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, and Faulkner State College in Bay Minette, Alabama, served in a similar capacity for area evacuees. Sometimes colleges are listed as logical evacuation sites for local K-12 schools should an emergency hit the community's public schools. Community college campuses are at times used as practice sites for city emergency organizations.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Shaping Organizational Futures Through Generative Leadership
Tracy Edwards February 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 2
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Community college leaders today face many challenges not confronted by their predecessors. Issues around funding and enrollment have been common over time; however, an aging workforce, changing student demographics, and increasing public accountability are placing new stresses on postsecondary institutions. Addressing these new realities requires a different approach to leading, thinking, and dialoguing.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
All Aboard for Online Collaboration, Project SAIL: Specialty Asynchronous Industry Learning
Stella Perez January 2007
Volume: 20 Issue: 1
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Community colleges have grown in national attention and recognition as the country's workforce development engines. The U.S.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Innovations
Lessons Learned from Initiating a Community College Learning Community Program
Loretta Ya-Wen Teng December 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 12
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Institutions can learn valuable lessons through initiating and implementing a federally funded project. At one college, efforts to develop a learning community program using funds designated to minority-serving institutions offered a learning opportunity for the students as well as faculty, staff, and administrators. In conjunction with the two other components of the grant--technology and college outreach and orientation--the main purpose of the grant-funded program was to provide a learning environment to improve the retention of minority students.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Pathways to Student Success
Kay M. McClenney November 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 11
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A reasonable person might well ask this question: Why is this work—the work of developing career pathways, of creating seamless transitions for students from high schools to community colleges to jobs and further education—so important? Why does it really matter?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
St. Louis Community College: A Mission-Based Approach to Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning Outcomes and Institutional Effectiveness
St. Louis Community College October 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 10
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A community college's mission statement represents its promises to the community and therefore should play a significant role in its assessment processes. St. Louis Community College (SLCC) has created a document that outlines the college's current mission-based assessment model and describes how the college used continuous-improvement techniques to move from a classroom/course assessment approach to a more programmatic, mission-based model.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Organizational Change: Realigning Structure With Mission
Carin Weiss September 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 9
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Seattle Central Community College has a history of national recognition for innovative instructional programs and student support services, including selection as the 2001 Time magazine community college of the year. Despite the success of the college, its leadership recognized that the organizational structure for instruction could be enhanced to provide a more accessible and responsive learning environment.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Establishing Identity in the Shadow of a Major University
Jackson N. Sasser August 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 8
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Visualize the top university in your city, region, or state. What comes to mind are notions of academic reputation, exclusive admissions, influential alumni, legislative support, notable research, respected graduate programs, and recognition from intercollegiate athletics.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Revitalizing the Movement: Morton's Momentum
Brent Knight, Jonathan Carroll, Stephanie Hawley, Jason Kovac July 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 7
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The community college was based on the assumption there were large numbers of people not served by existing institutions, and the unserved were to be the clientele of these new colleges.... Community colleges should reach out. Go to the people who are unserved. Give priority to those who need the education they did not get at an earlier age.... Bring people into the mainstream.   --Edmund Gleazer in Values, Vision, and Vitality
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Opening Doors: Promoting Student Success in Community College and Beyond
Thomas Brock, Allen LeBlanc June 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 6
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Community colleges, which tend to be accessible and affordable, serve as a critical resource for low-income individuals striving to improve their prospects in the labor market and life. A variety of factors, ranging from a lack of financial aid to inadequate student services and poor developmental classes, however, can impede students' progress. Many students stop attending school before receiving a postsecondary credential: One study found that only 39 percent of students who entered community college with the goal of earning a degree or certificate had met their goal six years later.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The Two-Year College and the Chief Information Officer
Wayne Brown May 2006
Volume: 19 Issue: 5
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In recent years, information technology (IT) usage has expanded dramatically in U.S. higher education institutions. This technology expansion has resulted in a need for system and technology department reliability, which may be critical for an organization. The institution could be crippled by either a breakdown in its technology systems or failure by the people charged with implementing or supporting those systems.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations

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