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Resources for Leaders
League for Innovation December 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 12
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Each year, the League for Innovation in the Community College offers a range of publications, programs, and services for community college leaders. In an effort to highlight these resources, this year-end issue of Leadership Abstracts profiles a number of key League offerings from 1997. More information on each of the following resources is available online through the League's Web site at http://www.league.org or through the League office at (480) 705-8200.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
High School Ain't What it Used to Be
Sandy Acebo November 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 11
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If you would not be forgotten,As soon as you are dead and rotten,Either write things worth reading,Or do things worth the writing.                         -Ben Franklin
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Providing Short-term Educational Programs: Welfare Reform and One-Stop Centers
Alice Villadsen, Nick Gennett October 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 10
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Across the country, community colleges are working to help meet the growing challenge of moving individuals from welfare to work--quickly. Initiatives in welfare reform and consolidation of job-training and job-placement agencies are requiring community colleges to play key roles in developing what most states are calling "one-stop" career centers.
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The Addictive Organization and the Community College
Sheila Ortega September 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 9
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Community colleges are serving the nation, providing a critical bridge for students seeking basic academic skills, comprehensive occupational training, and unique support services. The professionals in community colleges take pride in the fact that they help students to be successful. For the most part, students spill out of classrooms well educated, directed, and counseled. But can we say that we are entirely successful in our roles as leaders and educators?
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Embracing the Tiger: The Institutional Effectiveness Challenge
John E Roueche, Laurence F. Johnson, Suanne D. Roueche August 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 8
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The current push for higher educational reform should neither be underestimated or ignored. There is ample evidence that the current public criticism of colleges is not the temporary result of poor public relations, nor is it merely a pendulum swing toward public dissatisfaction that, with the passage of time or change of circumstance, will swing back toward better days.
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The Purpose, Process, And Product of the Learning Revolution in the Community College
Terry O'Banion July 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 7
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he 1990s mark the spread of a Learning Revolution in higher education. In 1994, the cover of Business Week declared a learning revolution in progress; in 1995, a special section in Time announced the developing learning revolution.
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Building Community from the Inside Out
Stephen K. Mittelstet, Gerardo E. de los Santos, June 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 6
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Much has been written about the need for community colleges to build community in our service areas by engaging external partnerships, economic development strategies, and community-based programming. There are, of course, excellent examples that illustrate the success of such efforts. Still, many community colleges find it difficult to connect with their external communities in meaningful ways.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community College Leadership in the Age of Technology
Steven Lee Johnson May 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 5
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"Learning anytime, anyplace, anywhere, is the battle cry of the Learning Revolution;" this according to Terry O’Banion speaking during a special session at the 1997 American Association of Community Colleges’ Convention. Ironically, at the same time authors, researchers, and leaders such as O’Banion lift the information technology banner as a means to this end, many community colleges continue to neglect or compartmentalize it.
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Both Sides Now: Perspectives on Community College Workforce Development
Ruth G. Shaw April 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 4
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Soon after leaving the presidency of Central Piedmont Community College to join Duke Power Company almost five years ago, it became clear that leaving meant really leaving. After being involved in community college education for more than 20 years—a career that was as much a calling as a profession—there came a painful realization. To continue to keep one foot in the community college world would mean never securing footing on a new path.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
From Castles in the Air to Classrooms on the Campus: Using Collaboration to Develop Facilities
Lynn Sullivan Taber March 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 3
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Most community college physical plants are over 25 years old and in need of maintenance, renovation, or new facilities. A 1995 study by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers and the National Association of College and University Business Officers found that deferred maintenance needs had increased in 52 percent of community colleges in the past six years. On average, each college’s deferred maintenance was equal to $4.8 million, or 28 percent of annual revenue. Almost half of the total two-year college space had been neither constructed nor renovated since 1975.
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The Community College Niche in a Competitive Higher Education Market
Don Doucette February 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 2
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Microsoft and Disney, as well as a host of other commercial providers, will soon deliver high-quality, accredited, college-level courses and programs to most homes and businesses. While this statement may seem bold, several technological, economic, social, and demographic trends lead directly to some version of this somewhat foreboding future.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
On Community College Renewal
Nathan L. Hodges, Mark D. Milliron January 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 1
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Modern community college leaders operate in a time of never-before-seen uncertainty and change. On a macro level, community college administrators are facing massive fluctuations in national, state, and local economies; wide legislative swings; significant demographic shifts; and expensive and seemingly unending technological improvements. On the local level, state system priorities, board changes, faculty unions or associations, and a host of other quandaries, vie for attention and action.
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Community Colleges Winning through Innovation: Taking On the Changes and Choices of Leadership in the Twenty-First Century
Mark D. Milliron, Ernest R. Leach 1997 Count all 436
Special Edition In less than four years, the community college will celebrate its 100th Anniversary as a member of the higher education community. The maturation of this uniquely American social invention coincided with a massive societal shift from an industrial-based to a knowledge-based economy. Moreover, the growth and development of two-year schools into what we now know as comprehensive community colleges also corresponded with the greatest change in the tools available to educators since the beginning of civilization.
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The Peleton: Riding the Winds of Change
Beverlee McClure & Tony Stanco December 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 12
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The feeling of riding against the wind is not uncommon for community college teams. Indeed, today's administrators, faculty, and staff often feel as though they are racing against the winds of societal, technological, educational, and economic change with little or no support or understanding. The leaders of these weary teams would be well served to explore an organizational structure from the cycling world that helps riders come together as a group and face their powerful gusts and hilly roadways efficiently and effectively--the peloton.
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Distance Education in the Community College
Judy Lever-Duffy, Randal A. Lemke November 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 11
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Distance education has recently achieved a level of critical interest that signals a shift from the instructional periphery to mainstream instructional delivery. For years, distance education was considered experimental, even questionable, nontraditional instruction. It was often looked upon as an inferior educational option offered for those who could not participate in "real" classes.
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