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Statewide Professional Development Networks
S. Gregory Bowes September 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 9
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Learning, networking, and having fun. These should be the watchwords for statewide professional development programs designed to bring colleagues together within their states to learn about and discuss the possible impact of emerging statewide issues, programs, and priorities. Professional development has long been a strong and vibrant feature of life in community colleges, but most activities of this sort are institutionally focused and based.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Learning Communities, Learning Organizations, and Learning Colleges
Terry O'Banion August 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 8
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A learning revolution appears to be spreading rapidly across the higher education landscape. Triggered by the 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, that warned "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity," the revolution was energized by a second wave of reform reports that began appearing in the early 1990s. These reports focused the reform efforts on a common theme: to place learning first.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Technology as a Metaphor for Change
Kenneth C. Green July 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 7
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Fueled by more than four decades of aspirations and a dozen years of sustained (if often ad hoc) experimentation, information technology has finally emerged as a permanent, respected, and increasingly essential component of the college experience.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The External Diploma Program
Florence Harvey June 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 6
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Corporate education and school-to-work programs are much in the news these days, so much so that a reader might think that partnerships between business and higher education are a new development. Community colleges and their business and labor partners know otherwise. For years, these institutions have been meeting the changing needs of business and labor organizations and helping them adjust to new realities in the workplace.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Leading the Multicultural Community College
Augustine P. Gallego May 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 5
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During the past decade, community colleges may have thought they were doing a good job of serving the multicultural community if the ethnic student population was proportional to that of the college's service area. Today, such a barometer is only the first step--access without educational equity and success for students of all backgrounds, races, and ethnic groups is not enough.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Improving the Administrative Search Process
Gena Proulx, John W. Marr, Jr. April 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 4
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In recent years, the maturing of America's community colleges and the "graying" of their faculty and administrative personnel have garnered much attention in the two-year college literature as well as at professional conferences and workshops. Many institutions are already bracing themselves for the loss of one or more key senior administrators in the near future.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community College Presidents: the Balancing Act
Ruth Mercedes Smith March 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 3
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Last summer, a group of community college presidents gathered for the annual retreat sponsored by the Presidents Academy of the American Association of Community Colleges. Community college presidents are a diverse group, and this was clear at the retreat. Participants ranged from a mother of seven with a commuter marriage, to a man whose wife had very recently died, to a woman who had recently married. Also represented were single mothers, several females with husbands who were retired, and a number from the formerly typical American family.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community College Leadership in the New Century
Gunder Myran, Tony Zeiss, Linda Howdyshell, February 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 2
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In the 1960s, community colleges began the transition from campus-based to community-based organizations. To meet the growing demands of the 1990s, a new transition is occurring, and colleges are increasingly becoming learner-based. The interaction of community-based and learner-based education will shape a powerful new definition of the community college.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Tech-Prep + School-to-Work Working Together to Foster Educational Reform
Roderick F. Beaumont January 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 1
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In the current climate of uncertainty in Washington regarding workforce training programs, it is time for community colleges to step into the fore and agree upon a common definition of tech-prep that fits well within the school-to-work umbrella and that can be applied in every state. There are too many misconceptions circulating about tech-prep and its relationship to school-to-work.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Endowed Chairs for Instructional Leadership
Paul C. Gianini, Jr. December 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 12
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The long-term outlook for funding of community colleges continues to grow bleaker. Budget recisions, proposals to phase out education and training programs at the federal level, and state revenue caps will mean that many colleges will have inadequate funding even for mandated programs. Local private-sector funding will grow in importance as public funding is cut back.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Regarding Technology
Larry Johnson November 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 11
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Even a cursory look at the everyday workplace will reveal that the world of work has undergone profound shifts in recent years. Few jobs have not been affected. Information technology is everywhere, in manufacturing, in marketing, even in hands-on trades like construction and automobile mechanics. Virtually every part of our daily lives has been touched in some way by technology.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Who Are Community Colleges' Distance Learners?
Carol Cross October 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 10
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Increasingly, legislators and public officials, business and community leaders, educational reformists, and college administrators are heralding distance education as a means for maintaining educational access in a climate of increased demand but decreased funding. Distance education is not only a cost-effective way to serve growing student populations, such advocates point out, but allows students to study at their own time, location, and pace, providing access to thousands of learners who cannot attend traditional college classes.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Learning Environments, Innovations
The Evolution of Community College Workforce Development Programs
James Jacobs September 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 9
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In the course of the last ten years, community colleges have progressed through three major stages in their relationship to the modernization needs of small- and medium-size firms. The emphasis during the first period, roughly 1984 to 1987, was to build programs around emerging technologies. Community colleges rushed to establish course-based programs in such technical areas as robotics, computer-integrated manufacturing, and machine vision.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Can Community Colleges Do the Job?
Robert A. (Squee) Gordon August 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 8
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The atmosphere in which community colleges operate is changing significantly. At the same time, colleges are operating under a growth and expansion model which may no longer be tenable. The one question that needs to be asked, in the midst of all the rhetoric about community colleges providing workforce training for the twenty-first century, is: Are community colleges really equipped to handle the job? And if they are not, what should they do to ready themselves?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Don't Miss the Joy!
Dale Parnell July 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 7
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What makes life cave in for you as a leader? What set of circumstances throws you into a panic? When the situation blows up around you, is bitterness your inadvertent response? Negative circumstances seem to force many community college leaders into a sort of grimness. Everywhere there are white-knuckled leaders to be seen, enduring their world--their leadership role--rather than enjoying it. Certainly, many of these administrators face some pretty grim circumstances, but concentrating on poor circumstances and on unfairness only brings a downward spiral toward negative thinking.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations

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