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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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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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The Challenge of Board Change
George R. Boggs October 1996
Volume: 9 Issue: 10
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A governing board is more than the sum of its individual members. Interactions among members and between the CEO and the members make boards dynamic and complex entities. Over time, a board and CEO develop a culture and a way of operating. When the composition of a board changes, new members may bring new ideas and perspectives, but they may also challenge the dominant culture.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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