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Vocational and General Education: New Relationship or Shotgun Marriage?
James Jacobs September 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 9
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There is general agreement among community college educators on the importance of developing better linkages between vocational and academic education. External forces have effectively required better integration of the two once-separate domains. The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990, the major federal legislation that defines and organizes vocational education, actually mandates that all states measure vocational students' progress in achieving both basic and advanced academic skills.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
A Community College President's Guide to Corporate Contributions
Herrington J. Bryce August 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 8
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Faced with declining support from traditional sources of revenue, community colleges, as well as public institutions of all kinds, have been called upon to do more with less. As state appropriations have declined in real dollars, many colleges have initiated a broad range of efficiency measures, and a few have even experimented with strategies for increasing productivity not only in administrative operations, but also in the delivery of instruction.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Professional Development for Two-way Teaching and Learning
Nancy E. Stetson July 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 7
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Too often, community college students fail to learn what instructors are teaching because instructors routinely use a teaching process that only works about 17 percent of the time. K. Patricia Cross points out that "teachers in the...average classroom spend about 80 percent of their time lecturing to students, who are attending to what is being said only about half the time." According to J. McLeisch, it gets worse: After the lecture, students carry away in their heads and in their notebooks not more than 42 percent of the content.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Part Time Faculty: Partners In Excellence
John McGuire June 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 6
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The use of part time faculty in community colleges is generally considered a necessary evil, rationalized as an important strategy for saving money and maintaining flexibility. Some have decried the overuse of part timers as a cheap fix, a dangerous addiction, or exploitation of the worse kind. However, part time faculty are a problem only if they are relegated to the margins of the institution and treated with the respect usually reserved for skeletons in the collective community college closet.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Catalyst for Community Change: Helping to Address Critical Issues
Nancy LeCroy, Barbara Tedrow May 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 5
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From its inception, the community college has fashioned its mission through a symbiotic relationship with the local community that has been fundamentally influenced by proximity and need. In its brief history, these colleges have solidified first transfer, then occupational, and finally community service and support roles through a give and take with local constituencies. However, as the issues with which individuals and communities struggle on a daily basis have become more urgent, the tensions inherent in the relationship between college and community have become more apparent.
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Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
Developed under the auspices of the AAHE Assessment Forum April 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 4
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American colleges have a long history of grading and certifying student work. The more recent practice of assessment builds on that history by looking at student achievement not only within courses but across them, asking about cumulative learning outcomes. As a systematic process of gathering, interpreting, and using information about student learning, assessment is a powerful tool for educational improvement.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Positioning the Community College for Community Leadership
Edgar J. Boone, George B. Vaughan March 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 3
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Community college leaders face challenges today that extend well beyond the boundaries of traditional degree programs and on-campus instruction. While venturing beyond these boundaries is nothing new to them, the challenges they face are different in degree, if not always in kind, from past challenges.
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Community College Workforce Training Programs: Expanding the Mission to Meet Critical Needs
Brenda Marshall Beckman, Don Doucette February 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 2
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Growing concern regarding the nation's competitive position in the global economy has been a matter of discussion for some time. It is now clear that a fundamental factor contributing to this critical situation is the chronic, long term inadequacy of workforce preparation. Consequent issues of quality and productivity have forced corporations across the country to restructure their organizations and to invest in worker training.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Reinventing Government
David T. Osborne January 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 1
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An historic change is now coursing through all levels of American government: a shift from the rigid, wasteful, centralized bureaucracies of the industrial era to the more flexible, entrepreneurial, decentralized government needed to succeed in today's world. This shift, under way for more than a decade, has been brought into sharp relief by the fiscal crisis now crippling our governments.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Shared Governance: Keys to a Successful Process
Grace N. Mitchell, Ann B. Grant, Marilyn Rossa December 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 10
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In the fiercely competitive world of international business, participatory management has become accepted as key to corporate organization and effective decision making. However, despite its proud tradition of faculty involvement in institutional governance, higher educa-tion has lagged behind business in establishing viable -models for successful shared decision making.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Curriculum, Community, and Social Cohesion
Ernest L. Boyer November 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 9
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Educating students in a multicultural world means affirming the sacredness of every individual, celebrating the uniqueness of every culture, and acknowledging the non-uniformity that separates one person from another, the distinctiveness that makes us who we are. This is the centerpiece of education in a multicultural world.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Sound Financial Planning for Retirement: No Time to Waste for Any of Us
J. William Wenrich October 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 8
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Most community college educators do not worry about the financial security of their retirement years even though they should. The assumption many make that the "system" will provide for them often blocks realistic assessment of future resources versus future need, often until they are within a few years of retiring. This is not an inconsequential matter since half or more of all current community college faculty, administrators, and staff are projected to retire in this decade.
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Higher Education Finance in the 1990s: Hard Choices For Community Colleges
Kay McClenney, James Mingle September 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 7
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Across the nation, higher education institutions and state agencies are dealing with a complexity of issues that will make the decade of the nineties very challenging. Three factors seem particularly salient: high expectations for education, growing public distrust of institutions, and concern about the future.
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Improving Productivity in Higher Education: A Paradigm Shift Needed
Carol A. Twigg, Don Douchette August 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 6
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There is universal agreement among all sectors of American society that improving education and training is essential if the United States is to remain competitive in the world economy in the 1990s and beyond. There is also general agreement that one of the most serious problems facing the country is the seemingly inexorable rise in the cost of education, with no apparent increase in benefits. In colleges and universities, in particular, the trend is for students to be paying more and receiving less.
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Preventing Problems in Board-President Relationships
Gerald Bogen, Jerry Moskus May 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 5
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Of the various metaphors commonly used to describe the relationship between a board and president--a team, a partnership, a marriage--perhaps none is more useful than the marriage metaphor. What is desired in institutional governance, as in marriage is a relationship based on a strong commitment, mutual support, shared understanding of roles, honest communication, and trust. Dysfunction in, or dissolution of, a board-president relationship is as traumatic for an institution as conflict or divorce is for a family.
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