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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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The Team as Hero: A Paradigm Shift in College Leadership
Sandy Acebo April 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 4
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Many organizations are rethinking the way they see themselves and their employees. The quality revolution, the advent of the information age, and the pressures of international competition have created an awareness of the importance of honoring collective rather than individual accomplishment. Organizations that survive and prosper will likely be the ones that learn how to structure themselves to take advantage of the strengths of teams.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Quality: A Business Prescription for Community and Technical Colleges
Stanley J. Spanbauer March 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 3
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The integration of world economies, rapidly changing technology, and increases in market competition have caused a renewed emphasis on quality and productivity in American business and industry. These changes have created an enormous need and market for training. Community and technical colleges across America have moved to address the training needs of private sector companies in their service areas, including assisting them in their quest to implement total quality management, or TQM.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Meeting Increasing Demand Using Distance Education
Judy C. Lever February 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 2
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"Doing more with less" has become a theme and core challenge facing community colleges, as well as most other educational institutions. The pressure is twofold. First, colleges are confronted with record enrollments at a time of level or decreasing revenues. Adding to the pressure is the fast expanding pool of nontraditional students requiring new and upgraded job-related skills to compete in the global economy.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The Trick to Being a Community College Chair
Gary L. Filan January 1992
Volume: 5 Issue: 1
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Current community college leaders presidents, vice presidents, and deans have come primarily from the ranks of faculty, many of whom had previously received their administrative training by serving as a department or division chair. Although the chair position is widely regarded as key to the effective functioning of a college's major academic and career programs, those filling the positions generally receive little or no formal training for the job.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Life After Being a Community College CEO
William E. Piland, John McCuen December 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 15
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The concept of retirement conjures different images for different people. Some may see it as a golden period when they can pursue cherished activities too long neglected. Others may fear retirement as a period of aging, stagnation, and decline. Research in the private sector has documented that some retiring chief executive officers cling to their positions late in life while others eagerly leave. Some are content with the impact they have had in their lives; others seek greater impact and prolonged reassurance of their significance.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Faculty Externships: Catalysts for TQM
Roger P. Bober November 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 14
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Educational leaders at all levels are continually reminded of their responsibility to produce employees with skills to make them capable of competing in a global economy. Two- year colleges, especially those with a mission commitment to provide state-of-the-art career preparation, have long acknowledged their roles in training a skilled work force and assisting the economic development of their communities.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Arguments With Which To Combat Elitism and Ignorance About Community Colleges
Don Doucette, John E. Roueche October 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 13
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Community colleges are still struggling for understanding, support, and respect in a society that too often provides only lip service to the democratic ideals of access and egalitarianism that these institutions represent. The evidence of this abounds, including the egregious example of elitist bias found in a June 3,1991, issue of U. S.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Increasing Student Involvement in Learning
Jack Freidlander, Peter MacDougall September 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 12
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There is no question that student outcomes are at the heart of the calls for accountability that have become a permanent fixture on the national education agenda. In this context, research on what works in increasing student success and academic achievement becomes critical information to virtually all community colleges.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Beyond Wellness: Solutions for the 1990s
William F. Waechter August 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 11
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Wellness, a craze of the vital 1980s, has reemerged as a solution for the cash-starved 1990s. That wonderful monster, rather than a dying fad, appears more genetically sound than ever as organizations of all kinds, including community colleges, struggle to increase human productivity in response to declining resources.
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Total Quality Management: An Overview
Robbie Lee Needham July 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 10
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Management systems are usually implemented in response to current conditions. Such systems and the terms to describe them change with time and use in new contexts. Much of the current management literature, in education and other industries, focuses on systems that can be described under the umbrella term, Total Quality Management, or TQM. TQM contains a mix of original ideas and those with historical antecedents. The following is a brief overview of TQM and how it is being applied in community colleges.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Learning Communities: Needed Educational Restructuring
Ron L. Hamberg June 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 9
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There is general agreement that undergraduate education is in crisis. Its fundamental ills include the lack of coherence in course work, the lack of connectedness among the disciplines, and the lack of intellectual interaction between faculty and students.
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