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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Community College as Community Activist: A Campus Of and For the People
Tessa (Martinez) Tagle May 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 8
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Communities-the basic cell structure of the nation are disintegrating from neglect, dependency, and despair. The causes are primarily social: poverty; the absence of individual and collective self-esteem; the lack of knowledge, education, even basic information; and generally, speaking, poor coordination in the use of America's resources to help people in need.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Technology in Education in the Nineties
Terrel H. Bell May 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 7
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Education is a labor-intensive industry. While other industries have made great strides toward increased gains in productivity and efficiency in their work by using machines, power tools, and computers, educators have made only slight progress.In the face of constant outcry that our schools are not educating students to meet today's challenges, those responsible for making changes must push to bring to our classrooms the enormous potential of technological advances of recent years. We now have the capacity to revolutionize the work of teachers and learners.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
A Code of Ethics for Community College Leaders
Daniel F. Moriarty April 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 6
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Recently, the heightened importance attached to the moral dimension of leadership and the high public expectations of leaders have resulted in a renewed interest in organizational value statements and codes of ethics for institutional leaders. Over 75 percent of the fortune 500 companies have adopted value statements, and in universities across the country, institutes and courses in ethics have sprung up. Codes of ethics, once the preserve of doctors and lawyers, have also received renewed attention as a way of setting forth the standards to which leaders hold themselves.
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Pipeline to the Community College Presidency at the Millennium
George B. Vaughan April 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 5
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What will the profile of community college presidents look like in the year 2000? Will future chief executive officers include greater proportions of women and minorities, thus mirroring the diverse backgrounds of community college students? Will presidents guiding community colleges into the 21st century bring different personal and professional perspectives to the job?
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Responding to the Needs of Real Students
Norm Nielsen March 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 4
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The recent focus on institutional effectiveness is welcomed by community college leaders who have long felt the frustration of trying to juggle the mission of access with an insistence on quality. The questions have shifted from How many? to How well? The answers however, require colleges to know far more about their students than ever before.
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