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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?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Presidential Mentoring: Preparing Leaders for Critical Times
Marchelle S. Fox February 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 3
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Pundits, researchers, and commentators of all kinds and persuasions agree that leadership makes a difference. So, the call has gone out for a new generation of leaders to guide organizations through the challenges facing them in the fast-changing twilight of the twentieth century. It is no secret that the public education system, buffeted by demographic, technological, fiscal, and social forces generally beyond its control, needs a new generation of effective leaders to meet the demands placed upon it. Nowhere is this need more acute than in the nation's community colleges.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Leadership in Governance
Thomas W. Fryer, Jr., John C. Lovas February 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 2
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Governance is not an end in itself. It is the means by which organizations attempt to achieve their missions. Leadership in governance has as its purpose creating the conditions, through institutional processes for decision making and communication, in which organizational participants want to contribute more than the bare minimum required of them in the service of the institution's purposes, where the organization's multiple leaders are roughly aligned in service of its mission.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Delivering the Promises of Technology Today
Bernard R. Gifford January 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 1
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Community college leaders, as well as leaders of any modern organization, must justify their investment of scarce resources in technology--both to themselves and to their major constituents. The question is often posed as a challenge: With all of the money this college has invested in personal computer technology, has it become more productive?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
"When the Pupil is Ready, The Teacher Appears."
Joseph N. Hankin December 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 20
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Maxims are different from one-liners in that they generally do not reach for humor nor depend upon contemporary contexts for meaning. Yet, the best of them convey wisdom drawn from experience that comes as close to universal truth as most of us ever approach. The following is a sampling of insights from the experience of one generation of community college leaders. Hopefully, they constitute a small piece of a legacy to be passed on to the generation now being groomed to lead community colleges into the next century.
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Time to Teach a New World: Education and Technology in the 21st Century
Lucie J. Fjeldstad December 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 19
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Much has been said and written about the enormity of the challenges facing the nation, in particular, its educational institutions and its business and industry. Considerably less emphasis has been given to the common interest that these organizations, including community colleges, have in working together toward common goals-not simply the obvious goal of developing an educated work force, but of nurturing a sophisticated citizenry capable of exercising civic responsibility in a rich and humane culture.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Implementing a Diversity Restructuring Program
Laura I. Rendon November 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 18
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Bob Dylan said it best: "the times they are a changing." Indians, African Americans, and Hispanics are now 18 million strong, 20 percent of the nation. Some of America's major cities, including Los Angeles and San Antonio, have "minority majorities"--populations of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians that, when combined, outnumber the white population.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages
Tom Gonzales November 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 17
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America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages is a startling report that has major implications for the role of community colleges in preparing the nation's workforce for the challenges of a new world economic order.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
American Higher Education on the Grill
Dan Angel October 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 16
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The changes sweeping across the globe are not limited to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Gone too is the era when the American public held higher education in universal high regard. A recent Gallup poll found that public confidence in educational leaders was only 31 percent. In 1983, A Nation at Risk set the tone for public concern for all levels of education.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Leading a College Economic Development Program
Stephen G. Katsinas, Vincent A Lacey September 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 15
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While community colleges cannot solve all of the economic woes of the nation or their communities, they have taken on a number of economic development initiatives outside of the regular, credit curriculum. These nontraditional initiatives include, but are not limited to, customized training and retraining for area businesses, technology transfer efforts, new business incubators, and small business centers.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Strengthening the Transfer Function: From a "Zero-Sum" Game to a "Win-Win" Situation
Judith S. Eaton September 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 14
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Is the current emphasis on transfer education at community colleges a zero-sum game? Is transfer strengthened at the expense of other major community college functions such as, developmental/remedial education or occupational training? Many fear that the answer to both questions is "yes," that today's efforts to strengthen the transfer function will in the long run weaken the community college's comprehensive scope.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Not Leaving Technology Decisions to the "Techies" and "Gurus"
Carol Cross August 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 13
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A principal reason instructional technology has not achieved its potential to transform teaching and learning in community colleges is that so many educational leaders have kept their "hands-off" technology-related decisions. Many presidents and chief academic officers enthusiastically endorse the idea of using computer technology to improve teaching and learning, and they often point with pride to exemplary computer applications in their colleges.
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The President's Role in Student Tracking
Jim Palmer August 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 12
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Demands for information on student outcomes have spurred the development of student tracking systems--computerized databases that provide longitudinal data on students' progress through college and on their subsequent success. However, most of the literature on student tracking addresses the technical issues of concern to data processing personnel, institutional researchers, and others who build these data bases.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Responding to International Needs: A Model That Is Working
Jean Conway, Patsy Fulton, Mike Khirallah July 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 11
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Many community colleges, as well as four-year colleges and universities, have long traditions of involvement in international education. However, both the nation's rapidly changing demographic face and the emergence of a global economy have placed a new urgency on providing international programs that respond to a range of student needs.
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