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Leading the Way to Connect Community to the College
Charles J. Carlsen September 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 9
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Recent reading on a futurist listserve on the Web reveals, "[E]mployers are increasingly frustrated by workers' deficiencies in fundamental reading, writing, and math skills. The labor shortage is complicated by the difficulty in finding people who are qualified to work--or at least trainable. Insufficient basic education makes training considerably more challenging." Lifelong learning is no longer a choice for people in the 21st century. It's a necessity.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Turning Knowledge Into Action: What's Data Got to Do With It?
Lisa A. Petrides August 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 8
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Community colleges are constantly seeking new and innovative ways to mobilize their resources in order to meet the demands of state legislatures, trustees, administration, faculty, students, and the community at large. Yet despite this widespread emphasis on gathering and using information to improve decision making and performance, most community colleges do not have a way of collecting, using, or analyzing data and information throughout their whole institutions.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Creating New Energy for Change
Nancy Stetson July 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 7
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Community college leaders are beginning to adapt and adopt several highly promising approaches to leading change that have emerged over the past few years: Appreciative Inquiry and Appreciative Process. Both approaches involve focusing the entire college community, or segments of the community, on what's working within a system and deliberately and systematically creating more of it. The system can be the college as a whole, the management team, a particular department, a classroom, or even a relationship between two people.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
"Global Village Idiocy" and the Community College
Thomas L. Friedman June 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 6
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During a dinner with Indonesian journalists in Jakarta, I was taken aback when Dini Djalal, a reporter for The Far Eastern Economic Review, suddenly launched into a blistering criticism of the Fox News Channel and Bill O'Reilly. On Fox, said Ms. Djalal, "They say, 'We report, you decide,' but it's biased--they decide before us. They say there is no spin, but I get dizzy looking at it. I also get upset when they invite on Muslims and just insult them."
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Funding: A Shared Cause for "Today's Miracle Workers"
Senator Edward M. Kennedy May 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 5
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On March 18, Senator Edward M. Kennedy gave a keynote address to the 1,800 delegates at the Innovations 2002 conference in Boston. The following is a complete text of his remarks.You are truly America's classroom.You represent the best that our nation offers. You are a national resource to meet many of the great challenges of our time to help young people fulfill their hopes and dreams, to strengthen communities, and to build local economies and a modern American workforce. Let me focus on two of those challenges today.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Lifelong Learning: A Funding Priority
Larry J. Warford April 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 4
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Community colleges are a phenomenal success story in United States higher education thanks to their low cost, convenience, quality instruction, and community-based emphasis. Approximately 47 percent of first-time college students attend community colleges. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) reported that more than 9 million students took credit courses at community colleges in 1996-97.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
From Digital Divide to Digital Democracy
Gerardo E. de los Santos, Alfredo G. de los Santos, Jr., Mark David Milliron March 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 3
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The forthcoming book From Digital Divide to Digital Democracy is one of many League efforts aimed at inspiring community college educators to champion information technology access and instruction for a growing number of underserved and economically challenged populations. In this book, we once again engage community college educators to share with us their research, strategies, and model programs around technology access and instruction to give readers a flavor of what the major issues are and what shape possible solutions might take.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Starting Again: The Brookhaven Success College
Alice W. Villadsen February 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 2
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Whether we realize it or not, organizations have opportunities to start again. It might be the arrival of a new president, vice-president, dean, or division chair that provides the occasion. The installation of a new information technology system might take many college processes and even policies back to square one, requiring change. Perhaps a college reaches the realization that its planning systems are outmoded, with accreditation on the horizon.
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Skills Certifications and Workforce Development: Partnering with Industry and Ourselves
Jeffery A. Cantor January 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 1
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Rapidly changing workplace technology requirements have increased the burden on workers and employers to maintain workplace skills and to document worker competencies. Community colleges have long been recognized for providing vital workforce training to meet the needs of local business and industry, for cost-effective services, and for geographic accessibility. Now community colleges are playing a distinct role by offering credentials in particular occupations, combined with the broader education that is part of a well-rounded degree program.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Building On Your Foundation
Brenda Babitz August 2001
Volume: 14 Issue: 4
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We are fortunate to live in a country long recognized as the world leader in philanthropy. With projections of a wealth transfer in the United States for the next 20 years that will exceed 40 trillion dollars, it's time to gather our collective resources and put some of this new wealth to work for America's community colleges. And although this opportunity to involve corporations, foundations, and individuals in the compelling mission of our colleges is without precedent, so too, are the challenges we must confront.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Brother-to-Brother: Enhancing the Intellectual and Personal Growth of African-American Males
Edward J. Leach June 2001
Volume: 14 Issue: 3
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Community colleges have established a strong reputation for fulfilling their mission to encourage and provide wide access to higher education, especially for underrepresented and disadvantaged citizens. Building on this record, some community colleges are achieving still more success by initiating programs that focus on specific underrepresented groups, helping students and potential students overcome class and social barriers that can impede academic participation and achievement. Brother-to-Brother, initiated as a special program at St.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
An Open Door to the Bachelor's Degree
Kenneth P. Walker April 2001
Volume: 14 Issue: 2
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Community colleges have made their mark by providing high-quality, open access to higher education, a democratization of learning resulting in the development of nearly 1,200 community and technical colleges across the U.S.  During the one hundred years since the first junior college was founded, the broader community college mission has expanded from singular focus on university transfer to include technical and vocational education, basic skills training, and, most recently, workforce development.
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Developmental Education: A Policy Primer
Robert H. McCabe February 2001
Volume: 14 Issue: 1
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Few educational programs are more misunderstood and less appreciated than community college developmental education. Both legislatures and colleges afford it a low priority, yet it is essential to our nation's well being. Developmental education can be cost effective and productive, and it is easily one of the most important services provided by community colleges.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, College Readiness, Innovations
Rising Star: A Community College Foundation at Work
Betheny L. Reid December 2000
Volume: 13 Issue: 6
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With increasing frequency, community colleges are calling on their foundations, or are creating foundations, to encourage community involvement in college activities and to provide an alternative funding source to support student learning and community building. In 1997, Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) Board Chair Bob Thornton and Chancellor Bill Wenrich challenged the district and foundation executive teams to think about the foundation's role in making a "significant and lasting impact" in the community.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Laptops for Everyone (Part 2): An Update on the Floyd College Information Technology Project
H. Lynn Cundiff, Sandy M. Briscar October 2000
Volume: 13 Issue: 5
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In April 1998 readers of this forum were introduced to Floyd College's Information Technology Project (ITP), a three-year pilot project for the University System of Georgia in which all students leased laptop computers for use both in and out of the classroom. Floyd College was the first two-year college in the country to initiate such a program. The following is an update on the project as the end of the pilot period is reached. 
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