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New Game, New Rules: The Workforce Development Challenge
Larry J. Warford, William J. Flynn April 2000
Volume: 13 Issue: 2
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As state and federal governments devise new initiatives, programs, and mandates concerning workforce development, community college leaders may feel they are drowning in a sea of acronyms: WIB, WIA, ETP, ITA, FERPA, ALX. These and other programs appear faster than colleges can develop plans, hire staff, and implement initiatives that at first glance may seem to have no place in our mission statement.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community Colleges Bridging the Digital Divide
Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr., Gerardo E. de los Santos February 2000
Volume: 13 Issue: 1
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America's digital divide is fast becoming a "racial ravine." It is now one of America's leading economic and civil rights issues and we have to take concrete steps to redress the gap between the information haves and have nots. --Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Telecommunications, August 1999
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Diversity, Innovations
Instructional Realignment by Consensus: The Community College of Denver Experience
Barbara Bollmann December 1999
Volume: 12 Issue: 6
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Faced with challenges brought about by a series of cuts in state funding, Colorado's Community College of Denver (CCD) was forced to ask serious questions about how it conducted the business of learning. Finding no easy answers, administrators, faculty, and staff at the college began a dialogue that became a process of realignment by consensus. This abstract presents a brief history of the reasons for change, an overview of the restructuring process, and a glimpse into the future of collaborative change at CCD.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Preserve And Transform: Integrating Technology Into Academic Life
Steven W. Gilbert October 1999
Volume: 12 Issue: 5
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The following "speech" is abstracted from the upcoming monograph, New Visions for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, by Steven W. Gilbert, President, The TLT Group, the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education. Gilbert is the founder of the TLT Roundtable approach, which has been adopted by more than 400 colleges and universities to help coordinate and stimulate their uses of technology to improve teaching and learning.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Keeping Our Word: The Guaranteed Annual Schedule
Bill Law August 1999
Volume: 12 Issue: 4
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The lives of students, faculty, and staff at Montgomery College (TX) have been eased by the creation of a course schedule that announces classes for a full academic year and by the pledge that no course in the schedule will be canceled. With the Guaranteed Annual Schedule, college personnel have solved some of the most trying and tenacious problems associated with the registration process, and we have done so by following two fundamental principles: careful planning and keeping our word.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Chaos Works
Charles J. Carlsen, Dan Radakovich June 1999
Volume: 12 Issue: 3
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Community colleges around the globe are embarking on individual journeys to improve their institutional processes and to foster greater student success. While colleges are following a variety of pathways toward this common goal, Johnson County Community College (KS) has chosen the path of chaos. Sparked by Margaret Wheatley's applications of chaos theory to organizational leadership, college leaders have been applying the lessons of quantum physics and fractals to improve organizational processes and student outcomes.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Teaching The Teachers: Meeting The National Teacher Preparation Challenge
George R. Boggs, Sadie Bragg February 1999
Volume: 12 Issue: 1
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It is common for professionals in higher education to decry the low level of preparation of students who enter colleges and universities today. Math, science, and technology literacy of our nation's students and our future work force is of particular concern. The recently released report of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study adds to existing concerns about the quality of education at the primary and secondary levels.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Seven Practices To Prepare Our Students For Success In The Digital Age
Beth Richardson December 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 10
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Nicholas Negroponte, in his national best seller Being Digital, says "Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living." Certainly, information technologies have infiltrated almost every area of our lives, professional and personal. As Don Tapscott notes in The Digital Economy, "Only 20 years ago, there were 50,000 computers in the world; now that many are being installed daily. . . .
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Moving From Innovation To Transformation In The Community College
Paul Gianini October 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 9
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Kay McClenney, in her recent keynote speech at the League for Innovation in the Community College’s Innovations 1998 conference and subsequentLeadership Abstracts article, challenges community colleges to find effective ways to move from innovation to transformation.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Community Colleges Perched At The Millennium: Perspectives On Innovation, Transformation, And Tomorrow
Kay M. McClenney August 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 8
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The inclination to innovation has served community colleges well for the past 30 years. It has positioned us at the forefront of America’s higher education community. But we are at a point where innovation, even lots of it, is no longer enough. The reality is that innovation does not equal transformation, and multiple innovations do not add up to fundamental change. Effective innovations are seldom effectively replicated. Even when replicated, innovations seldom change institutions or systems. Evidence of this fact is widely available and equally widely ignored.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Dream Catchers: Community Colleges and The Coming Prosperity
Bob Davis, David Wessel July 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 7
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The widening inequality that distinguishes the past 20 years of American economic history comes in many forms and has many causes. Divorce and unwed motherhood have created a growing number of single-parent, single-paycheck families at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. A new willingness to pay extraordinary salaries to superstars--in sports, television, investment banking--has created a highly visible super-rich elite. But ultimately, most Americans live on their paychecks. The root of discomforting inequality is in wages.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community Colleges Go International: Short-cycle Education Around The World
Frederick C. Kintzer June 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 6
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Community colleges have a core mission to serve their local constituency, nevertheless many have become involved in multinational collaborations, often in the development of two-year colleges in other countries. More than 48 percent of American community colleges are involved in a variety of international education projects. This abstract explores international applications of community college education--referred to here as "short-cycle education"--and outlines strategies they have used to serve well on the international level.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Celebrating Presidential Leadership Transitions
Ned J. Sifferlen May 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 5
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More than ten years ago, the third Leadership Abstract ever published, "The Discovery Stage of Presidential Succession," dealt with the issue of leadership transitions. In the abstract, Estelle Bensimon explored the entry of a new CEO into an institution and compared how inside and outside candidates handled "getting to know an institution" and "becoming known." These and other issues surrounding executive leadership transitions have re-emerged today as key topics of conversations, as waves of CEO retirements loom in the near future.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Laptops for Everyone: Changing the Way Students Learn and Colleges do Business
Lynn Cundiff, Sandy M. Briscar April 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 4
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Twenty-four college freshmen enter their biology classroom, remove laptop computers from their backpacks and tote bags, plug them into Internet connections built into the desks, and log onto the campus server. They click on the class folder and examine pop-up comments from their instructor on reports they submitted by e-mail after their last class. They check the class Web site and read responses from their classmates to anonymous versions of their papers.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Certificates on Center Stage: Occupational Education for a Working Economy
Stella A. Perez, Carol C. Copenhaver March 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 3
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Not so long ago, college graduates followed career paths leading from campuses to companies where they worked throughout their 30- to 40-year professional lives. Many of our parents and grandparents climbed a single corporate ladder through a series of promotions to the culmination of their careers and into retirement. During these times, college degrees ensured access and opportunity for professional life-styles. Degrees also served symbolically and functionally to secure a position for graduates as contributing members of the American middle class.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Workforce Preparation, Innovations

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