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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
Technology in Education: Striving for Excellence and Equity
Willard R. Daggett February 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 2
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Every day, innovations in technology are revolutionizing life and work in the United States. Educators at all levels face two monumental challenges with respect to technology: how to use technology to achieve excellence and how to ensure equity of access for all students. With their appeal to a broad diversity of students, community colleges must give careful consideration to these issues.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
What if they Learn Differently: Applying Multiple Intelligences Theory in the Community College
Rene Diaz-Lefebvre, Nancy Siefer, Tessa Martinez Pollack January 1998
Volume: 11 Issue: 1
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As community college leaders enter the twenty-first century, a wide range of efforts are underway aimed at providing new and exciting incites into learning. Social scientists are exploring aspects of public education (e.g., social class, economics, race) and how these challenges support or hinder the learning process. Cognitive scientists are finding that people do not learn in a vacuum, but through social interaction. Human development researchers are studying motivation to uncover what makes people exert the effort to learn.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Resources for Leaders
League for Innovation December 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 12
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Each year, the League for Innovation in the Community College offers a range of publications, programs, and services for community college leaders. In an effort to highlight these resources, this year-end issue of Leadership Abstracts profiles a number of key League offerings from 1997. More information on each of the following resources is available online through the League's Web site at http://www.league.org or through the League office at (480) 705-8200.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
High School Ain't What it Used to Be
Sandy Acebo November 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 11
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If you would not be forgotten,As soon as you are dead and rotten,Either write things worth reading,Or do things worth the writing.                         -Ben Franklin
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Providing Short-term Educational Programs: Welfare Reform and One-Stop Centers
Alice Villadsen, Nick Gennett October 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 10
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Across the country, community colleges are working to help meet the growing challenge of moving individuals from welfare to work--quickly. Initiatives in welfare reform and consolidation of job-training and job-placement agencies are requiring community colleges to play key roles in developing what most states are calling "one-stop" career centers.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The Addictive Organization and the Community College
Sheila Ortega September 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 9
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Community colleges are serving the nation, providing a critical bridge for students seeking basic academic skills, comprehensive occupational training, and unique support services. The professionals in community colleges take pride in the fact that they help students to be successful. For the most part, students spill out of classrooms well educated, directed, and counseled. But can we say that we are entirely successful in our roles as leaders and educators?
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Embracing the Tiger: The Institutional Effectiveness Challenge
John E Roueche, Laurence F. Johnson, Suanne D. Roueche August 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 8
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The current push for higher educational reform should neither be underestimated or ignored. There is ample evidence that the current public criticism of colleges is not the temporary result of poor public relations, nor is it merely a pendulum swing toward public dissatisfaction that, with the passage of time or change of circumstance, will swing back toward better days.
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The Purpose, Process, And Product of the Learning Revolution in the Community College
Terry O'Banion July 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 7
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he 1990s mark the spread of a Learning Revolution in higher education. In 1994, the cover of Business Week declared a learning revolution in progress; in 1995, a special section in Time announced the developing learning revolution.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Building Community from the Inside Out
Stephen K. Mittelstet, Gerardo E. de los Santos, June 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 6
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Much has been written about the need for community colleges to build community in our service areas by engaging external partnerships, economic development strategies, and community-based programming. There are, of course, excellent examples that illustrate the success of such efforts. Still, many community colleges find it difficult to connect with their external communities in meaningful ways.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Community College Leadership in the Age of Technology
Steven Lee Johnson May 1997
Volume: 10 Issue: 5
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"Learning anytime, anyplace, anywhere, is the battle cry of the Learning Revolution;" this according to Terry O’Banion speaking during a special session at the 1997 American Association of Community Colleges’ Convention. Ironically, at the same time authors, researchers, and leaders such as O’Banion lift the information technology banner as a means to this end, many community colleges continue to neglect or compartmentalize it.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations

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