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The Evolution of Community College Workforce Development Programs
James Jacobs September 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 9
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In the course of the last ten years, community colleges have progressed through three major stages in their relationship to the modernization needs of small- and medium-size firms. The emphasis during the first period, roughly 1984 to 1987, was to build programs around emerging technologies. Community colleges rushed to establish course-based programs in such technical areas as robotics, computer-integrated manufacturing, and machine vision.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Can Community Colleges Do the Job?
Robert A. (Squee) Gordon August 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 8
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The atmosphere in which community colleges operate is changing significantly. At the same time, colleges are operating under a growth and expansion model which may no longer be tenable. The one question that needs to be asked, in the midst of all the rhetoric about community colleges providing workforce training for the twenty-first century, is: Are community colleges really equipped to handle the job? And if they are not, what should they do to ready themselves?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Don't Miss the Joy!
Dale Parnell July 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 7
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What makes life cave in for you as a leader? What set of circumstances throws you into a panic? When the situation blows up around you, is bitterness your inadvertent response? Negative circumstances seem to force many community college leaders into a sort of grimness. Everywhere there are white-knuckled leaders to be seen, enduring their world--their leadership role--rather than enjoying it. Certainly, many of these administrators face some pretty grim circumstances, but concentrating on poor circumstances and on unfairness only brings a downward spiral toward negative thinking.
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Mission Possible: Teaching the Disenfranchised
J. William Wenrich June 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 6
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The times are reminiscent of Charles Dicken's classic opening line in A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." In the past six years, communism has collapsed, apartheid has fallen, and democracy has taken root in more of Latin America than ever before. At the same time, there are mounting examples of man's inhumanity to man as people are slaughtered in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, and in gang killings across the United States in every city.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Will Educational Opportunity Survive?
Patrick Callan May 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 5
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It is time to revive debate over the public purposes and social values that underline much of American higher education. In the last half century, Americans have taken two enormous gambles on higher education. Both were very high risk. There was no certainty that they would pay off, but they both ultimately paid huge dividends.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Defining the Productivity of Community College Administrators
Phillip N. Venditti April 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 4
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Community college presidents, already acutely aware that questions about the value of postsecondary education have escalated nationwide to unprecedented levels, may soon find themselves faced with new legislative mandates which deal with a feature of their institutions which has been, up until recently, largely unexplored and unmeasured--productivity. Increasingly, in states across the country, decisions about which institutions will be funded and at what levels will depend on measures of institutional productivity.
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From Teaching to Learning: a New Reality for Community Colleges
Robert B. Barr March 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 3
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That community colleges today face tremendous challenges is obvious. One budget crisis follows another. Demand for education and retraining is greater than ever. Student populations are becoming more diverse.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The College President, the Board, and the Board Chair: a Primer on Effective Relationships
Wayne Newton, Norm Nielsen February 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 2
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It is axiomatic that the president and board of trustees of a community college exercise leadership that is responsible for the success and health of the institution. They exercise leadership in tandem, with their own sets of roles and responsibilities. When all members understand their respective roles, the organization can function effectively. But when these are out of balance, the college, its community, and its students suffer. 
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Redesigning the System to Meet the Workforce Training Needs of the Nation
Larry Warford January 1995
Volume: 8 Issue: 1
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There is general agreement among business, educational, and government leaders that there is a critical need to train a work force that can compete with any in the world. A gap has grown between the declining skills of our work force and the increasing skill levels demanded in the global workplace. As we move from an industrial-age economy to an information-age economy, the United States has failed to invest in its human resources to the level necessary to keep our place of leadership in global economic competition.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
The Department of Labor's "One-Stop Shop" and the Community College
Lynne Swift, Patti Lake December 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 12
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Just as an old-growth forest thrives and is supported by a variety and balance of living organisms within its system, a healthy work force is nourished and sustained through the interaction of several entities: education, government, business, and industry. The well-being of each one is critical to the survival of the rest. Recognizing this interrelationship, the Department of Labor (DOL) has created a remarkable new opportunity for community colleges to play a leading role.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Managing Change by Creating a Synergistic Environment
Sandra Todd Sarantos November 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 11
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An unprecedented interplay of technological, demographic, and global economic forces is reshaping work in American society and redefining the American workplace. These changes will have a direct effect on the economy and quality of life; indeed, they already have begun to exacerbate the gap between the haves and the have-nots. In the context of an ever-changing economic climate and rapidly shifting demographics, it is clear that America's work force must change. As it does, educational institutions in all sectors must change with it.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Education's New Challenge and Choice: Instructional Technology- Old Byway or Superhighway?
Joseph C. Burke October 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 10
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Higher education is trapped in a time warp--a pre-Gutenberg era where instructional information is mostly transmitted by word of mouth. At the same time, the outside world is rushing down an information superhighway toward a global village where information is instantly available on a worldwide web of databases. Unfortunately, colleges and universities have a long history of surviving technological revolutions largely unscathed. Though these revolutions have transformed the culture, they have left education's curricula and classrooms largely untouched.
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Strategic Alliances: A Key Tool for Institutional Advancement
James L. Catanzaro, Lawrence G. Miller September 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 9
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For community college leaders, the lure of fund raising is greater today than ever before. Stories abound of universities with billion-dollar capital campaigns and hometown projects to support the arts or sports in the hundreds of millions of dollars. As a result, community colleges are increasingly excited by the potential of philanthropic support, especially given the increasing competition from other organizations for public support and the instability of traditional funding sources; state support, tuition and fees, local taxation, and federal grants.
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Institutionalization: The Community College President's Greatest Challenge
George B. Vaughan August 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 8
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Today's community college presidents must deal with any number of demands that did not exist a few years ago. At the same time they must continue to confront the myriad of demands traditionally made on the presidency. These new and extended demands add complexity to the presidency.
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Workforce Development
Hilary Pennington July 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 7
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Several major trends are at work reshaping the American economy of the 1990's. Four in particular are already having a tremendous effect on the number and nature of jobs in the United States, yet have not been met with adequate public policy or institutional responses. These trends are: 1) the downsizing occurring in many companies, 2) the growing move to the outsourcing of work and services, 3) the increasing use of a "contingent" work force, and 4) an increasing income disparity between people who have completed college and those who have only a high school degree.
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