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The Case for National Student Leadership on Community College Issues
Lisa Ryan June 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 6
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A general weakness of higher education has been its inability or unwillingness to make constructive and consistent use of student leadership as an advocate for the institution. From the perspective of student leadership, the fact that student advocacy is rarely utilized to its full potential represents a significant missed opportunity among our nation's colleges and universities. The situation seems even more paradoxical in the case of community colleges, whose students often have significant links to the community.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Partnerships: Doors to the Future for Community Colleges
Norman R. Nielsen May 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 5
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Budgets shrivel and shrink. State support drops. The public demands more programs and services. The business community wants more vocational programs. The community college is forced to downsize, postpone plant maintenance, and set aside plans for new programs. Details may differ and regional economic conditions determine when the struggles began, but the story is virtually the same nationwide.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Sustaining Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Terry O'Banion April 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 4
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Community colleges, from their earliest days, have been regarded as the only segment of higher education really focused on teaching and learning. Some colleges have been quite successful in this regard and have developed climates in which innovative strategies and practices are highly prized. The most notable have imbedded innovation as a core value and have successfully made the pursuit of innovation an integral part of the institution's culture.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Climbing Out From Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Responding to the Challenges of the At-Risk Student
John E. Roueche, Suanne D. Roueche March 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 3
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The At-Risk Student in the Open-Door College, a status report on college responses to at-risk students, described selected exemplary community college programs designed to meet the challenges at-risk students create for higher education.
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Hiring the Right Next Generation of Faculty
Bill Law February 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 2
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Like the 1960s, the 1990s will be a watershed decade for community colleges.  Not only have they emerged in this decade as mature institutions of which much is expected, but a convergence of demographic, technological, and economic changes virtually ensure that the character of community colleges for the foreseeable future will be determined during the 1990s.
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A New View of the Mission of American Higher Education
John E. Roueche, Larry Johnson January 1994
Volume: 7 Issue: 1
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The obvious intrinsic value of a college education for Americans is the basis for a tradition that had its beginnings in the earliest days of our country. Since that time, higher education in America has evolved into a vast and complex system of public and private institutions that annually serve over 12 million students of every age and background.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
What Presidents Need To Know About the Impact of Networking
from the Higher Education Information Resources Alliance October 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 10
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Since ubiquitous voice, data, and video networking appeared on the Drake University campus in 1987, the new mechanisms for communication have triggered a change in the daily rhythm of that university. Electronic-mail and voice mail systems allow faculty and staff to receive messages at all hours of the day and night, in the office, at home, or on the road messages to which they can respond at their convenience. A campuswide video distribution system creates a similar store and forward environment for the video world.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Vocational and General Education: New Relationship or Shotgun Marriage?
James Jacobs September 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 9
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There is general agreement among community college educators on the importance of developing better linkages between vocational and academic education. External forces have effectively required better integration of the two once-separate domains. The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990, the major federal legislation that defines and organizes vocational education, actually mandates that all states measure vocational students' progress in achieving both basic and advanced academic skills.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
A Community College President's Guide to Corporate Contributions
Herrington J. Bryce August 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 8
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Faced with declining support from traditional sources of revenue, community colleges, as well as public institutions of all kinds, have been called upon to do more with less. As state appropriations have declined in real dollars, many colleges have initiated a broad range of efficiency measures, and a few have even experimented with strategies for increasing productivity not only in administrative operations, but also in the delivery of instruction.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Professional Development for Two-way Teaching and Learning
Nancy E. Stetson July 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 7
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Too often, community college students fail to learn what instructors are teaching because instructors routinely use a teaching process that only works about 17 percent of the time. K. Patricia Cross points out that "teachers in the...average classroom spend about 80 percent of their time lecturing to students, who are attending to what is being said only about half the time." According to J. McLeisch, it gets worse: After the lecture, students carry away in their heads and in their notebooks not more than 42 percent of the content.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Part Time Faculty: Partners In Excellence
John McGuire June 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 6
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The use of part time faculty in community colleges is generally considered a necessary evil, rationalized as an important strategy for saving money and maintaining flexibility. Some have decried the overuse of part timers as a cheap fix, a dangerous addiction, or exploitation of the worse kind. However, part time faculty are a problem only if they are relegated to the margins of the institution and treated with the respect usually reserved for skeletons in the collective community college closet.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Catalyst for Community Change: Helping to Address Critical Issues
Nancy LeCroy, Barbara Tedrow May 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 5
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From its inception, the community college has fashioned its mission through a symbiotic relationship with the local community that has been fundamentally influenced by proximity and need. In its brief history, these colleges have solidified first transfer, then occupational, and finally community service and support roles through a give and take with local constituencies. However, as the issues with which individuals and communities struggle on a daily basis have become more urgent, the tensions inherent in the relationship between college and community have become more apparent.
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Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
Developed under the auspices of the AAHE Assessment Forum April 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 4
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American colleges have a long history of grading and certifying student work. The more recent practice of assessment builds on that history by looking at student achievement not only within courses but across them, asking about cumulative learning outcomes. As a systematic process of gathering, interpreting, and using information about student learning, assessment is a powerful tool for educational improvement.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Positioning the Community College for Community Leadership
Edgar J. Boone, George B. Vaughan March 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 3
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Community college leaders face challenges today that extend well beyond the boundaries of traditional degree programs and on-campus instruction. While venturing beyond these boundaries is nothing new to them, the challenges they face are different in degree, if not always in kind, from past challenges.
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Community College Workforce Training Programs: Expanding the Mission to Meet Critical Needs
Brenda Marshall Beckman, Don Doucette February 1993
Volume: 6 Issue: 2
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Growing concern regarding the nation's competitive position in the global economy has been a matter of discussion for some time. It is now clear that a fundamental factor contributing to this critical situation is the chronic, long term inadequacy of workforce preparation. Consequent issues of quality and productivity have forced corporations across the country to restructure their organizations and to invest in worker training.
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