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Beyond Wellness: Solutions for the 1990s
William F. Waechter August 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 11
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Wellness, a craze of the vital 1980s, has reemerged as a solution for the cash-starved 1990s. That wonderful monster, rather than a dying fad, appears more genetically sound than ever as organizations of all kinds, including community colleges, struggle to increase human productivity in response to declining resources.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Total Quality Management: An Overview
Robbie Lee Needham July 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 10
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Management systems are usually implemented in response to current conditions. Such systems and the terms to describe them change with time and use in new contexts. Much of the current management literature, in education and other industries, focuses on systems that can be described under the umbrella term, Total Quality Management, or TQM. TQM contains a mix of original ideas and those with historical antecedents. The following is a brief overview of TQM and how it is being applied in community colleges.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Learning Communities: Needed Educational Restructuring
Ron L. Hamberg June 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 9
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There is general agreement that undergraduate education is in crisis. Its fundamental ills include the lack of coherence in course work, the lack of connectedness among the disciplines, and the lack of intellectual interaction between faculty and students.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
The Community College as Community Activist: A Campus Of and For the People
Tessa (Martinez) Tagle May 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 8
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Communities-the basic cell structure of the nation are disintegrating from neglect, dependency, and despair. The causes are primarily social: poverty; the absence of individual and collective self-esteem; the lack of knowledge, education, even basic information; and generally, speaking, poor coordination in the use of America's resources to help people in need.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Technology in Education in the Nineties
Terrel H. Bell May 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 7
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Education is a labor-intensive industry. While other industries have made great strides toward increased gains in productivity and efficiency in their work by using machines, power tools, and computers, educators have made only slight progress.In the face of constant outcry that our schools are not educating students to meet today's challenges, those responsible for making changes must push to bring to our classrooms the enormous potential of technological advances of recent years. We now have the capacity to revolutionize the work of teachers and learners.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
A Code of Ethics for Community College Leaders
Daniel F. Moriarty April 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 6
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Recently, the heightened importance attached to the moral dimension of leadership and the high public expectations of leaders have resulted in a renewed interest in organizational value statements and codes of ethics for institutional leaders. Over 75 percent of the fortune 500 companies have adopted value statements, and in universities across the country, institutes and courses in ethics have sprung up. Codes of ethics, once the preserve of doctors and lawyers, have also received renewed attention as a way of setting forth the standards to which leaders hold themselves.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Pipeline to the Community College Presidency at the Millennium
George B. Vaughan April 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 5
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What will the profile of community college presidents look like in the year 2000? Will future chief executive officers include greater proportions of women and minorities, thus mirroring the diverse backgrounds of community college students? Will presidents guiding community colleges into the 21st century bring different personal and professional perspectives to the job?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Responding to the Needs of Real Students
Norm Nielsen March 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 4
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The recent focus on institutional effectiveness is welcomed by community college leaders who have long felt the frustration of trying to juggle the mission of access with an insistence on quality. The questions have shifted from How many? to How well? The answers however, require colleges to know far more about their students than ever before.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Presidential Mentoring: Preparing Leaders for Critical Times
Marchelle S. Fox February 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 3
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Pundits, researchers, and commentators of all kinds and persuasions agree that leadership makes a difference. So, the call has gone out for a new generation of leaders to guide organizations through the challenges facing them in the fast-changing twilight of the twentieth century. It is no secret that the public education system, buffeted by demographic, technological, fiscal, and social forces generally beyond its control, needs a new generation of effective leaders to meet the demands placed upon it. Nowhere is this need more acute than in the nation's community colleges.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Leadership in Governance
Thomas W. Fryer, Jr., John C. Lovas February 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 2
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Governance is not an end in itself. It is the means by which organizations attempt to achieve their missions. Leadership in governance has as its purpose creating the conditions, through institutional processes for decision making and communication, in which organizational participants want to contribute more than the bare minimum required of them in the service of the institution's purposes, where the organization's multiple leaders are roughly aligned in service of its mission.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Delivering the Promises of Technology Today
Bernard R. Gifford January 1991
Volume: 4 Issue: 1
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Community college leaders, as well as leaders of any modern organization, must justify their investment of scarce resources in technology--both to themselves and to their major constituents. The question is often posed as a challenge: With all of the money this college has invested in personal computer technology, has it become more productive?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
"When the Pupil is Ready, The Teacher Appears."
Joseph N. Hankin December 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 20
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Maxims are different from one-liners in that they generally do not reach for humor nor depend upon contemporary contexts for meaning. Yet, the best of them convey wisdom drawn from experience that comes as close to universal truth as most of us ever approach. The following is a sampling of insights from the experience of one generation of community college leaders. Hopefully, they constitute a small piece of a legacy to be passed on to the generation now being groomed to lead community colleges into the next century.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Time to Teach a New World: Education and Technology in the 21st Century
Lucie J. Fjeldstad December 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 19
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Much has been said and written about the enormity of the challenges facing the nation, in particular, its educational institutions and its business and industry. Considerably less emphasis has been given to the common interest that these organizations, including community colleges, have in working together toward common goals-not simply the obvious goal of developing an educated work force, but of nurturing a sophisticated citizenry capable of exercising civic responsibility in a rich and humane culture.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Implementing a Diversity Restructuring Program
Laura I. Rendon November 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 18
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Bob Dylan said it best: "the times they are a changing." Indians, African Americans, and Hispanics are now 18 million strong, 20 percent of the nation. Some of America's major cities, including Los Angeles and San Antonio, have "minority majorities"--populations of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians that, when combined, outnumber the white population.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages
Tom Gonzales November 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 17
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America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages is a startling report that has major implications for the role of community colleges in preparing the nation's workforce for the challenges of a new world economic order.
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