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American Higher Education on the Grill
Dan Angel October 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 16
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The changes sweeping across the globe are not limited to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Gone too is the era when the American public held higher education in universal high regard. A recent Gallup poll found that public confidence in educational leaders was only 31 percent. In 1983, A Nation at Risk set the tone for public concern for all levels of education.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Leading a College Economic Development Program
Stephen G. Katsinas, Vincent A Lacey September 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 15
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While community colleges cannot solve all of the economic woes of the nation or their communities, they have taken on a number of economic development initiatives outside of the regular, credit curriculum. These nontraditional initiatives include, but are not limited to, customized training and retraining for area businesses, technology transfer efforts, new business incubators, and small business centers.
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Strengthening the Transfer Function: From a "Zero-Sum" Game to a "Win-Win" Situation
Judith S. Eaton September 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 14
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Is the current emphasis on transfer education at community colleges a zero-sum game? Is transfer strengthened at the expense of other major community college functions such as, developmental/remedial education or occupational training? Many fear that the answer to both questions is "yes," that today's efforts to strengthen the transfer function will in the long run weaken the community college's comprehensive scope.
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Not Leaving Technology Decisions to the "Techies" and "Gurus"
Carol Cross August 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 13
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A principal reason instructional technology has not achieved its potential to transform teaching and learning in community colleges is that so many educational leaders have kept their "hands-off" technology-related decisions. Many presidents and chief academic officers enthusiastically endorse the idea of using computer technology to improve teaching and learning, and they often point with pride to exemplary computer applications in their colleges.
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The President's Role in Student Tracking
Jim Palmer August 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 12
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Demands for information on student outcomes have spurred the development of student tracking systems--computerized databases that provide longitudinal data on students' progress through college and on their subsequent success. However, most of the literature on student tracking addresses the technical issues of concern to data processing personnel, institutional researchers, and others who build these data bases.
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Responding to International Needs: A Model That Is Working
Jean Conway, Patsy Fulton, Mike Khirallah July 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 11
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Many community colleges, as well as four-year colleges and universities, have long traditions of involvement in international education. However, both the nation's rapidly changing demographic face and the emergence of a global economy have placed a new urgency on providing international programs that respond to a range of student needs.
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Insuring Excellence in Community College Teaching
John E. Roueche June 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 10
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Community college leaders are collectively committed to insuring that excellence in teaching remains the hallmark of their institutions. More than one report has held out the goal that community colleges become and be recognized as the premier teaching institutions in all of higher education. Yet, the circumstances facing these colleges could not make this goal more challenging.
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The Tech Prep Program: A New Course of Study
Joe Grimsley May 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 9
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The 1980s began with great concern about the decline of the nation's educational system. The evidence included declining test scores, increasing high school dropout rates, demoralized teaching staffs, and decaying facilities. Educational reforms were implemented, and some important improvements were achieved. However, by the end of the same decade, the inability of the nation and its work force to compete effectively in the emerging global economy replaced declining educational standards as the great national lament. Of course, these concerns are more than casually related.
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Strategies for Serving Underprepared Students
Richard C. Richardson, Jr. May 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 8
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The current concern with underpreparation is the consequence of two decades of policy decisions that have left community colleges accountable for serving less well-prepared students who graduate and transfer at levels significantly below those previously attained by better-prepared cohorts. The issue of preparation cannot be separated from factors of race and ethnicity.
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Partnerships With K-12 School Districts
Allen D. Arnold April 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 7
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It has become increasingly certain to educators and the public alike that the nation must redesign its educational system if it is to meet the pressing social and economic demands of the 21st century. Certainly, the system needs to retool to meet the workforce requirements of an increasingly technological, competitive, and interdependent world.
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Statewide Articulation Cannot Be Done Tongue in Cheek
Arthur R. Southerland, Rex Leonard, George D. Edwards, James R. Hutto April 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 6
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The smooth transition of students from high school to college is a long-standing goal of both secondary and postsecondary levels of education. However, by virtue of their position in the overall educational system, community colleges have a complicated task. They must deal with articulation in at least three directions-downward to the high school, upward to four-year colleges and universities, and outward to business and industry.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Leadership for Teaching and Learning
K. Patricia Cross March 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 5
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The leadership required for the year 2000 will be quite different from the leadership that built most community colleges in the 1960s. Determining where these colleges will be headed and what kind of leaders will be needed was a challenge to the Commission on the Future of Community Colleges. The report of the commission, Building Communities: A Vision for a New Century, has been widely read and has helped to set an agenda for community colleges nationwide.
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Renewing a Mature Community College
James L. Hudgins February 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 4
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The founding of Joliet Junior College at the turn of this century is often cited as the beginning of the community college movement. However, as the nation's 1,224 two-year community, technical, and junior colleges enter the last decade of that century, the fact is that the majority are less than thirty years old. Most experienced the excitement of birth in the 1960s, the headiness of growth in the 1970s, and the trials and difficulties of adolescence and young adulthood in the 1980s.
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Building Communities: A Checklist for Evaluation and Discussion
Nancy Armes, Kay McClenney February 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 3
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The Commission on the Future of Community Colleges challenged every community college to "build community." To do so, the commission urged each to demonstrate a concern for the whole, for integration and collaboration, for openness and integrity, for inclusiveness and self-renewal. Further, the commission argued that these concerns should be evident in the values the institution holds; the goals it aspires to achieve; and the policies, procedures, and programs it implements to realize those aspirations.
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Staffing for a New Century: An Opportunity for Institutional Renewal
Mardee Jenrette February 1990
Volume: 3 Issue: 2
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Before the turn of the century, 30 to 50 percent of all community college faculty are expected to retire. This prediction has been validated by researchers, appears repeatedly in the higher education press, and has begun to set the agenda for national conferences. Even so, few institutions have begun to address systematically its implications, and most have failed to recognize the immediacy and magnitude of the potential crisis.
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