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Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems That Thrive
Eugene Giovannini April 2019
Volume: 32 Issue: 4
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems that innovate and thrive can only excel when we as community college leaders leverage assets in new and creative ways and structure strong support systems to help such ideas flourish. Wearing the entrepreneurial hat enables you to be imaginative, original, innovative, and even a little outlandish – all in the noble pursuit of finding better and more efficient ways to craft new solutions. And, these are not just solutions you need today, but a year, three years, or a decade in the future.  
Tags: Leadership Development, Leadership Development, Innovations
Change Minds, Behaviors, and Outcomes Through Effective Leadership
Randy Weber March 2019
Volume: 32 Issue: 3
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Today’s community college landscape is evolving, and change seems to be a constant—particularly at institutions embracing innovation as part of their culture. That is why it is imperative for all community college leaders to be mindful about how their teams handle the change required to remain relevant in the postsecondary sector. For each of us to successfully execute our unique missions, we must lead with focus toward an end goal.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Leadership Development, Leadership Development, Innovations
Women Need One More Degree Than Men to Earn the Same
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce February 2019
Volume: 32 Issue: 2
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Women are going to college and graduating in greater numbers than men. They are also increasingly pursuing high-paying majors in STEM and business. Yet, women still make just 81 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to new analysis from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce (Georgetown Center).
Tags: Leadership Development, Equity, Key Trends, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Including Community College Leaders in the Conversation Is Vital to Accurate Assessment
Mia Ocean, Jeffrey A. McLaughlin, and Jacqueline Hodes January 2019
Volume: 32 Issue: 1
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Community colleges often do not command the respect they deserve in comparison to other higher education institutions. Although they serve a wide range of students—including those with the least political, social, and financial capital—they are not able to rely upon sizeable endowments to support or publicize their important work. Community colleges provide unique educational opportunities, and they create a home for those who are finding their academic and professional paths.
Tags: Innovations
Untapped Leaders: Faculty and the Challenge of Student Completion
League for Innovation in the Community College December 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 12
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In 2014, the League for Innovation in the Community College launched its Faculty Voices Project to engage the missing voices of community college faculty in the national conversation about student completion. This issue of Leadership Abstracts presents the Executive Summary and Recommendations from the project’s report to the field, Untapped Leaders: Faculty and the Challenge of Student Completion.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Inclusion, Leadership Development, Organizational Culture, Student Completion, Innovations
Balancing Work and Learning: Implications for Low-Income Students
Anthony P. Carnevale and Nicole Smith November 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 11
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Go to school. Be financially responsible. Work hard. These are the tenets we teach our children about the responsible pursuit of the American Dream. Yet for some of the hardest-working students from low-income families, following these tenets has not led to the success they have been promised. These low-income working learners are going to school more and working more hours, yet struggling to make it. They have been failed by
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Access, Equity, Inclusion, Policy and Practice, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Washington State B.A.S. Degrees: A Roadmap to Successful Implementation
Malcolm Grothe, Anna Baldwin, and Shouan Pan October 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 10
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Washington State is home to 34 community and technical colleges. The majority of these institutions are clustered in and around the Seattle metropolitan area, with the remainder strategically located in more rural and sparsely populated areas of the state. Within these 34 colleges, roughly 380,000 students are enrolled (headcount), with an FTE count of roughly 181,000.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Community Colleges in the Age of Innovation
John Kao September 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 9
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The future of education is up for grabs. It is changing on virtually every dimension that matters—the design of schools, the role of faculty, and above all, the learning experience. These changes are inevitable because a tsunami of new technologies is driving profound shifts in education fundamentals—the relationship between teachers and the taught, the location and timing of educational activities, and the very definition of what it means to learn.
Tags: Leadership Development, Leadership Development, Innovations
LSC-LEAD: Preparing Current Leaders for Future Leadership Roles
Alicia Friday, Erica Landry, Latoya Lewis, and Jackie C. Thomas, Jr. August 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 8
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According to Crisis and Opportunity (The Aspen Institute, 2013), a little over half of U.S. community college presidents will retire in the next 10-15 years. As a result of this alarming statistic, organizations like the Aspen Institute, Achieving the Dream, American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), and League for Innovation in the Community College have expressed the need for community colleges to develop pathways for current leaders interested in future leadership positions.
Tags: Leadership Development, Leadership Development, Innovations
Reinvention: The Promise and Challenge of Transforming a Community College System
Cheryl L. Hyman July 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 7
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“I Need You to Fix It” One winter day in 2009, I was contacted by an influential African American businessman, without whose support little happens in Chicago. “You’re going to get a phone call soon,” he told me, “and you should just say yes.” A few weeks later, the phone rang on my desk at Commonwealth Edison, the Chicago-based Fortune 500 company where I served as vice president for operations strategy and business intelligence. A woman’s voice announced, “The mayor wants to meet with you.”
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
Using Failure to Generate Innovation
Jill Channing June 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 6
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How does failure help anything? After all, isn’t failure always bad? Examples of how individuals or organizations fall short? Most—perhaps all—successful people and organizations have failed, and sometimes even failed frequently and monumentally. The Beatles’ first album was rejected. A dozen publishers passed on J.K. Rowling's manuscript for Harry Potter. Penicillin and the smallpox vaccine were discovered from failed experiments. So, what turns a failure into an innovation?
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
The Minority Male Initiative Database
Keith Curry, Dawn Person, Tim Sechang, Ezeudo Egeonuigwe, and Andrew Jones May 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 5
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Success rates in higher education among men of color are still lower than that of other groups, but African American and Hispanic/Latino male enrollment has been increasing in community colleges (Valliani, 2015). Between 1990 and 2013, Black enrollment more than doubled from 1.1 to 2.5 million and Hispanic enrollment quadrupled from 0.7 to 2.9 million. This is far lower compared to White enrollment, which increased 9.3 to 9.9 million (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015).
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Student Services, Diversity, Inclusion, Policy and Practice, Student Retention, Student Success, Innovations
Leveraging Community College Capacity to Transform the Early Childhood Education Workforce
Marnie Kaplan April 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 4
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Over the past decade, educators and policymakers have sought to increase the number of students pursuing and completing postsecondary credentials. There’s a good reason for this: In today’s economy, most jobs that pay enough to support a family will require some kind of postsecondary education or training.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Key Trends, Policy and Practice, Innovations
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Linda M. Thor March 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 3
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Throughout the history of community colleges, ideas first viewed as disruptive have grown organically as college after college embraces the new approach. The once controversial becomes commonplace. Aiding in the growth and acceptance of new frameworks are often organizations like the League for Innovation in the Community College and monographs such as this one. The community college baccalaureate, once viewed as heretical, is reaching critical mass.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Innovations
From Conversation to Action: A Toolkit for Faculty and Staff Engagement
Cynthia Wilson February 2018
Volume: 31 Issue: 2
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Communication and inclusion are critical factors in the success of just about any collegewide initiative, and in more than 80 discussion groups held with community college faculty over the past four years, this message has been clear and strong. Again and again, faculty have called for more and better communication within and across departments and the entire college, and for meaningful opportunities for faculty—and other stakeholders—to participate in informing policies and making decisions about practices that affect student learning and success.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Innovations

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