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Days in the Lives of Seasoned Community College Presidents
Lam Wong July 2015
Volume: 28 Issue: 7
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A complete education requires the learner to have a good grasp of both theory and practice. This is particularly true concerning the study of community college leadership. In recent times, community colleges are at a crossroads of maintaining open access and mindfully improving student success. Adding to this challenge, community colleges must raise their performance standards, such as student retention and degree completion, in the midst of reduced state funding appropriations (Lahr et al., 2014). Cohen and Brawer (2008) asked a relevant question and quoted a solution:
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Leadership Development, Innovations
Unlocking Solutions to the Iron Triangle: The Golden Key
Glenn Cerny, Elizabeth LaForest June 2015
Volume: 28 Issue: 6
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In the information age, where should a college spend its time and effort to provide maximum payoff for students, faculty, and staff? Resource constraints have run rampant over the past five years in the community college world. An analysis by Thomas G. Mortenson (2012) shows that state funding has been in a constant decline since the 1980s, and projections show that funding will bottom out completely around fiscal year 2059--even sooner for some states.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Resource Development, Alternative Funding, Policy and Practice, Innovations
Mentoring: A Pathway to Completion
Marcia Conston May 2015
Volume: 28 Issue: 5
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Colleges have often considered mentoring an important component of student success. As students interact with faculty and staff and become more engaged in college activities, they are more likely to be successful in their classes, return subsequent terms, and, ultimately, complete a credential. Research has shown that students feel a sense of real belonging when someone inside the college knows who they are and connects with them beyond the classroom experience. As a result, student engagement positively impacts student success.
Tags: Student Services, Student Completion, Student Retention, Innovations
Community College Curmudgeons: Barriers to Change
Terry O'Banion April 2015
Volume: 28 Issue: 4
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Curmudgeons seem to be a timeless phenomenon in society, a reality perhaps best, if paradoxically, demonstrated by their prevalence in fiction. From Ebenezer Scrooge and Grumpy the Dwarf to Archie Bunker and the eponymous characters created by Andy Rooney and Lewis Black, curmudgeons can be spiteful, annoying, mean spirited, funny, or even loveable. Curmudgeons are so ubiquitous there is an International Society of Curmudgeons at www.grumpy-people.com.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
GenEd and Democracy
Bernie Ronan March 2015
Volume: 28 Issue: 3
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A look back at their origins confirms that community colleges were born for democracy, a destiny to be fulfilled through General Education (GenEd).
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Breaching the Perimeter: The Role of Social Engineering in Cyber Breaches
Jane LeClair February 2015
Volume: 28 Issue: 2
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In the society that we currently live and work in, we are frequently connected to the technology of computers and the Internet. We utilize the convenience of technology and the Internet for much of our daily living, including shopping, communicating, education, Web surfing, social media, business, financial transactions, and a host of other activities that we are hardly aware of. Many of us think nothing about purchasing with the swipe of a card or sharing our lives on social media.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Administrative Services, Innovations
Developmental Education: A Policy Primer
Robert H. McCabe January 2015
Volume: 28 Issue: 1
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As a tribute to Bob McCabe, the League republishes his February 2001 Leadership Abstracts article, Developmental Education: A Policy Primer.
Tags: Innovations
The League Partners With Syndio Social to Learn How Social Network Mapping Can Help Higher Education Leaders
Rebecca Griffiths December 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 12
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Social network analysis has been used to predict and influence the spread of behaviors from smoking to weight loss to adoption of new technologies. Researchers have found that personal relationships have a huge impact on how we act, and that people play different roles in social networks: brokers transmit information across groups; sensors control which information permeates a group; and key influencers drive opinions and set agendas.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Changing to Meet the Needs of Regional Economic Development
Anne M. Kress November 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 11
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In the past few years, as the difficulties facing the economy deepened, community colleges have been at the center of the national and regional dialogue about moving displaced workers back into the workforce. Even more recently, as the number of recent college graduates unable to find employment increased and the skills gap between those seeking employment and those seeking employees seems to be widening, community colleges have become the gateway to meaningful jobs and high tech careers.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Resource Development, Alternative Funding, Strategic Planning, Innovations
Trustees and the Looming Leadership Vacuum
James Kelly October 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 10
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A recent Leadership Abstracts article discussed the relationship between community college presidents and their trustees in our new era of accountability (Kelly, 2014). There is, however, another issue that also requires the attention of trustees if they are to govern their institutions successfully into the future: the need to have a sufficient pool of suitable candidates from which to recruit their colleges' presidents.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Board Relations, Leadership Development, Innovations
Back to Our Future: The Opportunity for Pure Learning
Allen Goben September 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 9
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Peter Drucker said, "The best way to predict the future is to create it." Amidst unprecedented societal change, early 21st century educators have an equally unparalleled opportunity to create a future honoring past success while expanding future capabilities. For faculty and administrators, this means that together we must implement the current success agenda to further our time-honored mission of access and excellence. Emerging opportunities include competency-based education (CBE).
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Adaptability and Authenticity as a Product of Courage
Michael Rivera August 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 8
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Thousands of books have been written on the topic of leadership. To wade through the volumes of information, research, and insights on the topic would be a monumental task, and to separate the quality theory from the rest would be equally daunting. In addition, the ever changing landscape of the 21st century requires that we constantly evaluate and adapt our thinking about what constitutes strong leadership.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Leadership Development, Innovations
Creating Administrative Teams: A Discussion With Community College Presidents
Steve Nunez July 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 7
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As community college budgets become tighter and accountability becomes more paramount, community college leaders are faced with some of the toughest challenges ever. At the same time, many of the most experienced leaders in higher education are planning to retire soon, leaving a leadership and experience void in colleges throughout the nation. In fact, some predict that up to 75 percent of community college presidents will retire within the next decade.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Leadership Development, Innovations
Human Relations Coaching: Under the Radar
Bettie Tully June 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 6
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El Centro College was one of the first community colleges to establish the office of Ombudsman as a dispute resolution and problem solving service for students. The position of College Ombudsman was established by Dr. Wright Lassiter, who became President of El Centro College at a time when student issues were numerous and volatile.The Ombudsman position was crafted and defined in collaboration with Dr. Bettie Tully, an experienced and well-respected Counseling Faculty member, who also agreed to be the first person to serve as the College Ombudsman.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
The Artisan and Artist: Community Colleges and Empowerment of the African American Community
Jabari Simama May 2014
Volume: 27 Issue: 5
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There has been a century-old debate around what models best address the educational needs of the African American community. It began with the establishment of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) prior to and in the 1860s and 1890s. It reignited in 1895 after Booker T. Washington suggested that Blacks should "cast down their buckets" in a sea of vocational and industrial education in his address before the Atlanta Exposition in Piedmont Park.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Leadership Development, Innovations

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