This paper analyzes authority-use patterns as they relate to the internal organization of a community college. Section 1 presents a hypothetical case study of a community college which practices several unique authority-use variations that are in actual use in two-year colleges around the country. The cluster college scheme, a new strategy for…

Because administrative organization has an indirect but important relationship to student learning and to the achievement of the mission of the two-year college, community college educators must be sensitive to the nuances of authority relations in their institutions. The articles in this sourcebook present selected approaches to the use of…

Community college enrollments have greatly increased in recent years, yet organizational structures have remained the same. The incompatibility of present size with old organizational structures has made it difficult to maintain any semblance of an intimate learning community. The cluster college is proposed as a possible alternative that would…