This bibliography provides an overview of recent scholarship on community, continuing, and adult education at community colleges. Community colleges provide important services to their surrounding communities through community education programs. By partnering and collaborating with various community interests, these programs and other noncredit…

This bibliography provides an overview of recent scholarship on female community college presidents. A significant and growing number of women are serving as community college presidents. Specifically, there has been an increase in women community college presidents from 11% in 1991 to nearly 28% in 2001. With more women holding presidencies at…

Three essays and a resource guide are offered to assist new college and university presidents in contemplating their tasks, both the "big picture" and "daily detail." Estala Mara Bensimon's essay, titled "Five Approaches to Think About: Lessons Learned from Experienced Presidents," presents five recommendations, including making campus visits…

Thousand of books, monographs, proceedings, and articles have been published concerning colleges and universities in the United States. As guides to his extensive literature, many bibliographies in the field of higher education in general, or special aspects of it, have been prepared. These vary greatly in comprehensiveness, in recency, and in…

A reading list for college presidents, an outgrowth of the Claremont Higher Education Management Institute, was developed from a survey of college and university administrators. They were asked what reading they believed was most essential for college and university presidents. A bibliography and a list of those surveyed is provided. (MLW)

Offers a reading list for community college presidents, identifying key journals and books. Includes books from the education, management, and demographics literature. (MAB)

A bibliography by over 100 chief executive officers of colleges and universities written during or after their tenure is presented. Some are autobiographical, some analytic; others are studies, reports, collections of speeches, and committee analyses of public problems. A few are novels or parables. (Author/MLW)

Thousand of books, monographs, proceedings, and articles have been published concerning colleges and universities in the United States. As guides to his extensive literature, many bibliographies in the field of higher education in general, or special aspects of it, have been prepared. These vary greatly in comprehensiveness, in recency, and in…

Provides an annotated bibliography of 15 current documents from the ERIC database related to community college leadership. Provides sources related to guidelines for effective leadership, building relationships, shared governance, and future challenges facing leaders. (BCY)

This 1,386-entry bibliography includes materials relevant to early American and nineteenth-century academic presidencies and encompasses a specialized corpus of literature written by academic administrators since the early 1960s. The bibliography is divided into four general areas: bibliographies; background sources; biographies; and presidential…

A bibliography of about 68 materials authored, coauthored, or edited by Theodore M. Hesburgh on the American college presidency is presented. Specific topics of the publications, which cover 1950-1981, include the following: the future of liberal education, the immigration system, presidential leadership in institutional advancement, science and…

Calls for presidential evaluations resulting from accountability demands are discussed. A summary of the literature is detailed and various models are described including: Los Angeles Community College District "civil service model," Ad Hoc Committee Model, Minnesota State University System Model, and FIPSE Model. (Author/MLW)

A brief list of references on aspects of institutional advancement programs focuses on such issues as ethics, alumni affairs, fund-raising strategies, the role of the president, small independent colleges, advancement program administration, government relations, and publications. (MSE)

Perspectives on college and university strategic planning, marketing and public relations, and fund-raising are offered. Also included are previously published journal articles by experts in this area, annotated bibliographies of books and journal articles on these subjects, author/title and subject indexes, and a directory of publishers. Three…

A review of literature in the following fields is presented: leadership; administrator development and evaluation; presidential selection, role, and evaluation; collective bargaining; financial management of institutions; policy development; strategic planning and management; financial aid; the federal government and higher education institutions;…