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Direct linkViramontes, José Del Real – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
This chapter provides community college leaders with recommendations to develop a transfer sending culture for Latinx students who want to pursue a pathway to a 4-year college/university. Community college leaders can create a transfer sending culture for Latinx students by standardizing a transfer process so that all Latinx students who aim to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Leaders, Transfer Students
Tapia-Fuselier, Nicholas – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Considering the range of social justice issues at the forefront of 21st Century American life, and the ways in which these issues manifest on community college campuses, leaders must examine their responsibility to confront inequities and promote change. Transformative leadership is a style of leading that explicitly acknowledges inequities within…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Social Justice, Community Colleges, Leaders
Schanker, Jennifer Ballard; Orians, Erica Lee – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
This chapter reflects on how the Michigan Center for Student Success (MCSS) has leveraged its position within a membership organization for community college presidents and trustees to engage in statewide student success efforts in a state with a unique higher education governance structure. With no formal higher education governing body to set…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Presidents, Trustees
Boggs, George R.; McPhail, Christine J. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2020
Midlevel leaders are confronted by a never-ending stream of issues. Two experienced leaders and scholars provide suggestions and guidance to help manage them.
Descriptors: Middle Management, Guidance, Leaders, Administrator Attitudes
Trent, Monica Parrish; Pollard, DeRionne P. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2019
Reform initiatives have challenged community college leaders to reconsider what is right and wrong while also challenging our organizational cultures, advancing a new understanding of our mission, and forcing us to reconsider how we engage in the work of educating a public that needs us now more than ever.
Descriptors: Ethics, Decision Making, Community Colleges, College Presidents
Eddy, Pamela L.; Murray, John P. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
This chapter reviews the strategies described in this volume that rural college leaders can use to address the issues and challenges their institutions face. (Contains a list of 12 resources and 4 online resources.)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Rural Urban Differences
March, James G.; Weiner, Stephen S. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2003
Discusses the complex nature of college leadership especially in terms of community colleges. Claims that the central feature of leadership problems is a deep mismatch between the conceptions of individual leaders and key features of the organizations they lead. Concludes that civilization will not survive without civil leaders. (JS)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
Boggs, George R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2003
Describes an upcoming significant transition in the leadership of Americas community colleges and some potential opportunities and challenges surrounding this leadership turnover. Discusses some rewards of community college leadership and some problems that they face. Identifies some skills that may be necessary for leadership in the twenty-first…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
Download full textPiland, William E., Ed.; Wolf, David B., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2003
This document discusses how community colleges have become a vital and perhaps permanent aspect of the United States higher education system, and how it must maintain a competent leadership in order to maintain its integrity. It emphasizes the importance of effective leadership development within the community colleges as they continue to develop…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Community Colleges, Educational Strategies
Carroll, Constance M.; Romero, Martha Gandert – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2003
Describes the increasing difficulty of community colleges to attract and train new leaders, along with the intensifying trend of turmoil within institutional governance. The Community College Leadership Development Initiatives (CCLDI) group was formed to assist in the resolution of these problematic trends through the strengthening of college…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, College Administration, College Governing Councils
