As a presidential search consultant, Preston Pulliams has had the opportunity to observe and participate in many presidential search interviews and the meetings where hiring decisions are made. He has observed how some interview candidates simply knocked themselves out of contention by employing one or more of five poor interview strategies. In…

Building relationships is the essence of the community college. Higher education administrators learned long ago that building rapport with businesses, state and local government, and constituents is the best way to represent the interests of the community. But that does not make it easy. Board members come and go and the shifting dynamics of…

Since its launch in September 2015, Heads Up America has collected information on nearly 125 promise programs across the country, many of which were instituted long before President Barack Obama announced the America's College Promise (ACP) plan in 2015. At least 27 new free community college programs have launched in states, communities, and at…

Almost a year after assuming leadership, the administration of Barack Obama has taken on enormous tasks in confronting the recession that has gripped the U.S. economy. Americans have watched tentatively as the president has extended federal powers into handling corporate bailouts, overseeing the rehabilitation of banks and General Motors, laying…

This paper explores the impact of recent economic volatility on higher education and discusses the lessons learned and the strategies for the future. The author believes that America's higher education is in danger, but has an extraordinary opportunity. Several reports point to the country's lagging behind other advanced countries in educational…

At this workshop, opinions were expressed on the value of certain attributes of a president, such as: his personal qualities of self-esteem, intelligence, patience, and idealism; his role as an example to school and community; his integrity and human warmth; his interest in young people; an ability to work hard under pressure without loss of…

It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in the role expectations of junior college presidents and the expectations of their role by their board presidents, by their administrative deans, by their faculty or senate presidents, or between or among the groups. Forty presidents filled out a Rating Scale for Administrative…

This study identified attitudes of presidents, chief student personnel officers, and faculty toward the guidance-orientation of student personnel services and analyzed 15 characteristics of instructors that affect their attitudes. Based on evaluation of data gathered from out of state, a checklist was constructed in two parts of 30 items each…

This study was conducted to ascertain the most important personal characteristics of community college presidents. In spring 1973, an inventory of personal characteristics was sent to the presidents of 112 institutions; 92 (83 percent) of those sampled responded. The survey form asked respondents to provide descriptive background data and to place…

Describes a study of community college presidents' roles and responsibilities, using structured observations of five presidents at work, a method utilized by Mintzberg (1968) to study chief executive officers (CEOs) of various organizations. Reports findings in terms of Mintzberg's taxonomy of roles and tasks. Contrasts presidents with Mintzberg's…

The Midwest Community College Leadership Council is a cooperative agency of the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University. It has sponsored conferences for trustees and presidents of newly formed junior colleges. Ten representative addresses from the conferences, collected in this paper, cover different aspects…

This unannotated bibliography is divided into sections on bibliographies, the community junior college, the college president, presidential leadership, duties and responsibilities of the president, the president of his board, college administration, finance, the president and the faculty, the president and the public, and a list of selected…

Reports the results of a nationwide survey of the institutional heads of junior and community colleges. Included are statistics regarding sex, ethnicity, age, educational background, academic rank, salary, length of service, professional affiliations, and publication record. (Editor)

This study proposed to see (1) if there was a significant difference in response between faculty and president to written descriptions of the office of president and (2) if the responses were different between rural and urban colleges. Selected descriptions in six categories were randomly distributed in a 46-item questionnaire sent to the…

In response to a survey designed to determine the issues of concern existing between community college presidents and boards of trustees, 137 presidents identified and ranked the importance of ten major areas of need: (1) both parties need to understand where the line is drawn between their respective responsibilities; (2) trustees need to…