Many challenges face community; technical, and junior colleges as
they prepare for the 21st century. The more than 1,400 community
colleges in the United States and Canada are led by approximately
14,000 academic deans and department heads, each of whom must
balance the demands of the students, faculties, sponsors,
community, and the college itself.
As college enrollments increase, so do responsibilities, problems,
and stress. Fur-ther stress will come to bear upon com-munity
colleges in the next decade, when 40% of their academic leaders are
expected to retire. There is justifiable concern about the
identification, recruitment, and preparation of individuals to
assume vacant leadership positions. "Academic Leadership in
Community Colleges" provides the neces-sary touchstones and
guidelines for per-sons within institutions preparing for new
leadership.
Written by professional educators, this book is based on a survey
of 3,000 deans and department heads in community col-leges in the
United States and Canada. The survey disclosed the broad variety of
responsibilities, organizational structures, and developmental
strategies exercised by academic leaders in community colleges from
coast to coast. The research was conducted by the Center for the
Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and supported by the National Community College
Chair Academy.
Introductory chapters present compara-tive information about
community col-leges: their various missions, instructional units,
and demographic situations. Other chapters focus on the beliefs and
values, tasks, skills, competition, and challenges that greet
academic leaders. Readers willfind useful strategies for
confronting frequent problems and procedures for achieving greater
college cohesion and efficiency.
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