Community College Leadership and Management
Reframing Institutional Practices for Student Success
J Luke Wood author Carlos Nevarez author Christopher Brown II editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published:25th Aug '20
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Community College Leadership and Management places emphasis on reframing college practices in order to advance student success. This calls for leaders to be well versed on promising strategies which have illustrated evidence in advancing academic success. Such practices include intrusive academic advising, exit interviews with dropouts and graduates, and the use of technology to supplement face-to-face academic counselor advising. These leaders are aware of and welcome the challenges and opportunities a changing student population presents to community colleges. The authors critically analyze and call for a deconstruction of conventional practices and the construction of new approaches to understand how student success is envisioned. For example, a redefinition of what constitutes student success is advanced. A redefinition of student success—as the attainment of an academic, vocational, career, or personal goal—is put forth. This broader perception, definition, and meaning of student success is not limited to or constrained by an accountability paradigm. It is driven by the need to capture a more complete picture of the trajectory of contemporary and traditional enrollees from increasingly diverse backgrounds: students whose goals do not fit solely and neatly into two traditionally dominant outcomes like graduation and transfer. It is the role of community college leaders to affirm, inculcate, and communicate this more nuanced definition, allowing it to guide the vision and mission, programs, policies, and practices of the institution. Carlos Nevarez and Luke J. Wood support their arguments through various models, frameworks, research findings, case studies, and presentation of self-reflective questions aimed at advancing reflective community college scholar-practitioners.
“Carlos Nevarez and J. Luke Wood have taken the important first steps in bringing the education of community college administrators into the 21st century. From its survey analysis beginnings to its case study presentations, this book goes beyond war stories to a higher level of theorizing the role of administrators in this rapidly growing segment of the nation’s education system.”—Gene V. Glass, Regents’ Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Institute & Graduate School of Education, Arizona State University
“Leadership of America’s community colleges continues to be one of higher education’s greatest challenges. Carlos Nevarez and J. Luke Wood have focused on exactly the right combination of talents and skills the next generation of presidents and administrators will need to successfully lead our community colleges in the future.”—Brice W. Harris, Chancellor, Los Rios Community Colleges
“The breadth and depth of this book is unequaled. As a leadership practitioner, I find the applications useful and compelling. The chapter on the community college’s role in the achievement gap is ‘must-reading’ for the next generation of community college executives.”—Ned Doffoney, Chancellor, North Orange County Community College
“As a community college leader, a practitioner, and an adjunct faculty member at a major university, I am impressed with this volume for many reasons. It is a contemporary look at leadership today—a very realistic analysis of the changes facing higher education today, especially community colleges. It presents authentic, practical ways to develop leadership skills to confront those challenges. The case study approach is one we are using in our own Talent Management Initiative with the purpose of ‘growing our own’ talented leaders. This methodology will result in developing the kind of visionary, skilled leaders who will be able to solve the multifaceted, complex issues higher education leaders routinely face. The time is ripe for the kinds of fresh thinking and new approaches to leading community colleges that are exemplified in this book. It will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, students, and faculty alike.”—Rufus Glasper, Chancellor, Maricopa Community Colleges
ISBN: 9781433174452
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 745g
496 pages
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