| Description |
1 online resource (178 pages) |
| Contents |
Confessions of a Community College Administrator -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Parents' Day -- What I Try to Do -- My Story -- A Road Less Traveled -- Careful What You Wish For -- Organization of the Book -- 1. The Community College Landscape -- Diffuse Missions -- Transfer -- Remediation -- Workforce Development -- Community Colleges in the Hierarchy of Higher Education -- An Awkward Position -- Phase Shifts -- The Preindustrial Model -- The Industrial Model -- The Postindustrial Phase -- From Time to Space -- Boundary Issues -- The World Wide Classroom -- Looking into the Future -- 2. Funding: Where the Money Comes From, Where It Goes, and Why There's Never Enough -- Operating Budgets -- The Productivity Problem -- When Tailwinds Became Headwinds -- Capital Budgets -- The True Costs of Construction -- Naming -- Alternative Strategies for Increasing Capacity -- Revenue Sources: Silver Linings, Complete with Clouds -- State and Local Appropriations -- Tuition and Fees -- Grants -- Contracts and Continuing Education -- Financial Aid -- Private Financial Aid -- Financial Aid as the New State Aid -- Foundations -- Reserves and Endowments -- The Bottom Line -- 3. Community College Administration: Who Does What -- The Community College Hierarchy -- Board of Trustees -- The President -- Vice Presidents -- Department Chairs -- The Dean's Job: Make Juggling Look Easy -- Bean Counter: Managing Budgets -- Manager of Faculty Workloads -- Course Scheduler -- Diplomat: Handling Faculty Evaluations -- Bearer of Bad News: Assessment -- Program Evaluator -- Ambassador at Large -- Academic Leader -- The Reality of Shared Governance -- Governance on the Ground -- 4. Herding Cats: Managing Creative People -- Working with Faculty -- Assume the Best |
| Summary |
Those who lead community colleges and those who aspire to lead them will discover keen insights from this frank discussion of the particular issues that are unique to community college administration. This timely book offers realistic advice on how to handle the challenges-current and future-that such leaders must grapple with. Matthew Reed, the formerly anonymous author of Inside Higher Ed blog Confessions of a Community College Dean, describes the current landscape of community college leadership and addresses some of the fundamental questions that face community colleges |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Community colleges -- Administration
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Community college administrators.
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Community college administrators
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Community colleges -- Administration
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McClenney, Kay, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781118221723 |
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1118221729 |
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1118004736 |
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9781118004739 |
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9781283917186 |
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1283917181 |
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