Download or read book Community College Vice Presidents for Institutional Advancement written by Donna Lynn Ciampa and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Advancement President and the Academy written by Mary Kay Murphy and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They also offer important insights into the leadership characteristics of an effective advancement president, as well as the overall goals and functions and this position. The Advancement President and the Academy will serve as an important "how-to" guide for those who aspire to positions in university leadership.

Download or read book Institutional Advancement written by E. Proper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional Advancement comprehensively reviews and evaluates the published empirical research on advancement in higher education of the last 23 years, covering fundraising, alumni relations, public relations, marketing, and the role of institutional leadership in all of these.

Download or read book Multi year Trends in Community College Foundation Fundraising written by Leonard Keith Gaskin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community colleges generate only 2% of the total charitable funds raised by higher education institutions in the United States. In an era when America needs its community colleges to be active public sector partners in economic development and workforce training, state funding has been drastically cut, and other traditional funding sources are not making up for the much-needed funds. Forward thinking community college leaders must turn to their foundations as an important revenue source to offset the impact of budget cuts and sustain educational excellence and accessibility. But with limited resources for each institution to employ a professional fund raising staff, it is unclear if state system foundations can create programs to help bridge the gap for individual community colleges. The purpose of this study, guided by the organizational theory of examining an organization's performance as part of an entire system and not individual factors, was to examine multi-year trends of public community colleges in the states of Virginia and Maryland that have participated in the Voluntary Support for Education (VSE) survey between the years of 2007-2012. The study was limited in scope, but could be the foundation for a broader framework of study to determine the fundraising significance and impact of state-level system community college foundations and the vice presidents of institutional advancement that lead them. The study consists of a review of available literature on institutional advancement in higher education and the quantitative study of data collected over a 5 year period through the VSE survey. Independent sample t-tests were used to determine if the mean difference on a particular group characteristic was statically significant for each dependent variable. The findings of the study did not affirm that having an experienced vice president of institutional advancement leading a state-level foundation leads to greater success in terms of private funds raised by community colleges of various sizes and resources within the system. However, this is the first known study to compare community college fund raising from a state-level approach, therefore the researcher concludes that increased emphasis on building a state-wide culture of philanthropy for community colleges is needed.

Download or read book Strengthening Community Colleges Through Institutional Collaborations written by Michael J. Roggow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue illustrates examples of effective collaborations written by community college presidents, administrators, faculty, and leaders of state governments and national organizations. Each has contributed a story illustrating a successful program that required the efforts of a range of individuals and recommendations for others to build their own successes. Topics include: How to build effective dual enrollment programs to motivate high school students in rural areas to pursue higher education Why collaboration is crucial for institutions that apply for federal grant funding Effective partnering with institutional research and technology departments to advance student services and college-wide strategic planning How to infuse service learning into curricula to engage and encourage minority students at community colleges to focus their career aspirations How to advance community college study abroad programs through collective participation of administrators and faculty, and outside organizations Creating and sustaining effective partnerships between a state and its local colleges. This is the 165th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly report series. An essential guide for presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, this quarterly provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

Download or read book An Examination of Institutional Advancement Vice Presidents Reports at Four year Public and Private Historically Black Colleges and Universities Regarding Their Use of the Five Minds to Promote Stewardship written by Mya T. Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative, collective case study was to examine institutional advancement vice presidents' reports at four-year public and private historically Black colleges and universities regarding their use of the five minds identified by Gardner's (2006) model to promote stewardship within their institutions. Gardner (2006) conceptualized the five most invaluable thinking processes, referred to as the disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful, and ethical mind, for professionals of today and in the future. In this study, the five minds were reported as examples of engagement in activities and effective communication with constituencies. Five institutional advancement vice presidents from five historically Black institutions located in states in the mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the United States participated in a telephone interview consisting of open-ended questions adapted from the ' Journalism Interview Protocol ' developed by Gardner, Csikszentmihalyi, and Damon (2001). The data gathered from the interview protocol provided details regarding participants' formative background and engagement in the institutional advancement function. Qualitative research procedures were used to analyze the data, generating 19 findings within the study. An analysis of the data produced 5 salient findings were identified based on reports of the five institutional advancement vice presidents: pursing additional training in the field of advancement; supporting staff within their offices; navigating institutional budgetary constraints to meet goals; engaging in reflection; and communicating core values and expectations to their staff and other institutional constituencies. Additionally, three conclusions emerged from the study: relational, leadership, and analytical capacities. Finally, the relational, leadership, analytical capacities established the foundation for the recommendations for practice and future research studies.

Download or read book Community College Leadership written by Gary L. Rhodes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the dual perspectives of a community college president and community college board chair, this book covers everything about college leadership. Through personal anecdotes peppered with solid strategies, it offers advice on the responsibilities and challenges that come with leading a college. Whether you are a sitting college president or someday might be, this book will help you. If you serve on a community college board and would like insight into how to lead your college to its greatest potential, this book will help.

Download or read book Team Relationships Within Institutional Advancement written by Rhonda L. Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Supporting Student Affairs Professionals written by C. Casey Ozaki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student affairs and services play a critical role in student learning and success, as well as the level at which community colleges meet institutional outcomes. The evolution of student affairs as a field and recognition of its role in student experiences underscore its importance in the effort to provide quality education to college students. This volume provides a framework for excellence in student affairs work at community colleges, including assessing quality and outcomes for program development and accreditation. The authors explore: Excellence in preparing and developing professionals at multiple stages in their careers Creating and using professional standards and competencies Understanding the role of accreditation in professional practice. The issue also includes a discussion of implications for community college student affairs preparation and practice. This is the 166th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

Download or read book Vice President for University Advancement Records written by University of Nevada, Reno. Office of the Vice President for University Advancement and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subject files containing correspondence and memoranda, meeting minutes, publications, reports, proposals, and other administrative records documenting interaction between the office and other university departments, alumni, state and local organizations and businesses, and foundations related to fund raising, alumni relations, and public information activities. Paul A. Page held the office during the period represented by these records.

Download or read book Business and Corporation Engagement with Higher Education written by Morgan R. Clevenger and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple scholars and practitioners provide models and theories to understand the inter-organizational relationships between businesses and higher education. This work illuminates the complexities, expectations and long-term impact of such relationships.

Download or read book The Role of the Community College President in Fundraising written by Rudolph Joseph Besikof and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2008 statement from the Foundation for California Community Colleges in the Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that two-year institutions provide education for approximately half of the nation's undergraduate students (Wiessner, 2008). However, when it comes to benefiting from dollars that are raised from donors for postsecondary schools, community colleges generate only 2% of the total funds that are raised (Lanning, 2008). For the community colleges that are effective as fundraisers, what are their best practices? Within them, presidents are described as the "living logos" of their institutions, but what roles do they play in successful efforts? T study endeavored to answer the following research questions: (1) What kinds of preparation or ongoing training, if any, do community college presidents say has helped them to develop fundraising skills? What preparation do they identify as the most helpful? (2) How do community college presidents rank fundraising in importance among all of their duties, and what percentage of their time is spent on fundraising? (3). What activities constitute the work of fundraising that presidents do and, among those activities, which do they find to be the most effective? Which give them the greatest amount of difficulty? Why? (4) How do the college presidents of successful fundraising community colleges interact with their respective college foundations and/or their development offices, and how involved are members of foundations and development offices in the colleges' mission and long-range planning? I conducted case studies of three Midwest community colleges as well as a cross case analysis. To identify the research sites, I used the Council for Aid to Education's Voluntary Support for Education Survey, which provided more relevant statistical data than IRS Forms. Specific amounts such as Alumni, Corporate, and Employee Giving totals were available. Some state systems required all of their community colleges to complete the survey, and I identified one of them for my study. I chose three within it that were consistent fundraisers, which is to say that their overall money raised or foundation, alumni, or corporate totals gave them an average ranking in the top five. With these criteria, three community colleges that all had similar enrollment numbers emerged. Each community college visit included document study and observations, but the main source was interviews. At each community college, I spoke with at least ten people who included but were not limited to the college president, the executive director of the Foundation, Foundation staff members, Foundation Board of Directors members, and faculty. Interviews ranged from 25 minutes in length to nearly two hours. To better allow for more detailed elaboration on the part of the presidents and executive directors of the respective Foundations, I used the "elite interview" format, a semi-structured protocol employed by Kezar in her 2006 study of college presidents. Doing so allowed for more anecdotal answers as well as deeper insights into the beliefs and perspectives of these individuals who, by virtue of their higher positions, had unique perspectives on fundraising and community college leadership issues. Despite the similarly consistent numbers from the VSE survey, the three colleges could not have been more different. One was located in the center of a large urban area and had a Foundation staff that contained four employees. Its executive director, in addition to his foundation duties, was a dean over the entire development effort at the college, which included having the Public Relations and Marketing Department report to him. Another college was in a nearby suburban area. Its Foundation staff was composed of three full-time employees and a part-time grant writer. Its executive director was listed on the same organizational level as the vice presidents. The third college had a district president who presided over several community colleges in a rural area. At the one, I learned that the chief executive-level campus fundraiser was a provost, which led me to include her with the three presidents in my study. Its foundation staff was the smallest of the three community colleges, with only two 50% employees. The executive director, in the rest of her assignment, directed the college's Institutional Research Office. As she was new to the position, I also interviewed the former executive director, who had been employed at 100%. Interviews were transcribed and coded into an average of approximately 75 different themes per site. After analyzing them through a series of matrices, I reported my findings by addressing each of the four research questions directly. From those, I was able to note best practices of the presidents and make recommendations for both them and the fundraising effort as a whole. Concerning the preparation and professional development in the area of fundraising for presidents, I found that the presidents of the two urban area colleges came strictly from Academic Affairs and had little or no training in fundraising, while the president and provost at the rural area college did. In fact, the president of the rural college gained meaningful presidential-level exposure to fundraising while serving as a provost. She also mentioned that her most meaningful professional development came from face-to-face dialogue with another president, while her provost sought it in other areas. For one of the urban presidents, his professional development came directly from his experience working as president, while the other reported being heavily involved in it since he has similar teaching and learning expectations of others. Looking at the four leaders, I saw efforts to fill needs in professional development in ways that seemed to be consistent with their beliefs and their own needs. In terms of the importance of fundraising, data showed that they all devoted roughly a fifth of their time to it directly. The three presidents all answered questions about time spent on fundraising with responses about time not only with donors, but also in the state legislature. This was curious since they had not been asked about political involvement but only fund raising importance or practices. Concerning practices in fundraising, not all of the presidents asked their major donors for money all the time. Responses ranged from minimal asking on the part of the president of the suburban college to asking nearly every time, which was what the president of the downtown community college did. Though they did not all ask with the same frequency, they all included their Foundation Executive Directors, either to make the ask or to lay the groundwork for them to appeal to the potential donor. Other common practices included their interactions with their Foundation Boards of Directors. They attemded all or nearly all meetings, gave reports about college news as well as their own endeavors with the legislature, stayed in meetings to answer questions and clarify issues or concerns, and personally emailed and met with each board member regularly. The campus level leaders nearly always attended fundraising events as well and foundation leaders reported that they were available at any time in the cultivation process. Finally, each of these leaders emphasized some type of partnership with potential donors in speaking to them. In all three cases, I saw the presidents involving foundations in the mission of the college. As previously mentioned, their executive directors were involved in central leadership. They included the elevated positions each of them held, along with their service on groups such as hiring and planning committees outside their respective Foundations. Having provided these findings, I was able to make several recommendations. (a) Presidents are only as effective in fundraising as their development teams. Ultimately, my data showed that this higher-level relationship was more important that who was asking for money. (b) Future presidents are advised to accept responsibilities that fall outside Academic Affairs and, if possible, should hold positions with responsibilities similar to those of provosts; they should also have some interaction in the political arena, for my study concluded that fundraising meant fundraising and networking with members of the state legislature. (c) For college presidents and Foundations building their college's fundraising efforts, the internal giving campaign should be the first step. Each college had a positive statistic about internal giving should present to the public. (d) Since the alumni effort is cumbersome, colleges should employ faculty and program-level employees as cultivators and networkers and compensate them. The focus of these efforts should be programs of study or college organizations such as campus clubs. (e) Foundation Boards of Directors should have a limited number of members, and their meetings should be run efficiently rather than serving as social functions. The most active participant in meetings should be the president, who also meets personally with each member on a regular basis. (f) In order for feasibility studies to be valued by presidents and their Foundations, there must be contextual similarity to their own community colleges. (g) State community college systems should align audit work and other financial reporting to make it more streamlined with actual tax forms. In order to provide more data, this reporting should also be aligned with the VSE. The findings were used to identify best practices of how community colleges do their fundraising despite having limited resources. The findings and recommendations may assist presidents, community colleges, and state systems as they become more responsible for generating revenue and providing opportunities for the students of both today and tommorw.

Download or read book The Role of Student Affairs in Advancing Community College Student Success written by C. Casey Ozaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together insightful chapters which explore diverse student success initiatives and programs in response to challenges faced by community colleges. Each chapter of the collection magnifies a specific aspect of student affairs to illustrate how dedicated departments and practitioners have effectively supported student success via select projects or initiatives. Readers will gain a deeper insight into the contemporary applications, practices, and impacts of agendas such as the assessment of student affairs and services, student success programming, Guided Pathways, and The Completion Agenda. By demonstrating the meaningful involvement of student affairs practitioners in fulfilling institutional missions and visions, this collection contributes to an overarching dialogue about promoting community college student success. This collection will be of interest to researchers, academics, graduates, and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education administration, educational leadership, adult education, and lifelong learning.

Download or read book In the Company of the Poor written by Michael Griffin and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects intersection between the lives, commitments, and strategies of two highly respected figures Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez joined in their option for the poor, their defense of life, and their commitment to liberation. Farmer has credited liberation theology as the inspiration for his effort to do "social justice medicine," while Gutierrez has recognized Farmer's work as particularly compelling example of the option for the poor, and the impact that theology can have outside the church. Draws on their respective writings, major addresses by both at Notre Dame, and a transcript of a dialogue between them.

Download or read book The Community College in a Global Context written by Tod Treat and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The community college is poised to contribute beyond its own community to across the world. To do so—to advance the work for the betterment of students and communities—it must engage internationally while building capacity. Recognizing the growing importance of educating students in a globalized world, this volume explores the community college in an international context. It addresses global ideals, values, competencies, and understanding in a local context and shows: How individual community colleges have internationalized How models and partnerships can aid progression to comprehensive internationalization How international systems consider adoption and adaptation. The authors point to a crucial vision for the future: Globalization has moved the U.S. community college steadily from international education as an add-on to international education as a choice, and now to international education as a crucial, integrated mission that has drawn increased interest from other nations intent on an educated, skilled citizenry. The community college is no longer about the United States; the community college is for all of us, a world phenomenon. This is the 161st volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinct and expanding educational mission.

Download or read book Getting the Green written by Stuart Grover and published by Amer. Assn. of Community Col. This book was released on 2009 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprehensive guide to planning, carrying out, and following up fundraising campaigns for community colleges. Published by AACC in partnership with Council for Advancement and Support of Education and Council for Resource Development"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Forces Shaping Community College Missions written by Kristin Bailey Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, community colleges have served societal and functional missions that expanded over time, with the result of trying to achieve multiple goals for multiple audiences. This volume explores the forces currently shaping community college missions and the resulting tension between stated goals, assumed goals, and achievement of those goals. In an era of increasing accountability, tighter coupling, and the need to do ever more with fewer resources, mission focus is vital to college survival. Explore such issues as: the unspoken social contract, transfer, developmental education, noncredit education, dual enrollment, workforce development, the free college movement, and planning for the future. The topics are explored thoughtfully from both scholarly and practical perspectives, highlighting the forces that shape community college missions. This is the 180th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.