Download or read book Informal Faculty Leadership in the Community College written by Kathleen Eaton Guy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Community College Faculty to faculty Influence written by Brenda Inglis Marks and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As community colleges have responded to shifts in funding structures, demands from an aging population, the emergence of for-profit competitors, the development of globalization, and the increasing use of technology, the role of faculty has evolved and new leadership opportunities have emerged. This study examines informal faculty leadership at a larger-sized Oregon community college. Informal leadership is conceptualized as a faculty member (not in a leadership position) who influences another faculty member. Interviews with 16 faculty members were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed for dominant themes. Four major themes emerged: how strong ties develop between faculty; the impact of office location in developing relationships with other faculty; the phenomenon of faculty role models; and how e-mail communication influences faculty. When faculty share similar interests and values, strong ties develop. Faculty are influenced by colleagues who are identified as a strong tie relationship. The proximate location of offices appears to promote the development of strong ties: many faculty who develop strong tie relationships report having co-located offices. Fewer than half of the interviewees identified role models, and most of these (five out of seven) were faculty with four to ten years of teaching experience at the study site. Participants reported that role models were admired because of their social skills, teaching experience and positive personality traits. E-mail communication was the final theme that emerged as a factor in how faculty were influenced by other faculty. The impact of the influence was difficult to discern because of the wide variance in how e-mail messages are selected to be read by the receiver. Findings in this study did indicate that faculty reported being influenced by other faculty in a variety of ways: through their strong tie relationships with other faculty, by proximate locations to other faculty, through observing role models and by reading e-mail communications from other faculty.

Download or read book Team Leadership in Community Colleges written by George R. Boggs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection is the first book to address the topic of how leaders work with teams to manage and transform community colleges. There is a need to develop better leadership teams in order to administer community colleges effectively and to improve these organizations, whether it be an individual campus, multi-college system or state-wide organization. Edited by two long-time leaders in the field, the book includes contributions from many other experienced leaders and scholars of community colleges.

Download or read book Informal Faculty Leadership that Transforms Evidence and Practices for the Learning College written by Peter J. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Factors that Influence Faculty Participation in Formal and Informal Leadership Opportunities written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far back as 2001, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) noted an urgent need to find qualified leaders to replace those retiring and to identify future leaders with skills and competencies to manage the rising demands on U.S. two-year colleges. Yet well over a decade later, the challenge remains. One potential solution to the leadership void is for two-year college leaders to substantially increase faculty participation in formal and informal leadership opportunities. Faculty leadership has great potential to help create innovative and effective cultures within the colleges in an effort to meet today's education and employment challenges. However, it appears that limited research has thoroughly examined factors contributing to faculty participation in leadership opportunities. This study aims to better understand the motivating and limiting factors related to faculty participation in formal and informal leadership opportunities via a case study of a comprehensive Midwestern two-year college. Semi-structured interviews of 15 faculty revealed three high-level themes that describe motivating and limiting factors relative to faculty participation in leadership opportunities. The three themes that emerged from a systems analysis and interpretation of data are conceptualizations of leadership; personal interest and view of potential; and organizational and positional factors. The interaction of the influencing factors as faculty progress through their careers gives rise to the Faculty Leadership Life Cycle (FLLC) model. The FLLC model provides insights as to how faculty progress through cumulative and successive career phases and indicates which factors have the most influence at each phase relative to faculty participation in leadership opportunities. As one potential solution to the chronic leadership void in two-year colleges, faculty progression through the FLLC will unearth clues to organizational interventions that maximize faculty engagement in formal and informal leadership opportunities. In this way, faculty are a viable solution in pursuit of future leaders to lessen the leadership void in community and technical colleges. As this segment of higher education in the U.S. continues to grow in significance, effective and inspiring leadership is critical to organizational success. Two-year colleges would be prudent to consider and invest in the leadership potential and contributions of faculty.

Download or read book Community College Leadership and Administration written by Carlos Nevarez and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The breadth and depth of this book is unequaled... The chapter on the community college's role in the achievement gap is `must-reading' for the next generation of community college executives."---Ned Doffaney, Chancellor, North Orange County Community College --

Download or read book Academic Leadership in Community Colleges written by Alan T. Seagren and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 will find useful strategies for confronting frequent problems and procedures for achieving greater college cohesion and efficiency.

Download or read book A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education written by Brent D. Ruben and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRST EDITION SPECIAL RECOGNITION:Winner of the 2018 Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, National Communication Association, Applied Communication Division REVIEWS OF THE FIRST EDITION“The book provides frameworks and resources that would be highly relevant for new and aspiring department chairs. In fact, this text is ideally designed to serve as a selection for a book discussion group.”—The Department Chair“Succeeds in providing accessible and useful resources to individuals across different leadership roles... As a midpoint between textbook and reference work, it is successful at both and provides a clear and unbiased background to issues facing current leaders.”—Reflective TeachingDuring a time of unprecedented challenges facing higher education, the need for effective leadership – for informal and formal leaders across the organization – has never been more imperative.Since publication of the first edition, the environment for higher education has become more critical and complex. Whether facing falling enrollments, questions of economic sustainability, the changing composition of the faculty and student bodies, differential retention and graduation rates, declining public confidence in the enterprise, or the rise in the use of virtual technologies – not to mention how COVID-19 and an intensified focus on long standing issues of racial and gender representation and equity have impacted institutions and challenged many long-standing assumptions – it is clear that learning on the job no longer suffices. Leadership development in higher education has become essential for advancing institutional effectiveness, which is the focus of this book.Taking into account the imperative issues of diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and the context of institutional mission and culture, this book centers on developing capacities for designing and implementing plans, strategies, and structures; connecting and engaging with colleagues and students; and communicating and collaborating with external constituencies in order to shape decisions and policies. It highlights the need to think broadly about the purposes of higher education and the dynamics of organizational excellence, and to apply these insights effectively in goal setting, planning and change leadership, outcomes assessment, addressing crises, and continuous improvement at both the level of the individual and organization.The concepts and tools in this book are equally valuable for faculty and staff leaders, whether in formal leadership roles, such as deans, chairs, or directors of institutes, committees, or task forces, or those who perform informal leadership functions within their departments, disciplines, or institutions. It can be used as a professional guide, a textbook in graduate courses, or as a resource in leadership training and development programs. Each chapter concludes with a series of case studies and guiding questions.

Download or read book A Profile of Faculty Leadership Behavior at One South Texas Community College written by Federico Solis (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Leadership Strategies for Community College Executives written by Gunder Myran and published by Amer. Assn. of Community Col. This book was released on 2003 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidents, executive teams, governing boards, administrators, faculty leaders, and graduate students alike will benefit from this comprehensive primer. Designed to help professionals at all stages of their careers, this resource is particularly useful to the growing number of new CEOs. Thorough attention is paid to operational principles and organizational design as well as policy development in both general and specific contexts such as students, curriculum, staff, and resource development. Look for special chapters on crisis management as well as practical advice for new CEOs.

Download or read book Teaching Learning in the Community College written by Terry O'Banion and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faculty development, student learning, TQM, effectiveness measurement, programs, etc.

Download or read book Governance Networks and Their Influence on Teaching in Community Colleges written by Elnora Tena Webb and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engaging Faculty in Guided Pathways written by Christine Harrington and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging faculty in Guided Pathways: A Practical Resource for College Leaders is the first book in a two-book series. It describes the important role of college faculty in student success reform efforts. In particular, it maps out the faculty role in Guided Pathways, a national movement focused on increasing the number of students who earn a degree or credential. It summarizes the primary tasks associated with the four essential practices of Guided Pathways: determining paths, helping students choose a path, helping students stay on a path, and ensuring learning. This book highlights the need for faculty engagement in all aspects of this work and provides practical suggestions and strategies to engage and empower both full and part-time faculty in this work. Moving the needle on student success outcomes requires high-levels of faculty engagement. Colleges are encouraged to invite full and part-time faculty to the table for important conversations about student success reform and to encourage and support faculty leadership in these institutional efforts. Readers will benefit from numerous practical suggestions, including faculty reflect

Download or read book Identifying Leadership Styles that Influence the Willingness of Community College Faculty to Teach Online Courses written by April J. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify leadership styles that community college leaders have used to influence the willingness of community college faculty to teach online courses. The data collected confirmed that faculty resisted teaching online because of five major reasons: The comfort of using technology as part of their content delivery; the age of the faculty member; many faculty question the quality of online courses and the ability to teach effectively certain courses online; and the time needed to develop and facilitate properly an online course. This study found that administrators of community colleges who were interviewed for this study relied primarily on transformational and situational leadership models. In terms of overcoming faculty resistance they relied on six key strategies for overcoming this resistance: intrinsic and extrinsic incentives; peer to peer influence, release time, responding to student needs; assuring high quality online course and offering technology skills. Out of these six, peer influence was seen as the most influential. More importantly these administrators acknowledged that it is the way in which an administrator influences faculty to teach online that determines the success of a faculty member's efforts for this delivery format. Predominantly, these administrators noted that enticing faculty in the water a little at a time was extremely important for their acceptance and willingness to teach online. Beyond this effective strategy, administrators noted that it is important to reach buy-in for online learning within a small, respected group of faculty first and then let them disseminate the importance and approval of teaching online.

Download or read book Community College Faculty Scholarship written by John M. Braxton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While teaching occupies the primary role of faculty members in community colleges, the question remains: To what extent are community college faculty members engaged in research and scholarship? This issue focuses on: the types of research and scholarship performed by community college faculty, the forces that foster or impede the engagement of community college faculty members in research and scholarship, specific examples of community college faculty scholarship that demonstrate the value of this work to the institution and to larger society, and policies and practices at the institutional, local, and state level that support engagement in research and scholarship. This is the 171st 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 Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity written by Zugelder, Bryan S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher leadership remains at the forefront of conversations in teacher education, with discussions on recruitment, retention, and effectiveness. Teachers are at the core of schooling, and the roles they assume and types of leadership they engage in are multi-dimensional. Teacher leadership comes in many shapes and definitions. In this sense, both opportunities and challenges exist in teacher leadership. While national competencies continue to define dispositional and knowledge base for teacher leaders, there is still work to be done to define and add to the body of scholarship on this topic. Teacher leadership opportunities provide development for teachers as a key retention strategy; however, role ambiguity presents challenges in how to empower teachers for formal and informal roles of leadership while maintaining the teacher identity. Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity provides a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges of teacher leadership, drawing on research and practice that add to the body of knowledge for teacher leadership, which is a niche in education that differs from educational administration. Highlighted topics within this book include models for teacher leadership, teacher education, types of leadership roles, the development and retention of teacher leaders, and leadership across different types of school districts. This book is ideally designed for inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in teacher leadership roles and the way in which teacher identity is maintained in relation to these other leadership positions.

Download or read book Shared Vision written by John E. Roueche and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of 256 exemplary community college presidents, this book examines the attributes of outstanding leaders and their ability to orchestrate organizational change. Chapter 1 provides the background for the study, emphasizes the importance of leadership, and identifies attributes common to transformational leaders; that is, leaders who work with their followers so that each raises the other to higher levels of motivation and morality. Chapter 2 summarizes leadership theory and offers a discussion of transformational leadership and its place in a rapidly changing society. After chapter 3 reviews the study methodology, chapters 4 and 5 present findings on the demographic and leadership characteristics of the presidents selected for in-depth study. Chapters 6 through 10 discuss key elements of transformational leadership, including shared vision, teamwork and collaborative decision making, institutional climate and the relationship between the institution and the individuals within it, motivation as a means of achieving followers' acceptance of the shared vision, and personal values, integrity, and commitment to learning. Chapter 11 examines women in community college leadership roles. Finally, chapter 12 presents a summary of the research, a discussion of the problems faced by minority leaders, and a review of study implications. The survey instruments and an eighty-five-item bibliography are appended.