Community College Leadership and Management
Reframing Institutional Practices for Student Success
Published on 25. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-1-4331-7445-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 CollegesMore details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
95 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
747 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-7445-2 (9781433174452)
DOI
10.3726/b16189
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Carlos Nevarez | J. Luke Wood
Community College Leadership and Management
Reframing Institutional Practices for Student Success
E-Book
09/2020
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€62.49
Available for download
Carlos Nevarez | J. Luke Wood
Community College Leadership and Management
Reframing Institutional Practices for Student Success
E-Book
09/2020
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€62.49
Available for download
Persons
Carlos Nevarez, Ph.D. is Chair of Graduate & Professional Studies in Education and Professor of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership at California State University, Sacramento. Recently, Nevarez served as the Executive Editor for the Journal of Transformative Leadership & Policy Studies. Nevarez is passionate about studying institutional change and the role leaders' play in advancing student success. His productivity with this line of scholarship has afforded him opportunities to regularly share his research with a regional, state, national, and international audience.
J. Luke Wood, Ph.D. is Associate Vice President for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion and Distinguished Professor of Education at San Diego State University (SDSU). Formerly, Wood served as the Ed.D. Program Director in Community College Leadership at SDSU. Wood also serves as the Co-Director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL), a national research and practice center that partners with community colleges to support their capacity in advancing outcomes for underserved students of color.
Content
List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgment - Preface - Case Study Framework - Case Study Matrix - Core Functions of Community Colleges: Past, Present, and Reframing the Future - The Community College Vision and Mission - Historical Legacy of Community Colleges - Community College Demographic Trends - Achievement Gap and the Role of Community Colleges - Advancing Student Success in the Community College - contents - Community College Finance - Community College Governance - Community College Emerging Trends - Leadership for Change in Community Colleges - Leadership and Leadership Theory - Ethical Leadership and Decision Making - Community College Faculty - Instructional Leadership and the Community College - Leadership in Student Affairs - Reframing Leadership Development in the Community College - Index.