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This collection of essays from community college leaders across the country addresses the challenges facing today's community colleges and provides practical, successful solutions their institutions have implemented. Topics include creating agile institutions, engaging students and faculty in learning, and responding to changing needs.
List of contents
Introduction: Leadership Matters!
Roberta C. Teahen
SECTION I. CREATING AGILE INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 1: Innovation and the 21st Century Community College
Paige M. Niehaus
Chapter 2: The Power of Connection
Joianne L. Smith and Ruth Williams
Chapter 3: Strategic Enrollment Management: SEM and the Art of Enrollment Maintenance
Daniel Herbst
Chapter 4: Could Your Campus Be Safer? Comprehensive Support and Safety Strategies that Work
Cheryl M. Hagen
SECTION II. MEETING STUDENTS' NEEDS
Chapter 5: Fearless Leaders: Improving Student Persistence through Advising Transformation
Kris Hoffhines
Chapter 6: Institutional Responsiveness to African American Male College Students (AAMCS): Are Minority Male Initiatives Working?
Michael A. Couch II and Tina L. Hummons
Chapter 7: Cracking the Barriers for African American and Latinx Students in STEM Education
Abdel-Moaty M. Fayek
Chapter 8: College Students in Poverty: Examples of Collaborative Efforts and Interventions
Armando Burciaga and Saundra Kay King
SECTION III: ENGAGING STUDENTS AND FACULTY IN LEARNING
Chapter 9: Thinking Civically: Delta College Champions Community Engagement
Kimberly M. Klein
Chapter 10: Persistence and Completion: Solutions for the Classroom
Carmen Allen
Chapter 11: Emulating Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA): A Model to Sustain Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
Bruce Moses
SECTION IV: RESPONDING TO CHANGING NEEDS
Chapter 12: Innovation in Challenging Times: Community College Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brenda Sipe
Chapter 13: Student Success During COVID-19: A Case Study from Eastern Iowa Community Colleges
Naomi DeWinter
Chapter 14: Creating Institutions of Excellence
Lori Sundberg
Chapter 15: The Beliefs Agenda: An Extraordinary New Paradigm for College Completion
Lee Ann Nutt
Afterword
Sandra J. Balkema
Appendix
About the Authors and Editors
About the author
Sandra J. Balkema, PhD, is the dissertation director for the Doctorate in Community College Leadership (DCCL) program at Ferris State University. In this role, she supports the graduate students throughout their dissertation journeys, from identifying research topics and approaches and selecting a dissertation chair and mentor, to defense and subsequent publishing of the final dissertation.
Roberta C. Teahen, PhD, is the director for the Doctorate in Community College Leadership (DCCL) program at Ferris State University and serves as a faculty member and dissertation advisor. Teahen has served in multiple faculty and leadership roles at a community college and at Ferris State University, where she was most recently associate provost. She is a long-time champion of community colleges and takes special pride in mentoring others and encouraging innovation and excellence in higher education.
Summary
This collection of essays from community college leaders across the country addresses the challenges facing today’s community colleges and provides practical, successful solutions their institutions have implemented. Topics include creating agile institutions, engaging students and faculty in learning, and responding to changing needs.
