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The Community College Department Chair and Curriculum Leadership: Managing Learning and Learning to Manage
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Sweeney, Kathleen Jennings – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Dwindling resources, the challenges of providing postsecondary remedial education, and an environment that emphasizes outcomes assessment are realities that confront the community college department chair. The role of the department chair is particularly challenging in the community college context due to accountability pressures, fiscal…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Department Heads, College Faculty, College Administration
New Issues, Problems, Programs and Research Ideas: Findings of a Statewide Study of Texas Community/Junior College Presidents and Chancellors.
Smith, Al; Morris, Darline – 1989
In fall 1988, a study was conducted to determine the major issues and problems facing the presidents and chancellors of Texas community/junior colleges, to identify solutions being implemented to address these problems/issues, to identify new curricula and administrative programs, and to assess research activities and needs. Questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Enhancing Economic Stability Utilizing the High Technologies in Community Colleges: A Case Study.
Mehnert, Barbara H.; Kurki, Allan W. – 1983
Strategies to enhance the economic stability of community colleges through high technology approaches are discussed in this paper. First, general economic problems facing higher education are identified, and the ways in which they influence community colleges are described. Next, 10 strategies to aid in the economic recovery of community colleges…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Strengthening Humanities in Community Colleges Through the Development of Support at County, State, and National Levels.
Johnson, Brent M. – 1979
Recent trends towards viewing education only in terms of immediate and measurable results and current conditions that are increasing expenditures and lessening income have resulted in a decreased demand for humanities instruction at community colleges. Despite these trends, humanities courses must be blended with vocational curricula, not to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
The Four W s: An Institutional History of the Cheyenne River Community College.
Lane, John M. – 1982
During the late 1960's people of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation (a South Dakota area the size of Connecticut characterized by poverty, poor soil, aridity, and geographical isolation) began to consider establishment of an institution of higher education on the reservation. A consensus soon developed that a tribally-controlled community…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Community Colleges, Community Control
Educational Challenges of the 80's.
Carroll, Constance M. – 1980
Growing conservatism, dwindling resources, and the increased diversity of students require that the California community colleges develop a plan to meet the challenges of the future. First, efforts must be made to ameliorate the current crisis in educational leadership caused by excessive concern with quantitative management techniques, reporting…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning
Forces Shaping the Humanities in Public Two-Year Colleges.
Marks, Joseph Lappin – 1980
Instructional, financial, and enrollment data gathered from a variety of sources for a representative sample (N=142) of the country's public two-year colleges were examined to determine how humanities education at these institutions is affected by changing financial and enrollment conditions. Study methodology involved an analysis of three sets of…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development