Commentary: Finding a balance
Leadership is a demanding career. As you know, a college president is the public face of the institution. For community college presidents, that role is often more overwhelming as our leaders tend to be more…
Opinions
Commentary: Attracting students to tech ed
Many one-year certificate and two-year associate degree programs offered in the community colleges lead to the high-wage, high demand technical jobs that are needed for manufacturing and those induced and indirect industries that support manufacturing….
Commentary: The benefits of effective delegation
Editor’s note: This article comes from the current issue of the Community College Journal, which has been published by the American Association of Community Colleges since 1930. As a president, you bear the responsibility for…
Commentary: Synchronized for success
Communications and marketing professionals in community colleges are responsible for all kinds of communications: internal and external, digital and traditional, curriculum and continuing education, and more. They must be both creative and strategic, integrating the…
Commentary: Developmental ed will remain a hot topic
Two phenomena have kept development education front and center in higher education: expanded access to college and a new focus on student success. Expanded access to college has spurred more people to go to college,…
Commentary: Pathways Project becomes a movement
Editor’s note: This is an except from the AACC 21st-Century Center. It’s hard to believe that the American Association of Community Colleges’ Pathways Project has been underway for just over a year now. It has…
Commentary: Turning the dial on developmental outcomes
Many of us have been working on developmental education reform for years with frustrating results, achieving incremental improvements, but not truly “turning the dial” in significant ways — until recently. Improving developmental outcomes remains one…
Commentary: Promoting global education in a divided nation
Pundits continue to speculate as to the influences that led to the presidential election outcome. Theories abound and there seems to be a consensus that the prognosticators got it very wrong. Lack of faith in…
Commentary: Tackling enrollment challenges
Shoreline Community College opened 52 years ago on an 83-acre campus 10 miles north of Seattle. In 2015–2016, we served 10,003 students studying more than 100 transfer and professional degree programs and hosted international students…