Community College Leadership: Reports

Serves as the foundation for developing curriculum for 2-year college grow-your-own and community college leadership doctoral programs.

Focuses on a significant challenge for the nation’s community colleges: a set of conditions that affect large numbers of students—and that must be addressed if these institutions are to realize their founding vision of serving as the open doors to genuine opportunity and equity for all Americans.

Presents a unified vision of who these leaders are and what they do, so that everyone involved in hiring and preparing community college presidents
and associations can consider the extent to which their assumptions and practices ensure that strong presidents are chosen and effectively trained to lead colleges in ways that meet the aspirations of every student as well as the critical goal of significantly improving student outcomes.

Synthesis report created from in-depth interviews with community college leaders from across the country.

Explores community college student enrollment patterns as they relate to engagement and outcomes.

Contains an integrated set of hiring tools designed to help boards of trustees, search committees, search consultants, and others with a role in selecting community college presidents.

Calls on community college presidents and trustees to embrace the higher standards many K-12 school systems have adopted and implement strategies to increase college readiness and success.

Uses the most recent data released by the U. S. Department of Education and the National Student Clearinghouse to track national community college enrollment over four years.

Insights from a 2021 virtual leadership summit.

Addresses strategies state and community colleges are using to improve developmental education for community college students.