Editor's Overview of the Winter Edition
The editor reviews the submissions for this edition on Leadership Development for the 21st Century. This edition includes the need for new approaches to leadership, as well as insights from current community college presidents and a national associate executive director. As always, key staff development opportunities are listed. We introduce our new book review section, with our first work picking up an earlier theme of the iJournal concerning collaboration. We close with an end note from a long-time administrator wondering Where Have All the Administrators Gone?
By Edward J. Shenk, Ed.D.
CI Solutions, Card Integrators Corporation: An Introduction to This Issue’s Sponsor
CI Solutions has served the college community for the past 20 years providing ID carding solutions for student and staff photo IDs. Our offerings have been expanded to include powerful web-enabled time and attendance software as well as integrated access control to your buildings to meet the “One Card” model that many colleges desire.
By Kathy Beckwith
Leadership Development
Leader as Transformer
Today, graduates are faced with a society that is totally different from the past. They will need to learn how to adapt to a constantly changing society. They will be faced with challenges never before experienced. As a result, the graduates of 2007 will need to learn to ask their own questions to identify new knowledge and to learn how to see connections among totally disparate ideas and factors. In short, they will need to pioneer the new concept of becoming a "transformer" leader.
By Rick Smyre
New Leadership for the Next Millennium
The changing landscape of higher education demands a different kind of college leader—one who is adept at developing innovative responses to the needs of students in the face of declining traditional sources of funding. Entrepreneurs are those who identify opportunities and create organizations to pursue them. Based on her 2006 study of entrepreneurial community colleges in California, the author argues that 21st century college leaders must transform their institutions to become market responsive, entrepreneurial organizations to better meet student and community needs.
By Dena P. Maloney, Ed.D.
Observations of a First Year President
This article trials the transition from a student service leader to a first year college president. Education and years of community college experience will assist in preparing you for this venture, but you will encounter situations you didn’t learn in a textbook or expect in a job description. Throughout the first year as president, you quickly learn some functions are not about reports or finances but to respond to community relations and provide leadership throughout the college environment. The job can be consuming, balancing can be challenging and expectations can be high – the one thing you can count on is the unexpected. The first year is demanding, but the rewards are grand!
By Erlinda J. Martinez, Ed.D.
Calling All Leaders
The author provides the reader with thoughts and advice from community college presidents and professionals in an effort to better understand expectations of the roles of student affairs professionals as community college campus leaders. In an age of increased accountability, community college student affairs professionals play a significant role in the success of their institutions.
By Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy
Succession Planning—A Must for Colleges and Universities!
This article suggests a framework for higher education institutions to address their sustainability for future success. Effective leadership is a must for sustainability yet requires both quantity and quality of a knowledgeable and experienced workforce. A more systematic approach is needed to identify and develop future leaders in higher education. Higher education institutions need to develop a succession plan to respond to the critical shortage of effective leaders within the current pipeline of educators.
By Thelma Scott-Skillman, Ed.D.
Book Review
Book Review: Partnering for Success: How to Build Strong Internal Collaborations in Higher Education
Partnering for Success: How to Build Strong Internal Collaborations in Higher Education by Alicia Harvey-Smith provides a theory-based road map to internal collaborations within the academy to close the divide between academic and nonacademic units. Dr. Alicia Harvey-Smith also offers as tools practical strategies to use in transforming our institutional cultures into ones more open and responsive to change and to learning.
Reviewed by Dr. Magdalena H. de la Teja
Staff Development
CSSO/CIO Conference, San Francisco, March 21-23, 2007
The leaders in student services and instruction will be gathering for their annual joint conference in San Francisco, March 21-23. A must attend conference for these leaders, they will be focusing on Bridges to the Heart of Student Success. This success is built on collaboration and this meeting is where it happens. Register now for this important community college conference!
NASPA’s Community College Institute (CCI)
Attendees at the national joint conference of ACPA & NASPA will have the opportunity to register for the first Community College Institute. The Institute will provide participants in this pre-conference activity the opportunity to grapple with key issues impacting community colleges through out the country. Space is limited, so sign up now!
Institute on Student Discipline
Alliant International University, Graduate School of Education in conjunction with the California Community College Chief Student Services Administrators Association National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) invites you and your colleagues to attend an Institute on Student Discipline, Thursday and Friday, April 12 & 13, 2007, in San Francisco.
CSSO/CIO Leadership Institute
Those considering a senior leadership positions in student services and/or instruction in the California Community Colleges would benefit from participation in the annual CSSO/CIO Leadership Institute. The Institute is designed to nurture participants for career advancement into senior administrative positions. During the institute, participants engage in group work, panel discussions, case studies, and more. Senior community college leaders co-facilitate the institute sessions in a format based on the Great Teacher seminars.
By Robert H. Bell, Ed.D.
Graduate Degrees in Higher Education Offered by Alliant International University
The Alliant International University Graduate School of Education offers graduate study in Educational Leadership and Management. We offer a Master of Arts in Educational Administration with a Higher Education focus and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership, Higher Education at several campuses throughout the state.
By Karen Schuster Webb, Ph.D.
End Note
Where Have All the Administrators Gone?
The author describes changes over the past 30 years that have affected California community colleges, which are contributing to the projected shortages of college administrators. She proposes strategies aimed at increasing qualified applicants for future administrative positions.
By Pamela Mize-Kurzman
