Practical Leadership in Community Colleges Hardcover - 2016

From the jacket flap

Practical Leadership in Community Colleges is an essential resource for leaders who must meet the myriad challenges community colleges face every day. Grounded in field observations, reports, news coverage, and interviews with leaders and policymakers, this important text offers a clear examination into the issues confronting college leaders and provides clear direction for managing through difficult times.

Written by former college presidents, including a past president of the American Association of Community Colleges, Practical Leadership in Community Colleges is a real-world guide to more effective management methods and contains practical insight and expert perspective.

The authors cover a broad range of issues including managing the ups and downs of the economic cycle, dealing with performance-based funding legislation, increasing college completion ratios, calls for accountability from both the public and the government, and much more.

There are no one-size-fits-all answers for addressing these complex issues or responding to cases, but Practical Leadership in Community Colleges can help prepare leadership teams for the inevitable difficult issues they will face as they lead these dynamic institutions that are so important to our society.