Unrelenting Change, Innovation, and Risk

Forging the Next Generation of Community Colleges

Daniel J. Phelan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2016
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2061-4 (ISBN)

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Arguably, the nation’s community colleges have experienced more change in the last several years than they have over the prior 115 years of their existence. Rapid changes in technology, external pressures for accountability and student completion, aggressive competition from other higher education institutions (i.e., public, for-profit, and private), changes in enrollment demographics, as well as new economic, market, and operational models stand to completely disrupt this relatively young enterprise.

Unrelenting Change provides useful, practical examples for community college leaders as they seek to thoughtfully and strategically align their organization for the new dynamic in higher education. Furthermore, Unrelenting Change offers insights into the change process, including institutional assessment and readiness, consideration of cultural implications, strategic intentions toward innovation, as well as risk, failure, and success. Rather than perceiving change and disruptive innovation as merely happenstance, or luck, the author provides discernment into the topic so as to give community college leaders solid, guidance, if not improved odds, in undertaking this important, competitive edge for the future of their intuitions, and by extension, their students.

Dr. Daniel J. Phelan has served as President of Jackson College (MI) since 2001. He is also Chair-Elect of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Board of Directors.

List of Figures and Exhibits
About the Series
Abbreviations and Sailing Terminology
Foreword—Gerardo de los Santos
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Of Innovation and Possibility
Chapter Two: Forms and Dimensions of Change
Chapter Three: Change and Innovation: Preparing the Institution for Success
Chapter Four: Institutional Preparation and Culture
Chapter Five: Assessment, Planning and Innovation
Chapter Six: Innovation Implementation, Evaluation and Efficacy
Afterword
Index
About the Author

Reihe/Serie	The Futures Series on Community Colleges
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 227 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-4758-2061-5 / 1475820615
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-2061-4 / 9781475820614
Zustand	Neuware