Reinventing the Community College Business Model

Designing Colleges for Organizational Success

Christopher Shults (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2020
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-5072-7 (ISBN)

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This book defines and explores the four fundamental elements of a community college business model, demonstrates the necessity and impacts of the model, and provides guidance on managing within, effectively developing, and successfully implementing an operational framework structured to enhance student learning and success.

Community colleges were established to provide an accessible, affordable education and have largely met this charge. Access without success, however, does not benefit the student and traditional planning, operational and financial management, and infinite enrollment growth strategies have not produced positive student outcomes. The Great Recession, disinvestment in higher education, and increasing costs and competition have further exacerbated the inability to deliver better results. Community colleges need an operational framework structured for student success. The community college needs a redesigned business model.
This publication breaks new ground by introducing the community college business model (CCBM), an intentionally designed operational management approach that provides a comprehensive approach to understanding students and meeting student needs by providing an exceptional educational experience. Supported by a fiscal management that targets finances to support student learning and success, the model guides the reader through the growth, development, and leveraging of the resources (human, physical, and intellectual) necessary for delivering a successful educational journey. The CCBM is designed to restructure community colleges for delivery of a student value proposition built on learning and success. The philosophical underpinning of the book is that student success is the ultimate measure of organizational effectiveness.

Christopher Shults is the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning and the Middle States Accreditation Liaison at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He has authored publications, presented, and consulted with colleges and association on issues of institutional effectiveness, planning, and leadership; co-created and co-led development programs for senior administrators and faculty; and is currently an advisory board member for the EdD Program in Community College Leadership at New Jersey City University.

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Russell D. Lowery-Hart
Preface
Section I: Building the Case for a Community College Business Model
Chapter 1: Introducing the Community College Business Model
Chapter 2: The Increasingly Dynamic Higher Education Industry
Chapter 3: Operational Management in a Community College Business Model
Section II: Creating the Conditions for a New Community College Business Model
Chapter 4: Organizational Culture, Organizational Change, and the Business Model
Chapter 5: Administration, Governance, and Leadership
Section III: Exploring the Community College Business Model
Chapter 6: The Student Value Proposition
Chapter 7: Managing Key Resources
Chapter 8: Delivering the Product
Chapter 9: The Profit Formula
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Futures Series on Community Colleges
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Debbie L. Sydow, Richard L. Alfred, Kate Thirolf
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-4758-5072-7 / 1475850727
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-5072-7 / 9781475850727
Zustand	Neuware