Terry O’Banion has worked in the community college field for 55 years as one of the leading spokespersons on leadership, innovation, learning, and student success. President of the League for Innovation for 23 years, O’Banion has written 16 books and over 200 articles, consulted in over 1,000 community colleges, and has been recognized by five national awards established in his name.

• ForewordWalter BumphusPrefaceTerry U. O’BanionIntroduction: The Continuing Evolution of the American Community CollegeTerry U. O’Banion Section I: Ideas as National InitiativesChapter 1: The Learning ParadigmGeorge BoggsChapter 2: Community Colleges and the Ladder of Student SuccessSuzanne Walsh & Mark MillironChapter 3: The Community College Promise Movement: Opportunity, Affordability, and SuccessMartha Kanter & Andra ArmstrongChapter 4: Guided Pathways to College Completion and EquityKay McClenneyChapter 5: The Community College Baccalaureate Movement: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Deborah Floyd & Michael SkolnikSection II: Ideas as Internal FunctionsChapter 6: Institutional Effectiveness: From Intuition to EvidenceBarbara Gellman-Danley & Eric MartinChapter 7: From Recognition, Reform, and Convergence in Developmental EducationBruce VandalChapter 8: The Evolving Mission of Workforce Development in the Community CollegeJim Jacobs & Jennifer WorthChapter 9: Eliminating the Gap between High School and College: What the Next Generation of Transition Programs Must DoJoel Vargas, Michael Collins, Sarah Hooker, & Ana Bertha GutierrezChapter 10: Demography as OpportunityNikki EdgecombeSection III: Overarching IdeasChapter 11: Catching the Waves: Technology in the Community CollegeMark Milliron & John O’Brien Chapter 12: Transformative Leadership Wanted: Making Good on the Promise of the Open DoorMargaretta Mathis & John RouecheChapter 13: Using Data to Monitor What Matters: A New Role for TrusteesByron McClenney Epilogue: The Missing Transformative IdeaTerry U. O’BanionAbout the EditorAbout the ContributorsIndex

I have known my good friend and colleague, Terry O'Banion, for over five decades and have watched him become one of the most provocative and prolific community college leaders in the nation. He has opened up new vistas by studying and writing about rogue trustees, community college curmudgeons, merging career and technical education with the liberal arts, leaders who disturb the universe, and the learning college for which I wrote the Preface for his seminal work A Learning College for the 21st Century. With his considerable skills for networking he has now assembled 23 national leaders representing 12 national organizations to present 13 ideas that are transforming the community college world. This book, his 16th, is destined to become a basic primer for trustees, administrators, and faculty who are responsible for addressing these ideas and for foundation officers, policy makers, and legislators who champion these ideas. It will surely become the required text for graduate students in the nation’s community college leadership programs.