Community College Leadership and Management

Carlos Nevarez, Ph.D. is Chair of Graduate & Professional Studies in Education and Professor of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership at California State University, Sacramento. Recently, Nevarez served as the Executive Editor for the Journal of Transformative Leadership & Policy Studies. Nevarez is passionate about studying institutional change and the role leaders’ play in advancing student success. His productivity with this line of scholarship has afforded him opportunities to regularly share his research with a regional, state, national, and international audience.J. Luke Wood, Ph.D. is Associate Vice President for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion and Distinguished Professor of Education at San Diego State University (SDSU). Formerly, Wood served as the Ed.D. Program Director in Community College Leadership at SDSU. Wood also serves as the Co-Director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL), a national research and practice center that partners with community colleges to support their capacity in advancing outcomes for underserved students of color.

• List of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgment – Preface – Case Study Framework – Case Study Matrix – Core Functions of Community Colleges: Past, Present, and Reframing the Future – The Community College Vision and Mission – Historical Legacy of Community Colleges – Community College Demographic Trends – Achievement Gap and the Role of Community Colleges – Advancing Student Success in the Community College – contents – Community College Finance – Community College Governance – Community College Emerging Trends – Leadership for Change in Community Colleges – Leadership and Leadership Theory – Ethical Leadership and Decision Making – Community College Faculty – Instructional Leadership and the Community College – Leadership in Student Affairs – Reframing Leadership Development in the Community College – Index.

“As a community college leader, a practitioner, and an adjunct faculty member at a major university, I am impressed with this volume for many reasons. It is a contemporary look at leadership today—a very realistic analysis of the changes facing higher education today, especially community colleges. It presents authentic, practical ways to develop leadership skills to confront those challenges. The case study approach is one we are using in our own Talent Management Initiative with the purpose of ‘growing our own’ talented leaders. This methodology will result in developing the kind of visionary, skilled leaders who will be able to solve the multifaceted, complex issues higher education leaders routinely face. The time is ripe for the kinds of fresh thinking and new approaches to leading community colleges that are exemplified in this book. It will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, students, and faculty alike.”—Rufus Glasper, Chancellor, Maricopa Community Colleges