Search results for ""Author George R. Boggs""
John Wiley & Sons Inc Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers
Ensure that you hire and supervise the best adjunct faculty. Using the models in this resource, you’ll be equipped to provide your adjunct faculty with support and pedagogical assistance. Highlights include the important connection between teaching quality and effective hiring, orientation, acculturation, and professional development practices for adjunct faculty.
£35.99
Rowman & Littlefield Encouraging Civility as a Community College Leader
Peer inside community college campuses to witness unexpected and often unprecedented incivility encountered by community college leaders. Real-life experiences, observations, lessons, and recommendations will help you gain expert knowledge on how to handle crises in your academic environment. Discover successful strategies for maintaining and encouraging an atmosphere of civility under even the most hostile conditions on campus or in the community.
£20.79
John Wiley & Sons Inc Ethical Leadership in the Community College: Bridging Theory and Daily Practice
The avalanche of day-to-day responsibilities facing those in community colleges threatens to bury ethical intent. This book addresses the importance of ethical leadership and explores real-world applications so that community college leaders can develop the institutional savvy to be extraordinary ethical leaders. Written for community college faculty, staff, presidents, and trustees who are committed to being ethical leaders, this book is divided into two sections: The first provides brief theoretical foundations for ethical leadership and relates those foundations to daily practice; the second explores in-depth daily practice for ethical leaders. Contents include: Virtue theory and leadership theory Plato’s Republic and the ethical leader Considerations of power, influence, and cultural norms The role of the president Why presidents and trustees should care about ethics Professional ethical identity development Ethical leadership: A faculty obligation The interface of ethics and courage in the life of a chief academic officer Threats to ethical leadership Leading from the head and the heart Transformational leadership and ethical dilemmas Presidential support for civic engagement and leadership education A guide to ethical decision-making by presidents and boards The consequences of compromised ethical identity development
£33.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Practical Leadership in Community Colleges: Navigating Today's Challenges
Anticipate, manage, and overcome the complex issues facing community colleges Practical Leadership in Community Colleges offers a path forward through the challenges community colleges face every day. Through field observations, reports, news coverage, and interviews with leaders and policy makers, this book digs deep into the issues confronting college leaders and provides clear direction for managing through the storm. With close examination of both emerging trends and perennial problems, the discussion delves into issues brought about by changing demographics, federal and state mandates, public demand, economic cycles, student unrest, employee groups, trustees, college supporters, and more to provide practical guidance toward optimal outcomes for all stakeholders. Written by former presidents, including a past president of the American Association of Community Colleges, this book provides expert guidance on anticipating and managing the critical issues that affect the entire institution. Both authors serve as consultants, executive coaches, and advisors to top leaders, higher education institutions, and leadership development programs throughout the United States. Community colleges are facing increasingly complex issues from both without and within. Some can be avoided, others only mitigated—but all must be managed, and college leaders must be fully prepared or risk failing the students and the community. This book provides real-world guidance for current and emerging leaders and trustees seeking more effective management methods, with practical insight and expert perspective. Tackle the college completion challenge and performance-based funding initiatives Manage through economic cycles, declining support, and calls for accountability Delve into the issues of privatization and employee unionization Execute strategies to align institutional goals and mission Manage organizational change and new ways of thinking that are essential in today's competitive environment Manage issues involving diversity, inclusiveness, and equity Prepare adequately for campus emergencies Community colleges are the heartbeat of the nation's higher education system, and bear the tremendous responsibility of serving the needs of a vast and varied student body. Every day may bring new issues, but effective management allows institutions to rise to the challenge rather than falter under pressure. Practical Leadership in Community Colleges goes beyond theory to provide the practical guidance leadership needs to more effectively lead institutions to achieve results and serve the students and the community.
£32.00
Rowman & Littlefield Handbook on CEO–Board Relations and Responsibilities
Successful CEO–board relations are universally guided by certain overarching principles and considerations. Inside this handbook, you will find practical advice on achieving successful CEO–board relations, including how to appoint and elect candidates and develop new recruits, strategies for communicating effectively and addressing compromised board relations, and best practices for hiring and evaluating CEOs. Basic structures, functions, roles, and responsibilities of CEOs, boards, and committees are also detailed.
£20.75
Rowman & Littlefield Establishing and Sustaining Learning-Centered Community Colleges
Today’s most prominent thought leaders weigh in on the learning paradigm, calling for institutional change and responsibility for learning positive outcomes. This book helps leaders develop structures and processes that allow for more flexibility and creativity. Explore all facets of the learning paradigm from developing a change-receptive environment and engaging constituencies to strategic planning, governance, and more.
£28.67
Rowman & Littlefield Global Development of Community Colleges, Technical Colleges, and Further Education Programs
We live and thrive in a global society and economy where education and training is essential to a nation’s competitiveness and to the standard of living of its people. Opening the doors of higher or further education beyond the enrollments in elite or select universities has become a greater necessity. This has spawned a movement to develop or expand institutions that are more affordable, accessible, flexible, and tied to business and industry. Take a look at the systems that have been developed in 20 countries worldwide that were designed to meet these needs. Historical development of each system, as well as the strategies for addressing national mandates for preparing a workforce for the global economy, are described throughout each chapter.
£34.94
