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Boerner, Heather – Community College Journal, 2015
The graying of community college leadership is an issue across the country. More than half of all community college presidents expect to retire in five years, according to data from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Succession planning is yet another opportunity for colleges already navigating a variety of reforms to innovate.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Retirement, Labor Turnover
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Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Kini, Tara; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
Teacher shortages that most severely affect schools serving the least advantaged children have been part of the California education landscape for the last half decade. This brief describes how key teacher supply and demand factors vary across the state, and it provides potential policy solutions to mitigate ongoing shortages. The brief also…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, COVID-19
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Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Kini, Tara; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
When California students returned to school in fall 2019, hundreds of thousands returned to classrooms staffed by substitutes and teachers who were not fully prepared to teach. In recent years, California has experienced widespread shortages of elementary and secondary teachers as districts and schools seek to restore class sizes and course…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, COVID-19
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Goings, Amy Morrison – Community College Journal, 2016
Amy Morrison Goings was 40 years old in 2013 when she began her presidency at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. She didn't consider herself a representative of all Generation X community college presidents, but as a member of this tight-knit group, she does feel a need to share her insight into what's on the minds of that community.…
Descriptors: Leadership, Leadership Training, College Presidents, Community Colleges
Findley, Daniel E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of faculty-to-faculty mentoring programs on the experiences of both mentors and first-year instructor proteges in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs with an emphasis on practitioner-educators in nursing and in welding-fabrication. The study was undertaken for four reasons: (a)…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Beginning Teachers, Mentors
Weisman, Iris M.; Vaughn, George B. – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2007
This research brief presents results of George B. Vaughan and Iris Weisman's 2006 Career and Lifestyle Survey (CLS) of community college presidents. Data from four previous CLS studies, conducted in 1984, 1991, 1996, and 2001, are included to indicate trends over time (Vaughan, 1986; Vaughan, Mellander, & Blois, 1994; Vaughan & Weisman, 1998;…
Descriptors: Mentors, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Governing Boards