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Direct linkRoybal, Juliane – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher education is experiencing leadership turnover and during these transitions colleges and universities are relying on interim leaders to fill this leadership gap. The purpose of this study was to identify ways to support interim leaders and leverage their experience into the development of professional growth opportunities at a large…
Descriptors: College Administration, Leadership Responsibility, Temporary Employment, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedXu, Di; Ran, Florence Xiaotao – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021
Based on a novel data set that links college administrative information with earnings records from a state college system for both public two-year and four-year colleges, this study quantifies the impacts of exposure to different types of instructors during students' initial semester in college on their subsequent academic and labor market…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Ala-Va¨ha¨la¨, Timo – Quality in Higher Education, 2016
This article analyses Finnish higher education institutions' reception of the implementation of the new quality assurance systems that governments participating in the Bologna Process have committed to establishing in the Berlin Communique´ of 2003. The data were collected using a web survey and the respondents were classified with a cluster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, International Cooperation
Goff, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The appointment of interim community college presidents, the topic of this study, is a little understood phenomenon. A growing shortage of community college presidents coupled with a lack of replacements suggests the appointment of interims will continue well into the future. This study, with a purpose of looking at the factors related to the…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Temporary Employment, Community Colleges, Administrator Characteristics
Thompson, Matthew D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand the experiences of two community college interim presidents, their characteristics, and how they led institutions following an abrupt presidential departure. There were two fundamental questions framing this research study, 1. How do two interim community college presidents lead…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Temporary Employment, Work Experience
Wagoner, Richard L. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
This chapter analyzes data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty to suggest that community college part-time faculty can be understood as temporary labor in the new economy.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Labor, College Faculty
Download full textLopez, Elias S. – California State Library, 2004
The California Community College (CCC) system is the largest two-year higher education system in the United States, providing courses to over 1.7 million students and employing more than 85,000 persons (in 2002). At the request of Senator Alarcon, this report analyzes staffing patterns in California's community colleges. Based on data from 1994 to…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Teacher Salaries, Community Colleges, College Faculty
