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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2017
In 2015 while higher educational institutions received $40 billion in gifts, community colleges only received about 1.5 percent of that amount--despite the fact that they account for about half of students at any one time, according to an estimate provided by the Council for Aid to Education, which maintains data on educational giving. The reason…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Donors, Financial Support, Educational Finance
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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2015
Community college presidents often get advice about how to land a job or, once hired, how to be more effective leaders, but they do not hear as much about their role in preparing their institutions for life after their service. Three successful community college presidents share how they left a legacy at their respective community colleges by…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Administrator Role, School Culture
Snowden, Daphne Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine Maryland community college trustees' intentions to promote succession planning. This study focused on community college trustees' understandings of their roles and responsibilities related to sustainability of institutions, their knowledge of the leadership crisis, and their intentions to promote succession…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Trustees, Intention, Long Range Planning
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Smith, Martha – Community College Journal, 2011
In the wake of President Obama's challenge to again make the United States the world's No. 1 producer of college graduates and degree and certificate holders, the nation's community college leaders are shifting their focus from access to success. Fueled by the president's goals, and six months of conversation and deliberation within the college…
Descriptors: Credentials, Community Colleges, College Graduates, Success
Eckel, Peter D. – Trusteeship, 2010
Closing programs is the most severe of the three strategies campuses typically consider during difficult financial times: generating new revenue, making across-the-board spending cuts, or undertaking targeted cuts. Closures of academic programs can have lasting negative fallout and the savings may not be as great as anticipated, but at certain…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Trustees, Governing Boards, Economic Climate
Clagett, Craig A., Ed. – Maryland 2000: Journal of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research, 1995
This volume presents five papers on higher education institutional research in Maryland, all of which were originally presented at annual meetings of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research from 1993 through 1995. The first paper is "A Day in the Life of an Institutional Researcher: Past, Present and Future" (Merill…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Freshmen, Community Colleges