Unrelenting Change, Innovation, and Risk
Forging the Next Generation of Community Colleges- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2016
Summary
Arguably, the nation’s community colleges have experienced more change in the last several years than they have over the prior 115 years of their existence. Rapid changes in technology, external pressures for accountability and student completion, aggressive competition from other higher education institutions (i.e., public, for-profit, and private), changes in enrollment demographics, as well as new economic, market, and operational models stand to completely disrupt this relatively young enterprise.
Unrelenting Change provides useful, practical examples for community college leaders as they seek to thoughtfully and strategically align their organization for the new dynamic in higher education. Furthermore, Unrelenting Change offers insights into the change process, including institutional assessment and readiness, consideration of cultural implications, strategic intentions toward innovation, as well as risk, failure, and success. Rather than perceiving change and disruptive innovation as merely happenstance, or luck, the author provides discernment into the topic so as to give community college leaders solid, guidance, if not improved odds, in undertaking this important, competitive edge for the future of their intuitions, and by extension, their students.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2016
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4758-1263-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4758-1264-0
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 159
- Product type
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Figures No access
- Abbreviations and Sailing Terminology No access
- Foreword No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Chapter One: Of Innovation and Possibility No access Pages 1 - 18
- Chapter Two: Forms and Dimensions of Change No access Pages 19 - 42
- Chapter Three: Change and Innovation: Preparing the Institution for Success No access Pages 43 - 68
- Chapter Four: Institutional Preparation and Culture No access Pages 69 - 92
- Chapter Five: Assessment, Planning, and Innovation No access Pages 93 - 120
- Chapter Six: Innovation Implementation, Evaluation, and Efficacy No access Pages 121 - 144
- Afterword No access Pages 145 - 156
- Index No access Pages 157 - 158
- About the Author No access Pages 159 - 159





