Community College Succession Planning: Preparing the Next Generation of Women for Leadership Roles

The purpose of this study was to explore strategies to enable community colleges to develop and cultivate women for leadership roles through succession planning. According to the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the pace of administrative and other key staff retirements exceeds the pace at which these positions are being re-staffed (Shults, 2001). One might question why the purposeful development of future community college leaders is critical. Community colleges currently face a crucial leadership crisis in the United States. Pending retirements and the lack of succession planning to fill upcoming vacancies is reaching a critical turning point. The Chronicle of Higher Education (Leubsdorf, 2006) projects an administrative turnover exceeding 50% in the next decade. This mixed-methods approach sought to identify strategies to enable community colleges to develop and cultivate women currently employed in middle-level administrative positions (e.g., Directors, Coordinators, Specialists) for advancement into senior leadership roles (i.e., Chief Executive Officers [CEOs]; Chief Academic Officers [CAOs]; Chief Student Services Officers [CSSOs]; and Chief Financial Officers [CFOs]) through succession planning. The study focused on cultivating women for leadership roles in rural community colleges, which often encounter distinct challenges attracting and retaining talented administrators. Challenges include geographic isolation and funding inequities in rural communities, as well as lack of resources within the rural community college system to train and develop professionals for future leadership roles. The study also addressed implications of shared governance on succession planning. The study concluded that succession planning can be used as a tool to articulate institutional sustainability by which community colleges can systemically and deliberately cultivate future leaders. Hiring practices and employment procedures do not have to change. Over time the effect of succession planning might reveal larger pools of well qualified and diverse applicants for senior-level administrative positions in community colleges

Master of Science

thesisDespite a large body of literature describing the way rural public lands are used in Utah and their contestation and significance, there is a gap in research conducted on the contestation of urban public spaces. In 1999, a block of Main Street was sold from Salt Lake City to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This study addresses the process through which the sale took place and the implications on the space's accessibility and publicness. Specifically, it focuses on Main Street Plaza's contestation, using historical analysis to determine the major power-brokers in the sale, to what degree the public was involved in the sale, and how those against the plaza opposed it. A variety of themes emerged, including the way strategic framing was utilized to gain public approval and overlook public dissent. Additionally, participant observation is employed to gauge the way the space was utilized, specifically noting if people appeared to feel comfortable in the space behaving as they would in a public park, and what types of people chose to enter the space. An analysis of historical documents and participant behavior shows that the plaza was contested from the start of the original negotiations at the end of the twentieth century to the way it is utilized today. The space also, through formal rules and "social facts" that have emerged over time, is particularly inviting to certain groups and behaviors, while more isolating to others. The publicness of the space and the contestation continues to shape urban life and democratic processes

Phytochemical investigation of Croton californicus family Euphorbiaceae

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The Church and cultures : New perspectives in missiological anthropology

New Yorkxx, 464 p.; 23 c

The church and cultures. : New perspectives in missiological anthropology.

New Yorkxx, 464 p.; 23 cm