Full Description
Enhancing Performance: A Best Practices Guide for Innovations in Community Colleges is a collection of essays from community college leaders across the country addressing challenges facing today's community colleges and providing practical, successful solutions their institutions have implemented. Some of the essays address foundational issues, including the role of innovation, strategic enrollment management, and campus safety strategies on the future of community colleges. In the essays, leaders suggest ways campuses can create opportunities for intentional student-faculty connections, provide revitalized advising services, and support the needs of marginalized student populations. The essays also address the role of community colleges in promoting civic engagement, responding to community crises, and addressing critical need. Each essay challenges us to delve deeper into the issues and find workable solutions. The essay authors are community college leaders who are alumni, faculty, or advisory board members in the doctoral program in Community College Leadership (DCCL Program) at Ferris State University (Michigan).
Contents
Introduction: Leadership Matters!
Roberta C. Teahen
SECTION I. CREATING AGILE INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 1: Innovation and the 21st Century Community College
Paige M. Niehaus
Chapter 2: The Power of Connection
Joianne L. Smith and Ruth Williams
Chapter 3: Strategic Enrollment Management: SEM and the Art of Enrollment Maintenance
Daniel Herbst
Chapter 4: Could Your Campus Be Safer? Comprehensive Support and Safety Strategies that Work
Cheryl M. Hagen
SECTION II. MEETING STUDENTS' NEEDS
Chapter 5: Fearless Leaders: Improving Student Persistence through Advising Transformation
Kris Hoffhines
Chapter 6: Institutional Responsiveness to African American Male College Students (AAMCS): Are Minority Male Initiatives Working?
Michael A. Couch II and Tina L. Hummons
Chapter 7: Cracking the Barriers for African American and Latinx Students in STEM Education
Abdel-Moaty M. Fayek
Chapter 8: College Students in Poverty: Examples of Collaborative Efforts and Interventions
Armando Burciaga and Saundra Kay King
SECTION III: ENGAGING STUDENTS AND FACULTY IN LEARNING
Chapter 9: Thinking Civically: Delta College Champions Community Engagement
Kimberly M. Klein
Chapter 10: Persistence and Completion: Solutions for the Classroom
Carmen Allen
Chapter 11: Emulating Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA): A Model to Sustain Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
Bruce Moses
SECTION IV: RESPONDING TO CHANGING NEEDS
Chapter 12: Innovation in Challenging Times: Community College Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brenda Sipe
Chapter 13: Student Success During COVID-19: A Case Study from Eastern Iowa Community Colleges
Naomi DeWinter
Chapter 14: Creating Institutions of Excellence
Lori Sundberg
Chapter 15: The Beliefs Agenda: An Extraordinary New Paradigm for College Completion
Lee Ann Nutt
Afterword
Sandra J. Balkema
Appendix
About the Authors and Editors
