Community College Review articles from December 2003

Community College Review archives from December 2003

Stress factors end community college deans: the stresses of their role identified.
December 22, 2003... Community college deans responded to a national survey about their perception of stress, using a 41-item stress inventory. Using principal components factor analysis, nine stress factors were identified. Detailed information about the items in...

The influence of the rural community college initiative on increasing civic capacity in distressed rural communities.
December 22, 2003... This article discusses the influence of the Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) on the development of civic capacity in distressed rural communities. RCCI was a demonstration project funded by the Ford Foundation to explore the ways that...

Editor's choice: becoming student centered via the one-stop shop initiative: a case study of Onondaga Community College *.
December 22, 2003... The article provides a blueprint of how a mid-sized community college in the midst of coping with increasing enrollment and scarce resources was able to improve dramatically its services to new enrolling students via the One-Stop Shop...

UCLA community college review: community college partnerships with the private sector--organizational contexts and models for successful collaboration.
December 22, 2003... Community college partnerships with the private sector have grown in significance in the past 15 years due to state budget shortfalls, evolving labor requirements, the need to provide a cutting-edge curriculum, and a desire to respond to local...

Help wanted: Preparing community college leaders in a new century (New Directions for Community Colleges Series, no. 123).
December 22, 2003... by William E. Piland and David B. Wolf. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003. 114 pages. ISBN 0194-3081. Reviewed by Leila Gonzalez Sullivan. In response to a nationwide sense of crisis in community college leadership, authors William Piland...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
December 22, 2003... The fall 2003 issue (Volume 31, No. 2) contained an error on page 46. The state for Moraine Valley Community College was incorrectly listed in the author listing for John Donahue. The correct listing is shown below. The editor and managing...