A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: RESULTS OF A NATIONAL STUDY |
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| Authors: | Tom Kubala Gina M Bailey |
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| Institution: | 1. Central Michigan University , Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA mitch1rl@cmich.edu;3. The College of William and Mary , Williamsburg, Virginia, USA |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to compare two surveys of newly appointed community college presidents. The first, conducted in 1997, was published in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice . It was entitled, A National Study on the Community College Presidency (Kubala, 1999). In this study, newly appointed community college presidents were asked about their pathways to the presidency, their motivation to serve, the search process, their first impressions, governance, and learner-centered transformation. Newly appointed presidents were chosen for the study because of the assumption that they were knowledgeable of contemporary issues, team building strategies, planning, and governance. The second survey was meant to lead to a comparative analysis with a new set of presidents. The reasons for selecting these new presidents were the same ones used in the 1997 study. The instrument was essentially the same as well. The participants in this new study were appointed as community college presidents during the period of September 1997 to September 1999. Copies of the survey instrument were sent to 183 presidents, and 101 were completed for a return rate of 55% . An SPSS package was used to collapse the data, and determine cross-tabulations among the participants. |
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