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  • The implementation year of shared governance at a Vanguard community college

    Creator:
    Lanning, Patrick M.
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    College governance is a function of structure and of how people act within that structure. Organizational strategies no longer identify administrations as monopolies that possess all of the good ideas. Recent organizational management approaches to governance promote inclusiveness in decision-making and are at odds with the community college's historical structures,...
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    encouragement steered me through this process and advanced my scholarship in the field of governance and

  • Innovating change in the faculty model : a study of voices and influences in defining faculty role at Cascadia Community College

    Creator:
    Buck, Sharon Thompson
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    The founders of Cascadia Community College changed faculty role and duties as they designed a new college. The college founders chose which themes of learning reform would be enacted by faculty in this new setting. They determined what elements of traditional roles continued to be important and what new expectations...
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    role. Themes that emerged from the study were outcomes, interdisciplinarity, organization and

  • Executive Leadership and Crisis Management at Community Colleges: An Exploratory Narrative Study

    Creator:
    Tarker, Daniel A.
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    This exploratory, narrative study investigated two research questions. One, how do executive leaders at community colleges describe how their cognitive schema and sensemaking approach informed their understanding of a crisis that their organization faced. Two, how do executive leaders at community colleges describe what leadership traits, behaviors, and competencies they...
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    receiving from the public, and whether the event threatened organization’s mission. Findings indicate that

  • Electric utility pole yard training facility : Designing an effective learning environment

    Creator:
    Topping, Robert P.
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    The primary responsibility of electric utilities is to supply consistent, dependable, and affordable energy to private customers, businesses, and industries. As with many businesses, electric utilities are experiencing the effects of an aging workforce and expending considerable resources to train their current and replacement workers. Community colleges can partner with...
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    representatives, training coordinators, instructors, and students from the three selected “state of the art

  • Legislators' perceptions about community colleges' use of alternative funding sources to solve budget shortfalls

    Creator:
    Klimes, Debra S. E.
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    The purpose of this study was to discern the nature of legislators' perceptions about community colleges' abilities to generate revenues through alternative funding sources and the resultant effects on state allocations to these colleges. Selected community college-related staff members and legislative staff members in Idaho and Oregon were asked to...
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    appropriations requests from state programs and is probably the most powerful committee at the legislature

  • Autistic conflict in higher education

    Creator:
    Murray-Ritchie, Susan K.
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    This study documents three cases of protracted conflict in an institution of higher education. Work groups in conflict were studied for one year in order to create cases and to describe factors influencing conflict escalation. From these cases, autistic conflict as a descriptive construct was developed to illustrate one phase...
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    studied included the administration and three distinct work groups from one university where conflicts