The Importance of Leadership Competencies: Perceptions of North Carolina Community College Presidents
The Importance of Leadership Competencies: Perceptions of North Carolina Community College Presidents

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Published: 2002

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This research investigated the relationship between certain institutional characteristics and perceptions of North Carolina community college presidents about the importance of leadership roles, values and emotions, and skills. Those characteristics were the size of the institution, the growth rate of the institution, and the geographic setting of the institution. The perceptions of three groups of presidents were studied. One group consisted of the presidents of large community colleges and the presidents of small community colleges. The second group consisted of the presidents of high enrollment growth colleges and the presidents of low enrollment growth colleges. The final group was comprised of presidents of urban community colleges and rural community colleges. Fifty-one of the 58 presidents participated in the study, a participation rate of 87.93 percent. The participants completed the Leadership Competencies Assessment Instrument, responding to 30 specific leadership competencies by estimating the degree of energy they expended in addressing each competency, and by estimating their effectiveness in addressing that competency. The means of responses from the first set of presidents in each group was compared to the means of responses from the second set of presidents in each group using the t-test for the difference between means. It was hypothesized that, for each of the three groups, there were no differences in perceptions about the importance of leadership roles, leadership values and emotions, or leadership skills. The results of the tests indicated that there were no differences in perceptions in any of three groups about which leadership roles, values and emotions, and skills were most important. It was recommended that future research address expanding the study population to include other community college systems; conducting future studies using different methodologies in order to increase validity; and additional study of individual leadership compe.

The Importance of Leadership Competencies
The Importance of Leadership Competencies

Author: Russell Horton Sharples

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Published: 2002

Total Pages: 180

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Keywords: community colleges, leadership, leadership competencies assessment instrument, North Carolina community colleges, community college presidents.

Perceptions of Trustees and Faculty on the Required Leadership Competencies for a Community College President
Perceptions of Trustees and Faculty on the Required Leadership Competencies for a Community College President

Author: Kevin C. Brockbank

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Published: 2017

Total Pages: 152

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The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental study is to determine the leadership competencies most desired by members of the community college board of trustees and faculty for a community college president. The study will examine the alignment of those competencies between the trustees and their faculty groups to determine if the two groups seek similar or dissimilar qualities in a president. This research is also designed to further existing research on insights that may be helpful to boards of trustees, faculty, presidential search committees, and other college stakeholders when conducting a presidential search. Data for this survey was collected using a survey instrument designed from the AACC Competencies for Community College Leaders framework, created in 2005. This framework provided 45 illustrations of competencies, representing six major competency areas, which the respondents ranked on a Likert scale. The survey was sent to 751 faculty and 25 trustees across six community colleges in eastern Washington. Descriptive statistics were used to create a demographic profile of the respondents and inferential statistics were used to determine if statistically significant differences existed between the response of the faculty and trustees on each illustration. The Mann-Whitney U and Independent Samples Median test were used to determine if statistically significant differences did exist between the two respondent groups. A statistically significant difference was found in the responses of the two groups on 6 of the 45 competency illustrations. The results of the study do provide implications for future practice that will benefit trustees, faculty, presidential search committees, sitting presidents and prospective presidents. Recommendations for research to further these findings include expansion to a more diverse group of stakeholders and the practical implications of using the AACC model to guide a presidential search.

Leading the Charge
Leading the Charge

Author: B. Jeanne Bonner

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Published: 2013

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9781303312373

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The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the leadership skills and characteristics that beginning, mid-career, and senior community college presidents perceived to be important to lead 21st century community colleges effectively today, to learn how these perceptions compared to the AACC guidelines of 2001, and to discover whether sitting presidents' perceptions of leadership characteristics were similar or different depending upon tenure in the presidency.

A Multiple Case Study of Community College Presidents
A Multiple Case Study of Community College Presidents

Author: David Jeffery Fox

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Published: 2008

Total Pages: 508

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This multiple case study examined five community college presidents' perceptions of the demands and competencies of community college presidential leadership. The participants were chosen using a purposeful selection method. Ages ranged from 46 to 63 years old (mean = 56 years, SD = 6.15 years). The tenure at their current college ranged from less than one year to over twenty-four years. The interview data was processed into an elite portrait of each president, and from those portraits, conclusions were drawn about the demands and competencies of the community college presidency.