Focuses on understanding the intricacies of making change in an organization.  Analyzing the need for change and the likelihood that the change can be accomplished successfully is discussed.  The desire to maintain accepted practices versus the need to accomplish the current mission and purpose of a department or function within a college is discussed.

Emphasis will be placed on the college administrator’s role in making accountability a part of the college culture. The importance of leadership in moving individuals toward accepting personal responsibility for their performance, the performance of those they lead, and the performance of the students the college serves will be discussed. The external demands for more accountability and the politics of making colleges more accountable will also be discussed.

This presentation will focus on the important role that the community college leadership team plays in the economic development within its service area.  Participants will have a greater sense of the roles that administrators and executive management teams play in the economic development process and a greater appreciation for the consequences of their success (or failure) to effectively lead in this area. 

An expert on higher education law leads a forum on the legal issues—from the Constitution, from federal law, and from state law—that define the options available to community college administrators and set the constraints on their choices.   

The session will focus on the administrator’s leadership and management of their most valuable asset, personnel.  The use of good leadership techniques, human relations skills and improving the skills of those you lead using focused staff development will be discussed.  Topics will include the proper place and use of personnel evaluation, placement of personnel, building a team, rewarding competence and removing incompetence.

Presentation and discussion of how the community college presidency has changed over the last decade.  The impact of new demands and expectations being placed on colleges and the coinciding leadership
challenges to the President will be discussed.

Focuses on the most current innovations, issues, programs, problems, and solutions that are making news in the community colleges across the nation and how they are likely to change leadership demands and practices.

Deals with a challenge that is becoming more and more important to Presidents - acquiring alternative funds. Understanding the President’s role and responsibility will be the focus of this session.  Techniques used to raise funds and the do's of don'ts of this increasingly important activity will be discussed.

Focus on how you capitalize on the opportunities and avoid the inherent dangers as you settle into the role of new President. The first year of your Presidency will be discussed, concentrating on how you develop relationships, establish expectations, demonstrate your own and develop other's leadership, as well as how to anticipate and survive difficult adjustment problems.  The balance between what you may want to accomplish as a new President and adjusting to the change limitation you may have due to the culture of the college will also be discussed.