Team Leadership in Community Colleges

Team Leadership in Community Colleges

This edited collection is the first book to address the topic of how leaders work with teams to manage and transform community colleges. There is a need to develop better leadership teams in order to administer community colleges effectively and to improve these organizations, whether it be an individual campus, multi-college system or state-wide organization. Edited by two long-time leaders in the field, the book includes contributions from many other experienced leaders and scholars of community colleges. "Team Leadership in Community Colleges is a practical, well-researched, and engaging work for practitioners, scholars, and policymakers interested in the future of higher education and the role of collaborative and inclusive leadership. Employing case studies and empirical examples throughout, successful community college leaders from multiple perspectives and disparate campus environments offer thoughtful reviews and evidence-based approaches to team leadership in the community college setting. I strongly recommend this important and timely book." Larry Galizio, Ph.D., President/CEO Community College League of California "This book serves as a guide to all potential and current leaders in community colleges who recognize that their vision and goals will not be realized unless they build a team to assist in their achievement. Whether the team is inherited or developed, it is imperative that certain insights must be considered for it to coalesce. I highly recommend this book be included as part of the toolbox of all community college leaders." Belle S. Wheelan, Ph.D., President, Commission on Colleges Southern Association of Colleges and Schools "George Boggs and Christine McPhail make an immeasurable contribution to the future of community colleges by focusing on the critical importance of leadership and teams. Positions at the top of community colleges are turning over rapidly due to retirements and the growing challenges to those in charge, from the board to the CEO and other team members. This book is a valuable blueprint for preparing current and future leaders. Every new president should receive this book on taking office―as should trustees and vice-presidents, deans, and department chairs. It not only serves as an excellent textbook for higher education doctoral programs, but it can be the 'survival manual' for effective governance, leadership, and vision." Barbara Gellman-Danley, Ph.D., President Higher Learning Commission "Flagship community colleges are run by effective leadership teams, and no one knows more about such teams than George Boggs and Christine McPhail. In their new book, Boggs and McPhail have assembled the most experienced and knowledgeable authors of this generation to address the key issues regarding how to select, engage, challenge, coach, collaborate with, and reward members of effective leadership teams." Terry O’Banion, Ph.D., President & CEO Emeritus League for Innovation in the Community College "Another terrific book on community college leadership by George Boggs and Christine McPhail―two former community college presidents who really know their stuff. Team Leadership in Community Colleges focuses on the all-important role of team-building in leadership: how to put together a great team, how to interact with various team members, and―best of all―how to get that team across the goal line, when it comes to carrying out an agenda for positive change. Since all college presidents have to work within a team structure―whether they like it or not―this book is a must-read for anyone who is currently a president or who aspires to be. Because, in the end, leaders are only as good as the teams they lead." Rob Jenkins author, Building a Career in America’s Community Colleges; co-author, The 9 Virtues of Exceptional Leaders: Unlocking Your Leadership Potential "Team Leadership in Community Colleges is a 'must read' for community college trustees, presidents, senior administrators, faculty, students and member of the community. We know that leadership is the key variable in identifying or predicting the success of any organization. However, in a collegiate institution, the term “team leadership” takes on a new and most important meaning. Colleges are in fact collegial, collaborative and cooperative. It takes agreement with the values and mission of the college as well as commitment to these goals and the provision of quality service to the college’s community. This new book provides living examples of teamship and team commitment in current community college settings. The authors are experienced and valued community colleges and bring successful leadership experience to their chapters." John E. Roueche, Ph.D., President Roueche Graduate Center, National American University, Sid W. Richardson Regents Chair Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin "Boggs and McPhail have assembled an all-star troupe of experts from within and outside our community college sector. The chapters present