Community College Leadership (Ph.D.)

"Community colleges are facing an impending crisis in leadership." This statement echoes throughout the community college literature of the last decade and is the opening sentence of a recent executive summary from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). In a 2001 national leadership survey, AACC found over 50 percent of community college presidents and an even higher percentage of senior administrators would be retiring by 2007.

Students of Community College Leadership will develop proficiency in how individuals, particularly adults, learn most effectively; what tools and strategies best promote learning; and how educational systems and policies can be changed to promote the academic mission of the community college in today's society. This program will help shape tomorrow's community college leaders-from presidents, deans, and department chairs to chief learning officers, directors of student affairs and other leadership positions within the community college.