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The Impending Retirements Of Community College Presidents: A Higher Education Leadership Crisis, Katrina Vanderwoude
The Impending Retirements Of Community College Presidents: A Higher Education Leadership Crisis, Katrina Vanderwoude
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to explore and examine the phenomenon of the small pool of qualified and interested candidates to replace retiring community college presidents and senior level officers and to learn if or how organizational changes and leadership during the growth and expansion of the community college system have impacted or contributed to this phenomenon.
The unit of analysis for the study was a public community college in Southeastern Michigan (the pseudonym of SMCC was assigned). SMCC provided the environmental setting for the researcher to observe, record, and interact with the system being examined. SMCC was used …