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Iowa State study of community college presidents finds national shortage on horizon
AMES, Iowa -- There appears to be a community college leadership shortage looming. A new Iowa State University study of 415 community college presidents -- representing 38.2 percent of the national total -- found that 79 percent will retire by 2012, and 84 percent by 2016.The study also documents a shortage of qualified replacements, reporting that the number of degrees awarded to graduates of community college leadership programs decreased by 78 percent between 1983 and 1997.
"If you think about that time period, those would be the people who would really be in the chute to take the place of those who were retiring," said Chris Duree, who led the research and reported its results for his doctoral dissertation in Iowa State's Community College Leadership Program (CCLP).
"So actually, not only is there the anticipated exodus going out the door, but there also is a shortage of qualified candidates coming in," he said.
Duree -- who will be a lecturer and faculty clinician in CCLP starting this fall -- presented the results of the study, "The challenges of the community college presidency in the new millennium: pathways, preparation, competencies, and leadership programs needed to survive," in April at the Council for the Study of Community Colleges annual meeting in Philadelphia.
The data was collected in 2007 by a group of ISU researchers in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS) and Office of Community College Research and Policy at Iowa State. The principal investigators were ELPS doctoral students working under the direction of University Professor of Higher Education Larry Ebbers and Associate Professor Frankie Santos-Laanan.
Source: p://www.public.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2008/jul/ccleadership.shtml
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