Contents
Preface
Terminology Used in This Book
Chapter 1: What Am I Getting Into? Choices and Personal Decisions
The First Management Experience
Sidebar:Who is More Powerful?
The Next Step: Climbing the Organizational Ladder
The Big Step: President and CEO
The Difference Between Being President and Being CEO
CEO/President of a Single-College District
Sidebar: Advantages and Disadvantages
Chancellor of a Multi-College or Multi-Campus College District
Sidebar: Multi-College District - Advantages and Disadvantages
Sidebar: Multi-Campus College District - Advantages and Disadvantages
President in a Multi-Campus College or Multi-College District
Sidebar: Advantages and Disadvantages
The Single-College District
The Multi-College District
Sidebar:Multi-College and Single-College Districts: Issues for administrators to consider
Sidebar:RAM and "Bucket" Budget Models
The Multi-Campus College District
The Nomadic Lifestyle
Sidebar:To Move or Not to Move
Are Small-Town Politics Really Easier?
Sidebar:Working at a Small-Town College
Commuter Marriages
Sidebar:The Sting
Chapter 2: Thriving and Surviving on the Job
What Administrators Really Do
Building Career Bridges
Watch What You Say or Do...
Winning Characteristics
There is No "Middle" in Middle Management
Sidebar:Now get out there and stretch
Division and Department Leadership
Communication on Campus
Sidebar:Bring Options, Not Just Problems
Instituting Change: Everyone Is a Leader
Sidebar:The Lessons of the COVID epidemic (and other disasters)
Hiring and Managing a Consultant
Sidebar: A Unique Way to Use a Trusted Outside Advisor
Adjusting to a Changing of the Guard
Chapter 3: Institutional Politics
Peer Bullies
Sidebar: The 10/90 Rule
The Importance of Loyalty
Sidebar:Don't Forget Support Staff
Can It Pass the "Do You Want Your Loved Ones to Know" Test?
Shared Governance: The Contradiction We Love to Hate
Sidebar:Peer Review, Faculty Cop-Out
Chapter 4: Presidential Issues
Call of the Headhunter
Sidebar:Multiple Paths to a Presidency
Finding a Good Fit
Your First Contract
Working Out the Board-CEO Working Relationship
Assessing the Board
Care and Feeding of the Board
The First 100 Days on the Job
Picking Your Team
Building Your Own Faculty Leadership
Sidebar:Leaving a Legacy
The Theory of Political Capital
Ignorance is Bliss, Sometimes
Trustee Election Politics
Votes of No Confidence
Can You Hear the Posse Coming?
Chapter 5: Not For Trustees Only
Becoming a Trustee
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Rabbits Carrying the Lettuce
Pick Up the Phone
Presentations to the Board
Selecting the Board Chair
Keeping a Good CEO
Evaluating the CEO
Sidebar:Suggested Steps for Developing a CEO Evaluation Process
When It's Time to Make a Change
Sidebar:When a CEO becomes ill or incapable of doing the job
Selecting a New CEO
Sidebar:Does Your District Need a Search Consultant?
Sidebar:Rule #1: Stay Involved
Sidebar:Do We Need An Interim CEO?
Ten Truths of Community College Leadership
About the Authors
