Creating Entrepreneurial Community Colleges: A Design Thinking Approach - Softcover

Kisker, Carrie B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1682535754 ISBN 13: 9781682535752

Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2021

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In this book, Carrie B. Kisker illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and experiment with the internal changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders. Kisker outlines a process whereby college leaders can empower faculty and staff to think creatively about how to reduce their institution&;s dependence on state allocations in ways that not only are consistent with the college&;s mission and values, but also provide the greatest likelihood for institutional and student success.

The book presents evidence drawn from case studies at four community colleges along with in-depth qualitative interviews with leaders, faculty, and staff who have been involved in their institution&;s entrepreneurial efforts. The featured colleges&;Maricopa Community Colleges (AZ), Tarrant County College (TX), North Iowa Area Community College, and Valencia College (FL)&;all have long histories of engaging in entrepreneurial initiatives.

By telling the stories of several influential community college leaders&; experiences with entrepreneurship&;using design thinking as a framework for understanding their successes and failures&;Kisker provides a road map for colleges to move beyond their historical pattern of incremental responses to external pressures, and instead begin to innovate in a creative, mission-oriented way.

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Carrie B. Kisker is an education research and policy specialist with Kisker Education Consulting in Los Angeles and a director of the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. Drawing from her own and others&; research, she regularly consults with college leaders on issues related to entrepreneurship and innovation, program and policy development, strategic planning and accountability, civic learning and democratic engagement. Kisker holds a BA in psychology and education from Dartmouth College and an MA and PhD in higher education from the University of California, Los Angeles. She cowrote The American Community College (Jossey-Bass, 2014) with Arthur M. Cohen and Florence B. Brawer and The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System (Jossey-Bass, 2010) with Arthur M. Cohen.

Carrie B. Kisker is an education research and policy consultant in Los Angeles, California and a director of the Center for the Study of Community Colleges.

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Carrie B. Kisker illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and experiment with the internal changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders. Kisker outlines a process whereby college leaders can empower faculty and staff to think creatively about how to reduce their institution&;s dependence on state allocations in ways that are not only consistent with the college&;s mission and values, but also provide the greatest likelihood for institutional and student success.

Drawing from case studies at four community colleges, Kisker provides a roadmap for colleges to move beyond their historical pattern of incremental responses to external pressures, and instead innovate in a creative, mission-oriented approach.

&;In this engaging book, Carrie Kisker wows us with the stories, data, and practices of a rural community college in Iowa and urban ones in Phoenix and Fort Worth that are using design thinking to create opportunity for students and prosperity for communities.&;
&;Rebecca A. Corbin, president and chief executive officer, the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship

&;Kisker highlights the work of community college innovators who involved wide-ranging stakeholders&;including faculty, college administrators, and employers&;in collaborative ventures that respond to community needs while at the same time generating badly needed revenues. The result is a compelling analysis of how community college leaders might sustain institutional commitment to community betterment even as government appropriations decline.&;
&;James C. Palmer, professor emeritus of higher education, Illinois State University

&;Carrie Kisker&;s work with four of our exemplar community colleges could not be better timed as we look toward a post-COVID era for community colleges. It will help largely risk-averse cultures purposefully forge new, more entrepreneurial futures for our Digital Age of constant, rapid change that is transforming our college landscape before our very eyes.&;
&;Kevin Drumm, founding board chairman, National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, and president, SUNY Broome Community College

Carrie B. Kisker is an education research and policy specialist with Kisker Education Consulting in Los Angeles, and a director of the Center for the Study of Community Colleges.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1682535754
• ISBN 13: 9781682535752
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270
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