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Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Roundtable/Concurrent Session 4 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm

EFFECTIVENESS AMONG LEADERSHIP AT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEVEL:
A PRESIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVE

Location: Zermatt

Presented by: Monoj Babu, Associate Dean of Business, Gateway Technical College, Kenosha, WI

This is a qualitative study focused on the competency factors for community college leadership.
Through our research, we found that there are fve major categories of competencies required to be an effective
community college president.

• Emotional Intelligence
• Sense of Purpose
• Social intelligence
• Involving external stake holders
• Cognitive Intelligence

Within each of these categories are specifc areas that are delineated and shown to correlate to effective community
college leadership at the presidential level.

EXERCISING LEADERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS The Chair Academy’s 23rd Annual International Leadership Conference

Location: St. Moritz

Presented by: Dr. Pedro L. Martinez, Full Professor and Former Provost, Winston Salem State University, Winston
Salem, NC

A Student Success Plan is a crucial set of strategies designed to achieve higher rates of student retention and
graduation. Although many national initiatives provide a framework from different perspectives and approaches,
e.g., Achieving the Dream, Initiative in Student Success, Voluntary Framework Initiative, etc., student success
remains elusive unless these strategies are systemic to the institution and multiple stakeholders begin to exercise
leadership in their respective units. How does an administrative team coordinate these efforts to ensure that all units
are in tune with the strategic framework? This session will provide you with the basic elements of a student success
framework that can be further customized to ft your institution’s learning outcomes. It will also outline strategies for
coordinating and empowering leadership across campus constituents, e.g., administrators, faculty and staff, to reach
the goals of your student success plan.

Attendees will beneft by:
• Increasing their knowledge-sharing about how to replicate and expand student success initiatives to assist
students to complete their degrees and certifcates
• Improving their understanding of the different models that provide a student success framework
• Exploring the dynamics of a campus-wide student success initiative
• Empowering academic and student support units to be partners of a cohesive strategic plan Fostering a sense
of ownership in transformational leadership

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