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Dr. Rosales has taken a very tough role of trying to raise completion rates and foster student success at Oak Community College in Pennsylvania. It takes a worthy leader to be able to turn around completion rates in just one year. Not only does Dr. Rosales have to refocus administrators, faculty, and staff but he also must work to lead the students as well. Community colleges face so many challenges in the twenty-first century. Over ninety-five percent of all American community colleges have an open-admissions policy (Bragg & Durham, 2012). Because of this, community colleges hold a unique niche in higher education. Community college is the jumping off point for all students regardless of socioeconomic status, race, religion, gender, …show more content…
Rosales will develop the ability to sustain his own leadership growth by using change leadership theories (Keystone, 3). It is in Dr. Rosales best interest to help create trust with the faculty, administrators, and staff by using the idea of building a shared vision. In the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (1990), the author explains the idea of creating a shared picture of the future that Dr. Rosales seeks to create in the community college culture. By creating a shared vision, Dr. Rosales along within the institution will be able to agree on the new goals, values, and missions of Oak Community College (Senge, 1990). Senge (1990), also explains that the goals of leaders are sometimes never shared with everyone they are leading, and that is why a shared vision is so important for creating …show more content…
Rosales start with first two steps of establishing a sense of urgency and creating a guiding coalition with faculty, administrators, and staff so that they are persuaded and understand the clear need for change. The next steps would be for Dr. Rosales to develop a vision and strategy, then communicate the newly changed vision to the entire community college. The continued steps for Dr. Rosales to create change is to empower broad-based action and generate short-term wins. He must create an environment that fosters the college to want to work together toward reachable goals. Consolidating gains and producing more change then anchoring new approaches into the culture, are the last two steps of Kotter’s (1995), change process. This means the college needs to build on the change then incorporate the new changes into the college
Dr. Rosales has taken a very tough role of trying to raise completion rates and foster student success at Oak Community College in Pennsylvania. It takes a worthy leader to be able to turn around completion rates in just one year. Not only does Dr. Rosales have to refocus administrators, faculty, and staff but he also must work to lead the students as well. Community colleges face so many challenges in the twenty-first century. Over ninety-five percent of all American community colleges have an open-admissions policy (Bragg & Durham, 2012). Because of this, community colleges hold a unique niche in higher education. Community college is the jumping off point for all students regardless of socioeconomic status, race, religion, gender, …show more content…
Rosales will develop the ability to sustain his own leadership growth by using change leadership theories (Keystone, 3). It is in Dr. Rosales best interest to help create trust with the faculty, administrators, and staff by using the idea of building a shared vision. In the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (1990), the author explains the idea of creating a shared picture of the future that Dr. Rosales seeks to create in the community college culture. By creating a shared vision, Dr. Rosales along within the institution will be able to agree on the new goals, values, and missions of Oak Community College (Senge, 1990). Senge (1990), also explains that the goals of leaders are sometimes never shared with everyone they are leading, and that is why a shared vision is so important for creating …show more content…
Rosales start with first two steps of establishing a sense of urgency and creating a guiding coalition with faculty, administrators, and staff so that they are persuaded and understand the clear need for change. The next steps would be for Dr. Rosales to develop a vision and strategy, then communicate the newly changed vision to the entire community college. The continued steps for Dr. Rosales to create change is to empower broad-based action and generate short-term wins. He must create an environment that fosters the college to want to work together toward reachable goals. Consolidating gains and producing more change then anchoring new approaches into the culture, are the last two steps of Kotter’s (1995), change process. This means the college needs to build on the change then incorporate the new changes into the college