The contributions of community colleges to society are well-documented. The ideas and insights of some of today’s leading thinkers and practitioners add nuance and texture to the image that emerges.ĭeveloping Tomorrow's Leaders: Context, Challenges and Capabilities It presents a candid snapshot of the past and the present, and then attempts to adjust the lens to bring into focus the blurry outer reaches of the future.
Re-visioning highlights the people, the organizations and the cultures that are leading innovative change.Īt a moment when community colleges are at once vulnerable and enjoying unprecedented public favor and attention, Re-visioning contemplates what future success could look like and how to get there. Change, particularly change that is innovation-driven, can defy the best efforts of leaders. Perpetually scarce resources and the accretion over time of inefficient programs, systems and practices common to the higher education industry have coalesced to impede the ability of most colleges to advance scalable and sustainable innovation. The very characteristics that have made community colleges simultaneously the outcasts and the darlings of higher education-open-access, low cost, convenience, community focus and responsiveness to local demand-have now positioned them for innovation and reinvention. Re-visioning explores the ways that community colleges are or could innovate and recreate structures and systems to become leaders of an industry that is in the midst of transformation. This book presents a “no holds barred” analysis of the shape and direction of community colleges in a landscape of dramatic and unstoppable economic, social and political change. Gordon Award of Distinction.Įxtreme make-overs have value beyond the confines of reality television. from Keuka College, the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) CEO of the Year Award for the Northeast Region, and the Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society’s Shirley B. She has received numerous awards and honors, including an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, M.A. Sydow’s discipline is English literature, rhetoric and linguistics. Her writings have been published in a wide range of publications, including the Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and the American Council on Education Leadership Briefs, and her recent book is entitled Re-visioning Community Colleges. Strategic reinvestment and reinvention as a means of improving student learning outcomes has been the central focus of Sydow’s leadership, and her research. Sydow has served as President of the New York Community College Association of Presidents, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Community College Development at Cornell University, and Chair of the American Council on Education’s Commission on Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness.
She is president emerita and distinguished professor of English at Onondaga Community College-one of the largest community colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Sydow is president of Richard Bland College of William & Mary, Virginia’s only public, residential two-year college. Headquartered in Oxford, Conn., RBC Bearings currently employs approximately 2,146 people and operates 22 manufacturing facilities in four countries.Dr. This acquisition is in line with our stated strategy and goal of continually expanding our base, adding value to our clients, and increasing our value to the marketplace." As the pioneer and leader in the field of precision industrial component manufacturing and design, PIC provides us with additional technology, expertise, and complementary products that will help strengthen the value we deliver to our customers. The addition of PIC brings us a very unique franchise offering a wide array of products to the general industrial marketplace. Hartnett, chairman and chief executive officer, stated, “We are very pleased to close our first acquisition of fiscal 2009. PIC Design has more than 20,000 active customers and generated revenues of approximately $10 million for the year ended December 31, 2007.ĭr.
PIC Design, located in Middlebury, Conn., is a manufacturer and supplier of tight-tolerance, precision mechanical components for use in the motion control industry. RBC Bearings Incorporated, a leading international manufacturer of highly engineered precision plain, roller and ball bearings for the industrial, defense and aerospace industries, on June 9 announced that it has acquired the assets of Precision Industrial Components LLC (PIC Design) for approximately $6.6 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities.