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Issues That Keep Community College
CEOs Awake at Night
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s part of its recent strategic planning process, the League
for Innovation in the Community College Board of Directors
brainstormed a list of current challenges facing community
colleges—challenges the League could use in its programming to help
its full membership develop and share solutions. The total list included
almost 70 issues and challenges from Board members and League
representatives, who serve as liaisons between the Board colleges
and League staff. A subset of these challenges became what the group
termed “issues that keep us awake at night.”
League staff analyzed the list and the nine major themes that
emerged are presented here, along with a link to descriptions and
other resources about the types of challenges community colleges
are facing within each theme. For example, the Equity and Inclusion
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