The President’s Role in the Learning College: Lessons Learned

This is a brief and pragmatic reference with lists of "Challenges Encountered" and "Advice from the Field."

From 2000 through 2004, the League for Innovation’s Learning College Project worked to assist community colleges in the United States and Canada to become more learning centered by creating a network of 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges strongly committed to the learning college concept, whose efforts would serve as a basis for model programs and best practices. Julie Wechsler interviewed three long-standing Vanguard Learning College presidents to learn more about the president’s role in leading an institution’s journey toward becoming more learning centered, and she reports her findings in this month’s issue of Leadership Abstracts.