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In this book, Carrie B. Kisker illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and experiment with the internal changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders. Kisker outlines a process whereby college leaders can empower faculty and staff to think creatively about how to reduce their institution’s dependence on state allocations in ways that not only are consistent with the college’s mission and values, but also provide the greatest likelihood for institutional and student success.
The book presents evidence drawn from case studies at four community colleges along with in-depth qualitative interviews with leaders, faculty, and staff who have been involved in their institution’s entrepreneurial efforts. The featured colleges—Maricopa Community Colleges (AZ), Tarrant County College (TX), North Iowa Area Community College, and Valencia College (FL)—all have long histories of engaging in entrepreneurial initiatives.
By telling the stories of several influential community college leaders’ experiences with entrepreneurship—using design thinking as a framework for understanding their successes and failures—Kisker provides a road map for colleges to move beyond their historical pattern of incremental responses to external pressures, and instead begin to innovate in a creative, mission-oriented way.
The book presents evidence drawn from case studies at four community colleges along with in-depth qualitative interviews with leaders, faculty, and staff who have been involved in their institution’s entrepreneurial efforts. The featured colleges—Maricopa Community Colleges (AZ), Tarrant County College (TX), North Iowa Area Community College, and Valencia College (FL)—all have long histories of engaging in entrepreneurial initiatives.
By telling the stories of several influential community college leaders’ experiences with entrepreneurship—using design thinking as a framework for understanding their successes and failures—Kisker provides a road map for colleges to move beyond their historical pattern of incremental responses to external pressures, and instead begin to innovate in a creative, mission-oriented way.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Design Thinking as a Framework for Entrepreneurship in Community Colleges
- Part II. Stories from the Field
- Part III. From Stories of Entrepreneurship Elsewhere to Innovation Everywhere
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index