Abstract
Community college leaders must manage an increasingly complex institutional accountability environment. In this environment, accountability demands may be based on explicit or implicit standards and presented by a variety of stakeholders (Alfred, 1997; Kearns, 1998; Lannan, 2001). Practitioners must identify, analyze, and prioritize diverse accountability demands while respecting the institution's culture, history, and commitments to open access and the comprehensive mission. In this article I propose a model for managing a community college's accountability environment and show how it can be applied. This model incorporates an accountability framework developed by Kearns (1998) to show how specific demands can be analyzed. It also integrates contributions by Christensen (1997) and Vaughan (1985) to explain how the college's mission, culture, and history should be considered in this process.
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