Abstract
A current major concern in community college circles is focused on leadership at the institutional or local college level. The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, as well as selected universities, are devoting increased attention to leadership development for America's community and junior colleges. One of the main concerns seems to be the overly autocratic inclinations of community college administrators. A related problem is that community colleges, as opposed to universities, have no history of shared governance. University history is rich and varied and provides a philosophical basis for the place of faculty in higher education governance. Community colleges are young by comparison and have no such heritage of faculty involvement. As a consequence, community college leaders could learn from university governance models to pay more attention to those functional areas that have always been the province of faculty: curricula, subject matter content, methods of instruction, faculty stat...
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