Hiring and Educating New Administrators

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Hiring and Educating New Administrators

• Susan Dever, El Camino College
• Jane Patton, Mission College
• Michelle Pilati, Rio Hondo College
• Frederick Teti, City College of San Francisco

ASCCC Spring Plenary April 20, 2007
1130am-1245pm
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Description

• This session will begin with a review of the
  results of a survey on administrative hiring
  practices and then proceed to a consideration of
  the challenges colleges are facing due to the
  many interim and new administrators on our
  campuses. Do you and should you have a role in
  the selection of "interims"? Upon hiring a new
  administrator, what steps should you take to
  ensure that he or she works well with your
  senate? Come join a lively discussion of how to
  handle these varied challenges.

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Description

• Survey results - administrative hiring practices
• Status of administrative positions today
• Hiring and working with interims
• Hiring and working with new administrators

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Administrative Hiring Practices

• Resolution Spring 2005
• Survey 2005-06
• Purpose to find models of good practices

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Administrative Hiring Practices

• Respondents 32
• What it asked
• Findings

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Status of Administrative Positions

• Where, oh where, have the educational leaders
  gone?
• Poll whats open on your campus?
• As of April 9, 2007 via the Registry
• 6 President, 2 Chancellor
• 15 VP, 5 Vice Chancellor

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Status of Administrative Positions

• CCLC Directory
• 13/127 CIOs are Interims
• 18/107 President/Superintendents
• The future?
• By July 1, there will be about 50 CEO/Chancellor
  vacancies (!) statewide.

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Status of Administrative Positions

• What happens when there are so many open
  positions?
• Quality of the pools
• Start over
• Conflicts between those who want to hire and
  those who want to wait for a good hire

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Hiring and Working with Interims

• Advantages of interim hires
• Disadvantages of interim hires
• Regular or special search/appointment process for
  interims
• Investing resources into establishing working
  relationships with interims

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Orienting New Hires

• You orient new faculty, new staff, new board
  members right?
• What about new administrators?
• What do they need to know?
• How do you make your message palatable?

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Survey on Orientation of new Administrators

• Informal - administrators faculty - small
  sample but thoughtful responses
• First survey
• In what ways do you feel faculty can help
  formally or informally newly-hired
  administrators?
• Have you had any experiences of this sort that
  you can share?
• And now the flip side In what ways do you feel
  faculty can hinder newly-hired administrators?
• Experiences?
• Any other thoughts?

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Orientation Survey Follow-up

• The following questions came out of our
  discussion about first responses received.
• What is the current unmet demand future trend
  for CC administrators?
• What factors are contributing to the apparent
  shortage in the applicant pool?
• What are the effects of this shortage on
  institutions?
• What are the effects (positive negative) of
  interim appointments?
• How do interim search processes differ from
  permanent?
• How are hiring processes changing?
• Responses also came from recruitment firm.

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Other Issues

• Why are so many vacancies?
• Why is there a perceived lack of leaders?
• Given many open positions and few acceptable
  applicants, what can we do to address this?
• Rethink approach to hiring?
• What kind of experience is needed?
• Is your interview process effective?

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Potentially Thorny Issues

• Establishing retreat rights (or lack thereof)
• Classified, certificated, and exempt positions

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Fillers

• Are there opportunities for leaders to get the
  professional development that they need?

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CCLC

• Community College League of California
• http//www.ccleague.org/
• Effective Trusteeship Workshop
• All recently elected and appointed trustees
  should attend the Trusteeship Workshop.
  Continuing trustees, student trustees, and CEOs
  are also very welcome, and will gain much from
  the workshop.
• CEO Development and Resources
• New CEOs (even those who have been a president at
  another college) have many new things to learn
  when they take a new position. The League has
  identified common questions in the areas listed
  below and offered some answers. If you have more
  questions, send an email. It will be forwarded to
  chief executives with expertise related to your
  question.
• Participation in Decision-Making (Shared
  Governance)Establishing PrioritiesBoard and
  CEO Relations  Structuring the Organization

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ACCCA

• Association of California Community College
  Administrators
• The ACCCA Mentor Program
• .. a statewide activity whose purpose is to
  provide a personal and professional development
  experience for selected individuals who have
  demonstrated a potential for expanded leadership
  roles in their current, or future,
  responsibilities with the California Community
  College system. Participants develop competencies
  through participation in ACCCA Mentee leadership
  events held during the one-year program.