1. Community College Governance: What Matters and Why? (Marilyn J. Amey, Eric Jessup-Anger, Jody Jessup-Anger)
This chapter sets the stage for understanding governance in the community college and why it matters.

2. Governance over the Years: A Trustee's Perspective (George E. Potter, Daniel J. Phelan)
This chapter provides an overview of board governance, its effectiveness, and changes over more than four decades. The authors offer strategies for creating partnerships between presidents and trustees that lead to future institutional success.

3. Governance in a Union Environment (Timothy K. Garfield)
The presence of a faculty union in a community college has a pervasive impact on its governance. This chapter offers recommendations for dealing with the challenges presented by collective bargaining in the postsecondary education environment.

4. Internal Governance in the Community College: Models and Quilts (Michael T. Miller, Jennifer M. Miles)
This chapter describes the various approaches to internal shared governance utilized by community colleges.

5. The Effect of the Community College Workforce Development Mission on Governance (Janice Nahra Friedel)
This chapter explores the relationship between the workforce development mission and community college governance, using the states of Kentucky and Iowa as case studies.

6. Closing the Gaps in Texas: The Critical Role of Community Colleges (Laurie Bricker)
This chapter examines the role of community college governance in a P–16 environment. The discussion focuses on development of the initiative, opportunities, and challenges faced in Texas and other states that have P–16 or P–20 systems.

7. Yanks, Canucks, and Aussies: Governance as Liberation (John S. Levin)
This chapter offers a three-nation perspective on college governance, emphasizing the condition of autonomy embedded in governance arrangements.

8. Governance in Strategic Context (Richard L. Alfred)
Forces inside and outside community colleges are changing the context for governance and mandating new and different approaches to decision making.

9. Key Resources on Community College Governance (Pam Schuetz)
This chapter outlines a collection of helpful resources on governance.

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