Overview
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 are not only 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 County Community Colleges (AZ), Tarrant County College (TX), North Iowa 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 entrepreneurialism-using design thinking as a framework for understanding their successes and failures-Kisker provides a roadmap for colleges to move beyond their historical pattern of incremental responses to external pressures, and instead begin to innovate in a creative, mission-oriented approach.
Full Product Details
Author: Carrie B. Kisker
Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Imprint: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.385kg
ISBN: 9781682535752
ISBN 10: 1682535754
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 February 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Kisker's use of real-life stories to demonstrate each stage of the framework brings understanding beyond what design thinking is and why we should use design thinking, to show how it is done. Even if the stories do not precisely depict the complex problem you are trying to solve, reading this book will significantly help you understand how to implement design thinking into your problem-solving."" -- Teachers College Record"
""Kisker's use of real-life stories to demonstrate each stage of the framework brings understanding beyond what design thinking is and why we should use design thinking, to show how it is done. Even if the stories do not precisely depict the complex problem you are trying to solve, reading this book will significantly help you understand how to implement design thinking into your problem-solving."" -- Teachers College Record
Author Information
Carrie B. Kisker is an education research and policy consultant in Los Angeles, California and a director of the Center for the Study of Community Colleges.
