Competencies and Personal Characteristics of Future Community College Presidents

This statement and numerous others like it led to the decision to design a national study that would identify the competencies and personal characteristics needed by the community college CEO of the future. The purpose of this paper is to present the results from this recently completed study. In the study, we determined the opinions of a stratified, random group of community college presidents about answers to the question, "What should be the competencies and personal characteristics of future community college presidents?" The methodology used in the study included, first, determining a list of possible competencies and characteristics, then asking representatives of community college Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) to rate these-while allowing them the flexibility to add others they felt were important.