ABSTRACT
Community college leadership competencies have been charted for over 100 years. These competencies are time-stamped and often affiliated with corresponding educational reforms within the community college and socioeconomic and political changes within the country. This chapter compares the leadership competencies identified from associations, from the literature, and from the presidents interviewed to build a composite profile of what new leaders need to consider in their professional development. In the early part of the 2000s, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) developed a set of leadership competencies and then used those competencies to support an industry of professional development programs. Under the leadership of George Boggs, the AACC released the “A Competency Framework for Community College Leaders”, which identified six essential leadership competencies. In the literature, authors identify specific leadership competencies that mostly align with the times they were published. The leadership competencies can be categorized into those focusing on personality traits and those focusing on professional traits.
