ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the profiles of community college presidents. For over a century, community college presidents have been primarily White males. Consistency in demographics was captured by the Vaughan survey series administered to all United States community college presidents from 1996 to 2007. These surveys showed that presidents were getting older and not meaningfully changing in terms of their diversity. Regarding age, presidents are getting older. When viewing advocacy related to leaders approximating their constituencies, most of the nation’s community colleges present day are led by presidents who are mostly White males with an increasing number of presidents who are White females. It is certain that leaders will retire and that the need to replace them will be ongoing. Decision-makers need a better comprehensive plan to select the next generation of presidents. In the future, those at universities who train new cohorts of future community college leaders need to take more substantial affirmative steps to achieve results grounded in equity.
