Ali Hamad

New Perspectives in Academic Leadership and Standardized Tests Ali Hamad

Community and Junior colleges enroll students from different nationalities, backgrounds, and different ages including adults who did not attend college after high school. Community colleges also represent first time higher education experience for a large portion of students. Community college enrollment should reflect the demographics of the community in which it operates. This study is intended for Community and Junior Colleges leaders. In fact this study can also be used and utilized by business leaders as well. Knowing own leadership style will help leaders and administrators in education and business adapt to their organizational environment in terms of decision making, budgeting, hiring employees, and other issues. The Leadership Styles presented in the survey are based on the Managerial Grid introduced by Blake and Mouton. A survey was emailed through Survey Monkey to 138 administrators. 64 administrators returned complete surveys. Respondents included 13 Presidents, 34 Vice-Presidents, and 17 Deans. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. This study revealed that style 5/5 ?Strategic? style is the most dominant self-perceived leadership style. In this sty