Briefing Tool on Intercollegiate Athletics for New Community College Executive Leaders

Community college executive leaders, presidents, and vice presidents enter their
executive leadership roles with a variety of experiences and understandings. Community
college athletics, a large, highly visible, and very public component of more than half of the
community colleges in the country, is likely not to be a well-developed component of the
experience and understanding that many new community college executive leaders bring with
them into their new roles. This product dissertation is intended to guide a new executive leader
in addressing any experiential or understanding gaps they might have regarding their new
oversight role for a community college athletics program. This product will provide a brief
discussion of a variety of topics within the realm of community college athletics that are
important for community college executive leaders to understand, an account of why they are
important to leaders at this level of the community college, and suggestions for additional
exploration of the topics.