| Community college administrators have historically been hailed as being innovative, entrepreneurial, and responsive to change of local business and community needs. The rise of prominence of community colleges in the 1960s would cause unforeseen problems for administration in the early 21 st century. The longevity of these early hire administrators preceded a wave of retirements of the baby boomer administrators with turnover rates as high as 75% being predicted by researchers.;Administrators began holding focus groups, conferences, and seminars to determine the best plan of attack for dealing with these predictions. Some began to grow their own leaders by financing their better administrators through doctorate programs while others began to revise their hiring practices by using more comprehensive screening processes, including personality testing use.;With such high turnover and attrition and a relatively inexperienced talent pool administrators will have to proceed with caution when selecting crucial positions in their senior leadership team, especially in those positions requiring entrepreneurial talents. This study found entrepreneurialism, as a cognitive application of personality testing, is learnable, is not specifically found in any region of community college administrators, and the WAVE instrument is valid, reliable, and does measure what it intends to measure. |
