Remarks from the editor

Leadership is the ability or capacity to show the way. While no one questions the need for efficient, dynamic leaders, there is yet some debate concerning the optimum style of leadership. In this issue, our contributors look at the subject from several perspectives. David Trites and Tom Weegar describe their experience with a shift from management-by-objective to a shared, team-oriented approach; Pamela Eddy considers the influence of gender on the leadership styles of two community college presidents; Lorraine Stramba explores the benefits of a servant leadership model and Mark Oromaner reviews The Leadership Gap: Model Strategies for Developing Community College Leaders.

No less important than leadership, the issue of academic integrity confronts us all. Some argue the Internet is to blame for a growing cut-andpaste mentality. Others point to a moral fluidity in our country's leaders as a poor influence on students. Whatever the cause, we are faced with the effects. In the regular feature, "Two Sides of the Same Coin," Steven Berg interviews Diane Waryold and Richard Harris, skilled leaders in the battle to preserve academic honesty.

One of our most powerful weapons against such breach of integrity is critical thought. Educators since Socrates have strived to develop in students a facility for critical thinking. This issue, Tom Solon studies the effect of critical thinking instruction on tests designed to measure the ability.

An article format the journal has not introduced before debuts in a review essay by Dominic Aquila. He considers, by commenting on the following four books, the debate over how the teaching of history affects the subject matter itself:

1. Rethinking American History in a Global Age

2. Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

3. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

4. Teaching U.S. History as Mystery

His review places the books in the context of internationalizing American history studies.

In the second of two installments, Howard Major and Debbie Taylor provide concrete steps toward designing and delivering community college courses, in both the real and the virtual classrooms. A related topic book review by Hans Andrews evaluates Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses.

In a "Short Take," David James looks at creativity and whether education can improve or merely uncover it, and Patrick Callaghan and Donna Mirabito anchor the issue with their review of Educator, a course management system.

Until 2004,

Louis A. Reibling

Louis A. Reibling, Ph.D.

Editor

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