Leading with Purpose: Dr. Sheila Quirk-Bailey on Community Colleges as Engineers of Opportunity
About this episode
Dr. Sheila Quirk-Bailey discusses her career in community college leadership and the importance of purpose-driven leadership.
In this episode, Dr. Sheila Quirk-Bailey, the recently retired president of Illinois Central College, talks with host H.M. Kuneyl about her career journey from corporate education into community college leadership, emphasizing how her Illinois-based communication and business training, paired with a practitioner-focused doctorate from Maryland, shaped her student success-driven philosophy. Among other topics, she and Kuneyl discuss the value of working across institutional silos, knowing one's "why," and pursuing leadership roles with purpose rather than for prestige.
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