5.9 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY
This study was developed as a pilot study to inform the reader, through the development of a WFD faculty profile, of the importance of workforce development faculty within the community college. As this study progressed, the information that shaped this study revealed important information regarding the WFD faculty, but in limited fashion. The next step for this study would be to take it to a regional or national community college agency for increased WFD leader and faculty participation. One possible step would be to replicate this study across the 1,100 community colleges nationwide through a partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges. Also, in preparation for taking this pilot study into a larger population, important elements would be added into the survey that address further
demographics, and teaching backgrounds that were determined in this study to be limitations. In order to initiate such a study, the researcher will have to devote an adequate amount of time to define the faculty population within each community college and assist the community colleges in the preparation of an appropriate faculty contact list.