Business administration comes to mind as one of them. Students need to learn from instructors with practical experience in the business world. I would take a retired executive from a major corporation or a successful entrepreneur with real teaching skills as a professor at a community college over a doctorate candidate in business any day. While there is of course theory in marketing, accounting, finance, etc., no amount of research and theory will supplant experience in practical implementation of running a business. Students know this.
Community colleges are the last bastion of student-focused instruction.
Let's not turn them into yet another ivory tower for Ph.D.s to contemplate their navels. And by the way, you do not need a Ph.D. to run a university or community college either. One day, colleges will learn that an effective executive, skilled at managing large, complex organizations and managing fiscal responsibility is what they are looking for, not another researcher. Check this box if you would like this submission to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor in the printed Chronicle. Be sure to include your name and affiliation.