The Academic Crisis Of The Community College

Author : Dennis McGrath,Martin B. Spear
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791405621

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The Academic Crisis of the Community College by Dennis McGrath,Martin B. Spear Pdf

"What I like most about this book is that the authors do not see community colleges as being separate from other parts of post-secondary education. The usual view of two-year colleges is reductionist -- perceiving them exclusively in functional ways -- vocational, collegiate, remedial, etc. McGrath and Spear see community colleges as part of the full historical unfolding of educational institutions in the United States and, thus, critique them as academic institutions. This is an important work -- more intellectually challenging and wide ranging than virtually all books on the subject." -- L. Steven Zwerling New York University School of Continuing Education "This is a book which will stand out. It takes a genuinely fresh, integrated approach to a difficult and vexing problem. The authors develop a synoptic picture of education in the community college by tracing the ways in which that institution has been shaped. The authors present a convincing framework within which they can discuss the past failures of efforts at reform and put forward their own proposals." -- William M. Sullivan, LaSalle University; co-author Habits of the Heart "The concept of 'remedialization' of the community college is an important contribution to the understanding of community colleges. This work is appealing because it draws from and is influenced by a diversity of works in philosophy, education theory, organization theory, and literary analysis. I especially appreciate the fact that this book does not proselytize the community college credo nor politicize its function." -- Estela M. Bensimon, The Pennsylvania State University

Author : Robin G. Isserles
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421442082

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The Costs of Completion by Robin G. Isserles Pdf

To improve community college success, we need to consider the lived realities of students. Our nation's community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their time to completing a degree—or worse, causing many to drop out altogether. In The Costs of Completion, Robin G. Isserles contextualizes this crisis by placing blame on the neoliberal policies that have shaped public community colleges over the past thirty years. The disinvestment of state funding, she explains, has created austerity conditions, leading to an overreliance on contingent labor, excessive investments in advisement technologies, and a push to performance outcomes like retention and graduation rates for measuring student and institutional success. The prevailing theory at the root of the community college completion crisis—academic momentum—suggests that students need to build momentum in their first year by becoming academically integrated, thereby increasing their chances of graduating in a timely fashion. A host of what Isserles terms "innovative disruptions" have been implemented as a way to improve on community college completion, but because disruptions are primarily driven by degree attainment, Isserles argues that they place learning and developing as afterthoughts while ignoring the complex lives that define so many community college students. Drawing on more than twenty years of teaching, advising, and researching largely first-generation community college students as well as an analysis of five years of student enrollment patterns, college experiences, and life narratives, Isserles takes pains to center students and their experiences. She proposes initiatives created in accordance with a care ethic, which strive to not only get students through college—quantifying credit accumulation and the like—but also enable our most precarious students to flourish in a college environment. Ultimately, The Costs of Completion offers a deeper, more complex understanding of who community college students are, why and how they enroll, and what higher education institutions can do to better support them.

Author : Deborah L. Floyd,Christopher M. Mullin,Gianna Ramdin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000630930

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Community Colleges’ Responses to COVID-19 by Deborah L. Floyd,Christopher M. Mullin,Gianna Ramdin Pdf

In 2021, community college practitioners, scholars, researchers, and leaders documented the challenge of what worked, what did not work, and lessons learned during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book summarizes the works of 39 authors who collectively wrote 14 peer reviewed papers in areas of leadership, curriculum, funding, social and racial tension, technology and digital access, self, family and community, and health and safety. Readers are challenged to embrace this era with innovative zeal and to continue to document community colleges’ evolutionary changes during this pandemic era. The book will be useful to higher education practitioners, scholars, and leaders, as well as individuals in organizations who are interested in how community colleges responded to challenges of change during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.

Author : Christopher J. Lucas
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0312176864

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Crisis in the Academy by Christopher J. Lucas Pdf

Not since student turmoil and unrest wreaked havoc on the nation's campuses three decades ago has American higher education been the subject of so much controversy and popular criticism. Countless indictments compete for the public's attention as critics explore vital issues confronting today's institutions of higher learning: curricular fragmentation, declining academic standards, the apparent erosion of liberal learning within academe, widespread neglect of undergraduate education in favour of academic research and unprecedented financial woes. Confusion over fundamental priorities and purposes, the author argues, lies at the heart of the dilemma facing end-of-the-century higher education. Thoughtful and timely, Crisis in the Academy offers a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary higher education while making an important contribution to the ongoing public debate over the future of America's beleaguered and diverse institutions of higher learning.

Author : Gregory Malveaux,Krishna Bista
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000417173

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International Students at US Community Colleges by Gregory Malveaux,Krishna Bista Pdf

This volume documents the experiences of international students and recent international initiatives at US community colleges to better understand how to support and nurture students’ potential. Offering a range of case studies, empirical and conceptual chapters, the collection showcases the unique curricula and diverse opportunities for career development that colleges can offer international students. International Students at US Community Colleges addresses issues of student access, enrolment barriers, college choice, and challenges relating to integration in academic and professional networks. Ultimately, the book unpacks institutional factors which inhibit or promote the success of international students at US community colleges to inform faculty, student affairs, administration, and institutional policy. With international students’ declining enrollment, this book considers the measures being taken by community college officials to bring continued access and equity to international students. Offering insights from a range of international scholars as well as on-the-ground case studies, this text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in multicultural education, international and comparative education, and higher education management. Those specifically interested in educational policy and the sociology of education will also benefit from this book.

Author : L. Steven Zwerling
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015012359827

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Second Best by L. Steven Zwerling Pdf

Author : Goldie Blumenstyk
Publisher : What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199374083

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American Higher Education in Crisis? by Goldie Blumenstyk Pdf

Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices, and student debt has reached an all-time high. Americans are questioning the worth of a college education, even as studies show how important it is to economic and social mobility

Author : Jeffrey R. Docking,Carman C. Curton
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781628951332

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Crisis in Higher Education by Jeffrey R. Docking,Carman C. Curton Pdf

In 2005 Adrian College was home to 840 enrolled students and had a tuition income of $8.54 million. By fall of 2011, enrollment had soared to 1,688, and tuition income had increased to $20.45 million. For the first time in years, the small liberal arts college was financially viable. Adrian College experienced this remarkable growth during the worst American economy in seventy years and in a state ravaged by the decline of the big three auto companies. How, exactly, did this turnaround happen? Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America was written to facilitate replication and generalization of Adrian College’s tremendous enrollment growth and retention success since 2005. This book directly addresses the economic competitiveness of small four-year institutions of higher education and presents an evidence-based solution to the enrollment and economic crises faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

Author : J. Levin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780312292836

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Globalizing the Community College by J. Levin Pdf

Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has become a globalized institution. It has been affected by global forces, and by the interpretations of organizational members to both global forces and to the responses of intermediaries. Globalization as a process finds an outlet within the community college where economic, cultural, and technological behaviors are advanced along lines consistent with and supportive of globalization. Furthermore, government actions have directed community colleges to respond and adapt to a global economy. In this book, seven community colleges are examined to demonstrate organizational change in the 1990s precipitated by globalization.

Author : Barbara Ann Scott
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015046384908

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Crisis Management in American Higher Education by Barbara Ann Scott Pdf

Author : Marcia Y. Cantarella
Publisher : Chapel Hill Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : College student orientation
ISBN : 1597152307

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I Can Finish College by Marcia Y. Cantarella Pdf

Shares all the necessary information about the college experience, including deciding whether or not to go to college, figuring out how to pay for college, and learning time management and study skills.

Author : Michael Townsley,Debra Townsley
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781662907449

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Colleges in Crisis by Michael Townsley,Debra Townsley Pdf

Colleges in Crisis describes how the Covid and a shrinking birth rate over the last decade will devastate private colleges and universities if they cannot quickly transform their curriculum, operations, and marketing methods. The book offers two turnaround strategies that have been successfully used over the last twenty years. In addition, the book discusses the obstacles that leaders will face in conducting a transformational turnaround.

Author : Robert A. Rhoads,James R. Valadez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135615376

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Democracy, Multiculturalism, and the Community College by Robert A. Rhoads,James R. Valadez Pdf

Based on five organizational case studies, this book argues that community colleges face an identity crisis and must find ways of balancing the three traditional roles typically assumed by them: transfer, vocational, and community education. To emphasize one at the expense of another is to fail to meet the diverse needs of students who look to the community college as a source of opportunity and social mobility. In addition, community colleges must create an organizational context in which opportunities exist for culturally diverse students to participate as full members in the educational process. The study uses democratic educational strategies first suggested by John Dewey as a foundation for developing a critical multicultural view of community college education. The authors argue that critical multiculturalism moves beyond liberal views of cultural diversity and challenge academic institutions to take advantage of the varied experiences and perspectives that students from other cultures bring to education. The book includes a reference section following the final chapter and a name and subject index.

Author : J. Levin,S. Kater,Richard L. Wagoner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781403984647

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Community College Faculty by J. Levin,S. Kater,Richard L. Wagoner Pdf

John S. Levin, Susan T. Kater, and Richard L. Wagoner collectively argue that as community colleges organize themselves to respond to economic needs and employer demands, and as they rely more heavily upon workplace efficiencies such as part-time labor, they turn themselves into businesses or corporations and threaten their social and educational mission.

Author : Chad Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351484718

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The Community College and the Good Society by Chad Hanson Pdf

The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze the internal changes and external forces that shifted the focus of the two-year college-from the liberal arts to job training. Chad Hanson raises a series of questions about what is lost or forsaken when public institutions become preoccupied with economic goals. When educational institutions turn their attention toward training workers to private-sector specifications, Hanson argues, our social and cultural lives suffer. He describes the "the learning college movement," an ideological framework that justifies the current emphasis on vocational training. In addition, he explores the implications of competency-based education, a philosophy and method for creating curriculum with strong support among administrators and boards of trustees. For more than four decades, a steady stream of commentary aimed at understanding the two-year school made its way into the literature on higher education. In this work, Hanson provides an alternative view of the community college. He offers suggestions for new teaching strategies, curriculum, and organizational structure. These changes will encourage the potential for the two-year college to flourish as an institution that provides a permanent place for the arts and sciences.