The Community S College

Author : Janet Pinkley,Kaela Casey
Publisher : Assoc of College & Research Libraries
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0838939015

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The Community College Library by Janet Pinkley,Kaela Casey Pdf

Community colleges are a cornerstone of higher education and serve the unique needs of the communities in which they reside. In 2019, community colleges accounted for 41 percent of all undergraduate students in the United States. Community college librarians are engaged in meaningful work designing and delivering library programs and services that meet the needs of their diverse populations and support student learning. The Community College Library series is meant to lift the voices of community college librarians and highlight their creativity, tenacity, and commitment to students. The Community College Library: Assessment explores the research, comprehensive plans, and new approaches to assessment being created by community college librarians around the U.S. Chapters include sample activities and materials and cover topics including assessing student learning while shifting from Standards to Framework; investigating and communicating library instruction's relationship to student retention; and building librarian assessment confidence through communities of research practice. This book demonstrates the innovative and replicable ways community college librarians are measuring, evaluating, and reflecting on the services they provide, and how to use these assessments to demonstrate the value and impact of library services and advocate for resources.

Author : Kevin James Dougherty
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 079141955X

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The Contradictory College by Kevin James Dougherty Pdf

This book systematically analyzes the evidence on four key issues that have divided commentators on the community college: The community college's impact on students, business, and the universities; the factors behind its rise since 1900; the causes of its swift vocationalization after 1960; and what direction the community college should take in the future.

Author : Edward Zlotkowski,Donna Killian Duffy,Katrina H. Norvell,Robert Franco,Steven K. Jones,Jennifer Meeropol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 0972939423

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The Community's College by Edward Zlotkowski,Donna Killian Duffy,Katrina H. Norvell,Robert Franco,Steven K. Jones,Jennifer Meeropol Pdf

Based on the findings of a multi-year research project, this volume profiles successful community engagement practices and programs at community colleges across the country. Designed to provide both two- and four-year institutions with specific guidance on creating an engaged campus, it explores institutional culture, organizational structures, enabling mechanisms, curricular issues, and partnering strategies as avenues to community and civic engagement. Also included is a comprehensive self-assessment tool to help campuses evaluate and deepen their own engagement practices.

Author : Thomas R. Bailey,Shanna Smith Jaggars,Davis Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674368286

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Redesigning America’s Community Colleges by Thomas R. Bailey,Shanna Smith Jaggars,Davis Jenkins Pdf

Community colleges enroll half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet only 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree in six years. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges explains how two-year colleges can increase their students’ success rate quickly and at less cost, through a program of guided pathways to completion.

Author : George B. Vaughan
Publisher : Amer. Assn. of Community Col
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Community colleges
ISBN : 9780871173720

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The Community College Story by George B. Vaughan Pdf

Author : Robin G. Isserles
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Thomas W. Bailey,Vanessa Smith Morest
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801884474

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Defending the Community College Equity Agenda by Thomas W. Bailey,Vanessa Smith Morest Pdf

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Author : Meryl Siegal,Elizabeth Gilliland
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472037919

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Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher by Meryl Siegal,Elizabeth Gilliland Pdf

"This volume is an inquiry into community college first-year pedagogy and policy at a time when change has not only been called for but also mandated by state lawmakers who financially control public education. It also acknowledges new policies that are eliminating developmental and remedial writing courses while keeping mind that, for most community college students, first-year composition serves as the last course they will take in the English department toward their associate's degree. This volume also serves as a call to action to change the way community colleges attend to faculty concerns. Only by listening to teachers can the concerns discussed in the volume be addressed; it is the teachers who see how societal changes intersect with campus policies and students' lives on a daily basis."--Adapted from back cover

Author : Mark Rowh
Publisher : JIST Works
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : College student orientation
ISBN : 1593577419

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Community College Companion by Mark Rowh Pdf

Enrollment at community colleges is booming. but as students of all ages pursue this path many don't know how to pick the right program, juggle classes with other responsibilities, or succeed academically. This book guides students through these areas and shows them how to make the most of the community college experience. Students will explore certificate and degree options; connect their needs, plans, and personalities to courses and programs; and gain tips for enhancing their financial aid package and scoring scholarships. Community College Companion also takes students beyond the early stages of their experience to set themselves up for success in college and their future careers. Readers learn how to make the most of online courses; take advantage of campus resources; avoid commuting inefficiencies; play it smart during the transfer process; and develop a career plan.

Author : Bryan Reece
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000389630

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Social Justice and Community College Education by Bryan Reece Pdf

This book explores the central role community colleges play in American social justice. The United States has long-standing social and cultural structures that perpetuate inequality along race, ethnicity, and income lines. The primary role of American community colleges is to disrupt these structures on behalf of the students we serve. In this sense, community colleges are called to play a subversive role in contemporary society, but it is a good kind of subversion. Social Justice and Community College Education makes four very important contributions to this conversation: First, the book helps us quantify and understand the size and dimension of the equity gaps in higher education by tracking ten specific student groups from historically underserved communities. Second, the book summarizes best practices research and literature with regard to pedagogy, services, programs, and leadership in community colleges, presenting practical strategies for implementation. Third, through a national survey of community college personnel, the book covers significant new territory in the discussion of work we need to do collaboratively as community colleges. Fourth, this book captures the unique and special mission of American community colleges. Our work is the work of social justice, and we carry this work out in society at a greater volume, with greater intentionality, and through greater expertise than any other sector of higher education. In this arena, community colleges should lead.

Author : Terry U. O'Banion
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475844917

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13 Ideas That Are Transforming the Community College World by Terry U. O'Banion Pdf

America’s community colleges are experiencing the most creative and substantive period of transformation in their 118-year history. There has never been so much research, so much support from foundations, and so much commitment from national leaders to reimagine community colleges for today and for the future. 13 Ideas that Are Transforming the Community College World, edited by Terry U. O’Banion, is the seminal work that captures the major ideas faced by community college leaders in this period of transformation. The book includes 23 authors representing 12 national organizations, perhaps the most significant and substantive list of individuals ever to participate in an edited book on the community college. Each author is a nationally-recognized authority on his or her chapter, and all have played major roles as leaders of national organizations.

Author : Diane Melville
Publisher : Sourcebooks Incorporated
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1402279825

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The Community College Advantage by Diane Melville Pdf

Discusses how students can maximize their community college education whether they are planning to transfer to a four-year school or are looking for an edge in the job market.

Author : J. Levin,S. Kater,Richard L. Wagoner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : J. M. Beach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000980783

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Gateway to Opportunity? by J. M. Beach Pdf

Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelor’s degrees? If the majority of U.S. citizens lack a higher education, can the U.S. live up to its democratic principles and preserve its political institutions? These questions raise the critical issue of access to higher education, central to which are America’s open-access, low-cost community colleges that enroll around half of all first-time freshmen in the U.S. Can these institutions bridge the gap, and how might they do so? The answer is complicated by multiple missions—gateways to 4-year colleges, providers of occupational education, community services, and workforce development, as well as of basic skills instruction and remediation.To enable today’s administrators and policy makers to understand and contextualize the complexity of the present, this history describes and analyzes the ideological, social, and political motives that led to the creation of community colleges, and that have shaped their subsequent development. In doing so, it fills a large void in our knowledge of these institutions.The “junior college,” later renamed the “community college” in the 1960s and 1970s, was originally designed to limit access to higher education in the name of social efficiency. Subsequently leaders and communities tried to refashion this institution into a tool for increased social mobility, community organization, and regional economic development. Thus, community colleges were born of contradictions, and continue to be an enigma. This history examines the institutionalization process of the community college in the United States, casting light on how this educational institution was formed, for what purposes, and how has it evolved. It uncovers the historically conditioned rules, procedures, rituals, and ideas that ordered and defined the particular educational structure of these colleges; and focuses on the individuals, organizations, ideas, and the larger political economy that contributed to defining the community college’s educational missions, and have enabled or constrained this institution from enacting those missions. He also sets the history in the context of the contemporary debates about access and effectiveness, and traces how these colleges have responded to calls for accountability from the 1970s to the present.Community colleges hold immense promise if they can overcome their historical legacy and be re-institutionalized with unified missions, clear goals of educational success, and adequate financial resources. This book presents the history in all its complexity so that policy makers and practitioners might better understand the constraints of the past in an effort to realize the possibilities of the future.

Author : Arthur M. Cohen,Florence B. Brawer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787960117

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The American Community College by Arthur M. Cohen,Florence B. Brawer Pdf

Since it was first published in 1982 The American Community College has become the primary resource that faculty, administrators, trustees, and researchers look to for a comprehensive analysis of the most recent findings and up-to-date information on the American community college. Throughout this important book, Arthur M. Cohen and Florence B. Brawer describe how community colleges fit into the American educational system, the services they provide, and the effects they have on the community. This completely revised and updated edition contains information about recent changes in the community college landscape, including consolidation of faculty power, mandatory testing and placement of students, the greater prominence of developmental education, and the attention given to state-level directives regarding institutional functioning and funding. The authors also present the current information on a number of other topics, including student flow, instruction, student services, and curricular functions. In addition, The American Community College includes updated tables and graphs that reflect the most current data and incorporate new examples of the services that colleges provide. The American Community College is a comprehensive book that will be useful to anyone concerned with the role and purpose of two-year institutions in American higher education. The descriptions and analyses of each of the institution's functions can be used by administrators who want to learn about practices that have proven successful at other colleges, curriculum planners involved in program revisions, faculty members seeking ideas for modifying their courses, trustees and officials concerned with college policies regarding curriculum and student services, and graduate students preparing for careers in these institutions.