Author: Dave FrohnmayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College dropouts
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Coming Crisis in College Completion
Author: Dave FrohnmayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College dropouts
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Costs of Completion
Author: Robin G. IsserlesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421442086
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
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.
The B. A. Breakthrough
Author: Richard WhitmirePublisher:
ISBN: 9780578438511
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education
Author: Jeffrey R. BrownPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022620183X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities. Universities responded to these stresses in different ways. This volume presents new evidence on the nature of these responses and how the incentives and constraints facing different institutions affected their behavior.
Crisis on Campus
Author: Mark C. TaylorPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307593290
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A provocative report on the state of American higher education discusses the consequences of decades of neglect and covers such recommendations as discontinuing tenure, refocusing on education over research, and tapping new technologies.
Student Financial Success
Author: Amy GlynnThe College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty?
Author: Tiffany Beth MfumePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475839618
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Despite the Great Recession and looming “student loan debt crisis”, college education remains the most proven, invaluable lifetime investment and serves as the most reliable path to upward mobility and socioeconomic class reassignment. Mfume suggests that “the value added” of even one year of college can be transformative. As higher education professionals and partners continue to advocate for new and improved college retention and graduation measures, The College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty? Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on “the value added” of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with, and advocacy from, successful non-completers.
Crisis in Higher Education
Author: Jeffrey R. DockingPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628951338
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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.
Austerity Blues
Author: Michael FabricantPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420678
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
The Coming Crisis
Author: Mark ChapmanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 144118337X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This is a compelling case study of a distinctive theological theme - the eschatological interpetation of the historical Jesus in Edwardian England - as an attempt to add greater precision to the history of theology in a neglected period. Looking at the impact of Adolf Harnack, Alfred Loisy, Albert Schweitzer and Johannes Weiss on biblical studies and theology before the First World War, Chapman argues that the future course of theology, in which eschatology played such a crucial role, was already mapped at this time. Assessing the work of William Sanday F.C. Burkitt and George Tyrrell, Chapman looks at the theological diplomacy between Britain, France and Germany and uncovers a cultural crisis that made eschatology such an appealing idea.