Author: Evelyn Brown BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community and college
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Community Services Programs in the Public Community Colleges in Arizona
Author: Evelyn Brown BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community and college
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Redesigning America’s Community Colleges
Author: Thomas R. BaileyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674425952
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year—nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of student success, if they are willing to rethink the ways in which they organize programs of study, support services, and instruction. Community colleges were originally designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in favor of “guided pathways”—clearer, more educationally coherent programs of study that simplify students’ choices without limiting their options and that enable them to complete credentials and advance to further education and the labor market more quickly and at less cost. Distilling a wealth of data amassed from the Community College Research Center (Teachers College, Columbia University), Redesigning America’s Community Colleges offers a fundamental redesign of the way two-year colleges operate, stressing the integration of services and instruction into more clearly structured programs of study that support every student’s goals.
Arizona Public Community Colleges
Author: Arizona Community College Task Force on the FuturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Reexamining Community Services in the Community College
Author: Charles A. AtwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The past decades have provided many challenges for community colleges, especially in defining the role and scope of community services, and integrating it into the organizational structure. While community services has been successful in the acceptance of its mission, it is imperative that practitioners resist a contented resting upon past accomplishment. Our constituents are turning to us in increasing numbers for assistance and answers, as they are confronted by their individual economic, employment, social, and survival needs. "Reexamining Community Services in the Community College: Toward Consensus and Commitment" provides us with a strong philosophical base for strengthening our role, and offers practical suggestions and information. -- From foreword.
Directions for the Future; an Analysis of the Community Services Dimension of Community Colleges
Author: Robert B. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Survey of Selected Community Services Programs for the Disadvantaged at Inner-city Community Colleges
Author: Andrew L. GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Structure and Development of Community Service Programs in Selected Community Colleges in the United States
Author: Gunder A. MyranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community and college
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Community Colleges in the 21st Century
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on TechnologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
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