Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Redesigning America’s Community Colleges
Author: Thomas R. BaileyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674368282
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.
The Revised North Carolina State Plan for the Further Elimination of Racial Duality in the Public Post-secondary Education Systems
Author: North CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: North Carolina Publications
Author: Accredited Institutions of Postsecondary Education, Programs, Candidates
Author: Research in Education
Author: Checklist of Official North Carolina State Publications
Author: Minority Leadership in Community Colleges;What Community College Boards, Legislators, and Community Citizens Need to Know
Author: Evangeline SmithPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149075816X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The book is a must-read for minority leaders, community college boards, academia, students, and community leaders!
A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
Author: Richard Pearce-MosesPublisher: Society of American Archivists (SAA)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Intended to provide the basic foundation for modern archival practice and theory.