Applying the College Completion Agenda to Practice : New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 167
ISBN: 9781118976371
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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This volume profiles some of the innovative reforms community college practitioners are engaged in, focusing on supporting students through to graduation. While much has been written at the federal and state levels about the need to improve student completion rates, this volume translates that imperative into action at the campus level. It presents the practitiners' voices and experiences in:
Changing academic content Pedagogy Student support services And other critical components of community colleges. Each chapter focuses on either a particular campus-based reform or on a cross-cutting approach or set of issues relevant for most campuses. The volume highlights opportunities, describes challenges and how they were overcome, and provides guidance that can be used by other postsecondary practitioners involved in large-scale--campus, multi-campus, or system-level--reforms that aim to increase student success.

This is the 167th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

Issue Editors:
Katherine L. Hughes is the executive director of Community College and Higher Education Initiatives at the College Board.

Andrea Venezia is an associate professor of public policy and administration and the executive director of the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy at California State University, Sacramento.

Series Editor in Chief:
Arthur M. Cohen is professor emeritus at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.


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