Completion Agenda in Community Colleges (eBook)

What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It's Going

Chris Baldwin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
154 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-0949-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda by highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges.

---

This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda. By highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges, The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges: What It Is, Why It Matters, And Where It's Going describes the many innovations underway nationally. The book is an effort to bridge gaps between practice, policy, and research to provide the reader with a holistic view of community college response to the completion agenda. While this agenda is a positive development it also raises some critical questions. What is the appropriate balance between open access and ensuring more students earn a credential? What can policymakers do to incent innovation among institutions without jeopardizing the strengths of community colleges? In an era of constrained resources, how can colleges improve outcomes when so many students enroll academically unprepared? And perhaps most importantly, how can we collectively increase these outcomes while also ensuring that the credentials attained are high quality and with labor market value?

Autor

Dr. Christopher Baldwin has spent 15 years working at the national, state, and institutional levels to improved the outcomes of students in community colleges. He has played a leading role in several national initiatives designed to bring about institutional reform that will result in an increased number of community college students earning a credential with value in the labor market.

Inhalt

List of TablesForewordRob Johnstone, President, National Center for Inquiry and Improvement Acknowledgments Prologue: Equity and Quality in an Era of Completion1Confluence of Pressures 2Competing Logics for Community Colleges3Presidential Perspectives on the Completion Agenda 4Emerging Consensus Embedded in Research, Policy and Practice5Pitfalls and Potential of the Completion Agenda6Forging a Path to a Sustained Completion Agenda 7Implications of the Completion Agenda for Equity and Quality: A Question of Resources IndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The Futures Series on Community Colleges
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-0949-2 / 1475809492
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-0949-7 / 9781475809497