Beyond Free College

Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students

Eileen L. Strempel, Stephen J. Handel (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

182 Seiten

2020
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4864-9 (ISBN)

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Beyond Free College outlines an audacious national agenda—consistent with, but far more comprehensive than, the current “free college” movement—that builds on the best of US higher education’s populist history such as the G.I. Bill and the community college transfer function. The authors align a wide constellation of higher education trends—online learning, prior learning assessment, competency-based learning, high school college-credit— with a rapidly shifting student transfer environment that privileges college credit as the pivotal educational catalyst to boost access and completion. The book’s agenda seeks greater productive investment in postsecondary education by privileging a single metric—lower-cost-per-degree-granted—as the animating driver of a transfer pathway that will fulfill the potential of its historical, progressive innovators. Beyond Free College’s goal is as simple as it is urgent: To galvanize higher education advocates in an effort to reorganize, reorient, and reignite the transfer function to serve the needs of a neotraditional student population that now constitutes the majority of college-goers in America; and in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education.

Dr. Eileen L. Strempel is currently the Inaugural Dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, after serving as the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. An American Council on Education Fellow hosted by Colgate University as well as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Strempel is a nationally recognized champion for transfer students and views superb public education as one of the principal social justice issues of our time. Dr. Stephen J. Handel has nearly four decades of experience in higher education, with a focus on the needs of community college students seeking the baccalaureate degree. After serving as the chief admissions officer for the University of California System, he is currently the executive director of higher education assessment use for the College Board, where he consults with colleges and universities around the country to implement admissions and enrollment practices that serve the needs of first-year and transfer students alike.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Transfer Contradictions: Bridging the Academic Divide

Chapter 2. The Flickering and Largely Untold History of Transfer

Chapter 3. Second Chances Are Good, But First Chances Are Better: The Role of K–12 in Transfer

Chapter 4. The Rise of Dual Credit

Chapter 5. Prior-Learning Credit: Honoring Transfer Students Who Work for a Living

Chapter 6. Competency-Based Education: Promises, Potential, and Proof

Chapter 7. Online Learning in the Twenty-first Century: Possibilities and Promises

Chapter 8. The Shifting Higher Education Landscape

Chapter 9. Tomorrowland: Proven Pathways Forward

Chapter 10. Beyond Traditional Transfer: Findings and Recommendations

About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Futures Series on Community Colleges
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Debbie L. Sydow, Kate Thirolf
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 228 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-4758-4864-1 / 1475848641
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-4864-9 / 9781475848649
Zustand	Neuware