Beyond Free College (eBook)

Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students

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

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
182 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4866-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Beyond Free College outlines an audacious national agendaconsistent with, but far more comprehensive than, the current ';free college' movementthat 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 trendsonline 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 metriclower-cost-per-degree-grantedas 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2021
• Reihe/Serie: The Futures Series on Community Colleges
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Debbie L. Sydow, Kate Thirolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: college transfer students • community college • community college reform • Competency-based Learning • Educational Innovations • G.I. Bill • Higher education access • Higher education policies • Higher education policy • Higher education trends • high school college-credit • neotraditional students • Online Learning • prior learning assessment • transfer pathway • transfer student reform • transfer students • USA higher education • US higher education
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-4866-8 / 1475848668
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-4866-3 / 9781475848663