Student Success in Community Colleges

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Student Success in Community Colleges As more and more underprepared students enroll in college, basicskills education is an increasing concern for all higher educationinstitutions. Student Success in Community Colleges offerseducation leaders, administrators, faculty, and staff an essentialresource for helping these students succeed and advance incollege. By applying the book's self-assessment instrument, colleges canpinpoint how their current activities align with the most effectiveproven practices. Once the gaps are identified, community collegeleaders can determine the best strategic direction for improvement.Drawing on a broad knowledge base and illustrative examples fromthe most current literature, the authors cover organizational,administrative, and instructional practices; program components;student support services and strategies; and professional learningand development. Designed to help engage community college leadership andpractitioners in addressing the practices, structures, andobstacles that enhance or impede the success of basic skillsstudents, the book's strategies can be tailored to variousinstitutional levels, showing how to unite faculty, staff, andadministrators in a cooperative effort to effect institutionalchange. Finally, Student Success in Community Colleges reveals howinvesting in a comprehensive basic skills infrastructure can be afinancially sustainable model for the institution as well assubstantially beneficial to students and society. "This is a most unusual and valuable book; it is packed withcareful analysis and practical suggestions for improving basicskills programs in community colleges. Compiled by a team ofpracticing professionals in teaching, administration, and research,it is knowledgeable about what has been done and imaginative andpractical about what can be done to improve the access and successof community college students."--K. Patricia Cross, professorof higher education, emerita, University of California,Berkeley "For its first hundred years the community college was committedprimarily to access; in its second hundred years the commitment haschanged dramatically to success. This book provides the best roadmap to date on how community colleges can reach thatgoal."--Terry O'Banion, president emeritus, League forInnovation, and director, Community College Leadership Program,Walden University "This guide is the most comprehensive source of informationabout all facets of basic skills or developmental education. Itwill be invaluable not just to community college educators acrossthe nation, but also to those in high schools and four-yearcolleges who share similar problems."--W. Norton Grubb, DavidGardner Chair in Higher Education, University of California,Berkeley

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Deborah J. Boroch

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