Community College Student Success

From Boardrooms to Classrooms

AvVanessa Smith Morest

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies are drawn from community colleges that are engaging in reform. Morest offers a three-pronged approach for community college leaders seeking to improve the success of their students. First, community college leaders need to look around at the technological transformation that has occurred in other service sectors and import some of these ideas to student services. Second, community college leaders need to explicitly socialize their students to become college students and to bond with their community college. Finally, improving the quality of teaching is particularly important with regard to developmental education, where students are attempting to master material that they have ostensibly been taught in the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-19
Mått:160 x 238 x 15 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:ACE Series on Community Colleges
Antal sidor:132
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781442214804

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Vanessa Smith Morest is dean of institutional effectiveness at Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Conneticut and adjunct assistant professor of higher education at Teachers College Columbia University. She is currently serving as president of the National Council for Community College Research and Planning and a member of national committees, including a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education research advisory committee and the taskforce charged with developing the Voluntary Framework of Accountability for community colleges.

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This book does an excellent job of laying out the major issues that face students as they move through the community college and of thoughtfully assessing the state of evidence on noteworthy solutions that are being offered to address these issues. The discussions of retention, developmental education, occupational education, transfer, and organizational change are sophisticated and yet very clear. Vanessa Morest brings a unique combination of skills and experiences to the analysis of the community college as both a well-established researcher and a senior administrator at a community college. This book is very solidly grounded both in research and theory and in concrete experience.

Innehållsförteckning

The Community College SeriesForewordAcknowledgements1. Understanding the “Community’s” College2. Transitioning to College3. Campus Context of Student Success4. Learning to Work, Working to Learn5. A Complex Equation: Transfer and Student Success6. Organizational Change for Student SuccessMoving the Needle on Student SuccessAbout the Author