Mary C. Mattis – författare

Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road to engineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-year educational institutions to continue their education. Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers, a new book from the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council, discusses ways to improve the transfer experience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhance partnerships between those colleges and four-year engineering schools to help students transfer more smoothly. In particular, the book focuses on challenges and opportunities for improving transfer between community colleges and four-year educational institutions, recruitment and retention of students interested in engineering, the curricular content and quality of engineering programs, opportunities for community colleges to increase diversity in the engineering workforce, and a review of sources of information on community college and transfer students. It includes a number of current policies, practices, and programs involving community collegea "four-year institution partnerships.

Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road toengineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-yeareducational institutions to continue their education. Enhancing the CommunityCollege Pathway to Engineering Careers, a new book from the National Academy ofEngineering and the National Research Council, discusses ways to improve the transferexperience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhancepartnerships between those colleges and four-year engineering schools to help studentstransfer more smoothly. In particular, the book focuses on challenges andopportunities for improving transfer between community colleges and four-yeareducational institutions, recruitment and retention of students interested in engineering,the curricular content and quality of engineering programs, opportunitiesfor community colleges to increase diversity in the engineering workforce, and areview of sources of information on community college and transfer students. Itincludes a number of current policies, practices, and programs involving communitycollege–four-year institution partnerships.

Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road toengineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-yeareducational institutions to continue their education. Enhancing the CommunityCollege Pathway to Engineering Careers, a new book from the National Academy ofEngineering and the National Research Council, discusses ways to improve the transferexperience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhancepartnerships between those colleges and four-year engineering schools to help studentstransfer more smoothly. In particular, the book focuses on challenges andopportunities for improving transfer between community colleges and four-yeareducational institutions, recruitment and retention of students interested in engineering,the curricular content and quality of engineering programs, opportunitiesfor community colleges to increase diversity in the engineering workforce, and areview of sources of information on community college and transfer students. Itincludes a number of current policies, practices, and programs involving communitycollege–four-year institution partnerships.

This book documents the progress that managerial and professional women have made in advancing their careers, and the challenges and opportunities that remain. In the context of increasing numbers of women entering the workplace and indeed pursuing professional and managerial careers, it examines why so few women occupy the top positions in corporations. The editors maintain that whilst the benefits of employing women in executive roles is now being recognised, and efforts are being made to ensure career advancement, female employees do still face a struggle against male bias and the proverbial 'glass ceiling'. In order to build upon the progress that has been made, the book advocates more successful role models for women, an increased commitment from corporations to look at the opportunities for leadership that women present, and extended research into the strengths and failings of organisations in this regard. A broad range of issues are explored, including ongoing challenges of work-family integration, perceptions of gender, leadership and career development, the ethics of office romances, and women at mid-life. Best practices for supporting women's career advancement are then illustrated using the efforts of award wining companies as case studies. The cutting-edge contributions to this book provide an outstanding review of the literature. As such, it will be invaluable to both academics and practitioners with an interest in business, management and human resources.