Student success in community colleges

As more and more underprepared students enroll in college, basic skills education is an increasing concern for all higher education institutions. This book offers education leaders, administrators, faculty, and staff a resource for helping these students succeed and advance in college. By applying the book's self-assessment instrument, colleges can pinpoint how their current activities align with the most effective proven practices. Once the gaps are identified, community college leaders can determine the best strategic direction for improvement. Drawing on a broad knowledge base and illustrative examples from the most current literature, the authors cover organizational, administrative, and instructional practices; program components; student support services and strategies; and professional learning and development. Designed to help engage community college leadership and practitioners in addressing the practices, structures, and obstacles that enhance or impede the success of basic skills students, the book's strategies can be tailored to various institutional levels, showing how to unite faculty, staff, and administrators in a cooperative effort to effect institutional change. Finally, the book also reveals how investing in a comprehensive basic skills infrastructure can be a financially sustainable model for the institution as well as substantially beneficial to students and society.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

סדרה

The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

הוצאה

Jossey-Bass

מהדורות

1

עמודים

239

ISBN

9780470455555

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