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Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
CHAPTER 1: An Overview of the American Community College
CHAPTER 2: Community Colleges: Private Benefit or Public Good?
CHAPTER 3: Financing Community College
CHAPTER 4: Measuring Community College Effectiveness
CHAPTER 5: Governance
CHAPTER 6: A Changed Pedagogy
CHAPTER 7: Leadership Guide to the Dream
CHAPTER 8: Global Adaptations: International Implications of the American Community College Model
CHAPTER 9: Developmental Studies
CHAPTER 10: The Transfer Experience
CHAPTER 11: Economic And Workforce Development
CHAPTER 12: English as a Second Language
CHAPTER 13: Programmatic Challenges of Diverse Demographics
Summary: Minding the Dream
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About the author
Gail Mellow, the president of LaGuardia Community College in metropolitan New York, is a long time advocate for community colleges. A national speaker and writer, her focus is to create equity for community colleges for their vital role educating students for a global economy and spurring economic development for the communities they serve.
Cynthia Heelan, Ph.D., is retired president of Colorado Mountain College and an educational consultant. She is a national facilitator and Distinguished Advocate for the Center for Renewal and Wholeness in Higher Education (www.richlandcollege.edu/crwhe/) She is the author of the Heart at Work: Stories About Speaking From the Heart at Work, and co-author, with Dr. Gail Mellow, of Minding the Dream: Process and Practice or the American Community College. After a long and distinguished career in higher education, she assists educational organizations in leading and planning in ways that engage the entire institution's heart and voice. She is a board member and board chair emeritus for Battery Dance Company of New York City. Dr. Heelan holds a Ph.D. in policy analysis and administration and a Masters Degree in Adult Education from the University of Minnesota. She was an Archibald Bush Foundation Fellow in the College Management Program at Carnegie Mellon U.
Summary
Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar.
