Minding the Dream - The Process and Practice of the American Community College

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
References

About the author

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia M. Heelan

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.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia M. Heelan, Heelan Cynthia M., Gail O. Mellow, Gail O. Heelan Mellow, Mellow Gail O.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2014
• EAN: 9781475811032
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-1103-2
• No. of pages: 386
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; USA, Teaching skills and techniques, United States of America, USA, Teaching skills & techniques, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Community College, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies