Completion Agenda in Community Colleges - What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It''s Going

The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda by highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges.

List of contents

List of Tables

Foreword
Rob Johnstone, President, National Center for Inquiry and Improvement

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Equity and Quality in an Era of Completion

1 Confluence of Pressures

2 Competing Logics for Community Colleges

3 Presidential Perspectives on the Completion Agenda

4 Emerging Consensus Embedded in Research, Policy and Practice

5 Pitfalls and Potential of the Completion Agenda

6 Forging a Path to a Sustained Completion Agenda

7 Implications of the Completion Agenda for Equity and Quality: A Question of Resources

Index

About the Author

About the author

By Chris Baldwin

Summary

The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda by highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Baldwin, Baldwin Chris
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2017
• EAN: 9781475820683
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-2068-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: The Futures Series on Community Colleges; Futures Series on Community Co; Futures Series on Community Co; The Futures Series on Community Colleges
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher