Beyond Free College - Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students

Beyond Free College seeks greater investment in higher education by promoting a single metric-lower-cost-per-degree-granted-as the driver of a transfer pathway. The bookaims to spur higher education advocates to reorganize the transfer function to serve neotraditional students in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Transfer Contradictions: Bridging the Academic Divide
Chapter 2. The Flickering and Largely Untold History of Transfer
Chapter 3. Second Chances Are Good, But First Chances Are Better: The Role of K-12 in Transfer
Chapter 4. The Rise of Dual Credit
Chapter 5. Prior-Learning Credit: Honoring Transfer Students Who Work for a Living
Chapter 6. Competency-Based Education: Promises, Potential, and Proof
Chapter 7. Online Learning in the Twenty-first Century: Possibilities and Promises
Chapter 8. The Shifting Higher Education Landscape
Chapter 9. Tomorrowland: Proven Pathways Forward
Chapter 10. Beyond Traditional Transfer: Findings and Recommendations
About the Authors

About the author

By Eileen L. Strempel and Stephen J. Handel - Series edited by Debbie L. Sydow and Kate Thirolf

Product details

• Authors: Stephen J. Handel, Eileen L. Strempel, Eileen L. Handel Strempel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781475848656
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-4865-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: The Futures Series on Community Colleges; The Futures Community Colleges
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system