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.

Sommario

List of Tables

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

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Equity and Quality in an Era of Completion

1Confluence of Pressures

2Competing Logics for Community Colleges

3Presidential Perspectives on the Completion Agenda

4Emerging Consensus Embedded in Research, Policy and Practice

5Pitfalls and Potential of the Completion Agenda

6Forging a Path to a Sustained Completion Agenda

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

Index

About the Author

Info autore

Dr. Christopher Baldwin has spent 15 years working at the national, state, and institutional levels to improved the outcomes of students in community colleges. He has played a leading role in several national initiatives designed to bring about institutional reform that will result in an increased number of community college students earning a credential with value in the labor market.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chris Baldwin, Baldwin Chris
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.06.2017
• EAN: 9781475809480
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-0948-0
• Pagine: 174
• Serie: The Futures Series on Community Colleges; Futures Series on Community Co; Futures Series on Community Co; The Futures Series on Community Colleges
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher