Community College Student Success
From Boardrooms to Classrooms
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 2012
132 pages
979-8-216-28052-1 (ISBN)
Description
Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies are drawn from community colleges that are engaging in reform.
Morest offers a three-pronged approach for community college leaders seeking to improve the success of their students. First, community college leaders need to look around at the technological transformation that has occurred in other service sectors and import some of these ideas to student services. Second, community college leaders need to explicitly socialize their students to become college students and to bond with their community college. Finally, improving the quality of teaching is particularly important with regard to developmental education, where students are attempting to master material that they have ostensibly been taught in the past.
Morest offers a three-pronged approach for community college leaders seeking to improve the success of their students. First, community college leaders need to look around at the technological transformation that has occurred in other service sectors and import some of these ideas to student services. Second, community college leaders need to explicitly socialize their students to become college students and to bond with their community college. Finally, improving the quality of teaching is particularly important with regard to developmental education, where students are attempting to master material that they have ostensibly been taught in the past.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
5 tables
ISBN-13
979-8-216-28052-1 (9798216280521)
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
Vanessa Smith Morest is dean of institutional effectiveness at Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Conneticut and adjunct assistant professor of higher education at Teachers College Columbia University. She is currently serving as president of the National Council for Community College Research and Planning and a member of national committees, including a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education research advisory committee and the taskforce charged with developing the Voluntary Framework of Accountability for community colleges.
Content
The Community College Series
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Understanding the "Community's" College
2. Transitioning to College
3. Campus Context of Student Success
4. Learning to Work, Working to Learn
5. A Complex Equation: Transfer and Student Success
6. Organizational Change for Student Success
Moving the Needle on Student Success
About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Understanding the "Community's" College
2. Transitioning to College
3. Campus Context of Student Success
4. Learning to Work, Working to Learn
5. A Complex Equation: Transfer and Student Success
6. Organizational Change for Student Success
Moving the Needle on Student Success
About the Author
