Policies and Practices to Improve Student Preparation and Success

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• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 145
• Attention to college access has improved opportunities for students of all backgrounds to participate in higher education. Less work has been done on ... Lees meer

Academic Pathways to and from the Community College

Cc, Barnett, Bragg

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 135
• Academic Pathways To and From the Community College examines local, state, and federal programs and policies designed to enhance opportunities for und... Lees meer

Promising and High-Impact Practices: Student Success Programs in the Community College Context

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• With calls for community colleges to play a greater role in increasing college completion, promising or high-impact practices (HIPs) are receiving att... Lees meer

Applying College Change Theories to Student Affairs Practice

C Casey Ozaki, Robin L Spaid

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• Student affairs professionals are critical to the efforts to improve students' experiences and outcomes--especially in two-year institutions. This vol... Lees meer

International Reform Efforts and Challenges in Community Colleges

Cc, Raby, Valeau

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 138
• The chapters in this volume explore specific issues related to community college international education; they document outstanding programs and discu... Lees meer

Next Steps for the Community College

Cc, Bers, Calhoun

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 117
• This issue provides an overview of the relevant contemporary literature and practice in areas of major concern to community colleges: transfer rates, ... Lees meer

Student Tracking in the Community College

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 143
• This volume provides an updated examination of student tracking systems. It illustrates how policymakers, administrators, and institutional researcher... Lees meer

Contemporary Issues in Institutional Ethics

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 148
• Examining the ethical dimensions of various institutional issues, policies, and practices at the community college, this volume fills a critical gap i... Lees meer

CC171 CC Faculty Scholarship

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• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• While teaching occupies the primary role of faculty members in community colleges, the question remains: To what extent are community college faculty ... Lees meer

Bringing College Education Into Prisons

Robert Scott

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• This sourcebook introduces the basic concept of college in prison, describes programs that exist across the country today, and considers the challenge... Lees meer

Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• Concepts of civic learning and democratic engagement are central to the purpose of higher education, especially for community colleges. This volume: e... Lees meer

Classification Systems Two Yr

Cc, Alexander McCormick, Rebecca Cox

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 122
• The two-year college sector in U.S. higher education encompasses a great diversity of institutions. Yet the most widely used taxonomy of colleges and ... Lees meer

Understanding Equity in Community College Practice

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• What do equity-oriented practices look like in different community college contexts? Given the increasing role of the community college in realizing e... Lees meer

Preparing a Stem Workforce Through Career-Technical Education

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• This volume examines STEM education, preparation, and career exploration--and the role of career and technical education (CTE) in preparing individual... Lees meer

Enhancing Community Colleges 120

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 120
• Community college professional development programs can be dynamic forces in helping community colleges address significant issues, create solutions f... Lees meer

Implementing Transfer Associate Degrees

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 160
• In recent years, a convergence of several forces--increased legislative involvement in higher education, governmental and philanthropic pressure to in... Lees meer

The Community College Role in Welfare to Work

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 117
• Since 1997, community college programs have been meeting thechallenges of the Temporary Assistant for Needy Families (TANF) ablock grant that eliminat... Lees meer

Online Education

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 150
• This volume highlights existing issues in online courses and programs and provides strategies for addressing them as the demand for online education c... Lees meer

Gendered Perspectives on Community College

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 142
• This volume explores and begins to unravel the complexities of gender issues confronting men and women in two-year institutions. The authors address a... Lees meer

From Distance Education to E-Learning: Lessons Along the Way

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 128
• As the postsecondary institutions most open to change, community colleges have in many regards led the way to distance education. Recent NCES data sho... Lees meer

Responding to the Challenges of Developmental Education

Cc, Kozeracki

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 129
• Developmental education is a core mission of the community college, and approximately 40 percent of entering community college students enroll in one ... Lees meer

The Current Landscape and Changing Perspectives of Part-Time Faculty

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 140
• Drawing on nationally representative quantitative data from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, qualitative fieldwork, and the lived experien... Lees meer

Student Athletes and Athletics

Cc

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges | nr. 147
• This volume is but a step in correcting the dearth of literature specific to community college athletics. Within this volume, we bring together schola... Lees meer

Forces Shaping Community College Missions

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Community Colleges
• Historically, community colleges have served societal and functional missions that expanded over time, with the result of trying to achieve multiple g... Lees meer