13 ideas that are transforming the community college world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Banion, Terry, 1936-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & LIttlefield, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the continuing evolution of the American community college
  • Part I: Ideas as national initiatives. The learning paradigm
  • Community colleges and the ladder of student success
  • The college promise: transforming the lives of community college students
  • Guided pathways to college completion and equity
  • The community college baccalaureate movement: evolutionary and revolutionary
  • Part II: Ideas as internal functions. Institutional effectiveness: from intuition to evidence
  • Recognition, reform, and convergence in developmental education
  • The evolving mission of workforce development in the community college
  • Eliminating the gap between high school and college: what the next generation of transition programs must do
  • Demography as opportunity
  • Part III: Enabling ideas. Catching the waves: techonology and the community college
  • Transformative leadership wanted: making good on the promise of the open door
  • Using data to monitor what matters: a new role for trustees
  • Epilogue: the missing transformative idea.