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Redesigning America’s Community Colleges

A Clearer Path to Student Success

By: Thomas R. Bailey,Shanna Smith Jaggars,Davis Jenkins

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Redesigning America’s Community Colleges

A Clearer Path to Student Success

By: Thomas R. Bailey,Shanna Smith Jaggars,Davis Jenkins

In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year—nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of student success, if they are willing to rethink the ways in which they organize programs of study, support services, and instruction. Community colleges were originally designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in favor of “guided pathways”—clearer, more educationally coherent programs of study that simplify students’ choices without limiting their options and that enable them to complete credentials and advance to further education and the labor market more quickly and at less cost. Distilling a wealth of data amassed from the Community College Research Center (Teachers College, Columbia University), Redesigning America’s Community Colleges offers a fundamental redesign of the way two-year colleges operate, stressing the integration of services and instruction into more clearly structured programs of study that support every student’s goals.

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Harvard University Press

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0674368282

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9780674368286

Student Success in Community Colleges

A Practical Guide to Developmental Education

By: Deborah J. Boroch,Laura Hope,Bruce M. Smith,Robert S. Gabriner,Pamela M. Mery,Robert M. Johnstone,Rose Asera

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Student Success in Community Colleges

A Practical Guide to Developmental Education

By: Deborah J. Boroch,Laura Hope,Bruce M. Smith,Robert S. Gabriner,Pamela M. Mery,Robert M. Johnstone,Rose Asera

Student Success in Community Colleges As more and more underprepared students enroll in college, basic skills education is an increasing concern for all higher education institutions. Student Success in Community Colleges offers education leaders, administrators, faculty, and staff an essential resource for helping these students succeed and advance in college. By applying the book's self-assessment instrument, colleges can pinpoint how their current activities align with the most effective proven practices. Once the gaps are identified, community college leaders can determine the best strategic direction for improvement. Drawing on a broad knowledge base and illustrative examples from the most current literature, the authors cover organizational, administrative, and instructional practices; program components; student support services and strategies; and professional learning and development. Designed to help engage community college leadership and practitioners in addressing the practices, structures, and obstacles that enhance or impede the success of basic skills students, the book's strategies can be tailored to various institutional levels, showing how to unite faculty, staff, and administrators in a cooperative effort to effect institutional change. Finally, Student Success in Community Colleges reveals how investing in a comprehensive basic skills infrastructure can be a financially sustainable model for the institution as well as substantially beneficial to students and society. "This is a most unusual and valuable book; it is packed with careful analysis and practical suggestions for improving basic skills programs in community colleges. Compiled by a team of practicing professionals in teaching, administration, and research, it is knowledgeable about what has been done and imaginative and practical about what can be done to improve the access and success of community college students." K. Patricia Cross, professor of higher education, emerita, University of California, Berkeley "For its first hundred years the community college was committed primarily to access; in its second hundred years the commitment has changed dramatically to success. This book provides the best road map to date on how community colleges can reach that goal." Terry O'Banion, president emeritus, League for Innovation, and director, Community College Leadership Program, Walden University "This guide is the most comprehensive source of information about all facets of basic skills or developmental education. It will be invaluable not just to community college educators across the nation, but also to those in high schools and four-year colleges who share similar problems." W. Norton Grubb, David Gardner Chair in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley

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198

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470606614

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9780470606612

The Smith College Museum of Art

European and American Painting and Sculpture, 1760-1960

By: Smith College. Museum of Art,John Davis,Jaroslaw Leshko

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The Smith College Museum of Art

European and American Painting and Sculpture, 1760-1960

By: Smith College. Museum of Art,John Davis,Jaroslaw Leshko

The Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts, is widely acknowledged to have one of the most important college collections in America. This is not surprising, given that the college's founders conceived it as a school that would differ from the men's colleges of its day in giving the arts equal emphasis with other disciplines. The museum's area of greatest strength is the modern era, and this lavishly produced volume brings together one hundred of its master pieces, all illuminated by individual essays. Each work is reproduced in full color, and many also appear in dramatic, enlarged details."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Hudson Hills Press

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1555951953

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9781555951955

eBook: General, Organic and Biological Chemistry 2e

By: SMITH

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eBook: General, Organic and Biological Chemistry 2e

By: SMITH

eBook: General, Organic and Biological Chemistry 2e

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McGraw Hill

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0077159616

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Disagreeing Agreeably

Issue Debates with a Primer on Political Disagreement

By: Glen Smith

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Disagreeing Agreeably

Issue Debates with a Primer on Political Disagreement

By: Glen Smith

This book facilitates civil discussion of controversial political issues. Unique to this book is a section that explains how to discuss politics without feeling angry or hostile toward people who hold different beliefs. In addition, the book provides concise and accessible debates of contemporary policy issues including gun control, immigration, the Electoral College, voting, and affirmative action. For each topic, readers are shown that opposing arguments are based on values and concerns that are widely shared by most people regardless of their political leanings. Perfect for students, professors, and citizens alike, this book promotes civility without shying away from controversy.

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Routledge

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1000020207

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9781000020205

Black Firsts

4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events

By: Jessie Carney Smith

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Black Firsts

4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events

By: Jessie Carney Smith

Achievement engenders pride, and the most significant accomplishments involving people, places, and events in black history are gathered in Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Events.

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849

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Visible Ink Press

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1578594243

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9781578594245

Spirited Lives

How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920

By: Carol Coburn,Martha Smith

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Spirited Lives

How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920

By: Carol Coburn,Martha Smith

Made doubly marginal by their gender and by their religion, American nuns have rarely been granted serious scholarly attention. Instead, their lives and achievements have been obscured by myths or distorted by stereotypes. Placing nuns into the mainstream

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807847747

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