Applying the college completion agenda to practice / Katherine L. Hughes, Andrea Venezia, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Katherine L., editor.

Venezia, Andrea, editor.

Series:

New directions for community colleges ; Number 167.

New Directions for Community Colleges ; Number 167

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College attendance--United States.

College attendance.

Community college dropouts--United States--Prevention.

Community college dropouts.

Community college student development programs--United States.

Community college student development programs.

College dropouts--United States--Prevention.

College dropouts.

Community colleges--United States.

Community colleges.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume profiles some of the innovative reforms community college practitioners are engaged in, focusing on supporting students through to graduation. While much has been written at the federal and state levels about the need to improve student completion rates, this volume translates that imperative into action at the campus level. It presents the practitiners'' voices and experiences in:Changing academic contentPedagogyStudent support servicesAnd other critical components of community colleges.Each chapter focuses on either a particular campus-based reform or on a cross-cutting approach

Contents:

Applying the College Completion Agenda to Practice; CONTENTS; EDITORS' NOTES; Reference; 1 Redesigning Arithmetic for Student Success: Supporting Faculty to Teach in New Ways; Research Context: Addressing the Challenges of Students Referred to Developmental Arithmetic; Research Design; A Closer Look at the Concepts Curriculum; Reform Implementation: Moving From Pilot to Scale; Connecting Concepts Faculty for In-Depth and Innovative Professional Development; Supporting Pedagogical Change: Lessons Learned From Concepts

Sustaining Change: Improving the Outcomes for Students in Arithmetic and BeyondReferences; 2 Steps and Missteps: Redesigning, Piloting, and Scaling a Developmental Writing Program; Data Made Us Do It; Settling on a Model; Why ALP?; First Steps, First Missteps; Early Successes, Early Warts; Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach; Scaling Up Is Hard to Do; Lessons Learned; Conclusion; References; 3 The California Acceleration Project: Reforming Developmental Education to Increase Student Completion of College-Level Math and English; Clarity About a Shared Problem; Results From Accelerated Models

The Need to Rethink PlacementPolicy Challenges to Transforming Math Remediation; Design Principles and Collaborative Faculty Development Networks; From Successful Pilots to System-Level Change?; References; 4 Strategies for Integrating Student Supports and Academics; Why Integrate Support Services and Instruction?; Strategies; Embedding Supports; Offering Integrated Student Success Centers; Developing First-Year Experiences; Using Technology to Connect Student Supports and Instruction; Implementation; Recommendations

Consider Starting With Programs in Which There Is a History of CollaborationStrengthen the Campus Culture of Collaboration and Student Success; Use Professional Development More Effectively As a Step Toward Integrating Services; Conclusion; References; 5 Providing Transparent Information to Empower Students' Decision Making and Develop Institutional Capacity; History and Context; What Is APS?; Spanning Multiple Institutions; Academic Progress Narrative; Mapping Out a "Best" Academic Pathway; Using the Data to Create Alerts

Using the Aggregate "Velocity" Data to Identify Systemic Degree Program ChallengesPerformance of the APS; The Technology; Conclusion; Reference; 6 Strengthening Program Pathways Through Transformative Change; Setting Big Changes in Motion; Strengthening Program Pathways; Building Better On-Ramps to Programs of Study; Strengthening Supports Along the Pathway; Ensuring Version 2.0 Is Better Than Version 1.0; Conclusion: Keys to Making Big Changes; Reference; 7 State-Level Reforms That Support College-Level Program Changes in North Carolina; The North Carolina Community College System

CBD Planning Year 2011-2012

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 2, 2014).

ISBN:

1-118-97637-1

1-118-97638-X

OCLC:

890982124