Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs about Student Success

Description: Complete the Agenda in Higher Education by Lee Ann Nutt, Latoya Hardman This book is for community college board members, administrators, faculty and staff who also want to: (1) foster beliefs that will enable students to finish what they start; (2) empower students to overcome daily challenges and real adversity; and (3) transform human potential into achievement, for a lifetime. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs about Student Success is a bold call to action to do more than just improve college completion rates. This book is for community college board members, administrators, faculty and staff who also want to: (1) foster beliefs that will enable students to finish what they start; (2) empower students to overcome daily challenges and real adversity; and (3) transform human potential into achievement, for a lifetime.Courageous educators, foundations, associations and researchers made community colleges better than we were a decade ago. Completion rates have improved somewhat as a result, but too many students still do not finish because the Completion Agenda is incomplete.This book describes compelling reasons why a shift from a "completion-only-mindset" to the Beliefs Agenda (completion with GRIT) is critical for the future of America. It provides practical implementation methods, offers engaging teaching tactics, and proposes sensible strategies. Author Biography Dr. Lee Ann Nutt serves as president of Lone Star College-Tomball, and she is an adjunct faculty member in Ferris State Universitys Doctorate in Community College Leadership program. Dr. Nutt strongly believes in the capacity of the human spirit to overcome adversity, and she is deeply committed to helping others do whatever it takes to achieve their worthy goals.Latoya Hardman Lewis began teaching in 2004 as a high school English teacher, and in 2011 she transitioned to higher education to teach Development English, First Year Experience, and Education courses. Currently, she serves as the Director of Academic Initiatives and Partnerships at Lone Star College-Tomball and oversees the colleges Global Grit Initiative. Latoya is passionate about teaching faulty how to help students develop their 21st century literacy skills and equipping instructors to deliver technology-rich and engaging lessons. Table of Contents ForewordDr. Paul G. StoltzPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Change Beliefs to Change CompletionChapter 1: Grit: Its StickyChapter 2: Culture Shifts: From Access to Completion to BeliefsChapter 3: Teaching with GRIT: Practical StrategiesChapter 4: From Excellent to Extraordinary in Three StepsConclusionAppendix A: GRIT ResearchAppendix B: Grit ReflectionAbout the AuthorsAbout the Contributors Review Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs About Student Success reminds us that meeting our students where they are and strategically assisting them in the process of improving their academic and life skills, is both a science and an art. Odessa Colleges practices behind the Drop Rate Improvement Program, a pivot to eight-week courses, and supplying Student Success Coaches for all students aligns with the concepts outlined in this text. By shifting our culture to focusing on our students successful outcomes, our students have been able to make significant academic improvements. -- Gregory D. Williams, president, Odessa College, Aspen Prize Top 10 Community CollegeDr. Lee Ann Nutt is a true leader in the design and implementation of a successful GRIT program for college students. Working collaboratively with faculty and administrators, LSC-Tomball has infused GRIT training and learning up, down, and across the curriculum with measurable results. Ive personally witnessed Dr. Nutts vision come to fruition over only a few years-which is lightning speed for large scale institutional change in academia! The practical recommendations, rooted in her own personal experience, make this a timely and useful read for anyone interested in improving student success and outcomes. With all the current research centered on the future of skills, this couldnt have come at a better time. -- Leah Jewel, managing director, career development and employability, PearsonAfter a decade of the Completion Agenda, most researchers and higher education leaders agree that student completion has not improved to the desired success level. Lee Ann Nutt advocates that it is time for the next disruptive change in higher education. Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs About Student Success posits that college cultures must move from a Completion Agenda to a Belief Agenda. At the core of the Belief Agenda is the acknowledgement that experiences and beliefs underlie why some students finish despite the obstacles they face and why some students cannot finish anything, including an assignment. -- Martha M. Ellis Ph.D, director of higher education strategy, policy, and services, Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas at AustinLee Ann Nutt, Latoya Hardman, and their colleagues at Lone Star College-Tomball have set their sights on big goals for their students, many of whom struggle with a variety of obstacles and adversity. In bringing GRIT™, a construct developed by Dr. Paul G. Stoltz, to their college, they are changing the school culture and changing the lives of their students in a positive way. Lone Star Colleges implementation of a carefully designed "GRIT initiative" has transformed instructional practices and classroom/campus environments to help students recognize the nature and value of GRIT and to actually grow it intentionally and purposefully. Through this work, students are empowered to persist-- resiliently, tenaciously, and creatively--as they seek to realize their goals and aspirations. Pearson colleagues and I, who have been involved in a partnership with Lone Star College-Tomball to support such changes, are not merely impressed with their results but thrilled to see the caliber of students emerging from the college and creating better futures for themselves.In his famous Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, American novelist William Faulkner offered his view on the future of mankind: "I believe mankind will not only endure, he will prevail." Thanks to this new vision of how to support students, not just in learning necessary concepts and technical skills but also in developing the capabilities to aspire to great goals and to focus unwaveringly on achieving them, however difficult, Lone Star College-Tomballs students will not just survive: in a challenging and uncertain world, they will "prevail." -- Paul A. Smith, acquisitions editor, Pearson EducationWhat a refreshing perspective! Including extensive references from the literature, providing evidence of the initiatives success, offering specific guidance for how others can implement in their organizations, and reframing our challenges in hopeful ways with the Beliefs agenda, this book is a must read for those who care about our students and colleagues success. -- Roberta Teahen, director and associate provost, doctorate in community college leadership program, Ferris State UniversityComplete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs About Student Success reinforces a new way of thinking about student success. Dr. Lee Ann Nutt challenges readers to think beyond institutional goals of completion by also focusing on helping students believe they belong and can succeed in college and in life. College leaders and faculty need to rally around growing and reinforcing student GRIT. Backed by empirical research, Dr. Nutt does a marvelous job of harnessing the powerful outcomes that can be achieved by focusing on student GRIT. Look out world, a new movement is on the horizon in higher education—the Beliefs Agenda is here! -- James R. McCoy, co-creator and executive producer, Emmy nominated, "No Greater Odds"Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs About Student Success offers an emboldened paradigm for college completion, offering timely guidance for higher education administrators, scholars, and policy makers interested in helping students to achieve their full potential, by completing what they started and getting their degree. It is a treatise that is as much strategic guidance, as it is a heartfelt call to action. President Nutt challenges the community college community to adopt a student success mindset that defines students as important partners that should be empowered to consider their "why" and develop "beliefs that lead to actions that ensure successful results—before, during, and after college." In a world of much noise, Complete the Agenda in Higher Education offers a beacon, a signal for us to follow as we work to strengthen our economy, prepare a new generation of leaders, and amplify the work of our institutions. It is an important read for anyone interested in leadership, organizational transformation, and empowering students to become more gritty, self-aware, and resilient as they work to achieve their dreams. -- Damon A. Williams Ph.D, Chief Catalyst Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership & Social Innovation and Senior Scholar and Innovation Fellow Wisconsins Equity and Inclusion Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison Long Description Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs about Student Success is a bold call to action to do more than just improve college completion rates. This book is for community college board members, administrators, faculty and staff who also want to: (1) foster beliefs that will enable students to finish what they start; (2) empower students to overcome daily challenges and real adversity; and (3) transform human potential into achievement, for a lifetime. Courageous educators, foundations, associations and researchers made community colleges better than we were a decade ago. Completion rates have improved somewhat as a result, but too many students still do not finish because the Completion Agenda is incomplete. This book describes compelling reasons why a shift from a "completion-only-mindset" to the Beliefs Agenda (completion with GRIT) is critical for the future of America. It provides practical implementation methods, offers engaging teaching tactics, and proposes sensible strategies. Review Quote Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs About Student Success reminds us that meeting our students where they are and strategically assisting them in the process of improving their academic and life skills, is both a science and an art. Odessa Colleges practices behind the Drop Rate Improvement Program, a pivot to eight-week courses, and supplying Student Success Coaches for all students aligns with the concepts outlined in this text. By shifting our culture to focusing on our students successful outcomes, our students have been able to make significant academic improvements. Details ISBN1475844220 Author Latoya Hardman Publisher Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-10 1475844220 ISBN-13 9781475844221 Format Hardcover Pages 158 Subtitle Challenge Beliefs about Student Success Country of Publication United States DEWEY 378.197 Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Place of Publication Lanham, MD Language English UK Release Date 2019-01-12 NZ Release Date 2019-01-12 Illustrations Text Boxes; Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Black & White Illustrations Alternative 9781475844238 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2019-01-14 Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-12-12 US Release Date 2018-12-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:120045330;

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