Redesigning Americas Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success by Th

Description: Redesigning Americas Community Colleges by Thomas R. Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars, Davis Jenkins Community colleges enroll half of the nations undergraduates. Yet only 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree in six years. Redesigning Americas Community Colleges explains how two-year colleges can increase their students success rate quickly and at less cost, through a program of guided pathways to completion. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year-nearly half of the nations 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 Americas 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 Americas 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 students goals. Author Biography Thomas Bailey is the George and Abby ONeill Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Director of the Community College Research Center. Shanna Smith Jaggars is Assistant Director of the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. Davis Jenkins is Senior Research Associate at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. Review [Redesigning Americas Community Colleges is] meant to be honest, grounded, and useful, and it is. It gets the details right. I really cant recommend it highly enough. -- Matt Reed * Inside Higher Ed *Redesigning Americas Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success is an important step forward for community colleges. The work bridges the all-too-familiar divide between research and practice, outlining actionable, transformative recommendations to improve student attainment that have emerged out of the extensive portfolio of research conducted over the past 20 years by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College of Columbia University. And while many aspects of the book deserve discussion, how change can be effectively instigated at community colleges is a pivotal issue on which any reform efforts will hinge. -- James Jacobs * Inside Higher Ed *Thomas Bailey is the nations preeminent scholar of community colleges. Together with distinguished researchers Shanna Jaggars and Davis Jenkins, Bailey expertly diagnoses the limitations of existing community college reforms and outlines a proposal for dramatic change. Redesigning Americas Community Colleges is must reading for anyone who cares about making community colleges the engines for social mobility they were intended to be. -- Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century FoundationIn this analysis, grounded both in research and practice, I found both the best diagnosis of our challenge and the most promising prescription for change I have encountered in more than two decades of work on student success in community colleges. The authors make a compelling case that significant and lasting improvements in student success will only be achieved by redesigning the deep architecture of our colleges from a culture of chaos, uninformed choice, and diffuse responsibility—the cafeteria model—to one of clearly designed and supported program models with more limited choice and more secure outcomes—the guided pathways model. -- Sandy Shugart, President, Valencia College Review Quote Thomas Bailey is the natione(tm)s preeminent scholar of community colleges. Together with distinguished researchers Shanna Jaggars and Davis Jenkins , Bailey expertly diagnoses the limitations of existing community college reforms and outlines a proposal for dramatic change. Redesigning Americae(tm)s Community Colleges is must reading for anyone who cares about making community colleges the engines for social mobility they were intended to be. Details ISBN0674368282 Publisher Harvard University Press Year 2015 ISBN-10 0674368282 ISBN-13 9780674368286 Format Hardcover Author Davis Jenkins Language English Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States DEWEY 378.15430973 Short Title REDESIGNING AMER COMMUNITY COL Media Book Subtitle A Clearer Path to Student Success Pages 304 Illustrations 6 graphs, 1 table Publication Date 2015-04-09 UK Release Date 2015-04-09 NZ Release Date 2015-04-09 US Release Date 2015-04-09 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2015-04-08 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:130332407;

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