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March 29, 2017
Working With Students in Community Colleges: Contemporary Strategies for Bridging Theory, Research, and Practice
- Author
- Kelsay, Lisa S.; and Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni M., eds.
- Publisher
- Stylus, Sterling, VA
- ISBN
- 9781579229160
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
Foreword (Susan Salvador)
Preface
Part 1 - Understanding Today’s Community College Campuses
ch. 1 Junior Grows Up: A Brief History of Community Colleges (Lisa S. Kelsay and Betsy Oudenhoven)
ch. 2 Community College Economic Climate, Policy Landscape, and the American Graduation Initiative (John L. Jamrogowicz)
ch. 3 College Readiness and the Open Door Mission (Patricia Munsch, Tania Velazquez, and Corinne Kowpak)
ch. 4 Technology: The New Core Competency (Susan J. Procter and Julie Uranis)
Part 2 - Welcome to Campus! Supporting Today’s Community College Learners
ch. 5 Who Are Our Students? (Patricia Munsch and Lisa S. Kelsay)
ch. 6 Academic and Student Affairs Collaboration: A Value for Student Success Within the Community College Environment (Cara McFadden and Martha Mazeika)
ch. 7 Student Orientation at Community Colleges (Jessica Hale)
ch. 8 Residence Life at Community Colleges: Building New Opportunities for Student Learning (Carin W. Barber and Daniel J. Phelan)
Part 3 - A Closer Look: Specialized Populations and Communities on Two-Year Campuses
ch. 9 Older Adult Learning in Community Colleges: A New Wave of Adult Learners (Ramona Meraz Lewis, Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, and Christopher Bonapace)
ch. 10 Two- and Four-Year College Contexts for Student Veterans (Tara Fagan and Shaftone Dunklin)
ch. 11 Women Community College Student Leaders of Color: An Examination of Student Involvement Theory (Dimpal Jain)
ch. 12 Looking Across the Research: Social and Cultural Capital’s Interplay with Marginalized Student Communities (Jesse S. Watson and Elizabeth Cox Brand)
Afterword (Stephanie R. Bulger)
Additional Resources (Tamara N. Stevenson)
Editors and Contributors
Index
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Abstract: This timely volume addresses the urgent need for new strategies and better ways to serve community colleges’ present and future students at a time of rapid diversification, not just racially and ethnically, but including such groups as the undocumented, international students, older adult learners and veterans, all of whom come with varied levels of academic and technical skills.
The contributing researchers, higher education faculty, college presidents, and community college administrators provide thorough understanding of student groups who have received scant attention in the higher education literature. They address the often unconscious barriers to access our institutions have erected and describe emerging strategies, frameworks, and pilot projects that can ease students’ transition into college and through the maze of the college experience to completion.
They offer advice on organizational culture, on defining institutional outcomes, on aligning shifting demographics with the multiple missions of the community college, on strengthening the collaboration of student and academic affairs to leverage their respective roles and resources, and on engaging with the opportunities afforded by technology.
Divided into three parts – understanding today’s community college campuses; supporting today’s community college learners; and specialized populations and communities – this book offers a vision and solutions that should inform the work of faculty, administrators, presidents, and board members. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: This timely volume addresses the urgent need for new strategies and better ways to serve community colleges’ present and future students at a time of rapid diversification, not just racially and ethnically, but including such groups as the undocumented, international students, older adult learners and veterans, all of whom come with varied levels of academic and technical skills.
The contributing researchers, higher education faculty, college presidents, and community college administrators provide thorough understanding of student groups who have received scant attention in the higher education literature. They address the often unconscious barriers to access our institutions have erected and describe emerging strategies, frameworks, and pilot projects that can ease students’ transition into college and through the maze of the college experience to completion.
They offer advice on organizational culture, on defining institutional outcomes, on aligning shifting demographics with the multiple missions of the community college, on strengthening the collaboration of student and academic affairs to leverage their respective roles and resources, and on engaging with the opportunities afforded by technology.
Divided into three parts – understanding today’s community college campuses; supporting today’s community college learners; and specialized populations and communities – this book offers a vision and solutions that should inform the work of faculty, administrators, presidents, and board members. (From the Publisher)