The College Completion Agenda E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Serie: J-B CC Single Issue Community Colleges
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 152

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

This volume provides practical ways colleges can focus on theCollege Completion Agenda. Originally begun as an economicworkforce issue for the Obama administration, the CollegeCompletion Agenda has been adopted by myriad educationalinstitutions, public and private funders, and others. The identified "Big Goal" is to increase theproportion of Americans with high quality college degrees andcredentials from 39% of the population to 60% by 2025. To date,much advice has been offered to colleges about what the issues areand what needs to be done. However, there is considerable workbeing done at colleges around the country to address the identifiedissues.This volume introduces some of these policies andpractices--the thinking behind them, research supporting them,roles to be fulfilled, and impact on the student experience This is the 164th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher educationquarterly report series, an essential guide for presidents, vicepresidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-doorinstitutions, this quarterly provides expert guidance in meetingthe challenges of their distinctive and expanding educationalmission.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Editors’ Notes

References

Foreword

Chapter 1: Leadership Matters: Addressing the Student Success and Completion Agenda

Beginning of a Movement

Coaching for Transformation

The Role of Boards

Effective Boards

Reasons for Progress

Inventory of Policies and Practices

Transformative Culture

Changes at the Front Door

Promising Interventions

A Movement

References

Chapter 2: Maximizing Data Use: A Focus on the Completion Agenda

Data, Indicators, and Metrics

A Model for Improving Data Use in Colleges

Analytics

Human Judgment and Behavior

Organizational Habits

Summary

References

Chapter 3: Get With the Program … and Finish It: Building Guided Pathways to Accelerate Student Completion

Many Choices, Little Guidance

Building Guided Pathways to Success

Supporting Evidence

Collaboration Is Key

References

Chapter 4: Acceleration Strategies in the New Developmental Education Landscape

Evidence on Remedial Assessment and Placement

An Example of Institutional- and Classroom-Based Reform: Accelerating Developmental Education

Accelerated Learning Program of the Community College of Baltimore County

State-Based Examples of Developmental Education Reform

Discussion

References

Chapter 5: Working Across the Segments: High Schools and the College Completion Agenda

Colleges and the Common Core

A Structure for the Process

Three Stages to Alignment

An Example of Successful Regional Alignment

Alignment and College Completion

References

Chapter 6: Tuning Toward Completion

Tuning USA

Value to Community Colleges

Early Tuning Efforts

A Statewide Tuning Effort

Building Success With Facilitation

A National Discipline-Based Effort: The American Historical Association

Tuning and College Completion

References

Chapter 7: Unmet Need and Unclaimed Aid: Increasing Access to Financial Aid for Community College Students

Student Characteristics

Does Financial Aid Make a Difference in Persistence and Completion?

Do Institutional Practices Make a Difference?

Concluding Thoughts

References

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Index

THE COLLEGE COMPLETION AGENDA: PRACTICAL APPROACHES FOR REACHING THE BIG GOAL Brad C. Phillips, Jordan E. Horowitz (eds.) New Directions for Community Colleges, no. 164

Arthur M. Cohen, Editor-in-Chief Caroline Q. Durdella, Nathan R. Durdella, Associate Editors

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EDITORS’ NOTES

Study after study has shown that postsecondary education is associated with higher earnings; unfortunately, the United States fares poorly among other industrialized nations in postsecondary attainment. In 2008, among other industrialized nations, the United States ranked 12th for citizens aged 25–34; and only 29.4% of our African American population and 19.2% of our Hispanic population aged 25–34 had an associate degree or higher (College Board, 2013). In response to these concerns, the Obama administration early on set forth a goal of America having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world as part of efforts to revive the national economy. This was followed by a $20 million grant program to address the issue under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Other federal funding initiatives followed.