The Future of the Urban Community College E-Book

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

Seitenzahl: 203

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Urban community colleges--and the cities they serve--areundergoing rapid, multidimensional changes in response to newconditions and demands. The challenge for all community colleges,regardless of size or location, is to reinvent themselves so theycan better meet the particular needs of their respectivecommunities. This national higher-education mandate is vital todemocracy itself, especially given the multiracial nature of metropolitan areas, where challenges and opportunities havealways been most pronounced. This volume looks at how urban colleges are vigorously exploringnew strategies for sustainability and success. Some of the mostprominent practitioners examine every major aspect of thechange-engagement process, including the role of governing boards,workforce development, community partnerships, and redesign ofoutdated business and finance models.This is the 162nd 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

Table of Contents

Title page

Copyright page

EDITORS' NOTES

Chapter 1: Overview: The Future of the Urban Community College

Milieu of the Urban Community College

Shaping the Pathways to a Multiracial Democracy

Community Colleges as Talent Centers for a Knowledge-Based Economy

Advancing Economic Equity and the College Completion Imperative

The Urban Community College Student Profile

Transformational Leadership: Shaping the Pathways to a Multiracial Democracy

Mission Statements Reveal New Emphasis on Service Continuum

Reimagining the Future

Lumina Foundation Goal 2025

Reclaiming the American Dream (AACC)

Reinventing the Open Door

Tomorrow's Most Promising Alternatives

Conclusion: Reframing “Democracy's College”

Chapter 2: The Urban Crisis and Pathways to a Multiracial Democracy

Multiracial Democracy: Origins and Definitions

Resegregation Thwarts Progress

Toward a New Paradigm of Education

Consensus Emerges from National Completion Initiatives

CUNY's ASAP Garners Results and Accolades

Grappling with a New Era of Racial Repression

Conclusion: Turning the American Dream into Reality

Chapter 3: A New Leadership Paradigm for the 21st Century

How HECTIC Is It?

Adapting through Constructive Ambiguity

Managing Change: What Is Truly Essential?

The Nature of Disequilibrium

The People as Leaders

The Human Side of Adaptation

Engaging a Changed Mission

Implementing the Promise of the Open Door

The Utility of Synergy

Change-Supporting Strategies

Conclusion: Reframing Community College Leadership

Chapter 4: The Future-Shaping Function of the Governing Board

Opportunity and Values Define Governance

Current Knowledge

Emphasis on Community and Education

Governance Guides Actions

Politics and Power

Conclusion: Be True to Mission and Values

Ten Recommendations for Future Governance

Chapter 5: The Employability Gap and the Community College Role in Workforce Development

Definitions of Career Education and Workforce Development

The Community College Middle-Skill Careers Niche

The Equity Imperative

The Emerging Themes of Career Education and Workforce Development

General Education for Knowledge Workers

Toward Solutions: Career Education and Workforce Development Practices

Summary: Middle-Skill Talent Drives Economic Growth

Chapter 6: Reframing Community Partnerships

Environmental Risk Factors Compel Combined Response

Selected Best Partnership Practices

Summary

Chapter 7: Increasing the Relevance of Curricular and Student Services in the Urban Community College

Evolution of an Academic Institution

Expanding Opportunities in an Urban Context

Learning Outcomes: Defining a College Education

Ten Liberal-Learning Outcomes

Mapping Curriculum

Assessing the Culture of Evidence

The State of American Education: Challenges Persist

Turning Challenges into Successes

Student Achievement Initiatives

Sustained Improvements in Student Experience

Conclusion: Sharing the Universal Resource of Higher Education

Chapter 8: Achieving a Multiracial Democracy on Campus

Creating the Opportunity for Everyone to Achieve Full Potential Starts at the Top

The Chancellor's Diversity Initiative

Diversity Strategic Plan

Recognizing Community Colleges as Living Laboratories for Diversity and Social Justice

Multiracial Democracy as Social Justice

Chapter 9: Capacity Building: Reshaping Urban Community College Resources in Response to Emerging Challenges

Student Success and the Performance-Based Funding Challenge

What Is the Response?

Organizational Onion: One District's Reaction to Budgetary Realities

The Dallas-Sized Budget Condition

Boosting Student Services with Financial Aid System Efficiency

Evaluation and Efficiency: Protecting the Core

Chapter 10: The New Community College Business and Finance Model

New Financial Realities and the Social Equity Agenda

Lessons Learned from For-Profit Colleges

The Old Community College Business and Finance Model

Jumping the S-Curve: Forces Driving the New Business and Finance Model

The Community College Strategic Development Framework

Disruptive Innovations

Activating the New Model

Perceptions of Community College Leaders

Reality Check: A District Design Initiative

A Program Cost and Review Model: Central Piedmont Community College

Infusing New Model with Democratic Values

Index

THE FUTURE OF THE URBAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: SHAPING THE PATHWAYS TO A MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY

Gunder Myran, Curtis L. Ivery, Michael H. Parsons, Charles Kinsley (eds.)

New Directions for Community Colleges, no. 162

Arthur M. Cohen, Editor-in-Chief

Caroline Q. Durdella, Nathan R. Durdella, Associate Editors

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EDITORS' NOTES

This sourcebook is dedicated to the memory of Marliss Myran, who passed during its final completion but was always the primary object of devotion for her loving husband, Gunder.

The urban community college exploded onto the national higher education scene in the 1960s as Baby Boomers began to flood through its open doors and demands by minorities for equal access to educational and economic opportunity reached the boiling point. Early adopters of the community college idea in urban centers were Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. It was said at the time that a new community college (many still called junior colleges) was created every week. In fact, 413 were born during the 1960s, including start-ups in Cleveland, Dallas, St. Louis, Detroit, Miami, Denver, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Seattle.

One of the early national meetings about the potential of the community college to energize urban change took place in Dallas in 1966. It involved the American Association of Junior Colleges (now the American Association of Community Colleges, or AACC) and urban community college representatives. The meeting resulted in a report entitled , which contained this statement: “We accept the challenge of the inner city with all its complexities, its difficult problems and immense costs. The battleground is in the inner city—stay and fight where you are.”