Gail O. Mellow, Cynthia M. Heelan

Minding the Dream (eBook, ePUB)

The Process and Practice of the American Community College

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar. New employees, current leaders, graduate students, legislators, and boards of trustees need a grounded sense of the magnitude of the community college sector. Minding the Dream evokes the laudatory goals of the early pioneers of the community college movement, while accurately framing key programs and political conundrums challenging community colleges. Minding the Dream celebrates community colleges' successes and is scrupulously honest about their failings. Community college leaders need honest information about what's working and need to be challenged about the things that are not. State Legislatures and Congress need updated facts to assist them in making wise funding decisions regarding community colleges. Community college advocates need updated information to assist them in their advocacy work, and Higher Education programs need an updated book about community colleges to use as a basic text. These are the people who can benefit from reading Minding the Dream.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475811049
• Artikelnr.: 41870216

Autorenporträt

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia M. Heelan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword CHAPTER 1: An Overview of the American Community
College CHAPTER 2: Community Colleges: Private Benefit or Public Good?
CHAPTER 3: Financing Community College CHAPTER 4: Measuring Community
College Effectiveness CHAPTER 5: Governance CHAPTER 6: A Changed Pedagogy
CHAPTER 7: Leadership Guide to the Dream CHAPTER 8: Global Adaptations:
International Implications of the American Community College Model CHAPTER
9: Developmental Studies CHAPTER 10: The Transfer Experience CHAPTER 11:
Economic And Workforce Development CHAPTER 12: English as a Second Language
CHAPTER 13: Programmatic Challenges of Diverse Demographics Summary:
Minding the Dream References