Tiffany Beth Mfume

The College Completion Glass-Half-Full or Half-Empty? (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the Great Recession and looming "student loan debt crisis", college education remains the most proven, invaluable lifetime investment and serves as the most reliable path to upward mobility and socioeconomic class reassignment. Mfume suggests that "the value added" of even one year of college can be transformative. As higher education professionals and partners continue to advocate for new and improved college retention and graduation measures, The College Completion Glass-Half-Full or Half-Empty? Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on "the value added" of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with, and advocacy from, successful non-completers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475839616
• Artikelnr.: 56824730

Autorenporträt

By Tiffany Beth Mfume

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Graduation Rates 101 Chapter 2: The
College Completion Agenda Chapter 3: The Politics of College Rankings
Chapter 4: College Attrition and the "Value Added" Proposition Chapter 5:
HBCUs, MSIs, and the College Completion Game Chapter 6: Case Studies:
Stories of College Attrition and Student Success Chapter 7: College
Attrition and the Popular Culture Chapter 8: Half-Full and Half-Empty: The
Completers vs. the Non-Completers Chapter 9: It's Not a Deficit Model:
Increasing Retention and Fostering Completion Chapter 10: What's Next:
Changing the Paradigm About the Author