[PDF] A New Dimension In Community College Education eBook

Author : Norma Tarrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135547610

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Providing critical as well as pragmatic analysis, this volume examines the education programs that form an integral part of U. S. community colleges and their models abroad. The book's 15 original essays examine a variety of international and inter/multicultural education programs at selected North American community colleges and explore how the U. S. community college model is utilized in other nations. The book includes 11 tables/charts, three maps, four diagrams/figures and a subject index.

Author : Christine Johnson McPhail
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000980936

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From the foreword by Walter G. Bumphus, President & CEO of AACC: “Becoming an Equity-Centered Higher Education Institution is a significant contribution to the on-going struggle to find practical approaches to implementing an equity agenda in higher education.” The authors had three main goals for this text: Relevance: This book is the result of many years of teaching, leading, researching, and coaching individuals and institutions about equity inside higher education. The authors place a clear emphasis on awareness and teaching skills first, but also ensure that those skills are based on practical application in the field. Practical Application: To describe and explain equity and transformational change concepts, this book provides step-by-step implementation approaches that can be used to integrate equity-centered principles into practices and policies to implement or improve equity work into the organizational culture. A Purposeful Approach: The authors defined the act of becoming an equity-centered institution in terms of a transformational change approach using Kotter’s Eight-Stage Process. Kotter’s Model and AACC’s Leadership Competencies for Community College Leaders are introduced in Chapter 1 and integrated throughout the book. This integrated framework allows practitioners to place the intersectionality of equity, transformational change, and requisite leadership competencies into the larger context of higher education. While using Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, the authors emphasize that operations and situations inside higher educational institutions are not linear as implied in Kotter’s model. They show how the stages of change may occur at different times and different situations at different institutions, and demonstrate what leadership competencies are recommended for each stage in the change process.

Author : J. Levin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 023010150X

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This book employs a socio-cultural approach to study the organizational dynamics and experiences of self-formation that shape community college life. The authors use case studies to analyze both the symbolic dimension and practices that enable the production of educational experiences in seven community colleges across the U.S. Levin and Montero-Hernandez explain the construction of organizational identity and student development as a result of the connection between institutional forces and individual agency. This work emphasizes the forms and conditions of interaction among college personnel, students, and external groups that were enacted to respond to the demands and opportunities in both participants local and larger contexts. The authors acknowledge both the collective and individual efforts of community college personnel to create caring community colleges that support nontraditional students.

Author : Douglas Robillard
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN :

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The contributors to this issue present a variety of strategies to help chief academic officers not only survive but excel while juggling their many and varied responsibilities. They offer seasoned advice on fulfilling the CAO's academic duties, and explore the CAO's faculty and administrative roles, discussing how to balance the sometimes conflicting roles of faculty mentor, advocate, and disciplinarian and the importance of establishing a synergistic working relationship with the president. They show how to resolve typical crises that arise in the course of the CAO's daily duties, and demonstrate how conflict can actually be an opportunity to effect constructive change. The issue also covers the important areas of resource and data management, providing an introduction to resource management concepts and terminology and presenting a case study of an award-winning data-driven decision-making process. This is the 109th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Community Colleges.

Author : Wilson Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2008-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801895852

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Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education.