Title:
Are community colleges underprepared for underprepared students? / Pam Schuetz, Jim Barr, editors.
Author:
Schuetz, Pamela Gail.
Barr, Jim.
Publication Information:
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
Call Number:
LB2328 .N422 2008
Series Title:
New directions for community colleges, 0194-3081 ; no. 144
ISBN:
9780470461471
Series:
New directions for community colleges, no. 144
Physical Description:
119 p. : ill., charts ; 23 cm.
General Note:
"Winter 2008"
Added Title:
Title V Learning College.
Contents:
Overview of foundational issues / Jim Barr, Pam Schuetz -- Developing a theory-driven model of community college student engagement / Pam Schuetz -- Focus on the front door of the college / Sanford C. "Sandy" Shugart, Joyce C. Romano -- Organizational culture as a hidden resource / Dennis McGrath, Susan Tobia -- Tiered mentoring to leverage student body expertise / Faisal Jaswal, Teresa McClane Jaswal -- Do institutional attributes predict individuals' degree success at two-year colleges? / Lisbeth J. Goble, James E. Rosenbaum, Jennifer L. Stephan -- Information networks and integration: institutional influences on experiences and persistence of beginning students / Melinda Mechur Karp, Katherine L. Hughes -- The California basic skills initiative / Barbara Illowsky -- Institutional efforts to address disadvantaged students: an "up-so-down" view / John S. Levin -- Transmuting resistance to change / Pam Schuetz, Jim Barr.
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