America's Forgotten Student Population

Creating a Path to College Success for GED(R) Completers
Herausgeber: Long, Angela; Mullin, Christopher M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive resource for college administrators, and for educational policy makers and researchers, offering both broad policy recommendations and tested ideas and models that can be implemented at the state and institutional level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781620361399
• ISBN-10: 1620361396
• Artikelnr.: 40491913

Autorenporträt

Angela Long is an educational researcher, educator, and author who currently serves as an independent consultant in higher education, as well as co-editor of the "Innovative Ideas for Community Colleges" national book series through Stylus Publishing. She has participated in three White House summit meetings on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and has shared her findings before participants at the Achieving the Dream national conference, Florida Association of Community Colleges, U.S. Department of Education, the White House Summit Meeting on Educational Excellence for Hispanics in Miami, FL, the Consortium for Student Retention and Data Exchange, the American Association of Community Colleges, and the Florida Council of Student Affairs to name a few. In 2011, she worked with student leaders to found the Pathways to Persistence Scholars program at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. She has experience teaching and working in the K-College setting and collaborates with leaders across the nation to publish groundbreaking data and retention metrics for at-risk student populations attending community colleges.. Christopher M. Mullin is Executive Vice Chancellor of the Florida College System, Division of Florida Colleges at the Florida Department of Education, having formerly served as the Program Director for Policy Analysis at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in Washington, D.C. His research has focused on the evolution and development of state postsecondary education systems, with specific focus on community colleges and fiscal policy.

Inhaltsangabe

EDITOR'S NOTE ON THE FOREWORD FOREWORD Story Musgrave PREFACE Angela Long
INTRODUCTION Angela Long PART ONE. THE VOICE OF THE RESEARCHER 1. IDLE
ASSETS An Examination of America's Underdeveloped Capital Christopher M.
Mullin 2. AMERICA'S UNTAPPED RESOURCE Taking a Closer Look at GED Student
Populations Margaret Becker Patterson 3. FROM GED® TO POSTSECONDARY
EDUCATION The Role of Institutions Wei Song PART TWO. THE VOICE OF THE
STATEWIDE LEADER AND ADMINISTRATOR 4. REDEFINING COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT
SUCCESS Helton "Hep" M. Aldridge 5. STATE OF EDUCATIONAL TRENDS The
Developmental Education Dilemma Mark A. Heinrich 6. LESSONS ON LEADERSHIP
K-12 Dropout Prevention Models in Promoting Postsecondary Education Success
Steve Dobo 7. DELVING INTO THE TRENCHES A Practitioner's Perspective Pamela
Blumenthal 8. INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL Santa Fe Scholars
Program as a Model for the Future Jackson Sasser PART THREE. THE VOICE OF
THE STUDENT. PROMOTING RETENTION FROM A STUDENT LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVE 9.
FROM GED® TO MASTER'S DEGREE Leah Rapoza 10. THE POWER OF STUDENT
LEADERSHIP IN TRANSFORMING LIVES Frederick Parks Jr. 11. REFLECTIONS OF A
PEER MENTOR LEADER Catlin Cade PART FOUR. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
12. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Angela Long APPENDIX ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX