Eileen L. Strempel, Stephen J. Handel

Beyond Free College

Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond Free College seeks greater investment in higher education by promoting a single metric-lower-cost-per-degree-granted-as the driver of a transfer pathway. The bookaims to spur higher education advocates to reorganize the transfer function to serve neotraditional students in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education.

Produktdetails

• The Futures Series on Community Colleges
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781475848656
• ISBN-10: 147584865X
• Artikelnr.: 60411908

Autorenporträt

By Eileen L. Strempel and Stephen J. Handel - Series edited by Debbie L. Sydow and Kate Thirolf

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Transfer Contradictions: Bridging the Academic Divide
Chapter 2. The Flickering and Largely Untold History of Transfer
Chapter 3. Second Chances Are Good, But First Chances Are Better: The Role
of K-12 in Transfer
Chapter 4. The Rise of Dual Credit
Chapter 5. Prior-Learning Credit: Honoring Transfer Students Who Work for a
Living
Chapter 6. Competency-Based Education: Promises, Potential, and Proof
Chapter 7. Online Learning in the Twenty-first Century: Possibilities and
Promises
Chapter 8. The Shifting Higher Education Landscape
Chapter 9. Tomorrowland: Proven Pathways Forward
Chapter 10. Beyond Traditional Transfer: Findings and Recommendations
About the Authors