Alternative Pathways to the Baccalaureate (eBook, ePUB)

Do Community Colleges Offer a Viable Solution to the Nation's Knowledge Deficit?
Redaktion: Remington, Nancy; Remington, Ronald

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book may or may not convert those who are concerned about 'mission creep' of community colleges, but it sure will give them something to think about. This book provides some thoughts on how to create a new model going forward and it deserves serious consideration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000976793
• Artikelnr.: 68356642

Autorenporträt

Nancy Remington holds a PhD from the University of Nevada in educational leadership. Her 30-year teaching experience in Nevada spans the spectrum of preschool through graduate school. As an English and education faculty member at Great Basin College, she developed and implemented the ?rst baccalaureate degree program in teacher education. Particularly passion-ate about effective professional development for teachers and administrators, she was the founding director of the Great Basin Writing Project and the Nevada Regional Professional Development Program. She has worked as an evaluator for the Northeastern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, and currently, she serves on the Board of the Nevada Women's Fund, as an editor for the Community College Baccalaureate Association online journal The Journal of the New Comprehensive College as well as working as an educational consultant and as a ?eld director with the National Writing Project. Ronald Remington holds a PhD from the University of Nevada in cognitive psychology. With 35 years' experience as a faculty member and administrator in higher education in three states, he has served as a commissioner for Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and as president of two Nevada community colleges. During his tenure at Great Basin College and the Community College of Southern Nevada, he pioneered innovative baccalaureate degrees in education, applied sciences, professional studies, and dental hygiene. He currently works as an educational consultant and serves on the Board of Directors for the Community College Baccalaureate Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword-Carol D'Amico Introduction-Nancy Remington and
Ronald Remington Part One. Needs, Implications, and Politics 1. THE HISTORY
OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE BACCALAUREATE MOVEMENT. MEETING THE EDUCATIONAL
NEEDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY-Kenneth P. Walker and Edith Pendleton 2. THE
COMMUNITY COLLEGE BACCALAUREATE. PROCESS AND POLITICS-Linda M. Thor and
Chris Bustamante 3. MISSION METAMORPHOSIS-John Patrick Rice 4. STUDENT
VOICES. THE IMPACT OF ACCESS ON INDIVIDUAL LIVES-Edith Pendleton 5. IMPACT
ON ACCREDITATION STATUS WHEN COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFER BACCALAUREATE
DEGREES-Belle S. Wheelan and Tom Benberg 6. UPDATE ON THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
BACCALAUREATE. EVOLVING TRENDS AND ISSUES-Alene Bycer Russell Part Two.
Models and Contexts 7. THE BACCALAUREATE MOVEMENT IN FLORIDA. A DECADE OF
CHANGE-Deborah L. Floyd and Angela M. Garcia Falconetti 8. APPLIED
BACCALAUREATE DEGREES IN THE CONTEXT OF BACCALAUREATE EDUCATION-Collin M.
Ruud and Debra D. Bragg 9. REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE AND STATUS OF THE
APPLIED BACCALAUREATE DEGREE. DRAWING UPON THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE-Michael
L. Skolnik 10. A VIRTUAL PATHWAY TO BACCALAUREATE COMPLETION-Lisa
Romano-Arnold 11. THE UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP AT LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY
COLLEGE-Marcia J. Ballinger and John Crooks 12. THE COMPREHENSIVE COLLEGE
BACCALAUREATE. AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME!-Andrew K. Koch and John N.
Gardner About the Contributors Index