Working With Students in Community Colleges (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Strategies for Bridging Theory, Research, and Practice
Redaktion: Kelsay, Lisa S.; Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely volume addresses the urgent need for new strategies and better ways to serve community colleges' present and future students at a time of rapid diversification, not just racially and ethnically, but including such groups as the undocumented, international students, older adult learners and veterans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000981070
• Artikelnr.: 68356802

Autorenporträt

Lisa S. Kelsay is the Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts/Director of Academic Arts at Moraine Valley Community College (IL). In addition, she is also a part-time instructor in education at Moraine Valley Community College and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School at Kaplan University. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education from Loyola University Chicago (IL), an M.A. in student personnel administration in higher education from Ball State University (IN), and a B.S. in education from the University of Akron (OH). Through the past 15+ years, Dr. Kelsay has worked in both student and academic affairs, private and public, and at two-year and four-year colleges. Her research has been published in The Journal of College Admission. She served as the 2009-2012 Chair of the ACPA Commission for Student Development in the Two-Year College. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is an affiliate of the Office of Community College Leadership and Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education Policy Organization Leadership (EPOL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Formerly she served as Professor and Coordinator of the Community College Leadership Program in the Department of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University. She held prior appointments at West Virginia University, ACT Inc., and Mathematica Policy Research (MPR), Inc. She holds a B.S. in Psychology and M.S. in General Experimental Psychology from Western Illinois University. She earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration with a specialization in Community College Leadership and Evaluation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Zamani-Gallaher's teaching, research, and consulting activities largely include psychosocial adjustment and transition of marginalized collegians, transfer, access policies, and women in leadership. Her work includes coauthoring The Case for Affirmative Action on Campus: Concepts of Equity, Considerations for Practice (Sterling, VA: Stylu

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword-Susan Salvador Preface Part 1. Understanding
Today's Community College Campuses 1. Junior Grows Up. A Brief History of
Community Colleges-Lisa S. Kelsay and Betsy Oudenhoven 2. Community College
Economic Climate, Policy Landscape, and the American Graduation
Initiative-John L. Jamrogowicz 3. College Readiness and the Open Door
Mission-Patricia Munsch, Tania Velazquez, and Corinne Kowpak 4. Technology.
The New Core Competency-Susan J. Procter and Julie Uranis Part 2. Welcome
to Campus! Supporting Today's Community College Learners 5. Who Are Our
Students?-Patricia Munsch and Lisa S. Kelsay 6. Academic and Student
Affairs Collaboration. A Value for Student Success Within the Community
College Environment-Cara McFadden and Martha Mazeika 7. Student Orientation
at Community Colleges-Jessica Hale 8. Residence Life at Community Colleges.
Building New Opportunities for Student Learning-Carin W. Barber and Daniel
J. Phelan Part 3. A Closer Look. Specialized Populations and Communities on
Two-Year Campuses 9. Older Adult Learning in Community Colleges. A New Wave
of Adult Learners-Ramona Meraz Lewis, Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, and
Christopher Bonapace 10. Two- and Four-Year College Contexts for Student
Veterans-Tara Fagan and Shaftone Dunklin 11. Women Community College
Student Leaders of Color. An Examination of Student Involvement
Theory-Dimpal Jain 12. Looking Across the Research. Social and Cultural
Capital's Interplay with Marginalized Student Communities-Jesse S. Watson
and Elizabeth Cox Brand Afterword-Stephanie R. Bulger Additional
Resources-Tamara N. Stevenson Editors and Contributors Index