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Author : Marlene Frances Blumin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Assessing Quality of Community Colleges written by Marlene Frances Blumin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lori ELizabeth Scroggs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Student Assessment in the Context of Quality written by Lori ELizabeth Scroggs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Casey Ozaki
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118930320
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Supporting Student Affairs Professionals written by C. Casey Ozaki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student affairs and services play a critical role in student learning and success, as well as the level at which community colleges meet institutional outcomes. The evolution of student affairs as a field and recognition of its role in student experiences underscore its importance in the effort to provide quality education to college students. This volume provides a framework for excellence in student affairs work at community colleges, including assessing quality and outcomes for program development and accreditation. The authors explore: Excellence in preparing and developing professionals at multiple stages in their careers Creating and using professional standards and competencies Understanding the role of accreditation in professional practice. The issue also includes a discussion of implications for community college student affairs preparation and practice. This is the 166th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.
Author : Caroline M. Hoxby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022657458X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Productivity in Higher Education written by Caroline M. Hoxby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are “multiproduct” firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.
Author : Barbara Jean Kelberer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Bridging the Gap written by Barbara Jean Kelberer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Penny Wilkins Lehman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Assessing the Quality of Community College Student Experiences written by Penny Wilkins Lehman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trudy W. Banta
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Community College Assessment written by Trudy W. Banta and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good measures of student learning are scarce and all institutions are struggling with the challenge of effectively and reliably assessing student learning. Nowhere is this challenge felt more strongly, however, than at the community college, where students enter with diverse education goals and are more likely to transfer, stop out, or even drop out. This makes the need for assessment methods of demonstrated value in the community college setting more critical than ever. This new booklet is designed to address this need, presenting for the first time between two covers some of the strongest illustrations of good practice that have appeared in the pages of the award-winning newsletter, Assessment Update. Articles address such issues of concern to community college faculty and administrators as evaluating transfer success, the community and technical college students’ perceptions of student engagement, assessing learning communities, assessing employer needs, and the role of corporate partnerships in assessment. Drawing on both faculty-created and standard measures, such as the Community College Student Experiences Questionnaire and the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, the authors explore the effectiveness of various approaches and how they can be used to make the kind of curricular changes that can lead to improved student- learning outcomes. Other booklets in Assessment Update Collections: Portfolio Assessment: Uses, Cases, Scoring, and Impact This booklet contains a wealth of information on portfolios made available for the first time in this convenient format. The articles explore how portfolios, including web-based portfolios, have been used at various institutions to assess and improve programs in general education, the major, advising, and overall institutional effectiveness. They describe ways portfolios can be scored, students’ perspectives on portfolios, how portfolios changed the faculty culture at one college, and more. Hallmarks of Effective Outcomes Assessment This booklet brings together the best guidance and practices that have appeared in Assessment Update to illustrate time-tested principles for all aspects of assessment from planning and implementing to sustaining and improving assessment efforts over time. Useful for those new to assessment as well as experienced practitioners, it details the specific hallmarks required for the success of any assessment program—from leadership and staff development to the assessment of processes as well as outcomes, ongoing communication among constituents, and more. And it presents articles revealing what these hallmarks look like in practice.
Author : Thomas R. Bailey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425952
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Redesigning America’s Community Colleges written by Thomas R. Bailey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year—nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of student success, if they are willing to rethink the ways in which they organize programs of study, support services, and instruction. Community colleges were originally designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in favor of “guided pathways”—clearer, more educationally coherent programs of study that simplify students’ choices without limiting their options and that enable them to complete credentials and advance to further education and the labor market more quickly and at less cost. Distilling a wealth of data amassed from the Community College Research Center (Teachers College, Columbia University), Redesigning America’s Community Colleges offers a fundamental redesign of the way two-year colleges operate, stressing the integration of services and instruction into more clearly structured programs of study that support every student’s goals.
Author : Holly M. Jellison
Publisher : Community College Pr/Amer Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780871171085
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Look to Future Years written by Holly M. Jellison and published by Community College Pr/Amer Assoc. This book was released on 1981 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five essays share the theme that community education will become the primary focus in the continuing development of of the community college as a comprehensive, community-based institution. After Suzanne Fletcher's introduction to the monograph, Holly Jellison reviews the activities and summarizes the roundtable discussions of the Center for Community Education. The next article, "The Mycelium of Community Education: An Ideological Definition" by Robert J. Shoop, offers observations and reflections about the concept of community education and suggests that definitions of community education should focus on goals and objectives rather than on programs or strategies. Clyde LeTarte's article, "Community Education and the Community College: Problems and Promises," looks at the new place of community education in the community college mission, the factors which will influence this role, and the resulting needs in the areas of needs assessment, quality control and management, research and development, and financial support. Next, James F. Gollattscheck, in his essay, "Improving the Body Politic," envisions the community as a complex living organism and submits that learning to work with the various elements which comprise the total community should be a foremost priority for community colleges. Finally, Robert B. Young presents an analysis of a national survey of community education programs and services at community colleges, which includes the questionnaire. (AYC)
Author : Daniel Seymour
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Total Quality Management in Higher Education written by Daniel Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (University of South Carolina)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Proving and Improving written by National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (University of South Carolina) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of "Proving and Improving" collects essays from the First-Year Assessment Listserv, which is hosted by the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the National Resource Center. Like the first volume, this one brings together the nation's leading experts and practitioners of assessment in the first college year. They offer overviews of commercially available instruments and provide case studies of qualitative assessment strategies. The monograph also includes a comprehensive introduction by Randy Swing, describing strategies for implementing an effective assessment effort, and a typology of assessment instruments that allows readers to identify and compare instruments geared to the issues and programs they want to assess. This volume commences with a Preface (Mary Stuart Hunter); Overview of Essays (Randy L. Swing); and Introduction to First-Year Assessment (Randy L. Swing). It then divides into six parts and 37 articles, as follows. Part 1, "Institutional Records," contains: (1) Introducing the Data Audit and Analysis Toolkit (Karen Paulson); (2) Your First Stop for Information: The Office of Institutional Research (Karen Webber Bauer); (3) Using EnrollmentSearch to Track First-Year Success (John P. Ward); (4) Using Archived Course Records for First-Year Program Assessment (Debora L. Scheffel and Marie Revak); and (5) Freshman Absence-Based Intervention at The University of Mississippi (Catherine Anderson). Part 2, "Student Voices," contains: (6) Basics of Focus Groups (Libby V. Morris); (7) Looking at the First-Year Experience Qualitatively and Longitudinally (Marcia J. Belcheir); (8) Using "Think Alouds" to Evaluate Deep Understanding (Lendol Calder and Sarah-Eva Carlson); (9) The Promise Audit: Who's Promising What to Students (Marian Allen Claffey and Ned Scott Laff); (10) A Case Study on Developing Faculty Buy-In for Assessment (Lissa Yogan); and (12) The First-Year Prompts Project: A Qualitative Research Study Revisited (Elizabeth Hodges and Jean M. Yerian). Part 3, "End of Program/Course Evaluations," contains: (13) Using Interactive Focus Groups for Course and Program Assessments (Barbara J. Millis); and (14) The College Classroom Environment Scale (Roberta Jessen and Judith Patton). Part 4, "Surveys," contains: (15) The CIRP Freshman Survey and YFCY: Blending Old and New Tools to Improve Assessment of First-Year Students (Linda J. Sax and Shannon K. Gilmartin); (16) Survey Data as Part of First-Year Assessment Efforts: Using the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Annual Freshman Survey (J. Daniel House); (17) What Students Expect May Not Be What They Get: The PEEK (Perceptions, Expectations, Emotions and Knowledge about College) (Claire Ellen Weinstein, Cynthia A. King, Peggy Pei-Hsuan Hsieh, Taylor W. Acee and David R. Palmer); (18) Assessing Student Expectations of College: The College Student Expectations Questionnaire (Robert M. Gonyea); (19) The College Student Experiences Questionnaire: Assessing Quality of Effort and Perceived Gains in Student Learning (Michael J. Siegel); (20) The Community College Student Experience Questionnaire (Patricia H. Murrell); (21) Knowing How to Learn is as Important as Knowing What to Learn: The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (Clarie Ellen Weinstein, Angela L. Julie, Stephanie B. Corliss, YoonJung Cho, and David R. Palmer); (22) The Retention Management System: Assessing for Early Intervention (Lana Low and Beth Richter); (23) The Study Behavior Inventory (Leonard B. Bliss); (24) The College Success Factors Index (Edmond C. Hallberg and Garrick Davis); (25) The National Survey of Student Engagement: Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice (John Hayek); (26) Benchmarking Effective Educational Practice in Community Colleges (Kay M. McClenney); (27) What Matters in First-Year Seminars (Randy L. Swing); (28) Looking at High-Risk Behaviors (John Pryor); and (29) A More Precise Approach to Assessing Student Satisfaction (Julie L. Bryant). Part 5, "Cognitive Tests," contains: (30) Critical Thinking Assessment: Challenges and Options (Marc Cutright); (31) Evaluating General Education Outcomes: College BASE-lining Your First-Year Students (Pamela A. Humphreys); (32) CAAP General Education Assessment Program (David A. Lutz); and (33) The Cognitive Level and Quality Writing Assessment Instrument (Teresa L. Flateby). Part 6, "Trait Inventories," contains: (34) Hope Scale: A Measurement of Willpower and Waypower (Jerry Pattengale); (35) What are Learning Styles? Can We Identify Them? What is Their Place in an Assessment Program? (Linda Suskie); (36) Assessing the First-Year of College: Some Concluding Thoughts (Tracy L. Skipper and Marla Mamrick); and (37) Typology of Instruments (Randy L. Swing). [Individual chapters have references.].
Author : Arthur M. Cohen
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Managing Community Colleges written by Arthur M. Cohen and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1994-04-22 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the administration of contemporary community colleges, including chapters describing the staffing and functioning of major offices and pertinent issues affecting each area of work. The 25 chapters of the book are: (1) "The Challenging Environment: Context, Concepts, and Crises," by Arthur M. Cohen and Florence B. Brawer; (2) "Understanding Administrative Work," by Estela Mara Bensimon; (3) "Leadership Strategies," by Richard C. Richardson, Jr., and Mimi Wolverton; (4) "Effective Presidential Leadership: Twelve Areas of Focus," by George B. Vaughan; (5) "The Governing Board," by William E. Piland; (6) "The Community College and the State," by James D. Tschechtelin; (7) "How Presidents Influence Public Policy," by Judith S. Eaton; (8)"Management Perspectives at the State Level," by Earl Hale; (9) "The President's Office," by Daniel F. Moriarty; (10) "Business and Financial Administration," by Albert L. Lorenzo; (11) "The Personnel Office," by Barbara E. Janzen; (12) "Instructional Programs," by Martha J. Kanter; (13) "Articulation and Transfer," by Trudy H. Bers; (14) "Community and Industry Programs," by Geneva Waddell; (15) "Student Services," by Charles R. Dassance; (16) "Institutional Research," by John Losak; (17) "Campus Planning and Construction," by Dan Angel and James Brader; (18) "Budgeting and Resource Allocation," by Michael H. Parsons; (19) "The Administrator's Role in Staff Management," by Edwin E. Vineyard; (20) "Faculty Evaluation and Performance Appraisal," by Albert B. Smith and Jacquelyn A. Barber; (21) "Involving the Board in Personnel Management," by Hans A. Andrews; (22) "Managing Educational Operations," by Alfredo G. de los Santos, Jr., and Scott Finger; (23) "Building Relationships with the Community," by Billie Wright Dziech; (24) "Educational Planning and Assessment," by James C. Palmer; and (25) "Conclusion: The Future Context for Administration," by Cohen and Brawer. (AC)
Author : Carrie B. Kisker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394180942
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (941 download)
Download or read book The American Community College written by Carrie B. Kisker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of community colleges in the United States—updated with the latest research The revised seventh edition of The American Community College is an essential resource for practitioners and graduate students in the field of higher education. This book has been providing up-to-date information and statistics about community colleges for four decades and is a trusted and revered reference. Covering community college students, faculty, curriculum, assessment, finance, governance, and more, this book provide a thorough understanding of the role community colleges play in the American educational system. For educators, policymakers, and philanthropists alike, community colleges are important as the nexus of national efforts to prepare a highly skilled workforce and as the lynchpin of the K-20 education pipeline. This book delivers the facts and context readers need to make informed decisions in the community college space. Written by leading researchers in the field, The American Community College has been thoroughly revised with a greater focus on equity. Further, this edition includes access to online supplemental materials, including end-of-chapter guiding questions and a guide for transitioning from the 6th to the 7th edition. Additional updates include coverage of collaborations with community, economic, and workforce development organizations; a greater focus on entrepreneurship and innovation; recent efforts to improve student persistence and attainment through guided pathways and equity-minded student supports; and the growing emphasis on preparing a skilled workforce via noncredit training, credit for prior learning, micro-credentials, and community college baccalaureate programs. Readers of The American Community College will: Benefit from a comprehensive analysis of the most recent findings and up-to-date information on the American community college. Find completely revised and updated information about recent changes in the community college landscape Obtain current information on student access and outcomes, instruction, student services, and curricular functions Learn from updated tables and graphs that reflect the most current data and incorporate new examples of the services that colleges provide Since it was first published in 1982, The American Community College has become the primary resource that faculty, administrators, trustees, and researchers look to for information on these quintessentially American institutions.
Author : Leo J. Hirner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Quality Indicators for Evaluating Distance Education Programs at Community Colleges written by Leo J. Hirner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continued rapid growth of online courses and programs in higher education has brought concerns regarding support services, learning resources, and effectiveness of instruction, as well as how institutions monitor the quality of online programs. These concerns have prompted questions about the effectiveness of instruction and how participants perceive online learning, as well as the methodology of the body of research on online programs and the need for a process by which programs and institutions could be compared by academics or prospective students (Phipps and Meritosis,1999). Unfortunately, these concerns continue to persist (Hannafin, Oliver, Hill, Glazer, & Sharma, 2003; Sherlock & Pike 2004). The need for a process by which online programs may be evaluated and compared provided the impetus for this study, the goals of which were to identify quality indicators specific to community college online programs, and to determine stakeholders' perceived importance of those indicators. A literature review identified common standards and best practices for online courses and programs developed by accrediting organizations and policy groups. The terms best practices, criteria, and standards are used interchangeably in the literature when discussing recommendations regarding practices and policies institutions should adopt for distance learning programs (Twigg, 1999a). Synthesizing these sources yielded five categories: institutional support, curriculum and instruction, faculty support, student support, and evaluation and assessment. A case was made for adding technical support as a sixth category. The items identified through the literature review were used to guide the development of a Delphi study to identify potential indicators. The results of the Delphi Study were then used to create a three-part Stakeholder Survey designed to collect input on perceived levels of importance for each potential indicator using the magnitude estimation technique and validate the results of the Delphi. The stakeholder survey was then distributed to students and faculty, technical support staff, and program administrators participating in online courses offered by a community college system in the Midwest. Participants were also able to recommend indicators not included in the survey, and demographic data was also collected. To refine the results a final survey of a group of distance learning experts, identified through their scholarly research and professional activity, was asked to review the results of the Delphi study and classify each item as a factor, indicator, or other according to definitions provided. Results from this study identify data that an institution might collect when measuring the effectiveness of its online programs and services. Both the factors and indicators represent parameters that may support the examination of how an institution supports its programs, or how programs might compare across institutions. What these factors and indicators do not address is how an institution uses the data it collects on its programs.
Author : Mohamed Rashid Navi Bax
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (968 download)
Download or read book An Assessment of the Quality Climate as Perceived by Community College Leadership in Iowa written by Mohamed Rashid Navi Bax and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford S. Peterson
Publisher : American Association of Community Colleges(AACC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Continuous Quality Assurance written by Clifford S. Peterson and published by American Association of Community Colleges(AACC). This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing demand for colleges and universities to be accountable to their publics and the recognition that assessment is of little value without a systematic planning effort have led many institutions to turn to the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM). This pamphlet discusses the process of adapting TQM to a typical community college, a process called Continuous Quality Assurance (CQA), and is divided into six chapters. The first chapter, "Forces for Change in Higher Education," describes the recent calls for accountability and the responses made by higher education to those calls. Chapter 2, "An International Focus on Quality," reviews the TQM theory, its practice in Japan, and emerging trends toward quality in business and industry. "Quality in Higher Education," the third chapter, discusses applications of TQM to higher education and some major differences between business and education, including the absence of profitability in education, increased departmental loyalties in educational institutions, and the lack of a perceived crisis in education. Chapter 4, "Continuous Quality Assurance in a Community College," outlines the philosophical approach behind CQA, while chapter 5, "Assessment and Planning for Continuous Quality Assurance," describes the mechanisms (i.e., databases, alumni follow-up, and effective assessment services) that must be in place to implement CQA. Finally, "Implications of a Quality Focus" highlights the benefits of CQA, including providing evidence of institutional effectiveness, a mechanism for preparing funding proposals, and a vehicle for identifying and setting institutional priorities. (Contains 12 references.) (BCY)
Author : Nan L. Maxwell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119348439
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive Reform for Student Success written by Nan L. Maxwell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community colleges face pressure to “do more with less” that have prompted many college leaders to consider fundamental changes to the ways they have typically done business. Because piecemeal solutions have not often been effective or efficient, colleges are moving far beyond discreet “programs” or “interventions,” and are attempting to implement comprehensive reform efforts. This volume conceptualizes comprehensive reform as being marked by: a focus on student success; a theory of change that ties programmatic components together in an intentional and cohesive package, implemented at multiple levels throughout the college and touching the majority of students; and a culture of evidence that uses data to continuously assess programs and processes against student success. Presenting original analyses that describe the rationale for comprehensive reform, this volume examines the challenges involved in implementing, evaluating, and sustaining those efforts. This is the 176th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.
