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Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the central role community colleges play in American social justice. The U.S. has long-standing social and cultural structures that perpetuate inequality along race, ethnicity and income lines. The primary role of American community colleges is to disrupt these structures on behalf of the students we serve. In this sense, community colleges are called to play a subversive role in contemporary society, but it is a good kind of subversion....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"AAC&U launched its Making Excellence Inclusive (MEI) initiative in 2002 as a framework with four primary objectives: a focus on student intellectual and social development, a purposeful development and utilization of organizational resources to enhance student learning, a call for attention to the cultural difference learners bring to educational experiences, and a welcoming community that engages all of its diversity in the service of student and...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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 book aims 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"--
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