Full Description
Student affairs professionals are critical to the efforts to improve students' experiences and outcomes--especially in two-year institutions. This volume explores the history of student development and college impact theories and models in relation to two-year institutions. Topics covered include: * analysis of the applicability of the literature for diverse and current community colleges and student populations, * implications for practitioners, and * presentation of alternative models and lenses. This is the 174th 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.
Contents
EDITORS NOTES 5 C. Casey Ozaki, Robin L. Spaid 1. Moving from Student Development to Student Success 9 Rosemary Gillett-Karam 2. College Impact Theories Past and Present 23 C. Casey Ozaki 3. Applying the Socio-Ecological Outcomes Model to the Student Experiences of Men of Color 35 Frank Harris III, J. Luke Wood 4. Tracing LGBTQ Community College Students Experiences 47 Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Devika Dibya Choudhuri 5. Nurturing Student Success in Tribal Colleges 65 Loretta M. DeLong, Gerald E. Monette, C. Casey Ozaki 6. Relating Theories to Practice in an International Context 75 Miriam J. Carter, Francisco J. Marmolejo, Robin L. Spaid 7. Student Affairs: Moving from Theories and Theorists to Practice and Practitioners 85 Rosemary Gillett-Karam 8. Anticipating Practices and Theories in the Future 93 Robin L. Spaid, C. Casey Ozaki INDEX 101
