Full Description
Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar.
New employees, current leaders, graduate students, legislators, and boards of trustees need a grounded sense of the magnitude of the community college sector. Minding the Dream evokes the laudatory goals of the early pioneers of the community college movement, while accurately framing key programs and political conundrums challenging community colleges. Minding the Dream celebrates community colleges' successes and is scrupulously honest about their failings.
Community college leaders need honest information about what's working and need to be challenged about the things that are not. State Legislatures and Congress need updated facts to assist them in making wise funding decisions regarding community colleges. Community college advocates need updated information to assist them in their advocacy work, and Higher Education programs need an updated book about community colleges to use as a basic text. These are the people who can benefit from reading Minding the Dream.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
CHAPTER 1: An Overview of the American Community College
CHAPTER 2: Community Colleges: Private Benefit or Public Good?
CHAPTER 3: Financing Community College
CHAPTER 4: Measuring Community College Effectiveness
CHAPTER 5: Governance
CHAPTER 6: A Changed Pedagogy
CHAPTER 7: Leadership Guide to the Dream
CHAPTER 8: Global Adaptations: International Implications of the American Community College Model
CHAPTER 9: Developmental Studies
CHAPTER 10: The Transfer Experience
CHAPTER 11: Economic And Workforce Development
CHAPTER 12: English as a Second Language
CHAPTER 13: Programmatic Challenges of Diverse Demographics
Summary: Minding the Dream
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