Minding the Dream
eBook - ePub

Minding the Dream

The Process and Practice of the American Community College

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Minding the Dream

The Process and Practice of the American Community College

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments for Second Edition
  3. Foreword
  4. An Overview of the American Community College
  5. Community Colleges: Private Benefit or Public Good?
  6. Financing Community College
  7. Measuring Community College Effectiveness
  8. Governance
  9. A Changed Pedagogy
  10. Leadership to Guide the Dream
  11. Global Adaptations
  12. Developmental Studies
  13. The Transfer Experience
  14. Economic and Workforce Development
  15. English as a Second Language
  16. Programmatic Challenges of Diverse Demographics
  17. Summary: Minding the Dream
  18. References
  19. Index