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America's Broken Promise: Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap
Most community college leaders, administrators, faculty, and policymakers take pride in knowing that community colleges are the only postsecondary institutions that promise to educate and prepare all interested Americans. Yet, they are often publicly criticized by politicians, tax payers, and fellow educators. In America's Broken Promise, Dr. Eduardo Marti shows how community colleges have multiple, difficult, and often competing missions, particularly surrounding access and achievement rates. He reminds us that a very high percentage of students entering the community college "open door" are neither college ready nor intent upon graduation. He then critically traces the development of their unique role in American society, differentiates them from selective-achievement institutions, and maps out new ways these institutions can and must come closer to fulfilling their achievement promise.
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America's Broken Promise: Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap
Most community college leaders, administrators, faculty, and policymakers take pride in knowing that community colleges are the only postsecondary institutions that promise to educate and prepare all interested Americans. Yet, they are often publicly criticized by politicians, tax payers, and fellow educators. In America's Broken Promise, Dr. Eduardo Marti shows how community colleges have multiple, difficult, and often competing missions, particularly surrounding access and achievement rates. He reminds us that a very high percentage of students entering the community college "open door" are neither college ready nor intent upon graduation. He then critically traces the development of their unique role in American society, differentiates them from selective-achievement institutions, and maps out new ways these institutions can and must come closer to fulfilling their achievement promise.
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America's Broken Promise: Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap

America's Broken Promise: Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap

America's Broken Promise: Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap

America's Broken Promise: Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap

Overview

Most community college leaders, administrators, faculty, and policymakers take pride in knowing that community colleges are the only postsecondary institutions that promise to educate and prepare all interested Americans. Yet, they are often publicly criticized by politicians, tax payers, and fellow educators. In America's Broken Promise, Dr. Eduardo Marti shows how community colleges have multiple, difficult, and often competing missions, particularly surrounding access and achievement rates. He reminds us that a very high percentage of students entering the community college "open door" are neither college ready nor intent upon graduation. He then critically traces the development of their unique role in American society, differentiates them from selective-achievement institutions, and maps out new ways these institutions can and must come closer to fulfilling their achievement promise.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781944079062
Publisher: Hudson Whitman/ Excelsior College Press
Publication date: 04/01/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
File size: 347 KB

About the Author

Dr. Eduardo Martí has served community colleges over thirty years, as interim president of Bronx Community College, Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges of the City University of New York, president emeritus Queensborough Community College, president of Corning Community College of the State University of New York (SUNY), and as President of SUNY's Tompkins Cortland Community College. Dr. Martí also served as Executive Dean of Tunxis Community College and Acting President of Middlesex Community College, both located in Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by John Ebersole
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Perils of the Promise: The Early Years
Chapter 2: The 1950s and Beyond: Anyone Can Enter, But Can Anyone Achieve
Chapter 3: Repairing the Broken Promise: Creating a Culture of Care in the Community College Setting
Chapter 4: Transformative Interventions: Can We Convert Community Colleges into Student-Centered Institutions?
Chapter 5: Funding the Change
Chapter 6: A Brighter Future: Institutional, Administrative, Faculty, and Student Development
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