Description
Community colleges face pressure to “do more with less” that have prompted many college leaders to consider fundamental changes to the ways they have typically done business. Because piecemeal solutions have not often been effective or efficient, colleges are moving far beyond discreet “programs” or “interventions,” and are attempting to implement comprehensive reform efforts.
This volume conceptualizes comprehensive reform as being marked by:
- a focus on student success;
- a theory of change that ties programmatic components together in an intentional and cohesive package, implemented at multiple levels throughout the college and touching the majority of students; and
- a culture of evidence that uses data to continuously assess programs and processes against student success.
Presenting original analyses that describe the rationale for comprehensive reform, this volume examines the challenges involved in implementing, evaluating, and sustaining those efforts.
This is the 176th 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.
Chapter
1 The Need for Comprehensive Reform: From Access to Completion
The Growing Focus on College Completion
Barriers to College Completion
The Limitations of Traditional Reform
The Need for Comprehensive Reform
2 Using Research and Evaluation to Support Comprehensive Reform
The First Generation of Reform: Achieving the Dream
Findings from the Early Implementation of ATD
The Second Generation of Reform: Completion by Design
CBD’s Early Implementation Experiences
The Role of Research in Comprehensive Reform Efforts
3 The Redesign of Developmental Education in Virginia
Phase IV: Institutionalization
Lessons Learned: Virginia Redesign as Comprehensive Reform
4 Addressing College Readiness Gaps at the College Door
Reform Efforts: California’s Early Assessment Program
Investigating Campus Differences in Assessment Rates and Coursetaking
Characteristics of Adopters
Changes in Assessment Rates
Developmental Coursetaking
5 Transforming the Community College Student Experience Through Comprehensive, Technology-Mediated Advising
Advising at a Typical Community College
Online Information Provision
A Vision for Transformation
Simplifying Program and Transfer Structures
Teaching Students How to Self-Advise
Leveraging More Sophisticated E-Advising Systems
Barriers to Successful Advising Transformation
Colleges Focused on Technical Rather than Adaptive Change
Colleges Lacked a Clear Vision
Colleges Encountered Challenges with Triaging
Some Students Resisted Self-Advising
Engage in a Long-Term Planning Process
Regard Technology as a Means, Not an End
Teach Students to Self-Advise
6 Using Career Pathways to Guide Students Through Programs of Study
What Are Career Pathways?
Career-Focused Curriculum and Instruction
Competency-Based Core Curriculum
Intensive Support Services
Accelerated Credit Attainment, Including Credit for Prior Learning
Contextualized Developmental Education
Promoting Career Pathways in Community Colleges
Building Health Care Career Pathways Through TAACCCT
Career-Focused Curriculum and Instruction
Competency-Based Core Curriculum
Intensive Student Supports
Accelerated Credit Attainment, Including Credit for Prior Learning
Contextualized Developmental Education
Evaluating and Scaling the H2P Consortium
7 Leveraging Technology to Create a Student-Focused Environment
From a Systems Approach to a Craft Method and Back to the Systems Approach
Lessons for Moving Online Technologies Forward
8 Competency-Based Programs as a Lever for Reforming Core Areas Jointly
The Path Toward Competency-Based Education
Implementing Change on Multiple Fronts Simultaneously
The Sinclair Model: Sustainable by Design
Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned for Practice
9 Using Data for Continuous Program Improvement
Continuous Improvement Framework
Measurement and Assessment System
Application of the Framework in Community Colleges
Challenges to Colleges’ Engagement in Continuous Improvement
Successful Examples from the Field
Create a Shared Vision for Comprehensive Reform
Dedicate Adequate Resources to Measurement and Assessment
Ensure Systems Provide Information that Aligns with Program Goals
10 Implementing Comprehensive Reform: Implications for Practice
Committed Leadership (ATD)/Refocusing the Mission (AACC)
Use of Evidence (ATD)/Accountability for Results (AACC)
Broad Engagement (ATD)/New Collaborations (AACC)
Systemic Improvement (ATD)/Redesign to Increase Readiness and Completion (AACC)
Equity (ATD)/Eradication of Attainment Gaps (AACC)
Assessment/Placement Reforms
Lessons from the Challenges to Change
Leaders Must Navigate Organizational Design
Governance and Unionization Can Complicate Reform
Reform May Require New Resources
Leadership Pipelines Pose Challenges
Comprehensive Reform for Student Success
：New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 176
( J-B CC Single Issue Community Colleges )
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