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In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten
million students each year-nearly half of the nation's
undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an
undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure
on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their
students. Redesigning America's Community Colleges is a concise,
evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions
typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions.
It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially
increase their rates of student success, if they are willing to
rethink the ways in which they organize programs of study, support
services, and instruction. Community colleges were originally
designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize
completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a
cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a
bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors
urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in
favor of "guided pathways"-clearer, more educationally coherent
programs of study that simplify students' choices without limiting
their options and that enable them to complete credentials and
advance to further education and the labor market more quickly and
at less cost. Distilling a wealth of data amassed from the
Community College Research Center (Teachers College, Columbia
University), Redesigning America's Community Colleges offers a
fundamental redesign of the way two-year colleges operate,
stressing the integration of services and instruction into more
clearly structured programs of study that support every student's
goals.
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