The Urgency of Now: Equity and Excellence (The Futures Series on Community Colleges) - Softcover

Kolb, Marcus M.; Cargile, Samuel D.; Wood, Jason; Ebrahimi, Nassim; Priddy, Lynn E.; Dodge, Laurie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475814518 ISBN 13: 9781475814514

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

The Urgency of Now: Equity and Excellence asserts that in addition to being granted access to the community college, all 21st century students need uncompromised support to succeed. Success means demonstrating relevant learning for transfer and employment, and timely completion of credentials. Looking to the future, the authors contend that community colleges, both by their past successes and future challenges, are at the epicenter for determining the essential ingredients of a new student-centered system that guarantees equity and excellence.

About this title

About the Author:

Marcus Kolb is Assistant Vice President for Assessment and Academic Policy at Ivy Tech Community College where he collaborates with faculty and staff to improve student learning.

Samuel Cargile is Vice President and Senior Advisor to the CEO at Lumina Foundation, where he served as one of the architects of the initiative Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count and led its transition to an independent nonprofit organization.

Lynn Priddy serves as Provost and Chief Academic Officer of National American University following 14 years of service with the Higher Learning Commission.

Nassim Ebrahimi is the Director for Learning Outcomes Assessment at Anne Arundel Community College, including launching several campus-wide innovations in teaching and assessment.

Jason Wood is President of Southwest Wisconsin Technical College. Prior, he served as Executive Vice-President for Student and Academic Services at Central Wyoming College, including oversight of daily operations and development of new programs and services.

Laurie Dodge is vice chancellor of institutional assessment and planning and vice provost at Brandman University. Dr. Dodge is a national leader in competency-based education and is serving as chair of the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN)

Review:

The Urgency of Now: Equity and Excellence is an outstanding read that is recommended for anyone concerned with the plight of higher education. This book presents reasoned arguments which support the goal of reforming community colleges chiefly as a matter of sound public policy and implicitly to further the Judeo-Christian imperative which calls for social justice. (Reflective Teaching)

The Urgency of Now assembles some of the most pressing topics facing today’s community college leaders, and it serves as a good primer for those issues.... [T]he topics are relevant, well researched, and presented clearly in a logical and substantive sequence. Because of this, the book may be useful for administrators, faculty, or board members who are new to the community college arena to become more familiar with these issues. For community college researchers, the book efficiently outlines the major elements of each of the emerging issues for community colleges, and it compiles many current, relevant references on the respective topics.... [I]t may help start meaningful conversations about change on campus or in the boardroom. (Community College Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1475814518
• ISBN 13: 9781475814514
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150