Heating Up And Cooling Out At The Community College: The Potential Of Student-Faculty Interactions To Contribute To Student Aspiration. This item is unavailable.Heating Up And Cooling Out At The Community College: The Potential Of Student-Faculty Interactions To Contribute To Student Aspiration

Nearly half of the nation's college students attend community colleges. With increasing emphasis on graduation and transfer rates in higher education, the importance of micro-level interactions that shape student aspiration has been neglected. This study examines the potential of faculty at the community college to positively influence, or “heat up,” student aspirations. This study attempts to bridge the “cooling out” and “heating up” literature in the context of the modern community college by recognizing the role of the individual academic program and faculty. This book applies organizational theory and systems perspective to examine the potential at the community college to "heat up" student aspiration at the institutional, program, and faculty levels. This analysis would be useful to faculty and administrators at community colleges, as well as policy makers or researchers in the field of higher education.

Elena Nitecki earned her doctoral degree in Urban Education from Temple University, a Master of Education degree from Neumann University, and a Master of Social Work degree from Temple University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Childhood Education, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.