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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795762903321

Autore

Isserles Robin G. <1968->

Titolo

The costs of completion : student success in community college / / Robin G. Isserles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4214-4207-8

9781421442082

9781421442075

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 330 pages)

Disciplina

378.15430973

Soggetti

Community college students - United States

Academic achievement - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Neoliberalism ascending : persistence, completion, and student success in the college for all Era -- Metrics for success : austerity, accountability, and the new edu-philanthropists -- Making sense of the data : institutional success as degree completion at the community college -- Challenging narrow definitions of success : what Is the student sensibility? -- The student sensibility and structural exclusion : It's not about grit -- Early interactions in community college : the marketing of guided pathways meets the student sensibility -- Addressing the crisis : creating the community college as an authentic caring institution.

Sommario/riassunto

"The author tracks the history of concerns over student retention and completion in community colleges, evaluates prior attempts to use national data sets to measure student success, and draws on interviews with students that highlight their experiences prior to and during college. The author develops the concept of "student sensibility" as a way to underscore the situational experiences of students and stresses the importance of foregrounding their experiences in our understanding of student success"--