College Culture Student Success

Author : Debra Jean Anderson
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780321433053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Culture, Student Success written by Debra Jean Anderson and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Culture, Student Success helps students develop reading, writing, and thinking skills as well as become familiar with the common customs, underlying assumptions, and strategies for success associated with being a college student. This brief, flexible, and contemporary reader explores topics familiar to many of today's college students, including being a first-generation college student, balancing college and work, recognizing different learning styles, taking responsibility for one's education, and experiencing campus life. Students will become more knowledgeable about the larger community they are joining and better understand some of the experiences of their peers even as they reflect on their own experiences, assumptions, and motivation. Apparatus that invites students to bring their own experiences to an interpretation, recognize how authors make use of rhetorical techniques, make thematic connections across multiple readings, and conduct research on the Web ensures that College Culture, Student Success is particularly effective in composition courses.

Author : Tia Brown McNair
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119119510
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Student-Ready College written by Tia Brown McNair and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boost student success by reversing your perspective on college readiness The national conversation asking "Are students college-ready?" concentrates on numerous factors that are beyond higher education's control. Becoming a Student-Ready College flips the college readiness conversation to provide a new perspective on creating institutional value and facilitating student success. Instead of focusing on student preparedness for college (or lack thereof), this book asks the more pragmatic question of what are colleges and universities doing to prepare for the students who are entering their institutions? What must change in an institution's policies, practices, and culture in order to be student-ready? Clear and concise, this book is packed with insightful discussion and practical strategies for achieving your ambitious student success goals. These ideas for redesigning practices and policies provide more than food for thought—they offer a real-world framework for real institutional change. You'll learn: How educators can acknowledge their own biases and assumptions about underserved students in order to allow for change New ways to advance student learning and success How to develop and value student assets and social capital Strategies and approaches for creating a new student-focused culture of leadership at every level To truly become student-ready, educators must make difficult decisions, face the pressures of accountability, and address their preconceived notions about student success head-on. Becoming a Student-Ready College provides a reality check based on today's higher education environment.

Author : Amy Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951693169
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Success written by Amy Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa M. Nunn
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813563631
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining Student Success written by Lisa M. Nunn and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard work. Why then, do high schools that supposedly subscribe to this view send students to college at such dramatically different rates? Why do students from one school succeed while students from another struggle? To the usual answer—an imbalance in resources—this book adds a far more subtle and complicated explanation. Defining Student Success shows how different schools foster dissimilar and sometimes conflicting ideas about what it takes to succeed—ideas that do more to preserve the status quo than to promote upward mobility. Lisa Nunn’s study of three public high schools reveals how students’ beliefs about their own success are shaped by their particular school environment and reinforced by curriculum and teaching practices. While American culture broadly defines success as a product of hard work or talent (at school, intelligence is the talent that matters most), Nunn shows that each school refines and adapts this American cultural wisdom in its own distinct way—reflecting the sensibilities and concerns of the people who inhabit each school. While one school fosters the belief that effort is all it takes to succeed, another fosters the belief that hard work will only get you so far because you have to be smart enough to master course concepts. Ultimately, Nunn argues that these school-level adaptations of cultural ideas about success become invisible advantages and disadvantages for students’ college-going futures. Some schools’ definitions of success match seamlessly with elite college admissions’ definition of the ideal college applicant, while others more closely align with the expectations of middle or low-tier institutions of higher education. With its insights into the transmission of ideas of success from society to school to student, this provocative work should prompt a reevaluation of the culture of secondary education. Only with a thorough understanding of this process will we ever find more consistent means of inculcating success, by any measure.

Author : Sherrie L. Nist-Olejnik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780205198429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Success Strategies and College Culture, Student Success written by Sherrie L. Nist-Olejnik and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Package consists of: 0205646344 / 9780205646340 College Success 032143305X / 9780321433053 College Culture, Student Success (A Longman Topics Reader)

Author : Samuel D. Museus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136836160
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Campus Cultures written by Samuel D. Museus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Campus Cultures is the first book to explicitly focus on how campus cultures shape the experiences of racially diverse student populations.

Author : Mary Grigsby
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438426399
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Life through the Eyes of Students written by Mary Grigsby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggles and achievements of today's college students are thrown into stark relief in this fascinating account of how such students make meaning of their lives. Author Mary Grigsby uses the voices of students themselves to discuss how they view, adjust to, and participate in the college student culture of a large midwestern university and to explore what they think of their educational experiences. Topics include a look at a typical day on campus, student subcultures and the lifestyles they engender, whether college life conforms to the images and scenarios of popular culture, and student approaches to making it through college. Going to college has become the major coming-of-age experience for many people in the United States, and Mary Grigsby has provided a compelling, readable, and up-to-date account of this formative period.

Author : Mitchell A. Levy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317430506
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic and Student Affairs in Collaboration written by Mitchell A. Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic and Student Affairs in Collaboration provides a comprehensive and evidenced-based understanding of the partnerships necessary to achieve an institutional culture devoted to student success. Chapter authors explore how to design, implement, and assess collaborative efforts between student and academic affairs in support of increased student success. This book provides best practices for fostering and enhancing campus dialogue, career development pathways, academic support services, and other important initiatives to increase retention and learning outcomes, improve motivation and goal attainment, and enhance institutional accountability. This book is a must-read for scholars, faculty, leaders, and practitioners in Student Affairs and Higher Education interested in achieving student success at their universities and colleges.

Author : George D. Kuh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118046854
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Student Success in College written by George D. Kuh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when these conditions are present. Based on the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, this book provides concrete examples from twenty institutions that other colleges and universities can learn from and adapt to help create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment.

Author : Ken Kay
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1071831313
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining Student Success written by Ken Kay and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the leader of a fresh, bold, enduring vision of education for your district or school. The future of learning has arrived, and it requires bold educational leadership and a dramatic redefinition of what it means to be a successful student today. Redefining Student Success invites you to lead this transformation with audacity. It engages leaders with the concepts and actions needed to reimagine schools, address inequities, and help today’s students develop the skills they need for personal, economic, and civic success. This vital guide supports transformative leadership with Concrete guidance on how to create a Portrait of a Graduate and Portrait of an Educator which will help ensure teachers have a unified vision for professional growth and student success. Reflection prompts that help you recognize your strengths, spark discussion among stakeholders, and identify next steps for inspired action. Compelling examples of students already engaged in creative, self-directed problem-solving around issues that matter to them and their communities, together with stories that illustrate how districts and schools have arrived at their own vision of what education must become. Companion guides to 21st century learning for parents and students available online. The time is now to reset educational outcomes, sync schools with the demands of 21st century society, and meet the needs of every learner, in every community.