FOCUS on Community College Success

• Author : Constance Staley
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 08 February 2018

FOCUS ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUCCESS, 5th Edition, delivers strategies for juggling school, family, work, and other challenges unique to community college students. Updated with new research from academic journals and practical career sources, this text leans forward to help today’s distracted students develop mindfulness, adopt time and financial management skills, deliver polished presentations, think critically, and better retain course content so they can study less. Features include entrance and exit interviews for tracking progress, new quick-study infographics, career planning

• Author : Constance Staley
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 April 2022

Staley's FOCUS ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUCCESS, 6th edition, equips you with the tools and confidence to succeed in college and beyond -- including strategies to overcome the special challenges of juggling school, family and work. Extremely practical activities help you build the focus you need to cut through distractions, transfer to four-year colleges if desired and achieve career goals. Updated with the latest research and best career practices, it emphasizes the skills today's employers seek. It also offers tips for

• Author : Constance Staley,Steve Staley
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 05 December 2016

The third edition of Staley and Staley's FOCUS ON COLLEGE AND CAREER SUCCESS recognizes the varied experiences you bring to the college classroom and guides you to build your motivation and increase your focus, driving your personal success in college -- and well beyond. All of the book's exercises are designed to help you learn more about yourself and focus on what you need to do to succeed, with learning tools that help you chart your progress. Important Notice: Media

• Author : Constance Staley
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 05 December 2016

With increased attention to diversity, mindfulness, resilience, grit, productivity, financial literacy, alternative presentation e-tools, and new career planning strategies, the fifth edition of FOCUS ON COLLEGE SUCCESS recognizes the varied experiences you bring to the college classroom and guides you to build your motivation and increase your focus. Because of its engaging, relevant style that speaks to readers directly, 97% of students surveyed recommended that their professor use this book again with next year's first-year students. While college success strategies may

• Author : Constance Staley
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 05 December 2016

With increased attention to diversity, mindfulness, resilience, grit, productivity, financial literacy, alternative presentation e-tools, and new career planning strategies, the fifth edition of FOCUS ON COLLEGE SUCCESS recognizes the varied experiences you bring to the college classroom and guides you to build your motivation and increase your focus. Because of its engaging, relevant style that speaks to readers directly, 97% of students surveyed recommended that their professor use this book again with next year's first-year students. While college success strategies may

• Author : Gloria Crisp,Deryl K. Hatch
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 19 September 2016

With calls for community colleges to play a greater role in increasing college completion, promising or high-impact practices (HIPs) are receiving attention as means to foster persistence, degree completion, and other desired academic outcomes. These include learning communities, orientation, first-year seminars, and supplemental instruction, among many others. This volume explores the latest research on: how student success program research is conceptualized and operationalized, evidence for ways in which interventions foster positive student outcomes, critical inquiry of how students themselves experience

• Author : Terry U. O'Banion,Marguerite M. Culp
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release : 15 December 2020

For much of the twentieth century, the definition of success for most community colleges revolved around student retention and graduation. This definition no longer works—if it ever did. In Student Success in the Community College: What Really Works? respected community college leaders, researchers, and innovators argue that student success is about redesigning community colleges in a manner that is consistent with each college’s mission, goals, student population, and resources. Concluding that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to increasing

• Author : C. Casey Ozaki,Paulette Dalpes,Deborah L. Floyd,Gianna Ramdin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 30 July 2019

This collection brings together insightful chapters which explore diverse student success initiatives and programs in response to challenges faced by community colleges. Each chapter of the collection magnifies a specific aspect of student affairs to illustrate how dedicated departments and practitioners have effectively supported student success via select projects or initiatives. Readers will gain a deeper insight into the contemporary applications, practices, and impacts of agendas such as the assessment of student affairs and services, student success programming, Guided Pathways,

• Author : Carol Carter,Sarah Lyman Kravits
• Publisher : Prentice Hall
• Release : 04 February 2023

&>For First Year Experience, Student Success, and Introduction to College courses for students attending two year programs. Keys to Community College Success sets the standard for connecting academic success to success beyond school, showing students how to apply strategies within college, career, and life. This Seventh edition retains Keys' tried-and-true emphasis on thinking skills and problem solving, re-imagined with two goals in mind: One, a risk and reward framework that reflects the demands today's students face, and two, a focus

• Author : Michael B. Paulsen
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 12 April 2016

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of

• Author : Nan L. Maxwell,Ann E. Person
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 19 January 2017

Community colleges face pressure to “do more with less” that have prompted many college leaders to consider fundamental changes to the ways they have typically done business. Because piecemeal solutions have not often been effective or efficient, colleges are moving far beyond discreet “programs” or “interventions,” and are attempting to implement comprehensive reform efforts. This volume conceptualizes comprehensive reform as being marked by: a focus on student success; a theory of change that ties programmatic components together in an intentional

• Author : Vanessa Smith Morest
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release : 19 December 2012

This book analyzes the emerging body of research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find interesting and relevant. To illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies are drawn from community colleges that are engaging in reform.

• Author : David A. Tandberg,Brian A. Sponsler,Randall W. Hanna,Jason P. Guilbeau
• Publisher : Teachers College Press
• Release : 04 February 2023

• Author : Chris Baldwin
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 13 June 2017

This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda. By highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges, The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges: What It Is, Why It Matters, And Where It’s Going describes the many innovations underway nationally. The book is an effort to bridge gaps between practice, policy, and research to provide the reader with a holistic view of community

• Author : Constance Staley
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 January 2011

According to recent market research, students are less academically engaged than ever before--a downward trend that has nothing to do with intellect, but everything to do with motivation, focus, and discipline. Visually appealing, research-based, and highly motivational, FOCUS ON COLLEGE SUCCESS, CONCISE EDITION, completely engages students with direct applications and immediate results. Thoroughly researched, the text covers the topics most important to student success and incorporates underlying themes of motivation and self-discipline throughout. Rather than talking down to students or