Category: Leadership Abstracts
Student Success 2020: REACH
Student access and student success have always been central to the mission of the country's community colleges. Last summer, President Barack Obama challenged the nation's colleges to graduate more students with degrees, certificates, and workforce credentials in order to ensure the country's global competitiveness and citizens' quality of life. Anne Arundel Community College is responding to the president's call to action with Student Success 2020, a multi-tiered initiative driven by the goal of doubling the number of degree, certificate, and workforce credential recipients by 2020.
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
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Interventions to Support Postsecondary Education Success
Interventions
to Support Readiness, Recruitment, Access, Transition, and Retention for
Postsecondary Education Success
This month, Leadership Abstracts
features the executive summary excerpted from a new report released by UCLA's
Center for Mental Health in Schools. According to the report, although
recognition
is growing about the public health and civil rights imperative for
reducing the
high rate of school dropouts, too little attention is paid to
enhancing equity of opportunity for those transitioning from adolescence
to
young adulthood by increasing enrollment and success in postsecondary
education.
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