Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Amer Council Ed Ace (Post Acq)
Pages: 160
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-1486-6 • Hardback • December 2012 • $98.00 • (£75.00)
978-1-4422-1487-3 • Paperback • November 2017 • $24.00 • (£17.99)
978-1-4422-1488-0 • eBook • December 2012 • $22.50 • (£16.99)
Debbie L. Sydow is the president of Richard Bland College.
Richard Alfred is professor emeritus of higher education in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapters
Prologue: On the Threshold of Restructuring
- Breaking Barriers, Boundaries and Beliefs
- Paradox of the Present
- Organizing for Innovation
- Shape of the Future
Epilogue: Perspective and a Change in Focus
About the Authors
With the spotlight on community colleges as never before, this book is a MUST READ for all community college educators! In honoring the past, Sydow and Alfred provide a great synopsis of the history of the community college movement. As we look toward the future, they challenge educational innovators to lead the way for community colleges to be 'change adept' as opposed to 'change adverse.' Opportunities abound as never before for community colleges to help insure the economic future of our country. The ideas contained in Re-visioning Community Colleges will inspire and motivate educators to chart a bold future for this important sector of higher education.
— E. Ann McGee, president, Seminole State College of Florida
Sydow and Alfred have provided, through this text, a desperately needed field guide for the uneven and shifting landscape surrounding today’s community college. Grounded in thoughtful context, yet providing a view of promising practices, the authors ask fresh questions of the reader, suggesting opportunity, and ideally prompting deliberate action for grappling with the seemingly unending disruptive innovation in higher education.
— Daniel J. Phelan PhD, President and CEO, Jackson College; 2017 Chair of Board of Directors of American Association of Community Colleges