13 Ideas That Are Transforming the Community College World by Terry U. O'Banion

Author:Terry U. O'Banion
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Convergence

The field is beginning to appreciate the inherent structural flaw of prerequisite remedial education and to witness the evidence of student success in college-level math and English courses by implementing multiple measures placement and corequisite remediation. National postsecondary education leaders, policy makers, institutional leaders, and practitioners are converging around the transformation of developmental education into an enterprise that recognizes that access and quality are no longer mutually exclusive.

New evidence is proving that access can be achieved and quality learning can be maintained through a fundamental recognition that the problems of student success were never about the lack of academic readiness of students or the inability of faculty to maintain high academic standards in diverse classrooms. By merely recognizing the learning students demonstrated in high school and focusing instruction on students passing gateway courses, colleges can see dramatic improvements in gateway course success and ultimately greater college completion rates.

The transformation is well under way, and there is reason to believe that it will only accelerate as state legislatures, systems, and institutional boards of trustees absorb the large-scale impact the reforms have had at the institutional, system, and state levels.

National higher education policy and practice organizations have realized that the evidence of student success from these reforms is compelling enough to support the transformation of developmental education at scale. The “Core Principles for Transforming Remediation within a Comprehensive Student Success Strategy: A Joint Statement,”[47] published by Achieving the Dream, American Association of Community Colleges, the Charles A. Dana Center, Complete College America, Education Commission of the States, and Jobs for the Future, outlines six principles to ensure that systemic reform of developmental education is the foundation of comprehensive student success strategies that campuses should pursue to dramatically increase college completion rates. The principles advocate for strategies to ensure the following:

Every student’s postsecondary education begins with an intake process to choose an academic direction and identify the support needed to pass relevant credit-bearing gateway courses in the first year.

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