Tia Brown Mcnair, Susan Albertine, Nicole Mcdonald, Thomas Major, Michelle Asha Cooper

Becoming a Student-Ready College (eBook, ePUB)

A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reimagining the Culture of Leadership for Student Success A revision to the practical and popular guide, this book asks the crucial question within today's environment, "What's a student-ready college?" Higher education leaders are responsible for preparing their institutions to serve the students they admit in the best way possible. By asking ourselves how we can transform our institutions into student-ready colleges to create a new culture of leadership that is responsive to current challenges and focuses on understanding and utilizing student assets and social capital to achieve shared goals for student success. Becoming a Student-Ready College shows you how. Conversations in higher education tend to focus on defining college readiness for students. Too often, we forget to ask the question from the other side, and we miss important opportunities to develop institutions in ways that can help students thrive. Higher education leaders and educators can better serve today's college students through responsive and redesigned practices and policies. This updated edition features revisions and new material that speak to the social realities of today's incoming students and cover the latest strategies and techniques for connecting with learners to foster equity and success. * Leverage existing resources to the benefit of students and deliver the right support at the right time to achieve equity in student outcomes and build on students' assets * Design eco-systemic partnerships and support programs that nurture the relationship between the student and the institution * Strengthen institutional capacity-building for achieving defined student-ready goals * Build shared governance to promote agency and to foster change and collaboration Becoming a Student-Ready College explores leaders' shared responsibilities in advancing student success and provides practical recommendations for educators at all levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119824206
• Artikelnr.: 64693022

Autorenporträt

TIA BROWN McNAIR is the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and the Executive Director of TRHT campus centers at AAC&U. She is co-author of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk. SUSAN ALBERTINE is the retired Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at AAC&U. NICOLE McDONALD works as Assistant Vice Provost for Student Success Strategies at the University of Houston. THOMAS MAJOR, JR. is Associate General Counsel at Lumina Foundation. MICHELLE ASHA COOPER is the Acting Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Office of Post-secondary Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xiii

About the Authors xvii

Acknowledgements xxi

Chapter One: The Time Is Now: A Call for Student-Ready Colleges 3

The Quest for College-Ready Students and Redefining Readiness 10

A Profile of Twenty-First-Century Students 16

The Science of Student Readiness 22

The Value of Student-Ready Colleges and the Emerging School-to-Work Economy 25

The Path Forward: Taking Steps to Transformation 29

Chapter Two: Leadership Values and Organizational Culture 33

New Perspectives on Leadership 37

Values and the Student-Ready College 39

Does Collaboration Serve a Greater Good or Is It an End in Itself? 41

Leadership for Grassroots Empowerment 43

Changing Perspective on Educators 47

Exemplary Practice: The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 47

Positive Vision of Educators 54

Inclusive Professional Development for Everyone Who Teaches 57

Student-Ready Practice of Governance 62

Building Out the Change Effort 64

Exemplary Practice: Alverno College 65

A Pragmatic Approach to Shared Governance 69

A Vision of a Place Ready for Students 72

Conclusion: A Vision to Guide Collaboration 76

Chapter Three: Intentionality by Design to Support Student Success 79

Intentionality by Design: Centering Equity, Diversity, and Belonging 83

Removing Systemic Barriers and Challenges for Students 85

A Caring Educator 87

Embracing a Paradigm Shift 90

A Culture of Belonging 95

Defining Student Success as Learning 97

Promoting Excellence in Student Engagement 99

Charting Your Course of Action 102

Conclusion 103

Chapter Four: Leveraging Ecosystem Partnerships in Support of Student Readiness 107

Engaging the Ecosystem 111

A Critical Survival Instinct: The Opportunistic Self-Awareness of Student-Ready Colleges 115

Three Levers for Establishing and Aligning Impactful Ecosystem Partnerships 120

Student-Centered Symbiosis in Support of Today's College Students 130

Questions to Consider in Establishing and Aligning Ecosystem Partnerships 133

Conclusion 139

Chapter Five: Educating the Whole Student 143

Whole-Person Leadership and Learning 146

Belief in Student Capacity to Learn as a Genuine and Public Commitment 150

Challenges to Belief in Student Capacity to Learn 154

Addressing Deficit-Mindedness 157

Sites for Action 165

The Wealth That Students Bring 167

Institutional Long Views 168

Leadership Responsive to the Ecosystem 172

Conclusion 178

Conclusion 179

References 187

Index 209