Download or read book The Creative Community College written by John E. Roueche and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides 14 profiles of innovative and transformational leadership at community colleges. The experience and knowledge shared by the contributors demonstrate how community colleges are adapting creatively to rapidly changing economies, technologies, and education standards"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book 13 Ideas That Are Transforming the Community College World written by Terry U. O'Banion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s community colleges are experiencing the most creative and substantive period of transformation in their 118-year history. There has never been so much research, so much support from foundations, and so much commitment from national leaders to reimagine community colleges for today and for the future. 13 Ideas that Are Transforming the Community College World, edited by Terry U. O’Banion, is the seminal work that captures the major ideas faced by community college leaders in this period of transformation. The book includes 23 authors representing 12 national organizations, perhaps the most significant and substantive list of individuals ever to participate in an edited book on the community college. Each author is a nationally-recognized authority on his or her chapter, and all have played major roles as leaders of national organizations.
Download or read book Redesigning America s Community Colleges written by Thomas R. Bailey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year—nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of student success, if they are willing to rethink the ways in which they organize programs of study, support services, and instruction. Community colleges were originally designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in favor of “guided pathways”—clearer, more educationally coherent programs of study that simplify students’ choices without limiting their options and that enable them to complete credentials and advance to further education and the labor market more quickly and at less cost. Distilling a wealth of data amassed from the Community College Research Center (Teachers College, Columbia University), Redesigning America’s Community Colleges offers a fundamental redesign of the way two-year colleges operate, stressing the integration of services and instruction into more clearly structured programs of study that support every student’s goals.
Download or read book The Creative Community written by J.M. Eger and published by sdsu. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cool Community Colleges written by Stuart Rosenfield and published by Amer. Assn. of Community Col. This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of programs at community colleges are highlighted throughout the pages of this popular book. Explore their secrets to success for supporting the local economy and improving the cultural depths of their respective regions. At a time when civic and cultural contributions to the economy and the workforce get overlooked and are clearly underappreciated, this insightful book provides a refreshing testament to how properly planned and executed arts programs can positively influence a community. It's time to ensure that your civic and cultural contributions get noticed
Download or read book The Creative Campus written by and published by The American Assembly. This book was released on 2004 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of the Creative Class written by Richard Florida and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century-now updated with a new preface In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of engineers and managers, academics and musicians, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and lawyers, poets and programmer, whose work turns on the creation of new forms. Increasingly, Florida observes, this Creative Class determines how workplaces are organized, which companies prosper or go bankrupt, and which cities thrive, stagnate or decline. Florida offers a detailed occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class, examines its global impact, and explores the factors that shape "quality of place" in our changing cities and suburbs. Now updated with a new preface that considers the latest developments in our changing cities, The Rise of the Creative Class is the definitive edition of this foundational book on our contemporary economy.
Download or read book White Awareness written by Judy H. Katz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage 1.
Download or read book Beginning Songwriting written by Andrea Stolpe and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). Learn to write songs! This book presents the basic concepts of popular songwriting, such as song construction, creativity techniques, melodic and harmonic development, how to write memorable lyrics, and other core topics. Hands-on exercises make it practical, and the accompanying recording illustrates the concepts for those who don't yet read music.
Download or read book The creative community written by John Eger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, San Diego State University, language: English, abstract: Creating a twenty-first-century city is not so much a question of technology as it is of jobs, dollars and quality of life. A community's plan to reinvent itself for the new, knowledge-based economy and society therefore requires educating all its citizens about this new global revolution in the nature of work. To succeed, cities must prepare their citizens to take ownership of their communities and educate the next generation of leaders and workers to meet the new global challenges of what is now being termed the "Creative Economy.” At the heart of such efforts must be recognition of the vital roles that art and technology play in enhancing economic development and, ultimately, defining a "creative community" -- a community that exploits the vital linkages among art, technology and commerce. A community with a sense of place. A community that nurtures attracts and holds the most creative and innovation workers. Those communities placing a premium on cultural, ethnic, and artistic diversity, reinventing their knowledge factories for the creative age, and building the new information infrastructures for our age, will likely burst with creativity and entrepreneurial fervor. These are the ingredients so essential to developing and attracting the bright and creative people to generate new patents and inventions, innovative world-class products and services, and the finance and marketing plans to support them. Nothing less will ensure a city's economic, social, and political viability in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Vision written by Community College of Allegheny County and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Creative College written by Graham Jeffery and published by Trentham Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on case studies, this book explores how teachers, artists and arts organisations can collaborate to create a culture of artistic aspiration and success for students. It analyses and explains what is needed to make such partnerships a success and explores the challenges and issues faced.
Download or read book Unrelenting Change Innovation and Risk written by Daniel J. Phelan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably, the nation’s community colleges have experienced more change in the last several years than they have over the prior 115 years of their existence. Rapid changes in technology, external pressures for accountability and student completion, aggressive competition from other higher education institutions (i.e., public, for-profit, and private), changes in enrollment demographics, as well as new economic, market, and operational models stand to completely disrupt this relatively young enterprise. Unrelenting Change provides useful, practical examples for community college leaders as they seek to thoughtfully and strategically align their organization for the new dynamic in higher education. Furthermore, Unrelenting Change offers insights into the change process, including institutional assessment and readiness, consideration of cultural implications, strategic intentions toward innovation, as well as risk, failure, and success. Rather than perceiving change and disruptive innovation as merely happenstance, or luck, the author provides discernment into the topic so as to give community college leaders solid, guidance, if not improved odds, in undertaking this important, competitive edge for the future of their intuitions, and by extension, their students.
Download or read book COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS USE OF CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS SELF REGULATION AND CRITICAL THINKING STYLE AS POTENTIAL MEDIATORS TO CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING written by Robert J. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and design programs at community colleges challenge students to think of numerous and diverse creative concepts when faced with an assignment that requires creative problem-solving. Concurrently the students are learning to acquire new disciplinary skills and manage the hurdles of various life responsibilities. Thus, it becomes the inspiring role of the art faculty to challenge their students to think creatively and critically about their work. I argue that training focused on creative thinking, self-regulation, and critical thinking in the classroom or through training workshops can improve these latent abilities. This dissertation presents the results of an educational intervention study examining whether undergraduate students in a community college setting who routinely practice and exercise creative thinking skills, self-regulation strategies, and critical thinking can improve their creative problem-solving. Prior research suggests that these skills and strategies can be learned and are critical to a student's success in college. The sample for this study consisted of undergraduate students at a community college in Southeastern Pennsylvania who were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. Training modules were delivered over ten weeks of the fall semester via the college's learning management system. Participants could work through the training modules at their own pace. A pre-test/post-test design using divergent and convergent thinking, metacognition awareness, and critical thinking measured participants' change in the understanding of those constructs. An additional post-test only, final design project, was used as a measure of the constructs. Demographic data were gathered through a questionnaire. The results indicate that there were no positive significant differences in the constructs from pre-test to post-test. The results of the final project post-test measure indicate that the treatment group had marginally higher scores on the design construct, the creative thinking sub-component of the design construct, and the critical thinking construct. The results also suggest that the additional training had little or no effect on the treatment group.
Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Community College written by John E. Roueche and published by Amer. Assn. of Community Col. This book was released on 2005 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop an entrepreneurial culture with the best practices discussed inside this resource. Declining public resources, coupled with the demand that we do more with less, make it more of an imperative that entrepreneurism, flexibility, and adaptability thrive in the community college environment. Seeing how other community colleges have brought entrepreneurship and creativity to life in their programs and services will inspire your own ideas for increasing revenue and reducing costs. You will also discover how strong leaders can become collaborators, facilitators, consensus makers, and incentive providers.
Download or read book The Culture of a Community College written by Howard B. London and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Creative Growth Exercises on Community College Art written by Gail Marie Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
