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Becoming a Student-Ready College

A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success
2. Aufl.

von: Tia Brown McNair, Susan Albertine, Nicole McDonald, Thomas Major, Michelle Asha Cooper
32,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	26.07.2022
ISBN/EAN:	9781119824220
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	240

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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. <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Design eco-systemic partnerships and support programs that nurture the relationship between the student and the institution</li> <li>Strengthen institutional capacity-building for achieving defined student-ready goals</li> <li>Build shared governance to promote agency and to foster change and collaboration</li> </ul> Becoming a Student-Ready College explores leaders' shared responsibilities in advancing student success and provides practical recommendations for educators at all levels.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Autorenportrait

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.

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TRANSFORM THE CULTURE OF YOUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO BETTER SERVE STUDENTS “Campuses need this book more than ever as they recover from the pandemic and try to address longstanding racial inequities on campus where stakeholders no longer have patience to wait for us to redesign higher education so that it is ‘student ready.’ Using students as the foundation for campus design—policies, practices, structures and ultimately our culture is the essential challenge of the next decade. This book continues to provide the steps campus leaders can take to make all students successful and to fulfill their mission and be accountable to policymakers, parents and students themselves.” —Adrianna Kezar, Wilbur Kieffer Endowed Professor and Dean’s Professor of Leadership, USC, Director of the Pullias Center “In this Second Edition of Becoming a Student-Ready College, the authors are to be commended for making an already outstanding resource even better for college presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculty, student services personnel, board members, and others interested in and committed to promoting student success and closing equity gaps. The book serves as an exceptional ‘how-to’ guide for colleges laser-focused on promoting success as a student-centered institution.” —Sonny Ramaswamy, President, Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities