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Baber, Lorenzo; Fletcher, Randy; Graham, Edmund – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2015
Through an illustrative example of Together We Achieve at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois, this chapter outlines an institutional approach for improving conditions for Black men on campus.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, African American Students, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Pickel, Jessica; Bragg, Debra D. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2015
At a time when the nation is focusing so much attention on college completion, what do we know about how students are completing their community college programs? Does the open-access mission of community colleges translate into equitable outcomes? Pathways to Results (PTR) engages practitioners in using data to close equity gaps for student…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Nursing Education, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Palomino, Erick Nava; Ragsdale, Lee – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2015
Two authors describe how teaching Spanish in an Illinois prison led them to rewrite the examples used in a Spanish textbook and engage incarcerated students in novel ways in order to make up for the lack of conventional classroom resources.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correctional Institutions, Partnerships in Education, Spanish