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7 General Discussion
Pages 41-50

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From page 41...
... It also includes a box on major issues identified by the summit participants in a pre-summit survey described in Chapter 1. SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES Several participants at the summit pointed to the immense financial challenges now facing community colleges.
From page 42...
... As Karl Pister, former chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a member of the organizing committee observed, community colleges face the simul taneous challenge of educating potential transfer students, adults com ing back to school, students taking developmental courses, and students interested in technical programs. In contrast, many four-year institutions have a "very monolithic culture" organized around conducting research.
From page 43...
... Support from policy makers and foundations is important, but the goals of improving educational attainment, particularly in STEM fields, will be met only if educators take responsibility for improving students' success, said Boggs. College and university faculty and administrators need to work together to improve completion rates and to facilitate the transfer of students from community colleges into upper division coursework.
From page 44...
... She pointed to the Council on Undergraduate Research as the source of several useful publications on models that community college faculty can use to integrate undergradu ate research into community colleges (e.g., Council on Undergraduate Research, 2009)
From page 45...
... Dual-enrollment programs also can encompass four-year institutions. For example, Dowd observed that Santa Ana College in California has been developing relationships with the local high school district and with the California State University system to make pathways among the institutions clear and intentional, with schol arships for students as an incentive to graduate from high school and follow a pathway through community college to a four-year institution.
From page 46...
... Deborah Boisvert from the Boston-Area Advanced Technological Education Connections suggested doing research in conjunction with the new tax grants being made available to promote stackable credentials (which are sequenced credentials that can move an individual along a career pathway or up a career ladder)
From page 47...
... And, as Monica Bruning from Iowa State University pointed out, the responsiveness and adaptability of community colleges make them ideal partners in such an initiative. "I can't think of a better group than the community college educational system in our country to handle [these changes]
From page 48...
... 3. Instituting specific curricular programs that have proved effective in retaining students in STEM education and careers.
From page 49...
... Making STEM education a community college prior ity could encourage the development of two-year and four-year institutional partnerships, emphasize the importance of community colleges in the evolving STEM education landscape, and focus federal funding on this issue.


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