Society for College and University Planning
Terry O'Banion on Community Colleges & the 'Success Agenda'
O'Banion, who is president emeritus of the League for Innovation in the Community College, shares some of the major concerns and issues he sees in the "big picture" of the various, current "student success" initiatives. It's a thoughtful review, and he makes the point that the current "completion agenda" initiatives are a "tectonic shift" for higher education.
Like the foundations, most states are also responding to the call, with many planning or already carrying out the completion agenda. So are many individual colleges. It is unlikely than any community college, or any educational institution, will be untouched by the completion agenda. There has never been a “movement” in the community college world so widely joined and supported by such deep pockets. The completion agenda is, indeed, a tectonic shift.
O'Banion categories the issues to be kept in mind as: the terminal degree; a liberal education; a very big deal; and a chance for reform.
Labels: community colleges, completion, success, Funding, Academic Planning, institutional direction planning