{"product_id":"becoming-a-student-ready-college-isbn-9781119824190","title":"Becoming a Student-Ready College","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReimagining the Culture of Leadership for Student Success\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003eBecoming a Student-Ready College \u003c\/i\u003eshows you how.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConversations 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eLeverage 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesign eco-systemic partnerships and support programs that nurture the relationship between the student and the institution\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eStrengthen institutional capacity-building for achieving defined student-ready goals\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuild shared governance to promote agency and to foster change and collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming a Student-Ready College\u003c\/i\u003e explores leaders' shared responsibilities in advancing student success and provides practical recommendations for educators at all levels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One: The Time Is Now: A Call for Student-Ready Colleges 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Quest for College-Ready Students and Redefining Readiness 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Profile of Twenty-First-Century Students 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Science of Student Readiness 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Value of Student-Ready Colleges and the Emerging School-to-Work Economy 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Path Forward: Taking Steps to Transformation 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo: Leadership Values and Organizational Culture 33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Perspectives on Leadership 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValues and the Student-Ready College 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes Collaboration Serve a Greater Good or Is It an End in Itself? 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeadership for Grassroots Empowerment 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Perspective on Educators 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExemplary Practice: The University of Wisconsin–Whitewater 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePositive Vision of Educators 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInclusive Professional Development for Everyone Who Teaches 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent-Ready Practice of Governance 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding Out the Change Effort 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExemplary Practice: Alverno College 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Pragmatic Approach to Shared Governance 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Vision of a Place Ready for Students 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: A Vision to Guide Collaboration 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three: Intentionality by Design to Support Student Success 79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntentionality by Design: Centering Equity, Diversity, and Belonging 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemoving Systemic Barriers and Challenges for Students 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Caring Educator 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmbracing a Paradigm Shift 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Culture of Belonging 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining Student Success as Learning 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePromoting Excellence in Student Engagement 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharting Your Course of Action 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Leveraging Ecosystem Partnerships in Support of Student Readiness 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngaging the Ecosystem 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Critical Survival Instinct: The Opportunistic Self-Awareness of Student-Ready Colleges 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree Levers for Establishing and Aligning Impactful Ecosystem Partnerships 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent-Centered Symbiosis in Support of Today’s College Students 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions to Consider in Establishing and Aligning Ecosystem Partnerships 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five: Educating the Whole Student 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhole-Person Leadership and Learning 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelief in Student Capacity to Learn as a Genuine and Public Commitment 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges to Belief in Student Capacity to Learn 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddressing Deficit-Mindedness 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSites for Action 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wealth That Students Bring 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutional Long Views 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeadership Responsive to the Ecosystem 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTIA BROWN McNAIR\u003c\/b\u003e is the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and the Executive Director of TRHT campus centers at AAC\u0026amp;U. She is co-author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Equity Talk to Equity Walk\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUSAN ALBERTINE\u003c\/b\u003e is the retired Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at AAC\u0026amp;U. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNICOLE McDONALD\u003c\/b\u003e works as Assistant Vice Provost for Student Success Strategies at the University of Houston. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHOMAS MAJOR, J\u003csmall\u003eR\u003c\/small\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate General Counsel at Lumina Foundation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHELLE ASHA COOPER \u003c\/b\u003eis the Acting Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Office of Post-secondary Education.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile resources abound for students seeking to get themselves “college-ready,” far fewer answer an equally important question: “Is your college student-ready?”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the newly revised \u003ci\u003esecond edition of Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success,\u003c\/i\u003e a team of distinguished education professionals delivers a practical blueprint to prepare your institution of higher learning to better serve the students it will admit. You’ll learn to create a new culture of leadership that responds to modern educational challenges and strategies for valuing student assets and building organizational capacity for change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book puts your institution in a position to help students learn and thrive, even as they encounter the obstacles and roadblocks faced by contemporary college students. Responsive and redesigned practices and policies that speak to today’s social realities are included, as is new material, strategies, and techniques to help your school connect with learners and foster equity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming a Student-Ready College\u003c\/i\u003e draws on five guiding principles to help your institution become a student-ready college. It prepares your school to leverage resources it already has to deliver to students the right benefits in the right way at the right time. It also explains how to design eco-systemic partnerships and support programs that grow the relationship between your students and your institution. You’ll strengthen institutional capacity-building and build a shared governance model that promotes agency, fosters change, and improves collaboration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read handbook for student administrators at colleges and educational institutions around the world, \u003ci\u003eBecoming a Student-Ready College\u003c\/i\u003e belongs in the hands of higher education leaders, faculty members, academic professionals, and student affairs experts as they seek to guide students from admission to graduation.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTRANSFORM THE CULTURE OF YOUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO BETTER SERVE STUDENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adrianna Kezar, \u003c\/b\u003eWilbur Kieffer Endowed Professor and Dean’s Professor of Leadership, USC, Director of the Pullias Center  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this \u003ci\u003eSecond Edition\u003c\/i\u003e of \u003ci\u003eBecoming a Student-Ready College,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sonny Ramaswamy,\u003c\/b\u003e President, Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988797243621,"sku":"NP9781119824190","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119824190.jpg?v=1761781627","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/becoming-a-student-ready-college-isbn-9781119824190","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}