Ready or Not?

Autor/in	Moore, Renee A.
Titel	Ready or Not?
Quelle	In: New Directions for Community Colleges, (2009) 145, S.59-66 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0194-3081
DOI	10.1002/cc.355
Schlagwörter	English Curriculum; Community Colleges; Online Courses; Access to Education; Dual Enrollment; Minority Groups; College Faculty; College English; English Instruction; Accreditation (Institutions); School Readiness; College Preparation; Student Placement; Two Year College Students; Mississippi + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Online course; Online-Kurs; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Doppelstudium; Ethnische Minderheit; Fakultät; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Schülerpraktikum
Abstract	Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC), one of the oldest community colleges in the country, is located in Sunflower County, Mississippi, which was home to both the infamous White Citizens Council and civil rights heroine Fannie Lou Hamer. It serves one of the poorest areas of the country; the unemployment rate in the district is higher than that of any other community college in Mississippi. Since 1995, MDCC has aggressively worked to increase access to college for as many residents of the Delta as possible. The college established satellite campuses, increased its online course offerings, and has energetically pursued the newly approved dual-enrollment program with area high schools. As a result of the attention to access, MDCC's minority population has grown rapidly. In this article, the author describes how the English faculty at MDCC used part of the school's mandatory reaccreditation process to investigate the increasing lack of readiness among incoming students and discovered a serious disconnect between the new challenges and the school's traditional English program. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10