The Costs Of Completion Robin G Isserles by Robin G. Isserles instant download after payment.

To improve community college success, we need to consider the lived realities of students.

Our nation's community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their time to completing a degree—or worse, causing many to drop out altogether. In The Costs of Completion, Robin G. Isserles contextualizes this crisis by placing blame on the neoliberal policies that have shaped public community colleges over the past thirty years. The disinvestment of state funding, she explains, has created austerity conditions, leading to an overreliance on contingent labor, excessive investments in advisement technologies, and a push to performance outcomes like retention and graduation rates for measuring student and institutional success.

The prevailing theory at the root of the community college completion crisis—academic momentum—suggests that students need to build momentum in their first year...