Addressing Academic Underpreparedness in Service of College Completion

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The token system: labour acquisition and control on the Natal Collieries, 1911 - 1956

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The Making of Class, 9-14 February, 198

Demography as Opportunity

This working paper describes demography as opportunity, which is a simple idea grounded in a commitment to affirm the worth of the students who attend community colleges by being responsive to their life circumstances. As the demography of the nation changes—the United States is predicted to be majority minority by 2045—human capital investment in students from racial and ethnic groups, many of whom are first-generation college goers and low-income, is critical to the nation’s vitality. Demography as opportunity marries the racial and ethnic shifts underway in the country and in higher education with equity perspectives on historically disenfranchised populations. It is a constellation of policy and practice that abides by implementation principles common to well-executed change efforts. It attends to both people and place and aspires to strengthen communities and the nation by investing in the increasingly diverse population of college goers. Community colleges are the ideal venue for demography as opportunity not only because of who they serve but also because of what they do. This working paper is based on a chapter in 13 Ideas That Are Transforming the Community College World edited by Terry U. O’Banion and published by Rowman & Littlefield and the American Association of Community Colleges in March 2019. All rights reserved. The book can be purchased from Rowman & Littlefield at 800-462-6420 or www.rowman.com. Mention “RLEGEN18” for a 20 percent discount. Copies can also be purchased from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers

A taxonomic review of the centipede genus Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae) in mainland Southeast Asia, with description of a new species from Laos

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Homiletic Conversation: William Cowper’s \u3cem\u3eTable Talk\u3c/em\u3e

Cowper\u27s moral satires have never enjoyed much critical esteem, and have been censured again and again for the way in which they discharge, with more dutifulness than inspiration, a self-inflicted task: mere therapy for a wounded spirit, a sort of metrical knitting. Norman Nicholson\u27s judgment on this aspect of the oeuvre is by and large representative

Accelerating the Academic Achievement of Students Referred to Developmental Education

Acceleration, which involves the reorganization of instruction and curricula in ways that facilitate the completion of educational requirements in an expedited manner, is an increasingly popular strategy at community colleges for improving the outcomes of developmental education students. This Brief, based on a longer literature review, explores the evidence on the effects of acceleration on student outcomes and describes the various acceleration models that are used with developmental education students. It concludes by discussing ways of dealing with challenges involved in implementing and scaling up acceleration strategies

Felix Holt: The Radical and the Gusset of Cryptic Futurity

Most Victorian novels avail themselves of tidying codas in which the author projects the story into a future-turned-present and, counterpointed by wedding bells, maps out as close an approximation to the \u27happily ever after\u27 formula as the constraints of realism will allow. The locus classicus for this procedure occurs at the end of Martin Chuzzlewit: And coming from a garden, Tom, bestrewn with flowers by children\u27s hands, thy sister, little Ruth, as light of foot and heart as in old days, sits down beside thee. From the Present, and the Past, with which she is so tenderly entwined in all thy thoughts, thy strain soars onward to the Future. As it resounds within thee and without, the noble music, rolling round ye both, shuts out the grosser prospect of an earthly parting, and uplifts ye both to Heaven! George Eliot also avails herself of this standard template at the end of Felix Halt: The Radical, its \u27Epilogue\u27 sketching the future course of her characters\u27 lives through present-tense clauses (,As to the town in which Felix Holt now resides\u272), clauses that catapult the reader from 1833 to the date of composition, thirty-three years on. Futurity here becomes largely notional, its proleptic force bled into the narrative present, and this in turn causes the foregoing narrative to recede in time, investing the novel\u27s closure with a paradoxical sense of retrospection