Yet practitioners in community colleges are engaged collectively in a genuine effort to create conditions for learning that improve the chances of students such as Leon and Elena to graduate and move into meaningful careers. They are working to put in place learning environments that are relevant to their lives, that connect them with the highly contextualized world inside and outside the classroom, and that build upon a recognition that learning is an active experience of knowledge creation. Community Colleges CAN! seeks to support this work and further the efforts of practitioners to undertake initiatives and practices that truly help students fulfill their goals.
— Dr. Katherine Boswell is a senior program officer at the Academy for Educational Development and president of Education Policy Associates, a consulting firm. Dr. William Munn is a senior program officer at JBL Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that manages the Community Colleges CAN! program. The forum is sponsored in partnership with the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) at The University of Texas at Austin.
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