Community College Experience The 4th Edition by Amy Baldwin M.A.
By Amy Baldwin ,Brian Tietje,Paul G. Stoltz
ISBN 10: 0321980158
ISBN 13: 9780321980151
Your Challenge, Our Promise
Beat the Odds. Graduate Strong!
While many of your students have worked very hard to be in your class this semester and are
eager to start their college career, most college students stumble, fall short, or even quit as
they strive to get in, get through, get out, and get paid. The statistics and trends can seem
pretty dismal. That?s the bad news.
The Good News
The good news is this book will equip your students to beat the odds. It will give them
exactly what they need to not just survive, but to also come out strong.
How? To help them build the necessary skills to complete college successfully, this book
provides powerful, proven content and tools through information about what it takes to meet
the academic, social, personal, and professional expectations of college.
This book also has a cutting-edge advantage over other student success books: it
includes content and applications for GRIT, the capacity to dig deep and do whatever it takes.
Research has proven that GRIT is the single most powerful predictor of success. By including
GRIT coupled with direct information about the way college works, we?ll show what it
really takes to succeed. That?s our promise.
? Getting In Whether or not your students are truly college ready, they will need
help understanding the unwritten rules of transitioning from high school or work to
college. This book provides the basic, no-fluff information that helps students learn how
college works.
? Getting Through Your students need more than just help getting settled into
college; they also need to know how to keep going when they hit roadblocks along the
way. This book gives students the tools to overcome the obstacles with resilience and
tenacity.
? Getting Out Graduating from college with a degree in hand is every student?s
dream. However, not all students know what it takes to finish college. This book
delivers both content and strategies for reaching long-term goals by showing students
the steps to college completion and equipping them with the GRIT it will take to walk
across the graduation stage.
? Getting Paid Your students want to move from college to a career with as few
challenges as possible, but they often do not connect the work they are doing in college
to the world of work. This book lays the groundwork for building on professional skills
that will lead to career success.
