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By Jennifer Gonzalez, the Chronicle of Higher Education, August 9 2010. Before an audience at the University of Texas at Austin, Obama called for "the United States to produce and additional eight million college graduates by 2020."

By Wick Sloane, in a column called The Devil's Workshop in Inside Higher Ed, September 20 2010. Sloane, previously the CFO of a public university, has embedded himself as a writing teacher at Bunker Hill Community College. In this column, he ties completion to the many varied needs of under-served students, many of whom live in poverty.

Hosted by the Research & Planning Group for California Community Colleges in Cosa Mesa, CA, October 6-8 2010.

RA to attend this conference

The National center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, hosted this conference, September 23-24 2010. Downloads of all presentations are available from this site,as are some conference videos.

PA attended this conference.

By Joe Cortina, Janet Elder, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011, 4th Edition.

This book was mentioned in TO's classroom practice, week2. Assignment is to read Ben Carson's "A Mother's Answer."

By Liz Willen on The Heckinger Report, October 29, 2010. Remedial education is often an obstacle to college completion. Students required to take developmental courses become frustrated and are more likely to drop out than those who don't have to enroll in these courses. Research is underway to identify alternative models.

From the Department of Life Sciences, Santa Rosa Junior College. This page identifies strategies to help students be successful as students. Similar sites are also bookmarked, see success tag.

LC used this site as part of her unit on student success.

From the Academic Support Center of Cuesta College. Strategies for student success. For similar, see tag success.

LC used this site for her unit on student success.

From the Online Advising and Educational Planning office of Walla Walla Community College. For similar pages, see the success tag.

LC used this page in a unit on student success.

Camtasia video created by the Extended Learning Institute (ELI) of the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). Helps students to understand how to use MLA format to cite their reference sources.

NH used this video in her demonstration of citing reference sources (week 6, fall 2010 semester).

This chapter from Dr. Yu-Chung Chang's ePortfolio describes her work helping her students at Pasadena City College overcome their math anxiety.

Published by Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in 1974, this document "includes the resolution on language adopted by members of CCCC in April 1974; the background statement explaining and supporting that resolution; and the bibliography that gives sources of some of the ideas presented in the background statement...."

"A nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration." Creative Commons recommended license is one of the standards for content that is freely shared online. The idea of open educational content has implications for teachers, students, publishers, colleges/universities, etc.

This site offers various writing-related resources from grades 7-12, through college and for professional writers. Resources range from rules of various citation formats to proper cover letters and resumes.

This important early (1977) discussion of basic writing made a woke the world up to the concept of teaching basic writing and still provides important insights today. Her work on error analysis is very useful.

By Mina P Shaughnessy. Published by Oxford University Press, 1977. This guide examines student errors in thousands of papers to better understand the nature of writing errors among incoming college students.

By Rebecca Cox, published by Harvard University Press, 2009

RA recommended as essential reading for community college teachers (week 9, semester 4).

Coach RA recommended this book as one that is helping her to better understand her students.

Academic program within the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. The basis for this program is to listen carefully to patients' stories and use the stories to help treat the patients. The program's founder, Dr. Rita Charon, combines her MD with a PhD in literature.

Published by Capital Community College, Hartford, CT. Various resources to help students learn more about grammar and writing.

By John Paul Athanasourelis, published in Teaching English in the two-year college, v33(4), pp. 407-409, May 2006. This article responds to Murray's ideas about conferencing with students in "A writer teaches writing."

by Ken Bains, published by Harvard University Press, 2004. From Booklist review, "With the strong conviction that good teaching can be learned, and after 15 years of observing teachers in action, Bain undertook an exploration of the essentials of effective teaching. The result is an insightful look at what makes a great teacher...."