Press release from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation announcing funding for the GSCC program. Dec 3, 2009.

By Alissa Gardenhire-Crooks, Herbert Collado, Kasey Martin, and Alma Castro with Thomas Brock and Genevieve Orr, published by MRDC in March 2010. The overview page (bookmarked) provides links to the Executive Summary and the full report (both available as PDFs). \nFrom the overview: "This study draws on the experiences of 87 African-American, Hispanic, and Native American men who were enrolled in developmental math courses at four Achieving the Dream institutions to find out more about what affects the success of men of color in community college."

By Scott Jaschik, from the News section, Inside Higher Ed, March 30, 2010. Katrina Nichols, Rosemary Arca, and Marisa Klages took part in the annual meeting of the League for Innovation in the Community College. This article describes their presentation and the GSCC project more generally. Links to the GSCC blog.

The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is part of the Insitute on Education and the Economy, Teacher's College, Columbia University. From their site: "CCRC"s mission is to conduct research on major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students."

In the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin, the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) was established in 1944. The program focuses on training community college leaders.

Published by Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2010. This report looks at the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE), launched fall 2006. From the report, "To date, more than 91,000 students from 197 colleges in 37 states have participated in SENSE, thereby helping to create a wealth of new and actionable data about the entering community college student experience."

Published in Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, March 12, 2009. "MLE-Moodle is an out-of-the-box mobile Learning (mLearning) system, designed for mobile phones." With MCNC in particular, we've discussed how it might be helpful to be able to engage students/faculty/administrators in Polilogue via mobile phone in addition to computer.

By Nicoletta Stame, in journal Evaluation 10 (1): pp. 58-76, 2004. An examination of theory-based evaluations. This page contains only the abstract. The full article is available for a fee, or you may be able to obtain through your local library's document delivery services.

By Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, Dec 3, 2009. Announces the release of a study by Community College Research Center of Columbia University Teachers College (CCRC) looking at student success in community college "gatekeeper" courses.

Leadbeater is a "management thinker" and an "authority on innovation and creativity." This site contains links to his publications (most notably We-think) and his recent work. For more on Leadbeater, see the leadbeater tag.

By San Francisco State University English department. Published by Pearson 1998.

A positive psychology model that shows students (and faculty) their strengths and encourages them to apply their unique gifts to their academic work.

Various authors. West Berlin, N.J., Township press Inc. 2008.

by Faye Myenne Ng. New York: Hyperion 1993. Novel about a Chinese American family living in San Francisco's Chinatown.

from YouTube. See pitts tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned in Choice Event: A Pedagogy of Caring (MZ)

From CBS News -- Byron Pitts' segment on illiteracy. See pitts tag for related bookmarks.

by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. New York : W.W. Norton, 2007. Called "The Strunk & White of academic writing." by Richard Bullock, Wright State University.

RA uses in class weeks 4 & 7, semester 3.

From Polynesian Voyaging Society, a Hawai'i-based organization dedicated to reaffirming the commitment to undertake voyages of discovery, this page offers links to several essays that look at wayfinding, or non-instrument navigation. See See polynesian_wayfinding tag for related links.

MyWritingLab, a product of Pearson Education, is an online learning program that includes diagnostic tests, online exercises, and an online gradebook.

L.H. mentions this as a textbook plus online grammar arrangement that she is planning to use this semester.

L.H. describes her efforts to test My Writing Lab with her students, see Week 3, semester 4.

MyMathLab, a product of Pearson Education, is a series of online courses that accompanies Pearson's textbooks in math and statistics.

Mentioned in choice event, Tutorial services - What are best?, also mentioned in pedagogy circle, radical ideas: variety vs. monotony.