Lessons from community college programs targeting welfare recipients

✍ Scribed by Edwin Meléndez; Luis M. Falcón; Alexandra de Montrichard

• Book ID: 101819315
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Weight: 82 KB
• Volume: 2004
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0194-3081
• DOI: 10.1002/cc.164

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Many community colleges have pursued aggressive initiatives to serve students on welfare, creating new academic programs or expanding existing ones. This chapter highlights case studies of best practices that illustrate how institutional initiatives targeting welfare students have resulted in an expanded capacity to educate and serve mainstream students.