Daraja: A Syllabus For Life

March 6, 2009

  The Daraja project, founded in 1988 at Chabot College is widely recognized as one of the best opportunities for success for underrepresented students, especially African-American students, in the California community-college system. In this film, current and former Daraja students speak candidly about their educational preparation before entering Daraja and then share their personal needs [...]

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Detailed Inquiry Plan Fresno City College

March 4, 2009

SUMMARY The proposed project will focus on enhancing the contextualized basic skills curriculum in Fresno City College’s Career Advancement Academy. The faculty team, comprising English, Math, and Automotive instructors, will examine current contextualized Math and English courses in the Automotive strand of the Career Advancement Academy. The team will evaluate the effectiveness of the current [...]

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Learning Community Impact Study

February 3, 2009

The following links provide an example of integrating different kinds of institutional data into an Inquiry into student learning. The Inquiry focused on understanding the impact a new learning community was having on participating students. It tracks the founding cohort of learning community students over a year and a half, looking at their rates of [...]

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