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• The Role of Student Affairs in Advancing Community College Success: An Examination of Selected Contemporary Initiatives ed. by C. Casey Ozaki, Paulette Dalpes, Deborah L. Floyd and Gianna Ramdin
• Nicholas Fuselier

Community colleges represent the cornerstone of access in US higher education. Since their establishment in the early 20th century, these institutions have evolved in ways that intentionally support the needs and demands of their communities. Despite these institutions’ important role in the landscape of postsecondary education, today’s community colleges must navigate critical challenges, emerging trends, and new visions of educational reform. Importantly, student affairs units on community college campuses play a significant role in these tasks. This reality is precisely what this book aims to capture—innovative student success initiatives designed to directly respond to emerging issues on community college campuses. Edited by C. Casey Ozaki, Paulette Dalpes, Deborah L. Floyd, and Gianna Ramdin, The Role of Student Affairs in Advancing Community College Student Success: An Examination of Selected Contemporary Initiatives is a collection of empirical research and scholarly commentary on existing and recommended student affairs initiatives that vary in type, represent diverse community college contexts, and attend to the current sociopolitical moment. In an effort to situate myself to the context of this text and subsequent book review, I briefly offer elements of my professional positionality, which include having a career in student affairs prior to entering faculty work as well as engaging in research that includes a focus on issues of equity in community college settings.

Following Chapter 1, where the editors lay the conceptual groundwork for the text, they dive into an example of practice. Chapter 2, by Kimberly Lowry, Dawna Wilson Horton, and Karen Stills Royster, presents the narratives of two community college campuses in Texas that built student affairs assessment capacity and illuminates the challenges associated with institutionalizing a culture of assessment. These challenges included a collective lack of clarity around assessment and a lack of readiness among staff (e.g., staff being unfamiliar with CAS Standards or conflating assessment outcomes with individual job performance evaluations).

In Chapter 3, Jason L. Taylor and Chuck W. Lepper discuss the proliferation of promise programs as a response to declining college affordability. Although promise programs provide direct aid to students and increase access to postsecondary education, college affordability does not solely determine student success. The authors examine the Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Promise Program. Although the SLCC Promise Program participant demographics were similar to SLCC Pell Grant students who were not in the Promise Program, program participants had statistically significantly higher first-semester GPAs and enrolled in more credit hours for their second semester. The authors outline how student affairs units can play an important role in creating and implementing promise programs.

In Chapter 4, William Watson, Adela Esquivel-Swinson, and Roland Montemayor discuss collaborative impact and professional development in student affairs to better serve immigrant populations amid growing income inequality. Situated in California, the authors discuss initiatives in the San José Evergreen Community College District resulting from [End Page 610] particular state policy mandates and community partner collaborations that enhanced the district’s support of immigrant and low-income communities.

In Chapter 5, David J. Nguyen, G. Blue Brazelton, Kristen A. Renn, and Michael R. Woodford offer a mixed-methods examination of the impact of LGBTQ+ student support services on community college student success. After highlighting the dearth of scholarship on queer and trans community college students, the authors found that community colleges had fewer LGBTQ+ resources on hand as compared to other institutional types. For those community colleges with established resources and support, the authors identified the importance of four LGBTQ+-specific resources: (a) identity-based resource centers, (b) counseling services, (c) career planning services, and (d) student organizations.

In Chapter 6, Patrick W. Gill and Laura M. Harrison write about the Completion Agenda, an increasingly influential movement that aims to increase the number of college...

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• 学生事务在促进社区大学成功中的作用：对选定的当代举措的审查编辑。作者：C. Casey Ozaki、Paulette Dalpes、Deborah L. Floyd 和 Gianna Ramdin
• 尼古拉斯·富塞利尔

社区学院是美国高等教育的基石。自 20 世纪初成立以来，这些机构的发展方式有意识地支持其社区的需要和要求。尽管这些机构在高等教育领域发挥着重要作用，但当今的社区学院必须应对严峻的挑战、新兴趋势和教育改革的新愿景。重要的是，社区大学校园的学生事务单位在这些任务中发挥着重要作用。这一现实正是本书旨在捕捉的内容——旨在直接应对社区大学校园中出现的新问题的创新学生成功举措。由 C. Casey Ozaki、Paulette Dalpes、Deborah L. Floyd 和 Gianna Ramdin 编辑的《学生事务在促进社区学院学生成功中的作用：对选定的当代举措的审查》是对现有和建议的实证研究和学术评论的集合学生事务倡议的类型各异，代表不同的社区大学背景，并关注当前的社会政治时刻。为了让自己了解本文和随后的书评的背景，我简要介绍了我的职业定位的要素，其中包括在进入教职工作之前从事学生事务工作，以及从事包括以下方面在内的研究：社区大学环境中的公平问题。

在第一章中，编辑们为文本奠定了概念基础，之后他们深入研究了一个实践示例。第二章由 Kimberly Lowry、Dawna Wilson Horton 和 Karen Stills Royster 撰写，介绍了德克萨斯州两所社区大学校园建立学生事务评估能力的故事，并阐明了与评估文化制度化相关的挑战。这些挑战包括评估集体缺乏清晰度以及工作人员缺乏准备（例如，工作人员不熟悉 CAS 标准或将评估结果与个人工作绩效评估混为一谈）。

在第三章中，杰森·泰勒（Jason L. Taylor）和查克·W·莱珀（Chuck W. Lepper）讨论了承诺项目的激增，以应对大学负担能力下降的情况。尽管承诺项目为学生提供直接援助并增加接受高等教育的机会，但大学的负担能力并不仅仅决定学生的成功。作者研究了盐湖社区学院 (SLCC) 的承诺计划。尽管 SLCC Promise 计划参与者的人口统计数据与未参加 Promise 计划的 SLCC 佩尔助学金学生相似，但该计划参与者在第一学期的 GPA 具有统计上显着更高的水平，并且在第二学期注册了更多的学分。作者概述了学生事务单位如何在创建和实施承诺计划中发挥重要作用。

在第四章中，William Watson、Adela Esquivel-Swinson 和 Roland Montemayor 讨论了学生事务中的协作影响和专业发展，以便在收入不平等日益加剧的情况下更好地为移民人口服务。作者位于加利福尼亚州，讨论了圣何塞长青社区学院区因[结束第 610 页]特定的州政策指令和社区合作伙伴合作而采取的举措，这些举措增强了该学区对移民和低收入社区的支持。

在第五章中，David J. Nguyen、G. Blue Brazelton、Kristen A. Renn 和 Michael R. Woodford 采用混合方法检验了 LGBTQ+ 学生支持服务对社区学院学生成功的影响。在强调了酷儿和跨性别社区学院学生奖学金的缺乏后，作者发现，与其他类型的机构相比，社区学院手头的 LGBTQ+ 资源较少。对于那些拥有既定资源和支持的社区学院，作者确定了四种 LGBTQ+ 特定资源的重要性：(a) 基于身份的资源中心，(b) 咨询服务，(c) 职业规划服务，以及 (d) 学生组织。

在第六章中，帕特里克·W·吉尔（Patrick W. Gill）和劳拉·M·哈里森（Laura M. Harrison）写了“完成议程”（Completion Agenda），这是一项影响力越来越大的运动，旨在增加大学的数量……