TRANSFORM THE CULTURE OF YOUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO BETTER SERVE STUDENTS

"Campuses need this book more than ever as they recover from the pandemic and try to address longstanding racial inequities on campus where stakeholders no longer have patience to wait for us to redesign higher education so that it is 'student ready.' Using students as the foundation for campus design--policies, practices, structures and ultimately our culture is the essential challenge of the next decade. This book continues to provide the steps campus leaders can take to make all students successful and to fulfill their mission and be accountable to policymakers, parents and students themselves."

--Adrianna Kezar, Wilbur Kieffer Endowed Professor and Dean's Professor of Leadership, USC, Director of the Pullias Center

"In this Second Edition of Becoming a Student-Ready College, the authors are to be commended for making an already outstanding resource even better for college presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculty, student services personnel, board members, and others interested in and committed to promoting student success and closing equity gaps. The book serves as an exceptional 'how-to' guide for colleges laser-focused on promoting success as a student-centered institution."

--Sonny Ramaswamy, President, Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

While resources abound for students seeking to get themselves "college-ready," far fewer answer an equally important question: "Is your college student-ready?"

In the newly revised second edition of Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success, a team of distinguished education professionals delivers a practical blueprint to prepare your institution of higher learning to better serve the students it will admit. You'll learn to create a new culture of leadership that responds to modern educational challenges and strategies for valuing student assets and building organizational capacity for change.

This book puts your institution in a position to help students learn and thrive, even as they encounter the obstacles and roadblocks faced by contemporary college students. Responsive and redesigned practices and policies that speak to today's social realities are included, as is new material, strategies, and techniques to help your school connect with learners and foster equity.

Becoming a Student-Ready College draws on five guiding principles to help your institution become a student-ready college. It prepares your school to leverage resources it already has to deliver to students the right benefits in the right way at the right time. It also explains how to design eco-systemic partnerships and support programs that grow the relationship between your students and your institution. You'll strengthen institutional capacity-building and build a shared governance model that promotes agency, fosters change, and improves collaboration.

A must-read handbook for student administrators at colleges and educational institutions around the world, Becoming a Student-Ready College belongs in the hands of higher education leaders, faculty members, academic professionals, and student affairs experts as they seek to guide students from admission to graduation.

Reimagining the Culture of Leadership for Student Success

A revision to the practical and popular guide, this book asks the crucial question within today's environment, "What's a student-ready college?" Higher education leaders are responsible for preparing their institutions to serve the students they admit in the best way possible. By asking ourselves how we can transform our institutions into student-ready colleges to create a new culture of leadership that is responsive to current challenges and focuses on understanding and utilizing student assets and social capital to achieve shared goals for student success. Becoming a Student-Ready College shows you how.

Conversations in higher education tend to focus on defining college readiness for students. Too often, we forget to ask the question from the other side, and we miss important opportunities to develop institutions in ways that can help students thrive. Higher education leaders and educators can better serve today's college students through responsive and redesigned practices and policies. This updated edition features revisions and new material that speak to the social realities of today's incoming students and cover the latest strategies and techniques for connecting with learners to foster equity and success.

• Leverage existing resources to the benefit of students and deliver the right support at the right time to achieve equity in student outcomes and build on students' assets
• Design eco-systemic partnerships and support programs that nurture the relationship between the student and the institution
• Strengthen institutional capacity-building for achieving defined student-ready goals
• Build shared governance to promote agency and to foster change and collaboration

Becoming a Student-Ready College explores leaders' shared responsibilities in advancing student success and provides practical recommendations for educators at all levels.