The Community College Experience

The Community College Experience by Amy Baldwin, published by Pearson Education on December 30, 2014, is a comprehensive guide designed for students in two-year college programs. This fourth edition, comprising 288 pages, integrates the GRIT framework, which emphasizes Growth, Resilience, Instinct, and Tenacity. The book aims to equip learners with essential strategies and tools for navigating college life, focusing on academic, social, and transitional skills necessary for successful completion and career readiness.
Readers will find practical advice on how to effectively engage with their college experience, including insights on what actions to take, when to take them, and where to seek support. The content is grounded in research, highlighting the importance of GRIT as a predictor of success in both academic and professional settings. This edition also offers additional resources through MyStudentSuccessLab, an online program designed to enhance learning and improve outcomes for students.
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Combines student success skills with the world’s leading method for growing greater GRIT (Growth, Resilience, Instinct and Tenacity)
Part of the Experience Series for college students in a two-year program, The Community College Experience, 4/e incorporates the GRIT framework, supplying learners with powerful success strategies and tools for college completion and career success-get in, get through, get out, and get paid. The authors recognize that understanding what it takes to succeed in college is one thing, but having the personal GRIT to make it happen is what makes the difference. Framed in a practical, situational manner, the book helps students navigate what to do, when do it, and where to go for support. It provides scientifically grounded yet practical tips and tools students need to grow greater GRIT, which research shows as the most powerful predictor of success in school and beyond. Students ‘Get in, Get through’ using a firm foundation of distinctive features to stay in, and get through, college with academic, social, and transitional skills. In order to ‘Get out, Get paid’ it equips students with ablend of professional and GRIT-based mindset required to successfully graduate and enter a career that fulfills their educational and personal goals.
Also Available with MyStudentSuccessLab(tm)
This title is also available with MyStudentSuccessLab-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.
NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyStudentSuccessLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyStudentSuccessLab, search for:
0134039475 / 9780134039473 The Community College Experience Plus MyStudentSuccessLab – Access Card Package
Package consists of:
- 0133939243 / 9780133939248 MyStudentSuccessLab without Pearson eText – Access Card
- 0321980158 / 9780321980151 The Community College Experience
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