Establishing & sustaining learning-centered community colleges / edited by Christine Johnson McPhail ; foreword by George R. Boggs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / George R. Boggs -- Preface / Christine Johnson McPhail -- Part 1: The context of the learning college -- 1. The search for the learning-centered college / William J. Flynn -- 2. The learning paradigm as bold change: improving understanding and practice / Robert B. Barr and Frank A. Fear -- Engaging the constituencies on behalf of a learning college / David A. Shupe -- Part 2: Toward a deeper understanding of the learning college -- 4. The vanguard learning colleges: lessons in strategic planning / Shirlene Lofton Showden -- 5. The learning-outcomes approach / Mark Battersby -- 6. Learning-outcomes assessments at the Community College of Baltimore / Henry F. Linck, Rosalie V. Mince, and Tara E. Ebersole -- Part 3: Implicatons for expanding the learning paradigm -- 7. The role of student development in the learning college / Evelyn Clements, Alicia B. Harvey-Smith, and Ted James -- 8. Technology in the learning college / mark David Milliron and Mary Prentice -- Part 4: Emerging organizational changes -- 9. Architecture and infrastructure: a metaphor for transformation / William J. Flynn -- 10. Learning-centered governance in community colleges / Christine Johnson McPhail -- 11. Aligning strategic planning, budgeting, and resource allocation in LearningFIRST / Irving Pressley McPhail -- Part 5: Survivign and sustaining the paradigm shift -- 12. When do you know you have a learning college? / Renate Krakauer -- 13. Beyond the rhetoric: the learning college in action / Cynthia Wilson -- Epilogue: Moving beyond the learning paradigm toward a learning-centered college culture / Christine Johnson McPhail -- Appendix: Selected bibliography of the learning college / Terry O'Banion and Kelley L. Costner.