{"product_id":"minding-the-dream-9781475811032","title":"Minding the Dream","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinding the Dream\u003c\/strong\u003e by Mellow, Gail O.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781475811032.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMinding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar.\n\nNew employees, current leaders, graduate students, legislators, and boards of trustees need a grounded sense of the magnitude of the community college sector. Minding the Dream evokes the laudatory goals of the early pioneers of the community college movement, while accurately framing key programs and political conundrums challenging community colleges. Minding the Dream celebrates community colleges’ successes and is scrupulously honest about their failings.\n\nCommunity college leaders need honest information about what’s working and need to be challenged about the things that are not. State Legislatures and Congress need updated facts to assist them in making wise funding decisions regarding community colleges. Community college advocates need updated information to assist them in their advocacy work, and Higher Education programs need an updated book about community colleges to use as a basic text. These are the people who can benefit from reading Minding the Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256212054069,"sku":"ByrdShop_1475811039","price":69.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781475811032_54d992fa-08fa-43b1-b924-5e72e06d2348.jpg?v=1779938875","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/minding-the-dream-9781475811032","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}