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Tinto, W. Norton Grubb, and Betsy O. Barefoot. 1 As Barefoot, Co-Director of the Policy Center<br />
on the First Year of <strong>College</strong>, wrote in concluding her study of <strong>LaGuardia</strong>:<br />
While much of American higher education seems engaged in playing the ratings<br />
game and gaining a market edge through spending on more and more elaborate<br />
residential and recreational facilities, we found it refreshing and reassuring to<br />
visit a campus where those dynamics never come into play. Rather, <strong>LaGuardia</strong><br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s faculty and administrators spend their energies finding<br />
ways to support new students and spend their money where it counts most:<br />
in direct support of student learning. Whatever stereotypes we, as members<br />
of the research team, had about the limits of community college education,<br />
those stereotypes vanished during our visit. As a true leader in American<br />
higher education, <strong>LaGuardia</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong> attests to the power of human<br />
potential – not only student potential but also the potential of faculty and<br />
administrators who have spirit, passion, and a clear sense of purposes to shape<br />
an educational experience that is second to none. 1<br />
School-to-Work Programs (Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational<br />
Education, 1995); Janet Lieberman and Julie Yearsley Hungar, Transforming Student Lives:<br />
How “Exploring Transfer” Works, and Why (Washington, D.C.: AAHE, 1998); Gail O. Mellow,<br />
Phyllis van Slyck, and Bret Eynon, “The Face of the Future: Engaging in Diversity at <strong>LaGuardia</strong><br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong>,” Change, Vol. 35, No. 2 (March/April 2003), pp. 10-17; Gail O. Mellow<br />
and Rosemary A. Talmadge, “Creating the Resilient <strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong>,” Change, Vol. 37, No.<br />
3 (May/June 2005), pp. 58-66; Betsy O. Barefoot and Michael J. Siegel, “<strong>LaGuardia</strong> <strong>Community</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>: A Window on the World” in Betsy O. Barefoot , John N. Gardner, et al., Achieving and<br />
Sustaining Institutional Excellence for the First year of <strong>College</strong> (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,<br />
2005), Chapter 4, pp. 59-83.<br />
1 Barefoot and Siegel, p. 83.<br />
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