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.

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