Sometimes the headline does say it all

Inside Higher Ed published, "Performance Funding Underperforms" identifiying some challenges and shortfalls to performance-based funding for community colleges. Even the CCRC has published a report providing a critical analysis of performance funding as it is currently conceived.

The question remains, what are the implications for developmental education? How do we promote student success without undermining the fundamental purpose and mission of the community college? I believe that the challenge lies in finding a "both/and" solution -- it is not an "either/or" choice between access and success that we must make...  but rather a solution that both preserves access for marginalized populations and promotes success that we must endeavor to find. Grassroots, faculty led initiatives, like DIG Co-Lab have the potential to help us do just that.

A sea change begins with a few drops of water.

photo by Matt Dinnery