America's Forgotten Student Population: Creating a Path to College Success for GED® Completers - Softcover

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Angela Long is an educational researcher, educator, and author who currently serves as an independent consultant in higher education, as well as co-editor of the "Innovative Ideas for Community Colleges" national book series through Stylus Publishing. She has participated in three White House summit meetings on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and has shared her findings before participants at the Achieving the Dream national conference, Florida Association of Community Colleges, U.S. Department of Education, the White House Summit Meeting on Educational Excellence for Hispanics in Miami, FL, the Consortium for Student Retention and Data Exchange, the American Association of Community Colleges, and the Florida Council of Student Affairs to name a few. In 2011, she worked with student leaders to found the Pathways to Persistence Scholars program at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. She has experience teaching and working in the K-College setting and collaborates with leaders across the nation to publish groundbreaking data and retention metrics for at-risk student populations attending community colleges.. Christopher M. Mullin is Executive Vice Chancellor of the Florida College System, Division of Florida Colleges at the Florida Department of Education, having formerly served as the Program Director for Policy Analysis at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in Washington, D.C. His research has focused on the evolution and development of state postsecondary education systems, with specific focus on community colleges and fiscal policy.