The Community College Review (CCR) has led the nation for over 35 years in the publication of scholarly, peer-reviewed research and commentary on community colleges. CCR is seeking proposals from prospective guest editors for a special issue of CCR. Proposals are due by January 22nd, 2010. One proposal will be selected by the CCR editor in consultation with the CCR editorial board for publication in April 2011. The prospective editor(s) for the selected proposal will be notified by the end of February 2010. Please see the attached PDF for more details.

Proposals should be addressed to Jim Palmer, CCR Editor, and submitted via e-mail by January 22nd, 2010 to:

Barbara Metelsky, CCR Assistant Editor
community_college_review@ncsu.edu

The Community College Review (CCR) invites reviews of current books on topics relevant to community colleges and their stakeholders. Researchers, faculty, practitioners, and advanced graduate students are welcome to submit proposals for book reviews to CCR. A proposal should consist of a brief statement about the significance of the book in question, basic information about its publisher and publication date, and a brief summary of the review author's background and reasons for interest in the book. Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to write a book review that is no more than 1,000 words in length. Reviews should include 1) a concise overview of the book’s primary themes and perspectives and 2) a critical analysis of the book’s coherence and significance that considers the book’s strengths and weaknesses, scholarly rigor, soundness of argument, fulfillment of stated objectives, and relevance to the field.

Please visit this link for more information. Book review proposals should be directed to CCR’s book review editor, Dr. Alyssa Bryant, at alyssa_bryant@ncsu.edu

The Community College Review (CCR) invites reviews of current books on topics relevant to community colleges and their stakeholders. Researchers, faculty, practitioners, and advanced graduate students are welcome to submit proposals for book reviews to CCR. A proposal should consist of a brief statement about the significance of the book in question, basic information about its publisher and publication date, and a brief summary of the review author's background and reasons for interest in the book. Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to write a book review that is no more than 1,000 words in length. Reviews should include 1) a concise overview of the book’s primary themes and perspectives and 2) a critical analysis of the book’s coherence and significance that considers the book’s strengths and weaknesses, scholarly rigor, soundness of argument, fulfillment of stated objectives, and relevance to the field.

Please visit this link for more information. Book review proposals should be directed to CCR’s book review editor, Dr. Alyssa Bryant, at alyssa_bryant@ncsu.edu

At its April 4, 2009 meeting the Board of Directors of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) voted unanimously to rename its Emerging Scholars Award in honor of Dr. Barbara K. Townsend. An active and long-serving member of CSCC Barbara K. Townsend is Professor of Higher Education in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Director of the College's Center for Community College Research. She served as President of CSCC in 1999-2000 and received the association’s Senior Scholar Award in 2001. In recognition of her many years of service to CSCC she was awarded the association’s 2009 Distinguished Service Award at its recent conference in Phoenix, AZ.

Over the years Dr. Townsend has mentored many new scholars providing them with guidance and opportunities to further their research. “I’m delighted that the CSCC Board is recognizing the amazing contribution that Barbara Townsend has made to the development of news scholars in the field of community college studies,” states Jan Ignash, Deputy Director of Policy, Planning and Research for the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board. “I’m one of the many who have benefited from Barbara’s mentorship. Barbara is one of those rare scholars who enjoys wrestling with the tough questions, those questions we keep coming back to because of their complexity and perennial nature. She has a ‘sixth sense’ of what quality research and writing should be and she delights in working collaboratively with and imparting that wisdom to emerging scholars.” Jaime Lester, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at George Mason University, and winner of the 2009 CSCC Emerging Scholar Award adds, “Barbara Townsend’s decades of research on gender and community college serve as the foundation for much of my research. Her dedication to establishing frameworks to judge gender equity and to giving voice to women, as well as her genuine admiration for community colleges, serves as a model. She and her work have been instrumental in my success and the success of many other community college scholars.”

Townsend’s research has focused on the community college as a major vehicle for facilitating attainment of the baccalaureate degree, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and minorities. She is the editor and author of a number of well respected books and monographs about the community college, and has published over 20 chapters and more than 40 research articles. She serves as co-editor of the NASPA-sponsored Journal about Women in Higher Education and is on the editorial board of the Community College Review and the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Her current research focuses on the community college mission in the 21st century, transfer and articulation, and community college faculty.

Beginning in 2010 the award will be presented as the Barbara K. Townsend Emerging Scholar Award.

Senior Scholar - Larry Ebbers, Iowa State University

Distinguished Service - Barbara K. Townsend, University of Missouri

Emerging Scholar - Jaime Renee Lester, George Mason University

Dissertation of the Year - Kenneth Meier, University of Arizona