https://www.robingisserles.com/home daily 1.0 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/c12859e8-97ae-4492-b429-766be3270ad6/0001+%281%29.jpg https://www.robingisserles.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/097c79d1-066d-46a9-92b2-5aeeda3b9290/image-asset.jpeg Contact - Scheduling campus visits (live or on zoom) for the 2025-2026 academic year. Reach out if you are interested!! Much gratitude to Andrea Hidalgo, former student, current mentee, designer of this website, and is now continuing her undergraduate studies at Emory University. The world is a better place with Andrea in it. https://www.robingisserles.com/about-no-pic daily 0.75 2022-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/1629768585027-G12D0ED0AREIO5MKBD1Q/IsserlesPic.jpeg About Robin lives in New Jersey with her family and when not teaching, writing, or researching, she enjoys biking, trail hiking, and yoga with Adriene. In another life, she’d be a documentary filmmaker or a jazz pianist. https://www.robingisserles.com/research daily 0.75 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/62f5da1a-e26b-417b-a995-08e5809b32e6/IMG_6144.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/1628658087561-RSRCFTJCLXY7JKNN9Y0R/622D349A-45BD-4C66-8ECC-E714A7C5A365_1_105_c.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/1629554366740-GA1OZJ088S7WI4R4NF6J/A649610B-CD57-4976-A48E-9D4E2226453D_1_105_c.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/1629554040109-05NJC3UT6TVK0U2TVH61/39E17062-548A-416C-A939-F8DC183F4DA3_1_105_c.jpeg https://www.robingisserles.com/publications-1 daily 0.75 2022-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ec4a8ce4c85e33c4d5d8b2/1628655057488-X71VS738V3PI2D7A8D1L/0001+%281%29.jpg Publications (Copy) - The Costs of Completion Students Success in Community College To improve community college success, we need to consider the lived realities of students. Our nation's community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their time to completing a degree―or worse, causing many to drop out altogether. In The Costs of Completion, Robin G. Isserles contextualizes this crisis by placing blame on the neoliberal policies that have shaped public community colleges over the past thirty years. The disinvestment of state funding, she explains, has created austerity conditions, leading to an overreliance on contingent labor, excessive investments in advisement technologies, and a push to performance outcomes like retention and graduation rates for measuring student and institutional success. The prevailing theory at the root of the community college completion crisis―academic momentum―suggests that students need to build momentum in their first year by becoming academically integrated, thereby increasing their chances of graduating in a timely fashion. A host of what Isserles terms "innovative disruptions" have been implemented as a way to improve on community college completion, but because disruptions are primarily driven by degree attainment, Isserles argues that they place learning and developing as afterthoughts while ignoring the complex lives that define so many community college students. Drawing on more than twenty years of teaching, advising, and researching largely first-generation community college students as well as an analysis of five years of student enrollment patterns, college experiences, and life narratives, Isserles takes pains to center students and their experiences. She proposes initiatives created in accordance with a care ethic, which strive to not only get students through college―quantifying credit accumulation and the like―but also enable our most precarious students to flourish in a college environment. 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