Education - Higher

The Bound-for-College Guidebook is a step-by-step guide to the student transition from high school to postsecondary education, including the self-awareness, exploration, goal-setting, decision-making, application and enrollment stages that must be successfully navigated to ensure the best results. This edition addresses the recent changes and...

A brand new edition of the bestselling book that helps students and young people to develop critical leadership skills The Student Leadership Challenge is based on four decades of research on what people are doing when at their personal-best as leaders. With an approach...

The book provides sufficient theoretical and practical support so that readers gain a sense of self-direction and autonomy as they navigate their own research journeys. Author: Ximena P. Suarez-Sousa, Boyd L. BradburyISBN-10: 1475861834ISBN-13: 9781475861839Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2022Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h...

Laura A. Smithers is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership at the University of Nevada, Reno. Heidi Fischer is Content Director at Hanover Research. She is the author of Unemployment: The German Case, A Critical Analysis of Political Discourse. Faith A. Watrous is a...

Rachelle Winkle-Wagner is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the coauthor (with Angela M. Locks) of Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Students of Color in College, and the author of The Unchosen We: Black Women...

Pei Pei Liu is Assistant Professor of Education at Colby College.Author: Pei Pei LiuISBN-10: 1438495781ISBN-13: 9781438495781Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2024Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Isabel Martínez is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Cultures, Societies and Global Studies and Director of Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northeastern University. She is the author of Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival...

An updated analysis of the forces shaping contemporary higher education in America Combining historical perspective with in-depth coverage of current events, The Shaping of American Higher Education offers an authoritative account of the past, present, and future of higher education in the United States....

Author: Pietro A. Sasso, Mica Lee Miranda, J. Patrick BiddixISBN-13: 9798887304823Publisher: Information Age PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2024Pages: 492Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.99d

Class Dismissed reveals the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics...

The first history of the ascent of American higher education told through the lens of German-American exchange. During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American institutions...

Theology and the University considers how theology has been marginalized in the academy and in public life, arguing that doing so has serious repercussions for the integrity of the academic study of religion.Author: F疂nche RyanISBN-10: 1032491078ISBN-13: 9781032491073Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2024Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.21h...

Frank Wilson Blackmar's history of federal and state aid to higher education offers a comprehensive look at the evolution of funding for colleges and universities in the United States. From the establishment of land-grant colleges to the G.I. Bill and beyond, Blackmar's book is...

Introduction to Research in Leadership examines the process and skills required for effectively conducting research on the concept of leadership. Its authors employ a microscope for close analysis and build balconies to see trends and gain perspective. Designed to be imminently practical, it employs...

This handbook presents practical guidance on how to apply project management and leadership tools, processes, and practices in academic settings.Author: P. Alison PapricaISBN-10: 1487544464ISBN-13: 9781487544461Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2024Pages: 320Format: Paperback

A Framework for Teaching Music Online defines the current online learning landscape of music in higher education and then presents a cyclical teaching framework that describes how to practically develop an online music course. Each part of the framework takes the reader through the...

The law school application process can be overwhelming. Trying to keep track of all your letters of recommendations, transcripts, applications, fees, test dates and so on, can be a mess! And you have to do all of this while going to school and/or working....

Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Redefining the Role of the University and the Social Sciences Within the Emergent Structures of Society 5.0Chapter 3. STEAM education in the case of engineering (Empowerment Informatics - Tsukuba University, Japan) and the art studies Chapter 4. Cultivating Future Competencies...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Queer Campus Climate: An Ethnographic Fantasia is a visceral and provocative account of the lives of ten queer college men living in the Deep South. The book serves many goals. It is an emancipatory research document told in the raucous, fiery voices of these...

Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring, assessing, and evaluating not just a game's...

1. Introduction: Social Change and Education Reform.- Part I Social Change and Improvement of the EducationSystem.- 2. Efforts to Develop Preschool Education.- 3. Balanced Development of Compulsory Education.- 4. Guaranteeing Migrant Children's Right to an Education.- 5. The Establishment of a Modern Vocational EducationSystem.-...

Essential information for educators on the principles of restorative justice, starting a program, facilitating training, best practices, and much more. Here's a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff while minimizing...

The volume argues that learning abroad be positioned within the work of the larger institution and students' overall education.Author: Elizabeth BrewerISBN-10: 1620368277ISBN-13: 9781620368275Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2019Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80dAbout the AuthorElizabeth Brewer is Director, International Education, at Beloit College....

Written to advise how to get started in, and develop a career as, diversity consultants. This succinct cookbook provides the guidance to get you going and succeed.The cookbook metaphor reflects the delicate nature of diversity consulting where the little things can make a significant...

This collective volume fills an important gap in first-generation college student research by simultaneously achieving several important goals. Collectively, the essays represent a balance of personal narrative, qualitative, and quantitative approaches that extend our understanding of the first-generation college student (FGS) experience. The essays...

This book is a co-publication with CASE. Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to building a million-dollar-a-year development office.Author: Steve KlingamanISBN-10: 1579227317ISBN-13: 9781579227319Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2012Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.90dAbout the AuthorSteve Klingaman has worked for...

"One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable...

Explores the battle between the top-down authority traditionally ascribed to experts and scholars and the bottom-up authority exemplified by Wikipedia.Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from...

John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) was one of America's greatest essayists. He wrote a number of essays about what colleges ought to be and what they should not be. This book includes five of those essays, including two not available in the Collected Works of...

Student to Scholar is a must if you are currently a doctoral student or expect to be one soon, and you want to get the most out of the time, money, and effort you invest in your doctoral program. From Student to Scholar you...

Winner, 2009 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education SocietyWinner, 2009 Richard Slatten Prize for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Historical SocietyConceptual founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, William Barton Rogers was a highly influential scientific mind and educational reformer of the nineteenth century....

Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors that are in fact driving...

SATs, ACTs, GPAs. Everyone knows that these scores can't tell a college everything that's important about an applicant. But what else should admissions officers look for, and how can they know it when they see it? In College Admissions for the 21st Century a...

The major challenges facing higher education are often framed in terms of preparing students for life-long learning. Society's 21st century needs require civic-minded individuals who have the intellectual and personal capabilities to constructively engage political, ethnic, and religious differences, work effectively, and live together...

For engineers and other professionals involved in the design and construction of roads and highways, this book provides essential information on selecting the right viscosity for asphalt cements used in paving mixtures. Drawing on the latest research, the author offers a comprehensive guide to...

This book is tailored for those navigating the diverse landscapes of doctoral work in physical and health education. Delve into the doctoral journey as our expert authors unveil the challenges unique to the realm of physical and health education. From research methodologies to innovative...

This book provides higher education students with a comprehensive resource to assist them in their academic persistence in an online course or program. It addresses a wide selection of topics emphasizing a myriad of factors that impact a student's persistence, and ultimate success, in...

Historically Black Colleges and Universities were established to provide the opportunity for higher education to people of African descent in the era of segregation. The visions, values, and heritages these schools embodied enabled them to chart new frontiers of learning, scholarship, and public engagement...

Charting a lively day in a fictitious childcare setting, this book brings to life the approach to guiding children's early development by Emmi Pikler, Hungarian paediatrician and educator. It's an approach that is grounded in a deep sense of respect for infants and toddlers.The...

Author: Christopher Hill, Chia-Yi Lin, Hsin Yuan LaiISBN-10: 9811990425ISBN-13: 9789811990427Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2024Pages: 127Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31dAbout the AuthorProfessor Christopher Hill has worked in international higher education since 2008, including nine years in Malaysia and six in Dubai. Christopher is...

This book equips instructors with fresh, practical teaching and training methods to support adult learning in both formal and continuing educational environments.An extensive, how-to guide, Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning covers adult teaching and learning fundamentals, collaborative teaching methods, methods for facilitating autonomous learning,...

This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics and...

Why pursue a university education? Some people answer in terms of the purpose of getting a good job. Others respond in terms of the aim of earning more money. Still others answer in terms of the goal of promoting social justice. Drawing on C....

Due to the recent global pandemic, educators of science and technology have had to pivot and adapt their delivery to create alternative virtual means of delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced a rapid change in teaching and learning in higher education. It is reshaping...

Author: Niyousha Raeesinejad, Yousef Mehrdad Bibalan, Mohammad MoshirpourISBN-10: 9811948038ISBN-13: 9789811948039Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2023Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.61dAbout the AuthorNiyousha is a software engineer with a strong and diverse academic background that includes a bachelor's degree in software engineering, a minor...

This book provides a hands-on guide towards conducting state-of-the-art engineering research and gaining a patent. It lists pragmatic, step-by-step instructions that cover every stage in engineering research and patent gaining, from choosing a topic to the presentation of research outcomes or patent application. The...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...