Education - Higher

"Education, Leadership, Wisdom" is an institutional history of one of the leading Native American tribal colleges. Salish Kootenai College began in 1976 as a response from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to the failure of higher education to recruit, educate, and graduate Native...

Here, hundreds of successful college grads explain how to survive the college years, including how to get top grades, find the right major, manage time, stay motivated, avoid stress, seek out the best teachers and courses, form important relationships, and graduate--happily--at the top of...

An essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work entailed in exploring a teaching question. As a how-to guide, this is...

This handbook provides a systematic, proven approach for developing a fair and consistent faculty evaluation system that can be adapted to the unique values, needs, missions, traditions, and overall culture of any institution. Based on thirty-six years of research and experience building and operating...

This book is a guide for the development and implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) in college-level courses. It provides practical advice from real professors, includes examples of PBL in action through every stage from problem development to implementation, and integrates cross-disciplinary experiences into the...

The American Community College movement has become an international movement. Why would other nations want to replicate this movement, this institution of higher education? The answer can be simple or complex depending upon your perspective, but the foundation is the same . . ....

Are you considering PhD study but don't know where to begin? Perhaps you've already started and your confidence and motivation have fallen through the floor? In this practical and highly accessible guide, Allan M. Grant provides the blueprint for navigating the often turbulent waters...

GraduationA beautiful keepsake for you to capture your friend's precious memories and predictions from your time at school. Carry this book around with you during your final weeks at school to ensure that you capture all your friend's memories that you have built over...

Learning-Centred Curriculum Design in Higher Education is written to inspire and empower university teachers to engage in curriculum design processes that centre both the learning process and the learning outcomes of students. The book is structured by a central model of curriculum design, which...

Rethinking the University: Structure, Critique, Vocation is an attempt to escape the discursive ruts that characterize debates over higher education in the United Kingdom. It explores three distinct perspectives inspired by Kojin Karatani's 'triad of concepts'--instrumentalism, idealism, and community--which the author further develops trans-genealogically...

This volume of essays and speeches by noted international higher education leaders from the 50th Annual Meeting of IAUP, and explores the critical role of higher education both as an active part of global civil society and as a foundation for the realization of...

Founded in 1906 in Gainesville as a consolidation of several smaller institutions focusing on agriculture, teacher training, and the military, the University of Florida enjoys a storied history. From its first year's enrollment of 102, the school has grown to become one of the...

This essential resource identifies college campuses as incubators of new and vibrant expressions of Jewish life. It explores innovations developed on the University of Pennsylvania campus and shows how they can be applied to synagogues, Federations and JCCs to help them be better able...

Higher education is the final stage of formal learning that succeeds secondary education. It is delivered in universities, colleges, academies, institutes of technology, etc. It includes education both at the undergraduate and the postgraduate level. It encapsulates teaching, research, social service activities and exacting...

2020 Critics' Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association (AESA) In Race on Campus, Julie J. Park argues that there are surprisingly pervasive and stubborn myths about diversity on college and university campuses, and that these myths obscure the notable significance and admirable effects...

In Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education, leading scholars address the unforeseen impact of accountability standards on students of color and the institutions that disproportionately serve them. The book describes how federal policies can worsen existing racial inequalities in higher education and offers alternative...

A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editors: Jeffrey S. Brooks, Monash University, Denise E. Armstrong, Brock University; Ira Bogotch, Florida Atlantic University; Sandra Harris, Lamar University; Whitney H. Sherman, Virginia Commonwealth University; George Theoharis, Syracuse University While critical race theory is...

To The Next Step is the perfect guide for any high school or college student who wants to understand what the real world is actually like. Written by Kyle Grappone, a college graduate with real world experience, Kyle shares his insights and advice about...

Answers Explained: LSAT Analytical Reasoning Section, the latest in the Answers Explained series, is a mini-book for students preparing for the LSAT, the test for law school admission. Answers Explained: LSAT Analytical Reasoning Section helps you ace the LSAT by showing you how to...

What if you had a guidebook that you could turn to at each stage of your academic journey to help you navigate through the process of getting a PhD in Biblical Studies and succeeding in the academic world? This book is precisely intended to...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst boasts over a century of both intercollegiate and intramural athletics. The story begins with the early recreational activities of a New England agricultural college and ends with a highly competitive Division I athletic schedule. From playing ice hockey on...

Based on a wealth of experience at German universities, this book offers a unique insight unparalleled in depth and detail into one of the most sought-after topics of international education: Studying in Germany for free. (before you ask: yes, it is also free for...

Gaining admission into a college or university is more competitive than ever. Even if you have achieved a stellar grade point average, piled up community service hours, and knocked your written application out of the park, are you truly prepared for the one-on-one interview?...

What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is...

The leap between the undergrad and postgrad can sometimes come as a surprise, especially if you′ve been out of education for a while. Postgraduate study involves applying skills and knowledge in a more sophisticated and advanced way than was required during your degree. Your...

Critical Administration: Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice in Contemporary Higher Education explores the challenges that higher education administrators face when negotiating political commitments in the day-to-day practice of university life. Jay Brower and W. Benjamin Myers have collected reflections from 12 administrators, all...

The book examines HBCUs and their role in higher education through several lenses, including politics, education policy, leadership practice, culture, and social justice. It will guide HBCU leaders and administrators to improve their institutions holistically during the age of accountability. Author: Comfort O. OkpalaISBN-10:...

What way forward for the contemporary university? Critical University traverses fields in critical theory (Marcuse and Althusser), psychoanalysis (Kristeva and Freud), phenomenology (Husserl), and the philosophy of education (Freire and Hooks) to focus and provoke further discussion of the university in crisis.Author: Tanya LougheadISBN-10:...

Survival of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities as edited by Edward Fort is a hard-hitting thesis concerned with this segment of higher education in America. Fort and his colleagues outline such challenges as the economics of equality, fiscal accountability, and the impact of...

This book details the legal and historical development of institutional and professorial academic freedoms to better understand the relationship between these concepts. While some judges and scholars have focused on the divergence of these protections, this book articulates an aligned theory that brings both...

This little book is a directory of 101 college scholarships that are open to almost anyone. These are just some of the scholarships you'll find in the huge book, 1001 College Scholarships. You don't need to go to a specific school, you don't need...

One of a number of selection tools that is used by university Admissions Tutors to make offers to applicants is the UCAS Personal Statement. Since the majority of universities will not interview, the Personal Statement may be the applicants' only opportunity to sell themselves....

Praise for Welcome to College From your college ID to your digital identity, the next four years will strongly define your life. This book will help you decide how you want that definition to read. -Eric Stoller, Inside Higher Ed Dayna has a simple...

With the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down. College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and...

If you've already read the usual "tips" and "tricks" for writing the admissions essay and found them unhelpful, this is the book for you. "The Art of the Personal Statement" outlines a unique, ground-breaking approach to the application essay. Rejecting the usual "tips and...

The first edition of this book gave a systematic exposition of the Weinstein method of calculating lower bounds of eigenvalues by means of intermediate problems. This second edition presents new developments in the framework of the material contained in the first edition, which is...

Three Lectures: University of Toronto Installation Lectures, 1958 is a collection of lectures given on the day of the installation of Dr. Claude Bissell as President of the University of Toronto.Author: Northrop Frye, Clyde Kluckhohn, V. B. WigglesworthISBN-10: 148759884XISBN-13: 9781487598846Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage:...

The Craft of University Teaching makes the case for a craft perspective on university teaching. In making this case, it examines what university teaching looks like when viewed under the lens of craftwork.Author: Peter LindsayISBN-10: 1487525141ISBN-13: 9781487525149Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2019Pages: 200Format:...

The fascinating story of Toronto's experimental Rochdale College's rise and fall, now reissued in a handsome A List edition.Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbol of the flower-child sixties, a financial and social controversy. In...

Join Tulane University Archivist Ann E. Smith Case as she recounts the history of this illustrious university using vintage images.Tulane University was founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young doctors who saw the need for trained physicians in the...

The CV Handbook is the definitive guide to drafting and updating a curriculum vitae as used in the American Academy. The CV Handbook sets the record straight and offers dozens of CV samples to help graduate students, new faculty and tenured faculty prepare a...

This book is a useful resource for designing and delivering culturally responsive counseling services for international students. It introduces readers to contributions made by international students in higher education, and supplies in-depth information about the nature of cross-cultural transitions including initial entry to the...

In the evolving world of higher education, discovering and integrating effective new practices, both online and in the classroom, is crucial in preparing today's growing number of adult students for tomorrow's dynamic and evolving workplace. Now, three administrators at City University of Seattle have...

From Bottom to Top Tier in a Decade: Th e Wagner College Turnaround Years is a memoir recounting one of the most remarkable turnaround stories in American higher education, as recalled by the president who led a fourteen-year campaign bringing this fi nancially troubled,...

The basic assumption of this study is that mainland and island schools reinforce a modality to achieve which stresses contrasting achievement values. For example, the value placed on competitive achievement in United States schools seems to contradict the value placed on cooperative achievement in...

You're about to finish high school, looking forward to the new journey where you really can begin defining your life, its direction, and fulfillment. You may experience moments with complete excitement and nervousness; other moments might consist of exhaustion--after all, you've just finished twelve...

Problem Based Learning in the 21st Century Classroom is an essential guide that discusses the importance of problem based learning in education and how educators can teach students effectively to develop problem solving, critical thinking, and higher order thinking skills. This informative book shows...

This book provided evidence that the Retention of First Year Black Male students can be achieved by the experiences of three second semester freshmen and three sophomores at a Predominately White private university in the Washington DC area. This book explored recommendation for High...

Gloria Chun has written an artful book that applies insights from the best personal essays, behavioral neuroscience, and motivational science to the art of crafting the college application essay. -Gina Snyder, MA, MEd, Career Counselor at St. Mary's College. Mastering the College Application Essay...

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers...