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Vendor:Christine Johnson McPhail
Leadership Tune-Up: Twelve Steps to Becoming a More Successful and Innovative Leader
To become a more successful, innovative higher education leader, you need to assess your leadership competencies and areas that need improvement, develop a core set of skills and know how to sustain them, and identify ways to acquire new professional development training when you...- $29.95
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Vendor:Nicholas Maxwell
From Knowledge to Wisdom: A Revolution for Science and the Humanities
From Knowledge to Wisdom argues that there is an urgent need, for both intellectual and humanitarian reasons, to bring about a revolution in science and the humanities. The outcome would be a kind of academic inquiry rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to...- $18.00
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Vendor:Annie Howell
Race and Higher Education: Rethinking Pedagogy in Diverse College Classrooms
The contributors to Race and Higher Education guide educators toward an understanding of how changes in the student population call for new approaches to classroom instruction, and address the need for new pedagogical practices in increasingly diverse college classrooms. Over the last few decades,...- $23.00
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Vendor:Kathleen Wickham
We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss
On September 30, 1962, the nation was transfixed over the integration crisis at the University of Mississippi as James Meredith sought to become the first African-American to enroll in any public school in Mississippi. More than 300 reporters descended on the small town of...- $29.95
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Vendor:Maryellen Weimer
Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators
Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College EducatorsResearch has shown that more and more college students struggle with not only academic coursework, but also identifying how to be a student and learner at a higher education institution. While many students are still...- $34.00
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Vendor:Deidre Price
Teaching Strategies for the Online College Classroom: A Collection of Articles for Faculty
Whether you're preparing to teach your first online course or seeking to upgrade your current offerings, this book is the go-to guide you've been looking for. Online faculty frequently work at some location other than their "home" campus, which can make it difficult for...- $29.99
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Vendor:Donald Cowan
Unbinding Prometheus: Education for the Coming Age
The collection of essays by a distinguished physicist and educator unites a cultural and technological imagination of education. Essays include "Imagination, Redundancy, and the Act of Learning," "The Three Moments of Learning," "The Uncertainty Principle in Education," "Scientific Discovery and Gratitude," and "The Economics...- $15.00
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Vendor:Robert Rhoads
Coming Out in College: The Struggle for a Queer Identity
Coming out is the process of acknowledging same-sex attractions to oneself and to others. It is both a personal and a public process. For many gay and bisexual students, college marks a pivotal point where for the first time they feel free to explore...- $35.00
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Vendor:Edmond H. Weiss
100 Writing Remedies: Practical Exercises for Technical Writing
100 Writing Remedies is the only workbook/reference that shows students how to debug faulty writing and improve their communication skills. With it, your students can benefit from the same professional instruction other writers receive when attending seminars by Edmond H. Weiss. Writing must never...- $33.00
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Vendor:Aye Kyaw
The Voice of Young Burma
This work explores the history of the university in Burma, both as an institution founded by the colonizing British, and as a medium for change that was used by Burmese students in their struggles for independence. Aye Kyaw describes student protests, strikes, and boycotts...- $17.95
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Vendor:Earl Hayter
Education in Transition
Author: Earl HayterISBN-10: 0875800475ISBN-13: 9780875800479Publisher: Northern Illinois University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1974Pages: 559Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.60w x 1.70d- $43.95
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Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum: An Approach Through Multiple Literacies
Author: Janet Swaffar, Katherine ArensISBN-10: 0873528077ISBN-13: 9780873528078Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 217Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.56d- $25.00
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Vendor:John E. Roueche
The Entrepreneurial Community College
Develop an entrepreneurial culture with the best practices discussed inside this resource. Declining public resources, coupled with the demand that we do more with less, make it more of an imperative that entrepreneurism, flexibility, and adaptability thrive in the community college environment. Seeing how...- $28.00
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Vendor:Linda O. Stanford
Msu Campus--Buildings, Places, Spaces: Architecture and the Campus Park of Michigan State University
Since its founding in 1855, Michigan State University has emerged from its modest "oak opening" in the wilderness to become a large campus park. This story reflects the commitment of campus leaders since the nineteenth century to develop MSU as a beautiful and educational...- $34.95
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Vendor:David Mulroy
The War Against Grammar
Provocative, thoughtful, informative, combative-a book that challenges us to come to terms once more with the teaching of English grammar. How can we improve the verbal skills of American students? How can we strengthen them as readers and writers? How can we best prepare...- $37.35
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Vendor:Charles S. Sell
A Fragrant Introduction to Terpenoid Chemistry
Ideal as both an introduction to terpenoid chemistry and as a refresher course, this title will prove invaluable to students, lecturers and industrialists alike.Author: Charles S. SellISBN-10: 085404681XISBN-13: 9780854046812Publisher: Royal Society of ChemistryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2003Pages: 426Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.28w x 1.05dReview Citation(s):...- $77.00
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Vendor:Philip Ball
Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
Devising and performing a scientific experiment is an art, and it is common to hear scientists talk about the 'beauty' of an experiment. What does this mean in chemistry, the experimental science par excellence? And what are the most beautiful chemical experiments of all...- $28.00
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Vendor:John D. Hepworth
Aromatic Chemistry
This book provides material required by undergraduate students and is also ideal for industrial chemists seeking to update their knowledge of this important aspect of chemistry.Author: John D. Hepworth, Mike J. Waring, David R. WaringISBN-10: 0854046623ISBN-13: 9780854046621Publisher: Royal Society of ChemistryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2002Pages: 176Format:...- $22.00
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Vendor:Trudi E. Jacobson
Metaliteracy in Practice
In their earlier book "Metaliteracy," the authors offered an original framework for engaging learners as reflective and collaborative participants in today's complex information environments. Now, they move that comprehensive structure for information literacy firmly into real-world practice, highlighting the groundbreaking work of librarians and...- $70.00
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Vendor:Paul M. Anderson
Professors Who Believe: An Introduction & Commentary
Often the university is seen as a hothouse of anti-Christian bias. Every other belief system, no matter how exotic, seems to receive more respect and support than historic Christian belief. Yet even in this environment, steadily and certainly, men and women of faith have...- $30.00
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Vendor:Keith Hoeller
Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System
Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a...- $39.95
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Vendor:David Espinosa
Jesuit Student Groups, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Political Resistance in Mexico, 1913-1979
The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by conflict between church and state. This book focuses on the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church to influence Mexican society through Jesuit-led organizations such as the Mexican Catholic Youth Association, the National Catholic...- $55.00
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Vendor:Lori Gardinier
Service-Learning Through Community Engagement: What Community Partners and Members Gain, Lose, and Learn from Campus Collaborations
While campus engagement with the local community is generally viewed in a positive light, in reality these collaborations are more complex. Presenting a variety of contemporary models and frameworks for community engagement, this book is distinguished by its unique emphasis on campus-community partnerships from...- $65.00
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Vendor:Wendy K. Killam
College Student Development: Applying Theory to Practice on the Diverse Campus
This timely and comprehensive overview of key theories of student development illustrates their application across a range of student services with diverse student populations. It focuses on nontraditional student populations, including adults changing careers, parents, veterans, and international students. The book examines relevant theories...- $83.00
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Vendor:Thomas J. Shelley
Fordham, a History of the Jesuit University of New York: 1841-2003
Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the context of the massive expansion...- $44.00
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Vendor:Peter Brooks
The Humanities and Public Life
Is there an ethics of reading, and is this something that the interpretive humanities can and should contribute to other professional fields, including law, and to public life? This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a...- $20.00
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Vendor:Mary Caton Lingold
Digital Sound Studies
The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume's contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent,...- $107.95
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Vendor:Ellen Moore
Grateful Nation: Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus
In today's volunteer military many recruits enlist for the educational benefits, yet a significant number of veterans struggle in the classroom, and many drop out. The difficulties faced by student veterans have been attributed to various factors: poor academic preparation, PTSD and other postwar...- $27.95
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Vendor:Nancy Abelmann
The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign-including the large population of Korean American students-come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus's largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping to realize the liberal ideals of the modern...- $25.95
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Vendor:J. F. Ade Ajayi
The African Experience with Higher Education
There have been institutions of higher learning for centuries in Africa, but the phenomenal growth has taken place in the last fifty years, first in the later days of colonialism and then in the heady days of independence and commodity boom. Without them, there...- $34.95
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Vendor:William Billingsley
Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina
North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to "known members of the Communist Party" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions posed by any state or federal body. Oddly enough,...- $34.95
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Vendor:James V. Koch
The Impoverishment of the American College Student
Is the end in sight for college tuition hikes?Tuition and fees at public colleges and universities consistently have risen twice or even three times as fast as comparable increases in the Consumer Price Index in recent years. Since 2000 these costs have even grown...- $27.00
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Vendor:R. Shep Melnick
The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education
One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society-and contributed to the country's ongoing culture warsFew laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses...- $38.00
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Vendor:Jeffrey Gorney
Syracuse University: An Architectural Guide
This handsome manual offers an architectural overview of the Syracuse University campus. Intended for prospective students, faculty, alumni, and visitors, it shows how the campus evolved in response to the changing character of the academic community and urban environs. It also gives an inside...- $19.95
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Vendor:Bruce M. Mackh
Higher Education by Design: Best Practices for Curricular Planning and Instruction
Faculty in higher education are disciplinary experts, but they seldom receive formal training in teaching. Higher Education by Design uses the principles of design thinking to bridge this gap through practical examples and step-by-step instructions based on educational theory and best practices in pedagogical...- $52.95
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How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
Uncovers the labor exploitation occurring in universities across the country As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus...- $30.00
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Vendor:Raimund E. Goerler
The Ohio State University: An Illustrated History
Raimund E. Goerler, acclaimed archivist and historian, has written the definitive guidebook to the history of The Ohio State University, one of the world's largest universities and a prominent land-grant institution. Using a topical strategy--ranging widely through critical events in OSU's history, vignettes of...- $29.95
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Vendor:Michael David Cohen
Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War
The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War's immediate and...- $49.50
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Vendor:Charles Muscatine
Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century
Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer. Upon his reinstatement at Berkeley, he founded "Strawberry...- $32.95
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Vendor:William G. Bowen
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the "natural aristocracy of talent and virtue." Although in many ways American higher education has fulfilled Jefferson's vision by achieving a widespread level of excellence, it has not achieved...- $30.00
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Vendor:Brian Steel Wills
No Ordinary College: A History of the University of Virginia's College at Wise
"You are making history today," the University of Virginia Extension Division agent Samuel Crockett observed to a gathering of students and faculty on September 15, 1954, in Wise, Virginia. The occasion was the opening convocation of what would become Clinch Valley College of the...- $34.95
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Vendor:Nolan L. Cabrera
White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of Post-Racial Higher Education
Winner of the 2019 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award and the 2019 ASHE Outstanding Book Award On April 22, 2015, Boston University professor Saida Grundy set off a Twitter storm with her provocative question: "Why is white America so reluctant to identify white...- $37.95
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Vendor:Barrett J. Taylor
Unequal Higher Education: Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity
American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely from one another. Some enjoy tremendous endowment savings and/or collect resources via research, which then offsets the funds that students contribute. Other institutions...- $41.95
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Vendor:Marisa J. Fuentes
Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History Volume 1
The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture....- $29.95
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Vendor:Babette Faehmel
College Women In The Nuclear Age: Cultural Literacy and Female Identity, 1940-1960
In the popular imagination, American women during the time between the end of World War II and the 1960s--the era of the so-called "feminine mystique"--were ultraconservative and passive. College Women in the Nuclear Age takes a fresh look at these women, showing them actively...- $41.95
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Vendor:Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude
Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies
Using case studies from universities throughout the nation, Doing Diversity in Higher Education examines the role faculty play in improving diversity on their campuses. The power of professors to enhance diversity has long been underestimated, their initiatives often hidden from view. Winnifred Brown-Glaude and...- $41.95
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Vendor:Jacques Berlinerblau
Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals
One of the most controversial books to come out of the academy in the last fifteen years is Martin Bernal's Black Athena. It has been a true cause celebre. Afrocentrists have both praised the book and claimed that Bernal stole from the work of...- $40.95
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Vendor:Jack R. Baker
Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades, arguing that it causes...- $50.00
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Vendor:H. Spencer Turner
The History and Practice of College Health
This volume is the first definitive reference and textbook in the one-hundred-fifty year history of college health. Written for professionals and for those working in student services and higher education administration, it covers the history of college health, administrative matters including financing and accreditation,...- $30.00
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Vendor:Peter Wallenstein
Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses
"The first comprehensive study of the process of desegregation as it unfolded during the twentieth century at the flagship universities and white land-grant institutions of the south."--Amy Thompson McCandless, College of Charleston"Broadens the discussion of the civil rights movement to include academic spaces as...- $24.95
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