Education - Higher

"Three essays on education by chancellors of TCU, written in 1873, 1973, and 2023, are published/republished here as part of the celebration of Texas Christian University's sesquicentennial"--Author: Joseph Addison Clark, James M. Moudy, Victor J. BoschiniISBN-10: 0875658482ISBN-13: 9780875658483Publisher: Texas Christian University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2023Pages:...

Higher education refers to the post-secondary education, which is an optional and final stage in the formal learning process that takes place after obtaining secondary education. Institutions of higher education can be broadly divided into liberal arts, engineering, visual arts, and vocational and performance...

Higher education refers to the post-secondary education, which is an optional and final stage in the formal learning process that takes place after obtaining secondary education. Institutions of higher education can be broadly divided into liberal arts, engineering, visual arts, and vocational and performance...

College and university administrators are increasingly called to confront the deeply entrenched racial inequities in higher education. To do so, corresponding attention must be given to historical and contemporary manifestations of whiteness in higher education and student affairs.This book bridges theoretical and practical considerations...

When Sharde M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people affects her personally. But her hashtag, BlackintheIvory, went viral, fostering a flood of Black scholars sharing similar stories....

This book provides practical advice and helpful tips for students writing their college admissions essays.It offers suggestions on good topics to write about--without getting too specific--and vital information on writing approach, grammar, and usage. If used properly, this book will help applicants craft a...

This book makes the case for assessment of student learning as a vehicle for equity in higher education. The book proceeds through a framework of "why, what, how, and now what." The opening chapters present the case for infusing equity into assessment, arguing that...

This book presents research initiatives by tutors involved in a content-based instruction context as part of the University Town writing programme, National University of Singapore, which is an interdisciplinary programme designed to teach first- and second-year undergraduate students how to conduct academic research and...

Featuring storytelling as a central theme, this book examines the role of narrative inquiry in social processes of establishing teacher knowledge and identity to provide new insights into the role of storytelling in education's teaching and learning paradigm. Gui and Wong engage with a...

This is the authoritative guide to implementing COIL Virtual Exchange, conceived, and co-edited by one of the originators of this innovative approach to internationalization, Jon Rubin. COIL, the acronym for Collaborative Online International Learning, is a central modality of what has come to be...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year In Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students' competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and faculty who have...

Designed to help the reader move through an empirical research project, this book describes how they can think like a researcher. Methods and methodologies are presented as pragmatic tools to address research questions. Research into adult learning is different from educational research more broadly...

Clarification of the aims and problems of interdisciplinarity, as this book demonstrates, not only will help reveal the movement's probable impact on university teaching and research but also will shed light on the overall future of the university. This book therefore speaks to faculty...

A position paper by Benjamin A. Rogge and Pierre F. Goodrich leads off this fine collection advocating an educational system based strictly on private and voluntary institutions. Anne Husted Burleigh is a writer and a contributing editor for Crisis.Author: Anne Husted BurleighISBN-10: 0913966002ISBN-13: 9780913966006Publisher:...

The first of its kind, this book chronicles and contextualizes the underexplored history of African American memory at TCU. It focuses specifically upon the understudied role of Black Americans within TCU lore from many perspectives: students, staff, faculty, administrators, and alumni. TCU in Purple,...

Moving away from a traditional 'one size fits all' approach, this thesis guide encourages readers to find their own path to submission, demonstrating that the process of writing is as unique as the individual candidate. Author: Donna Starks, Margaret J. RobertsonISBN-10: 103234699XISBN-13: 9781032346991Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Founded in 1873, Texas Christian University is located on 272 acres about three miles from downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Walking TCU: A Historic Perspective, Second Edition describes the buildings on the Fort Worth campus, and before that those on the Thorp Spring and Waco...

Featuring chapters written by diverse voices within the academy, Incivility and Higher Education: The Costs of Bad Behavior addresses faculty members behaving badly and how unchecked incivility can lead to a variety of dire repercussions in higher education, including governance gridlocks, increased grievances, impacts...

This book challenges pre-service and in-service educators to reflect critically on their assumptions and engage in praxis promoting racial and social equity. Grounded in policy contexts, historical understandings, and critical theories, this book describes innovative community-engaged approaches to resisting racism and promoting equity and...

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 book is intended for the increasing number of faculty and student affairs administrators - at whatever their level of experience -- who are being are asked to become social justice educators to prepare students to live successfully within, and contribute to, an equitable...

Includes numerous case studies and findings on advanced applications in various functional areasCovers a broad range of rigorous OR/MS methods that can be applied in Higher Education managementFocuses on OR/MS applicationsAuthor: Zilla Sinuany-SternISBN-10: 3030740498ISBN-13: 9783030740498Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2021Pages: 524Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.06lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...

Did you know there was a plane crash on the TCU campus? Or that TCU once had an airport? Were you aware that TCU began integrating during World War II? Discover these and other interesting tidbits in Images and Stories of TCU's First 100...

The HBCU Experience: The HBCU Royal University Queens Edition is a collection of stories written by prominent Queens throughout the world. Queens who are doing great things in their careers, businesses, and communities nationally and internationally. The Authors share their stories and experiences of...

This powerful, practical resource helps faculty create an inclusive dynamic in their classrooms, so that all students are set up to succeed. This book provides practical solutions to help faculty create an inclusive learning environment in which all students can thrive. .Author: Kathryn C....

This book comprehensively critiques existing models and views of doctoral student socialization, and offers a new model that incorporates concepts of identity development, adult learning, and epistemological development.Author: Susan K. GardnerISBN-10: 1579224458ISBN-13: 9781579224455Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2010Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.08w x 0.75d

This book is a product of multiple collaborations and intellectual contributions of a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate women who helped shape the course on which it is based.Author: Julie E. OwenISBN-10: 164267009XISBN-13: 9781642670097Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2020Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w...

Reframing Academic Leadership Reframing Academic Leadership is the go-to guide for deepening leadership commitment, capacity, and impact. Gallos and Bolman tease out the unique opportunities and challenges in academic leadership and present powerful ideas and tools to guide and assist college and university administrators...

This handbook presents a global overview of developments in education and policy change during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue.Divided into two parts, the handbook...

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors.Author: Deni ElliottISBN-10: 0742507114ISBN-13: 9780742507111Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2005Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.59d

This book challenges institutions and their programs to prioritize the use of chronological assessment results to benefit enrolled students in comparison with the more common practice of prolonged assessment cycles that generally benefit future students.Author: Peggy L. MakiISBN-10: 1620364883ISBN-13: 9781620364888Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2017Pages: 214Format:...

This book provides an overview of training and teaching methods, as well as education strategies, for Additive Manufacturing (AM) and its application in different business sectors. It presents real-world applications and case studies to demonstrate the key practical and theoretical fundamentals of AM training,...

This book presents a system of straightforward and proven techniques that are used by productive writers, and applies them to the dissertation process. This book is intended for graduate students and their advisers in the social sciences, the humanities, and professional fields.Author: Peg Boyle...

This book presents thinking about and through transdisciplinary and professional development as an educative process. Rather than focusing on the delineation of the approaches offered, an analysis of these contributions points to commonality in those problems that benefit from a transdisciplinary perspective. The core...

This book examines the Teaching Excellence Framework, and how this and various other educational policies create conditions for the exclusion of cross-border learners. As universities become increasingly globalised and seek to recruit international students, this volume explores how the TEF can shape attitudes towards...

Neuroscience tells us that the products of the mind--thought, emotions, artistic creation--are the result of the interactions of the biological brain with our senses and the physical world: in short, that thinking and learning are the products of a biological process.Author: James E. ZullISBN-10:...

This book explains the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families and helps the reader develop their own skills in this approach.The ability to observe and to process what is seen is crucial in social work with children...

Did you know . . . That awareness of a few key facts throughout high school will make your child's college application process much easier? That grades and behavior in all four years of high school affect your child's acceptance to college? That financial...

University start-ups are unique in the world of business and entrepreneurship, translating research conducted at and owned by universities into market-ready products--a complex process that requires a combination of scientific, technical, legal, business, and financial skills to be successful. Start-ups have the potential to...

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 edited book considers the vital position of artistic research in the landscapes and ecosystems of new materialism(s) and post-humanism(s), in and for higher education. The book aims to satisfy an urgent desire for change in the ways we link artistic and critical research...

Of making many English grammars there is no end; nor should there be till theoretical scholarship and actual practice are more happily wedded. In this field much valuable work has already been accomplished; but it has been done largely by workers accustomed to take...

This book is essential for beginners as well as for college and university science students. The knowledge of electrochemistry is very essential and very useful in every walk of life. This subject generally falls under the branch of Physical Chemistry even though the topic...

It is a book helping the students learn basic metallurgy. This book has been divided into three sections: Objective or multiple choice questions, One word or very short questions and short questions with their answers.Mainly this book covers the questions related to Geology, geo-chemistry...

What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers introduced a new kind of university-one dedicated to free inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. In the first major...

This book offers context, research, policy, and practice-based recommendations centering college access and success for a historically overlooked population: rural Students and Communities of Color. Through an exploration of how colleges and universities can effectively welcome students from rural areas who identify as Asian...

Using British Colonial Office papers, the archives of colonial governments in Africa, and the writings of African nationalists, Dr Nwauwa examines the long history of the demand for the establishment of universities in Colonial Africa, to which the authorities finally agreed after World War...

Innovation is a striking and polemical feature of contemporary schooling. The 1960s saw an upsurge of interest in progressive educational theories and debate and the benefits and disadvantages of their practical application, which continued after. But what was the reality behind the words? How...

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 book provides a comparative analysis of the impact of 'soft Europeanization' on higher education governance in Western Europe. Using concrete indicators of policy change, it focuses on university reform in Italy, France, Germany and the UK to explore how historical legacies and transnational...