Education - Higher

Today in the United States, students are graduating from college already in debt from student loans and beginning their careers in an uncertain economy. Statistics have shown that freshman college students are stressed-not about their grades or about doing well-but rather about the debt...

Author: Ann E. Smith CaseISBN-10: 153169909XISBN-13: 9781531699093Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2016Pages: 130Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d

Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a...

A college scholarship book tailored for high school students in grades 9-12. Over 1,000 hours of research has been consolidated into a single, well organized and easy to read book. Each scholarship has a straight-to-the-point description with key eligibility and application requirements. The scholarships...

No matter how skilled you may be in your area of study, interpersonal skills and the way in which you present yourself to those around you are paramount to your success. A Student's Guide to Communication and Self-Presentation: Recommendations, Relationships, Resum s, and Interviews...

This is a book for the medical students, medical residents as well cardiology fellowAuthor: Imran Ahmed MDISBN-10: 1514199068ISBN-13: 9781514199060Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2015Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.16d

Do you want to get into West Point? Then you need to ace your interview! The interview is one of the BEST ways to stand out during the Admissions process. Written by a former Service Academy Admissions Officer, this book is a MUST HAVE...

When E. E. Cummings talks about "the deepest secret nobody knows," he is talking about love and how love keeps the world, the cosmos even, from falling apart. Here is another "deepest secret nobody knows" Studying grammar can be very enjoyable and life-enriching, and...

The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything--and nervous "fuzzy major" students,...

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never...

Touchdown: The Story of the Cornell Bear chronicles the exploits of the four live bears that served in succession as mascots for the Big Red football team beginning with the legendary 1915 team through the 1930s. These enterprising bears traveled on the team train,...

From a renowned education writer comes a fascinating examination of the rapidly shifting world of college that every parent, student and educator needs to understand.In 2011-2012, some of the world's most famous universities and technology entrepreneurs began a revolution in higher education. College courses...

Though many people know that American universities now offer an inadequate and incoherent education from a leftist viewpoint that excludes moderate and conservative ideas, few people understand how much this matters, how it happened, how bad it is, or what can be done about...

In dramatic commentary, Indoctrination U. unveils the intellectual corruption of American universities by faculty activists who have turned America's classrooms into indoctrination centers for their political causes. It describes how academic radicals with little regard for professional standards or the pluralistic foundations of American...

Author: John A. Jr. AdamsISBN-10: 1585440884ISBN-13: 9781585440887Publisher: Texas A&M University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/1979Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 11.07h x 8.32w x 0.56d

Academic professionals are expected to restrain self-interest, promote the ideals of public service, and maintain high standards of performance, while society grants the profession autonomy to regulate itself through peer review. Hamilton conveys the need for ethical leadership from within the peer collegium-leadership that...

Three experts on equity and technology offer research, evidence-based strategies, and examples of best practices to move toward digital equity in teacher education programs and beyond. Closing the Gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to...

Author: Ethel SimpsonISBN-10: 1557281351ISBN-13: 9781557281357Publisher: University of Arkansas PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1999Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.30lbsSize: 14.55h x 9.32w x 1.41d

Johnson University is a private, Christian, co-educational university with its main campus located six miles southeast of Knoxville, Tennessee, and a second campus in Kissimmee, Florida. For 125 years, Johnson University has been educating students for Christian ministries and other strategic vocations framed by...

One of a number of selection tools that is used by university Admissions Tutors to make offers to applicants is the UCAS Personal Statement. The Personal Statement gives the applicant an opportunity to sell themselves. Competition is often strong which means that producing a...

How can parents help their kids gain the confidence to succeed in high school and college? The Perfect Student answers that question. The authors of this thought provoking book demonstrate valuable lessons and creative strategies to help students succeed in the classroom. It addresses...

Little research has been conducted to identify aspects of effective social transformation leadership in American college and university leadership. The authors of this book argue that while much less has been done at predominantly White institutions to practically apply the processes of social transformation...

In 2013, the New York Times identified Nashville as America's "it" city--a leading hub of music, culture, technology, food, and business. But long before, the Tennessee capital was known as the "Athens of the South," as a reflection of the city's reputation for and...

A college degree has never been more important--or more expensive. If you're not made of money, where can you get an amazing liberal arts education without your parents having to remortgage the house or cash in their retirement fund? Which degrees will allow you...

"We become what we love," states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. This provocative book represents a major new interpretation of Dewey's education philosophy. It is also an examination of what motivates us to teach and...

In What Excellent Community Colleges Do, Joshua S. Wyner draws on the insights and evidence gained in administering the inaugural Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. This book identifies four domains of excellence--degree completion, equity, student learning, and labor market success--and describes in rich...

This is a highly original and intriguing book which should attract a good deal of interest. It is based on exhaustive, quite remarkable archival research and includes a sophisticated prosopographical analysis of Jewish enrollment over several decades. Most intriguing, the book unearths hitherto unknown...

The Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education was designed to contribute meaning to the adage "what was old is new again." Just as ideas in child psychology shifted in the 1960s from a focus on behavior to cognitive stages, we are...

This book is designed as a college-level textbook introducing readers to all aspects of intellectual disability in children, from birth to the end of schooling, with an educational focus. The book will be of interest to persons training as special education teachers or who...

The purpose of this book is to offer higher education leaders, scholars, consultants, and observers a full range of strategy tools that can be applied to the higher education industry. This is accomplished by a) introducing new concepts and tools to give a comprehensive...

In the face of the continuing discourse of crisis in US education, The Meaningful Writing Project offers readers an affirming story of writing in higher education that shares students' experiences in their own voices. In presenting the results of a three-year study consisting of...

"As a WPA who recently transitioned into being a department chair, I was pulled in from the first paragraph. . . . A Critical Look at Institutional Mission is a welcome gap-filler, focusing on the 'mission' as a fulcrum for academic writing/program-building activities. I...

American higher education is increasingly in trouble. Universities are facing an uncertain and unsettling future with free speech suppression, out-of-control Federal student aid programs, soaring administrative costs, and intercollegiate athletics mired in corruption. Restoring the Promise explores these issues and exposes the federal government's...

Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of Wits University and the most prominent and outspoken university official during the recent student protests, takes a characteristically frank view of the past three years on South Africa's university campuses in this new book. He focuses on the student protests...

The intertwined stories of the great English 'Varsity' universities have many colourful aspects in common, yet each also boasts elements of true distinctiveness. So while the histories of Oxford and Cambridge are both characterised by seething town and gown rivalries, doctrinal conflicts and heretical...

This book is a practical, informative and concise guide for college and university faculty across all disciplines who are dealing with today's diverse student body: an increasingly ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse group. It helps staff to understand multilingual students and offers advice on...

In the wake of socialism's demise and liberalism's loss of direction, new ideas are needed for the next major realignment of the social and political domain. Making a unique contribution to the idea of 'the commons', this book offers a radical form of direct...

Despite the disasters of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and ever more visible evidence of the horrors of war, the concepts of "Humanitarian Intervention" and "Just War" enjoy widespread legitimacy and continue to exercise an unshakeable grip on our imaginations. Robin Dunford and Michael Neu provide...

'A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.'Sin饌d Kennedy, Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment When it comes to abortion, today's liberal climate has produced a common sense that is both pro-choice and anti-abortion. The public are fed an unchanging version...

How does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academics and those working in professional services to examine these questions and more. The diverse and expert contributors analyse...

This book examines translanguaging in higher education and provides clear examples of what translanguaging looks like in practice in particular contexts around the world. Chapters show how the use of translanguaging practices allows students and professors to build on their linguistic repertoires to more...

For nearly thirty years, a scientific revolution has taken place in the religious studies departments of several North American and British universities--and the results are considerable, obliging us to envisage new ways of conceiving of this academic field. While the History of Religions tended...

In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions. Teaching about and for social change has been a core value of...

At least one in four women attending college or university will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate. Beyond this staggering statistic, recent media coverage of "rape chants" at Saint Mary's University, misogynistic Facebook posts from Dalhousie University's dental school, and high-profile incidents...

This book offers high-yield review for the Orthopaedics In-Training Exam (OITE) and the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) Part I exam for residents and attendings.Author: Hai V. LeISBN-10: 1731161832ISBN-13: 9781731161833Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2019Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d

Higher education leaders and their teams should always seek to add value to their decision-making processes. Planning, Policy, and Politics in Higher Education: Tools to Help Leaders Make Strategic Choices provides a strategic decision-making model and specific tools to help maximize the opportunities for...

"Intentional Tech explores seven research-based principles for matching technology to pedagogy, arguing that teaching and learning goals should drive instructors' technology use, not the other way around"--Author: Derek BruffISBN-10: 1949199150ISBN-13: 9781949199154Publisher: West Virginia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2019Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...

Elevating Customer Service in Higher Education provides an in-depth guide by three practitioners with decades of combined experience in the higher education and hospitality sectors. Our authors are deeply embedded in customer service initiatives and have certified hundreds of higher-ed professionals at Academic Impressions'...

A history of Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri from 1982-2016. This is a book about transformation, or how a sleepy little college in a sleepy little town in rural Missouri became a university.Author: John O. GoochISBN-10: 1947181041ISBN-13: 9781947181045Publisher: Eagle Heights LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2018Pages:...

Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining--even while re-imagining and re-inventing--the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through essays both practical and theoretical, the collection presents survey teachers with an exciting range of new strategies for...