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Wellness Issues for Higher Education is an essential resource that addresses a range of student wellness issues confronting professionals in college and university settings. Organized around five dimensions of Wellness-Emotional, Social, Intellectual,...

Management Behaviours in Higher Education explores the traits and behaviours of higher education leaders that are associated with staff management. It sets out beneficial management qualities and techniques which can be applied and suggests the need for...

Public concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universities cannot behave more like businesses and cut their costs to hold tuition down. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and his coauthors assert that...

Low income and first-generation students comprise a significant portion of today's college student population. The articles in this publication examine the various programs and strategies that are designed to support student success for these populations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988963303Author Ann GagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Universitas PressPublisher Universitas PressWeight(grams) 152g

What if educational programs designed curriculum with the end in mind, teaching and assessing only the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the workplace and broader life applications? Competency-Based Education (CBE) provides an answer to...

The book that every dean and department chair needs to survive-and thrive-in the twenty-first-century university.First released in 2006, The College Administrator's Survival Guide has served as the bible for a generation of provosts, deans, department...

This book results from interviews conducted with higher education leaders in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US, and the UK. It gives the reader a deep and personal insight into what leaders faced in transforming their universities through the...

Leadership in Music Technology Education examines the pedagogical, sociocultural, and philosophical issues that affect curriculum, research, and decision-making in music technology in higher education. This book considers a range of cutting-edge topics,...

50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses Do you want to: * Know what and how well your students are learning? * Promote active learning in ways that readily integrate assessment? * Gather information that can help...

Two of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of online learning. Could the growth in online courses slow the rising cost of college and help solve the crisis of affordability? In...

Taking the postcolonial - or, more specifically, the post-apartheid - university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference.Following a primarily psychoanalytic line of...

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Unmasking Academia is informed by the expertise and experiences of marginalized faculty and students and exposes inequities in academia through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Chief Online Learning Officers' Guidebook explores the essential competencies required of Chief Online Learning Officers (COLOs) using insights from real-world leadership and expert perspectives from higher education. Digital and online learning have...

Leadership lessons in higher education and what they can teach us about leadership in all walks of life In an era when college presidents serve for on average fewer than six years-leaving out of personal ambition for a next post or being forced to leave...

In this much anticipated second edition of their authoritative book on addressing student sexual violence at UK universities, Clarissa DiSantis and Graham Towl revisit the discussion around sexual violence within Higher Education. Students subjected to...

This practical guide equips educational developers with a clear, systematic approach to evaluating the impact of their center's programs.Evaluation data and evidence can serve as powerful tools to demonstrate alignment with strategic priorities and to...

This practical guide equips educational developers with a clear, systematic approach to evaluating the impact of their center's programs.Evaluation data and evidence can serve as powerful tools to demonstrate alignment with strategic priorities and to...

The 1980s were a consequential decade for universities. The marketization of higher education, the adjunctification of labor, and culture wars over curriculum transformed the landscape in a short period of time. The Battles of Texas traces the lived...

The 1980s were a consequential decade for universities. The marketization of higher education, the adjunctification of labor, and culture wars over curriculum transformed the landscape in a short period of time. The Battles of Texas traces the lived...

This book brings together the work of those implementing, using, or researching the Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) in higher education contexts. Book chapters detail how various institutions of higher education (IHEs) are leveraging their state's SoBL policy...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Traditional approaches to teaching, researching, and advancing human rights need a refresh. The Sustainable Development Goals, the Leave No One Behind ethos, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180075Author Neil L. RudenstineFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical Society

Radically Responsive Music Schools is a philosophical reimagining of music higher education culture from the ground up, arguing that holistic cultural change is the key factor needed for music schools to prepare 21st-century graduates for contemporary...

This timely book shines a light on social justice activism within higher education, calling for a conceptual space of faculty activism to share and build on the work of others who came before.Written by expert social justice academics, the volume...

This book brings together the work of those implementing, using, or researching the Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) in higher education contexts. Book chapters detail how various institutions of higher education (IHEs) are leveraging their state's SoBL policy...

Offering aspiring leaders a chance to learn from the experience of deans, vice presidents, and presidents who have served at different types of institutions around the country, Leadership Talks: Candid Conversations with Academic Leaders, presents a half...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Understanding and exploring the two-way relationship between education and international sustainable development can help education institutions truly become vehicles of...

Of all the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, SDG4 is especially and directly relevant to the work of Higher Education (HE) institutions. Adopting a future-facing view, Higher Education and SDG4 cuts through the dynamic education landscape...

Diving into the vibrant, challenging world of professional services in higher education, this empowering book provides tools to navigate complex structures, optimise mentorship and thrive in a fulfilling career.Whether you're a newcomer, a seasoned...

The contributors to this volume - educators, student affairs practitioners, and higher education staff - heartfully share a broad range of contemplative practices and acts of resistance used within the confines of shattered systems and institutions for...

The contributors to this volume - educators, student affairs practitioners, and higher education staff - heartfully share a broad range of contemplative practices and acts of resistance used within the confines of shattered systems and institutions for...

What role can higher education play to foster and support sustainable cities and communities? Emerging amidst one of the most decisive moments in our planet’s history, Higher Education and SDG11 is a powerful call to action for the development of...

Expert advice and effective strategies for community college leaders who endeavor to embed equity and social justice in institutional policies, practices, and structures Pamela Eddy and Kim VanDerLinden offer discerning guidance for advancing social...

In the United States, elite colleges and universities have largely been reserved for wealthy, predominantly white Americans, closing off access for students of color. Statutory laws have embedded discriminatory tactics into the admissions process,...