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We live in divisive and polarizing times, often remaining in comfortable social bubbles and experiencing few genuine interactions with people who are different or with whom we disagree. Stepping out and turning to one another is difficult but necessary...

Contested Issues in Troubled Times provides student affairs educators with frameworks to constructively think about and navigate the contentious climate they are increasingly encountering on campus. The 54 contributors to this volume, through a format of...

This book provides step-by-step guidelines for setting up, planning, and facilitating mentoring programs for new faculty members, whether one-on-one, or using a successful group model developed and refined over twenty-five years by the authors. While it...

Academic Working Lives examines the ways in which lecturers and their roles have developed in the modern academic workplace. The book offers insights into changing occupational roles, institutions and the adaptations around flexible and mobile ...

With the increasing integration of global economies and societies, the nation-state is no longer the sole force shaping and defining citizenship. New ideas of "global citizenship" are emerging, and universities, which are increasingly involved...

Higher education today faces numerous challenges, from quality to cost. But the fact that fewer than sixty percent of college freshmen graduate in six years and fewer than forty percent earn an associate degree in three years turns few heads. The dropout...

People move out to move up. As in the case with other migrant groups, the mobility experienced by international students is a form of social mobility, and one that requires access from a host state. But there are multiple institutions with which students...

The presence and experiences of Black people at elite universities have been largely underrepresented and erased from institutional histories. This book engages with a collection of these experiences that span half a century and reflect differences in...

Universities across North America and beyond are experiencing growing demand for off-campus, experiential learning. Exploring the foundations of what it means to learn "out there," Out There Learning is an informed, critical investigation of...

All over the world new ideas and models emerge on how to organize the higher education sector and its institutions. The contributions in this volume identify the most influential transnational models and investigate their origins and mechanisms of...

How are the human and institutional systems fundamental to succeeding in academia? In graduate school we are trained how to be scholars, and maybe how to be effective teachers. But there is much more to being a college or university faculty member—and...

"As an archetypal student success higher-educator myself, I did not enter this profession intentionally….But my life experiences did prepare me to be very successful at this work. So, what are those experiences, and types of knowledge, insight, skills...

This original and challenging book introduces the ground-breaking concept of ‘invisible education’, theorising it with critical posthuman concepts and demonstrating it through a wide range of empirical research. Invisible education is the learning that...

This edited collection explores diverse perspectives about today's college students from a variety of higher education stakeholders-including faculty, researchers, policymakers, administrators, parents, and students themselves. All too often, those...

Being an Effective Programme Leader in Higher Education is a practical guide designed to help navigate the complex academic, pastoral, and administrative challenges that come with working in this position. This book looks at topics such as...

Studies have shown the disparities between urban and rural students accessing elite universities in China, a phenomenon which Xu explores in this groundbreaking book. She argues that such disparities follow a Bourdieusian capital approach showing how...

Surveys of employers continually highlight the need for better communication skills among recent college graduates. Yet, writing instruction in higher education serves far more than a transactional purpose. Writing facilitates learning, helps students...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816529810Author Lee C. DrickamerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Now 200 years into its remarkable history, the University of Michigan remains at the vanguard of what it means to be a great modern public university. The University's Bicentennial in 2017 is an ideal opportunity to reflect on the path that Michigan has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611862553Author Lorlene HoytFormat PaperbackImprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592127Author Howard Mumford JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591427Author Robin S HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 327g

With a perpetually tight job market, the road to an academic career can be a rocky and frustrating one. There are lots of questions, and this book attempts to provide good, frank answers to them. The three authors, with more than 75 years of combined...

When Richard Alan Stikeman, an incredible businessman, community leader, and family man, died from malignant mesothelioma, his family, friends, and community established the Stikeman Fund for Surgical Advancement and the Stikeman Visiting Professorship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591403Author Robin S HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 304g

In 2005, Adrian College was home to 840 enrolled students and had a tuition income of $8.54 million. By fall of 2011, enrollment had soared to 1,688, and tuition income had increased to $20.45 million. For the first time in years, the small liberal arts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251614Author Donald E HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 245g

Digital technologies and new media are changing the nature of research, teaching, and learning in humanities. Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly 65 years of work, providing an overview for...

Thousands of college students across the country apply each year for nationally and internationally competitive scholarships and grants. Different awards target different interests, career goals, and student qualifications. Advising students on how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591410Author Robin S HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 503g

Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of...

The essays in The Humanities in the Age of Information and Post-Truth represent a defense of the social function of the humanities in today's society. Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo and Christina Lux, the volume explains different ways in which the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761524267Author Michael James MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221g

Time Management Survival Planning Guide for Schools and Colleges is a road map (or GPS) for students' academic journey; therefore, it is designed to assist students to utilize their time wisely by helping them stay focused on classes, events,...

The role of educational developer in the realm of service-learning and community engagement (S-LCE) is multidimensional. Given the potentially transformational nature--for both faculty and students--of the experiences and courses in whose design they may...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816516704Author Jay M. RochlinFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

It began modestly, as a series of high school courses to train young men and women in industrial and domestic arts. Then in 1903 the Kansas legislature set in motion a chain of educational innovations by authorizing an auxiliary program of the normal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978805941Author Vicki L. BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) was founded in 1897 to help disadvantaged Appalachian youth and reward the descendents of Union loyalists in the region. Its founder was former Union...