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This entertaining and very human record is a wonderful addition to the story of growth of a relatively small and fairly isolated school to an internationally known and respected university whose alumni now put their educations to good use worldwide. Yet...

How race and class collide at a prestigious liberal arts collegeBook InformationISBN 9781592137251Author Elizabeth AriesFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal - career training - and college...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871547767Author Kathleen M. ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage Foundation

For too long graduate school was viewed solely as a pipeline to teaching positions at colleges and universities. As MAs and PhDs proliferate and opportunities in the academy narrow, this timely book reminds us that the academy is only one of many venues...

Today's higher education challenges necessitate new forms of leadership. A volatile financial environment and the need for new business models and partnerships to address the impact of new technologies, changing demographics, and emerging societal needs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945459030Author Lina D. DostilioFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Campus CompactPublisher Campus Compact

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591441Author Robin S HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 145g

College students hook up and have sex. That is what many students expect to happen during their time at university—it is part of growing up and navigating the relationship scene on most American campuses today. But what do you do when you’re a student at...

Educators have long been concerned with retaining students and helping them succeed, but their focus has been primarily on first-year students. Recently, this focus has widened to include a frequently invisible population - second-year students. Shedding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570617782Author Lindy WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sasquatch BooksPublisher Sasquatch BooksWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 189mm * 139mm *...

This is a historical and sociological analysis of the African and African-American higher education system. Its central themes concern university structure, bureaucracy and transplantation. It also provides an analysis of all factors which have affected...

We all know that good study habits, supportive parents, and engaged instructors are all keys to getting good grades in college. But as Janice M. McCabe shows in this illuminating study, there is one crucial factor determining a student's academic success...

Marvin Wachman's parents were Russian Jewish immigrants with little formal education. Yet they instilled in their son the values of education, self-improvement, and perseverance. Because of Wachman's beliefs in human progress, he learned not only how to...

Henry Clay's career spanned a half century of a great formative period in American history. The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. Few men in his time were so intimately concerned with the...

My mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after 44 years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When I visited recently, the only book in his house was the telephone book. ""I do not know that my mother's mother...

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...

Asks hard questions about partnerships between big business and universitiesBook InformationISBN 9781592135332Author Alan P. RudyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591458Author John F HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591359Author Kenneth HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591380Author Robin S HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442638884Author Sydney CaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972939454Author Edward ZlotkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Campus CompactPublisher Campus CompactWeight(grams) 660g

In an effort to capitalize on some of the more positive aspects of peer influences, colleges and universities have created a wide range of peer-to-peer education, leadership, and mentoring roles—especially in the first college year. Yet, the use of peers...

Welcoming Blue-Collar Scholars Into the Ivory Tower is the first volume in a series designed to explore how institutional policies, practices, and cultures shape learning, development, and success for students who have been historically underserved or...

As the University of Cincinnati celebrates its bicentennial, students, faculty, staff, and alumni look back on the university’s remarkable past and its progression as a pioneer in higher education. From the Temple of Zeus to the Hyperloop: University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988963075Author Margie BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Universitas PressPublisher Universitas Press

With roots reaching back to 1819, the University of Cincinnati has long been at the frontier of higher education in the Ohio Valley. While it has aspired to fulfill its mission to serve the public good, some residents, particularly those living near...

A new edition of the classic inspirational speechBook InformationISBN 9781566399623Author Russell ConwellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, was originally established as a normal school in 1906 in the wake of a landmark education law passed by the Kentucky General Assembly. One hundred years later, the school has evolved into a...

This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXII / 1-2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Guest edited by Professor John...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas...

Editors Glen A. Jones, Patricia L. McCarney, and Michael L. Skolnik have brought together a diverse group of contributors to describe how internal and external forces arising from globalization are exerting pressure to change the role of higher education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807078129Author Lani GuinierFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Vocation is most often linked with a specific calling for those in professional ministry. Doing More with Life explores the way higher education can expand this limited understanding of vocation. Specifically, this volume shows that higher education can...

The only book providing advice on facilitating workshops aimed specifically at lecturers and academics. Full of practical resources and materials including suggested activities, handouts and whiteboard layouts to help people tasked with running workshops...

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in...

Stanford in Turmoil is a rare insider's look at one school's experience of dramatic political unrest during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It provides a unique perspective on the events that roiled the campus during this period-a period in which the...

Citizenship Across the Curriculum advocates the teaching of civic engagement at the college level, in a wide range of disciplines and courses. Using "writing across the curriculum" programs as a model, the contributors propose a similar...

A single-volume text that distills information for students Based on the sixth edition of Kaplin and Lee's indispensable guide to the law that bears on the conduct of higher education, The Law of Higher Education, Sixth Edition: Student Version...