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This book focuses on first-generation graduate students in the US and the graduate or post-baccalaureate programs that house and educate these students. The several voices in this book, including first-generation graduate students, address the phenomena...

This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities. This risk may derive from working with variously...

In this volume, dedicated to the memory of Hong Kong University students, faculty and members of the Court who lost their lives as a result of hostilities in the Far East during 1941-1945, we ask what happened to the University during those years of...

This book introduces a new typology of "inward- and outward-oriented" higher education internationalization, and investigates China's current situation of shifting from a mainly "inward-oriented" higher education internationalization to a more balanced...

The modern university started as an innovative model - a research-driven teaching and service model in the 19th century -, but the contemporary university is in a crisis of identity. The major challenge is how to harmonize different missions, e.g.,...

This book brings together English translations of thirteen research papers published in recent years by Chinese historians, sociologists, and educators. These papers investigate various dimensions of the legacy of China's historic The Christian...

With a new Introductory level, Inside Reading Second Edition prepares students to understand academic texts, while acquiring key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Each unit in Inside Reading features two high-interest reading texts from an...

This book provides holistic guidance and proposes practical frameworks to navigate complex learning environments in the rapidly evolving climate, and an environment to facilitate effective learning and knowledge transfer, while advocating a shift in the...

This book argues that judging and justifying are the two skills that specifically require academic training. In the current times, where the value of a university degree is increasingly questioned, it's important to emphasize the significance of these...

This book examines campus climate data collected from undergraduates at several large, public research universities across the nation to enhance understanding of the long-term impact of campus climate on student success. Many universities have refocused...

This volume addresses the central question facing the future of higher education around the world, whether and why universities need to exist at all. This book accepts the question's premise: It is not clear that the university is any longer needed as an...

This book examines student mobility within Africa. International student mobility is among the central activities of higher education internationalization. As the number of international students increase, so do the destinations, in both number and...

This book explores the argument to reconsider the idea of a university in light of the African ethic of ubuntu; literally, human dignity and interdependence. The book discusses, through the context of higher education discourse of philosophy and...

Fifty years ago, students who were parents were a rarity in college classrooms, but by the beginning of the twenty-first century, over a quarter of all undergraduate students were parents. In Back in School, A. Fiona Pearson explores how these student...

"Renowned as a leading practitioner and voice of wisdom and reason, Annie Grant now shares her insight with those who are still on their professional journey within the higher education student experiential services through her writing. I commend this...

This book investigates transdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to developing innovative and pertinent higher education pedagogy. Introducing timely critical thinking strategies, the author addresses some of the key issues facing educators today in an...

This book explores the interlinkages between copyright and tertiary education regimes, and their complementary roles for sustainable human development. Emphasizing issues that are not addressed in-depth in the existing works, this book employs a new...

Writing Centers and Learning Commons presents program administrators, directors, staff, and tutors with theoretical rationales, experiential journeys, and go-to practical designs and strategies for the many questions involved when writing centers find...

This book examines dominant discourses in values education globally. It critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education and cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813545912Author Robert ZemskyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does. It examines why and how a renewed notion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266257Author Jeffery LawrenceFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

This book explores the integral role that student affairs professionals play in the success of international students at higher education institutions in the US. International student support has often been thought of as the principal responsibility of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223047957Author Nigel OpenshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Nigel M OpenshawPublisher Nigel M OpenshawWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Today more and more ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students enroll in our college and university courses. These diverse, multilingual students enrich our campuses and at the same time present challenges. Who are these students? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522593324Author Rebecca J. BlankenshipFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint IGI GlobalPublisher IGI Global

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798369346099Author Sirvan Sen DemirFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Information Science PublishingPublisher IGI Global

This edited volume offers a comprehensive reference point to an interdisciplinary and trans-boundary analysis of the sustainability of Asian tertiary education systems. The four sections of the volume -Collaborations, Transformations, Global-Local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524956264Author Earl J GinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career...

This book explores the multiple pathways from scholarships for international study to positive social change. Bringing together studies from academic researchers, evaluators and program designers and policymakers from Africa, Asia, Latin and North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798369356098Author Miltiadis Demetrios LytrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Information Science PublishingPublisher IGI Global

This book examines the relevant roles, skills and knowledge needed to build the institutional research capacity across the higher education sector globally. The information contained herein will inform IR practitioners, senior level institution...

Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.For the past two decades, colleges and universities have focused significant attention on helping female faculty balance work and family by implementing a series of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171583003Page Count 1208Imprint Akashdeep Publishing HousePublisher Akashdeep Publishing House

This edited collection presents, reviews, and critically analyzes sustainable practices and long-term-oriented decision-making in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Campus closures and the quick transition to hybrid or e-learning as a result of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522586104Author Yufeng QianFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint IGI GlobalPublisher IGI Global

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792423390Author Tuesday S. HambricFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This volume explores the tensions between the student affairs foundation of holistic student development and the changing culture of corporatization. While there is ample evidence of neoliberalism in the academic affairs of higher education there is very...

In this follow up to Laukaitis' Denominational Higher Education During World War II (Palgrave 2018), this collection investigates connections between religion, student activism, and higher education to reveal the complexity of public reactions to the...