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From the authors of "Student Success in College" the book that describes the policies, programs, and practices of twenty colleges and universities that have created success-oriented campus cultures and learning environments comes the next-step...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001609Author Kristel PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674429611Author Bernice Brown CronkhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 135Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891287391Author Ellen TriefFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for the...

This volume is the first book-length treatment of how the 9/11 attacks and the American political scene afterward have affected higher education in this country. It covers topics such as: universities' roles in training counter-terrorism experts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674365681Author Bernice Brown CronkhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674422278Author Charles F ManskiFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 508g

In The Future of Diversity , distinguished academic leaders, heads of universities and foundations as well as faculty with valuable research and personal experience, discuss the next stage in the pursuit of democratic diversity and excellence on our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530018867Author Edward DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333259184Author Klaus BoehmFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 470g

Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837195506Author Louis George GeigerFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Historically, many faculty and administrators in higher education have regarded themselves as above the fray--part of the national interest, not a special interest--and considered lobbying a dirty business unworthy of their lofty enterprise. Now that...

Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not...

The editors provide an illuminating commentary to eleven key articles covering the main issues affecting the post-compulsory education sector today. Contributions include an analysis of what influences students to drop out from their learning programs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820455396Author R. Deborah DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213070Author William J ShkurtiFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint TrilliumPublisher TrilliumWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814205624Author Barbara M. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253625Author William J ShkurtiFormat PaperbackImprint TrilliumPublisher Trillium

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215234Author Lee C DrickamerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint TrilliumPublisher TrilliumWeight(grams) 152g

The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students'...

The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students'...

In Mothering by Degrees, Jillian Duquaine-Watson shows how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single moms, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also...

In the popular imagination, American women during the time between the end of World War II and the 1960s-the era of the so-called "feminine mystique"-were ultraconservative and passive. College Women in the Nuclear Age takes a fresh look at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864420Author C John SommervilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802847447Author Arthur F. HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The growing use of full-time non-tenure-track faculty represents a controversial change in the pattern of staffing colleges and universities. Teaching without Tenure provides the first comprehensive examination of this important phenomenon. Examining the...

Featuring a new introduction by the author, the paperback edition of Games Colleges Play chronicles the history of intercollegiate athletics from 1910 to 1990-from the early, glory days of Knute Rockne and the Gipper to the modern era of big budgets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802841193Author William H. WillimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788444470Author Allison HantschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780758628343Author Thomas KorcokFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Concordia Publishing HousePublisher Concordia Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674330962Author Charles William EliotFormat HardbackPage Count 42Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674283930Author Margery Somers FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001548Author Monica DetureFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 216g

It can seem at times as though all of academic administration today is focused only on the need for continual change and the endless pursuit of "the big idea." But most academic leaders, from department chairs and program directors through...

Academia is in trouble. Taxpayers are fed up with the enormous expenses associated with public universities, as well as administrators whose strategies and goals are fuzzy at best and destructive at worst. Parents worry about how they will find the...

Priest, educator, and public servant, Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, is internationally recognized as one of the most influential leaders of the American Catholic Church not only because of his...

Public junior colleges grew rapidly between 1900 and 1940. During that time, nationally prominent leaders maintained that the junior college should provide a terminal education and prepare students for semiprofessional careers. But students used the...

Comprehensive planning has become an essential element in the management of the modern university library. The purpose of this book is to help those now engaged in this important management function by summarizing the history of academic library planning...

Education shapes character, particularly through the liberal arts. This collection of essays explores the importance of moral education to the liberal arts and discusses how moral education fosters character development. The contributors examine the...