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The growing population of engineering students who identify as Latin* are underrepresented in the field of engineering. Latin* refers to an individual of Latin American origin or descent, without restricting to a specific gender. The asterisk (*)...

Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning, including the voices of teachers and participants, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742849Author Steve VolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 10gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 124mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789333223621Author Late Ajay V BakshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC -...

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book A Field Book for Higher Education Leaders: Improving Your Leadership Intelligence, is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581072938Author Charlie Sweet PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint New Forums PressPublisher New Forums PressWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585440887Author John A. AdamsFormat PaperbackImprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University Press

Fresh out of graduate school and desperate to pay off her student loans, Nicole Adams joins the faculty at Higher State University - a small university with a dubious past located in the middle of the Midwest. On her second day of classes as a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512801460Author Cornell M DowlinFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Shared Governance begins with the premise that today's higher education governance practices have lost their focus and vitality. By re-examining the original suppositions of shared governance, along with an infusion of seminal democratic values and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897749657Author Daniel T. SeymourFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Oryx Press IncPublisher Oryx Press IncWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224940585Author Jagdish Krishanlal AroraFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Jagdish Krishanlal AroraPublisher Jagdish Krishanlal AroraWeight(grams) 145g

Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in...

The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge of educating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges, the largest institutions in today's landscape of higher...

Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide for professors seeking to integrate writing-across-the-curriculum principles into their pedagogy. Through the exploration of theory and practice, treating both pre-writing...

The story of the American university in the past half century is about the rise of women in participation as students, faculty members, college athletes, and in subsequently changing the overall university culture for the better. Now almost sixty percent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581070941Author Terrence DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint New Forums PressPublisher New Forums PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504381772Author Dr Robert McClerrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 163g

The Multicultural Campus brings together administrators, faculty, and students to offer strategies that will alter the academic environment of the future. Hispanic, African, and Asian American educational leaders examine the obstacles they have faced, as...

Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of student voluntarism and social action at UK colleges and universities, including such causes as relief for...

Enhancing Performance: A Best Practices Guide for Innovations in Community Colleges is a collection of essays from community college leaders across the country addressing challenges facing today's community colleges and providing practical, successful...

Hire The Right Faculty Member Every Time is a concise guide for hiring authorities at colleges and universities. The book provides insight into the state of faculty hiring at colleges and universities today, advice on the best way to design positions,...

This book provides a discussion of women faculty members' experiences on college and university campuses and examines their thoughts, perceptions, responsibilities, and status in the academy. Most specifically, this book explores the differences between...

Many soon-to-be graduates are worried about their future. They stress about whether they'll find a job, if it will be fulfilling, whether they will earn enough to pay off their student loans, and whether they will fail and disappoint their families...

With the student body evolving quickly, and the looming challenge of the "completion agenda," community colleges are facing circumstances like never before in serving all students and propelling them to fulfilling their education aspirations...

College student retention continues to be a vexing issue for colleges and universities. There are some very simple steps that a college or university can take to help students persist until they reach academic and/or personal goal attainment. This book...

In The Teaching Self: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education, a rich collection of voices from diverse settings illustrates the ways in which first-person experiences with contemplative practices lay a foundation for contemplative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989786338Author Miguel Angel Olive IglesiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Quodsermo PublishingPublisher Quodsermo PublishingWeight(grams)...

Risk-taking is foundational to the structure and goals of higher education. Encouraging students to consider new, diverse, even uncomfortable ideas is needed to develop a critically informed view of the world and establish one's own values and beliefs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540222930Author Gordon G BeldFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students comprises a wide range of studies that explore the multidimensional social processes and meanings germane to the experiences of first-generation college students before and during their...

This book provides a discussion of women faculty members' experiences on college and university campuses and examines their thoughts, perceptions, responsibilities, and status in the academy. Most specifically, this book explores the differences between...

This book provides students and professionals in higher education with information to better support individuals with Autism. The intended readership for this book includes educators and students in secondary and higher education, high school counselors,...

Maybe I Should. . . Case Studies on Ethics for Student Affairs Professionals (2nd ed.) offers graduate students and new student affairs professionals the opportunity to hone their knowledge of and sensitivities to everyday professional ethics. The second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890912091Author Dr Abdallah M IsaFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 875g

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. In...

Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms...

Many studies have been done concerning the classroom climate, particularly in the university setting. It has been found that the classroom climate for women is one that is cold, unreceptive, unwelcoming, and even hostile to women. This chilly reception...

For the college campus, "place" means much more than just geography and physical setting. It is the sum of the experiences, activities, events, and memories that occur within the campus. American institutions of higher education are giving...

The growing population of engineering students who identify as Latin* are underrepresented in the field of engineering. Latin* refers to an individual of Latin American origin or descent, without restricting to a specific gender. The asterisk (*)...