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The changing role and expectations of higher education have reached a crisis point. The heart of the problem is an isolation of the professoriate. An emphasis on obscure research and lack of accountability is undermining the academy. Creating a...

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...

Today's first year composition classrooms are largely reflective of the writing pedagogy that has been used for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this methodology does not meet the research or writing needs of today's college and university students...

Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher...

Practical solutions for improving higher education opportunities for disadvantaged students Too many disadvantaged college students in America do not complete their coursework with any college credential, while others earn degrees or certificates with...

In recent years, the academy has undergone significant changes: a more competitive and volatile job market has led to widespread precarity, teaching and service loads have become more burdensome, and higher education is becoming increasingly corporatized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512809961Author Edwin E AubreyFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596298163Author Ronald A MielechFormat PaperbackImprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970022476Author Jimmy HustonFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Cosworth PublishingPublisher Cosworth PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Aggies by the Sea tells the story of Texas A&M University at Galveston, an unusual educational institution that began operation in 1962 as a maritime academy with only twenty-three students and now enrolls more than 1,600 undergraduates studying the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948651486Author Tiziano Thomas DossenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Idea Graphics LLCPublisher Idea Graphics LLCWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948658126Author C Clinton SidleFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Academic ImpressionsPublisher Academic ImpressionsWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948658065Author James LangleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Academic ImpressionsPublisher Academic ImpressionsWeight(grams) 195g

Facing challenges and changes in the twenty-first century, universities are giving increased emphasis to institutional advancement, encompassing constituent engagement, communications and marketing, and fundraising. This book highlights the implications...

How important is academic discourse that promotes new understandings and allows us to question what we know? In the current age of instant-messaging and Twitter (R), does academic conversation have a place? Frankly, we think that academic discourse is...

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...

This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda. By highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges, The Completion...

Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar. New employees, current leaders, graduate students,...

This book provides the reader with a fresh and comprehensive approach to both considering and implementing an uncommon governance practice that emphasizes a lasting, effective, and a sustaining relationship between the board and president. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789333223942Author Dr J S ChitodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 712Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789333223713Author Dr Mayuresh V BakshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789333223577Author Dr Mayuresh V BakshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789292705602Author Asian Development BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Asian Development BankPublisher Asian Development BankWeight(grams) 308g

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...

There are many Centers of Excellence (COE) in community colleges and universities in the United States. Presently, a number of these provide approximately an extra year beyond various existing degrees. Most of these COEs deal with a variety of training...

Beyond Free College outlines an audacious national agenda-consistent with, but far more comprehensive than, the current "free college" movement-that builds on the best of US higher education's populist history such as the G.I. Bill and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419673849Author Roslyn SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666935691Author Jannatul FerdousFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358721447Author Kamolova ShaxloFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 59g

The United States Military Academy at WestPoint is one of America's oldest and most reveredinstitutions. Founded in 1802, its first and onlymission is to prepare young men-and, since1976, young women-to be leaders of characterfor service as commissioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581073393Author Russell CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint New Forums PressPublisher New Forums PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581072846Author Greta Gorsuch Ed DFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New Forums PressPublisher New Forums PressWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581072198Author Nancy Vader-McCormickFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint New Forums PressPublisher New Forums PressWeight(grams) 263g

Every educator in pursuit of a leadership position in administration will value this book's clear strategy and advice about how to successfully compete for employment. Using the terminology and techniques of business, the author guides the reader...

Within These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934246689Author Robert FormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Peppertree PressPublisher Peppertree PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612299310Author Jonathan H WestoverFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground PublishingWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789333223928Author I A DhotreFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789333223591Author Late Ajay V BakshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789333223508Author Varsha U BakshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 722Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC -...