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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981873411Author Dr Jerry BergmanFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Leafcutter PressPublisher Leafcutter PressWeight(grams) 794g

What is it really like to be a college professor in an American classroom today? An award-winning teacher with over twenty years of experience answers this question by offering an enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester...

In celebration of Louisiana State University's sesquicentennial, Treasures of LSU trumpets the numerous and diverse riches found throughout the Baton Rouge campus and beyond. The 101 distinguished artworks, architectural gems, research collections, and...

Based on the carefule examination of more than 500,000 applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers, this book details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early, and provides a...

This is an unmistakable time of crisis and confusion about the purpose, value, and sustainability of higher education in the United States. Data continues to show substantial benefits for students who complete a four-year degree, yet Americans from all...

Through their interviews with faculty and administrators (from department chairs and deans to provosts and presidents) from a sample of eight public universities in the Northeast and their own experiences in both worlds, the authors provide a unique...

This book assesses whether East Asian higher education is providing research and innovation for growth and delivering its graduates with the skills necessary for productivity in the labor market. It also seeks to determine how higher education systems...

In the past century, more and more Americans have been migrating from rural areas and urban centers to suburban communities. As a result, the majority of American youth are educated in the suburbs, and the ways in which they learn to be citizens are...

A classic in the history of American higher education The Experimental College is the record of a radical experiment in university education. Established at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1927 by innovative educational theorist Alexander...

There are numerous publications available to help current or aspiring academic faculty members enhance their professional abilities. However, there is a distinct shortage of works that cover the several soft skills junior faculty must possess to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912150604Author Maryellen WeimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Magna Publications, IncorporatedPublisher Magna Publications,...

Before the Second World War, few universities in the United States had earned high respect among the international community of scholars and scientists. Since 1945, however, the distinctive attributes of American higher education-decentralized...

"Do we need to talk to our lawyers about this?" "What do the attorneys say?" "Why didn't you get the lawyers involved before now?" Just about every department chair and dean, certainly every provost and president, and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999678817Author Joseph H WycoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Historiaresearch PressPublisher Historiaresearch PressWeight(grams)...

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This volume continues the series of Merton annals published by the Oxford Historical Society, beginning in 1483. This volume, dealing with the main part of the seventeenth century, contains both a transcript of the (mainly Latin) register, and a long...

During the past decade there has been a notable growth of interest in the enhancement of instruction in post-secondary institutions in many countries. Although teaching has always been one of the three fundamental components of the work of the...

Managing Academics offers contrasting perspectives of managing others in order to provoke alternative interpretations of academic work, identity, working relationships and scholarship outcomes in higher education institutions (HEIs). The author leverages...

Attracting and retaining highly qualified faculty is essential to maintaining productivity at institutions of higher education. Colleges and universities are at a critical juncture in their history as they attempt to achieve their teaching and research...

* A faculty member publishes an article without offering coauthorship to a graduate assistant who has made a substantial conceptual or methodological contribution to the article. * A professor does not permit graduate students to express viewpoints...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780799215106Author Bronwyn KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Cape Town PressPublisher Juta Academic

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956328823Author Mary E Farrell (Ed )Format PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Progressive Frontiers PressPublisher Progressive Frontiers PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780943184203Author Martha SaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Amherst CollegePublisher Amherst CollegeWeight(grams) 630g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809155408Author Bernard G PrusakFormat PaperbackImprint Paulist Press(tm)Publisher Paulist Press(tm)Weight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871526172Author Frank ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Education Now Publishing Co-operative LtdPublisher Education Now Publishing...

Before 1968, women's athletics in higher education meant playdays and sports days. That spring, when the National Division of Girls and Women in Sports announced that national collegiate sports championships for women would begin in 1969, Marlene Mawson,...

In this smart and incisive work, Karen J. Head describes her experience teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and the attendant pressure on professors, especially those in the humanities, to embrace new technologies in the STEM era. And yet, as...

Jim Wright is an unabashed optimist. Reading his speeches, it doesn't take long to see that he believes in the fundamental values that shaped the American republic: opportunity and accessibility, individuality and a shared sense of community. He carried...

Should law be left to the lawyers? Is legal education properly understood as technical education? Law in the Liberal Arts answers "no" and suggests that our society is not well served by the current professionalization of legal knowledge. An...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578179049Author Tony M DofatFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Tdc Group Inc.Publisher Tdc Group Inc.Weight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595166152Author Edward IfkovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint iUniversity PressPublisher iUniversity PressWeight(grams) 522g

"Rebellion in Black and White" offers a panoramic view of southern student activism in the 1960s. Original scholarly essays demonstrate how southern students promoted desegregation, racial equality, free speech, academic freedom, world peace, gender...

"Rebellion in Black and White" offers a panoramic view of southern student activism in the 1960s. Original scholarly essays demonstrate how southern students promoted desegregation, racial equality, free speech, academic freedom, world peace,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998488608Author Jeannie BurlowskiFormat PaperbackImprint Falcon Heights Publishing LLCPublisher Falcon Heights Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998258508Author Steve PiscitelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Growth and Resilience NetworkPublisher Growth and Resilience NetworkWeight(grams)...

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Dartmouth College began life as an Indian school, a pretense that has since been abandoned. Still, the institution has a unique, if complicated, relationship with Native Americans and their history. Beginning with Samson Occom's role as the first...