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Higher education increasingly entails a crossing of national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. Recent years have seen significant expansion in the sector around transnational education and online learning, with students, academic staff, educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978809123Author Leanne M. HorinkoFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAs a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called "Diversity University" has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In...

Using Servant Leadership provides an instructive guide for how faculty members can engage in servant leadership with administrators, students, and community members. By utilizing a wide range of research and through a series of case studies, Angelo J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642674095Author James T. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Stylus PublishingPublisher Stylus PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891183341Author Ronald D. TaskeyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint American Society of AgronomyPublisher American Society of AgronomyWeight(grams) 666g

Academy Award--winning director Martin Scorsese is one of the most significant American filmmakers in the history of cinema. Although best known for his movies about gangsters and violence, such as Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, and Taxi Driver,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804719858Author Paula HarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 626g

In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy...

This richly illustrated history of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER) is a revealing portrait of some of the people, events, and accomplishments of the school from its founding, subsequent evolution, and transition to the IU...

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process. The authors have worked with faculty world-wide, and share the stories of how...

This book focuses on the status and work of full-time non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) whose ranks are increasing as tenure track faculty (TTF) make up a smaller percentage of the professoriate. NTTF experience highly uneven and conditional access to...

In this important collection, Deborah DeZure and a panel of contributing editors have selected the landmark articles on teaching and learning in higher education published in ""Change"" from its inception to the present. Since its...

This work is published in Association with Campus Compact and the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Foundation and the National Restaurant Association. The twentieth in ""AAHE and Campus Compact's"" series on service-learning in...

Originally published in 1973. Toward Freedom and Dignity is a humanist's view of the humanities in an age of burgeoning technology. O. B. Hardison Jr. deals with the status of the humanities and their future-how they are regarded and how they may come to...

What role have governing boards played in tuition and fee escalation at four-year public colleges and universities?In the United States, college costs, especially tuition and fees, have increased much more rapidly than either the overall Consumer Price...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Organizing for Student Success draws on data from more than 50 institutions to provide insight into how university colleges are organized, the initiatives they house, and the practices in place to ensure their effectiveness. Twenty case studies from 15...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966737103Author Richard M. BattistoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Campus CompactPublisher Campus CompactWeight(grams) 333g

For a quarter century, the National Resource Center has been examining the prevalence, structure, and administration of first-year seminars on American college campuses. The 2012-2013 administration of the National Survey of First-Year Seminars was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978823846Author Lisa JasinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Just as our society is polarized, higher education is no less divided as to its mission and purpose, whether it should be preparing students for employment or for engagement as citizens, whether it should be corporatist and profit-driven or promote...

This book questions some of our most ingrained assumptions, not only about the nature of teaching and learning, but about what constitutes education, and about the cultural determinants of what is taught.What if who you think you are profoundly affects...

This book is the culmination of three years' work by teams from eight institutions in five different European and North American countries. The teams included faculty developers, professors, and graduate students interested in developing and...

Before entering higher education, most students' learning experiences have been traditional and teacher-centered. Their teachers have typically controlled their learning, with students having had little say about what and how to learn. For many students,...

Proliferating literature claims that academia is in a critical condition, generating armies of anxious, neurotic and time-hungry individuals which are governed by the speed imperatives integral to a modernist and capitalist rationality. This book puts...

Published in Association with eLearning has entered the mainstream of higher education as an agent of strategic change. This transformation requires eLearning leaders to develop the skills to innovate successfully at a time of heightened competition and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978818415Author Corey CampionFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 335g

Historically, higher education was designed for a narrow pool of privileged students. Despite national, state and institutional policies developed over time to improve access, higher education has only lately begun to address how its unexamined...

This book introduces the reader to the principles of assessment of student learning outcomes in the context of program review, and illustrates how to implement a sustainable outcomes-based assessment program review process based on over 30 case studies...

Program development is central to the work of student affairs professionals, yet the field has not prioritized the development of competency in this area. This theory-to-practice, sequential guide to program development fills that gap in the literature...

Research indicates that of the pedagogues recognised as “high impact”, learning communities – one approach to which, the linked course, is the subject of this book – lead to an increased level of student engagement in the freshman year that persists...

To their disadvantage, few Americans - and few in higher education - know much about the successes of historically Black colleges and universities. How is it that historically Black colleges graduate so many low-income and academically poorly prepared...

This book constitutes a collection of case studies that explore issues faced by new professionals in student affairs, with the scenarios designed to develop ACPA/NASPA Professional Competencies. These cases provide opportunities to create meaningful...

The book makes an important contribution to the discourse on student experience in higher education. The book includes chapters that cover important aspects of the 21st century student experience. Chapters cover issues such as: new trends and insights on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126303Author Naomi KrogmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 400g

This book examines the interactions and dynamics between one cross-border joint-university and its social environment in the process of institutional transplantation and organizational adaptation. This study specifically demonstrates the interplays...

Technology and Engagement is based on a four-year study of how first generation college students use social media, aimed at improving their transition to and engagement with their university. Through web technology, including social media sites, students...

Beginning by focusing on special considerations for facilitating women's leadership learning and development, including guidance on the role of narrative and auto-ethnography in leadership learning, this guide present 3-4 learning modules for ideas and...