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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978822535Author Sherry L. DeckmanFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607748526Author Sherrie Nist-OlejnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)...

The most recent addition to the Key Issues on Diverse College Students series bridges theory to practice in order to help student affairs and higher education professionals understand the needs and experiences of religious minorities on college campuses...

Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? Intersectionality and Higher Education examines how race, ethnicity,...

The author of this study of policymaking in postwar Japan contends that the prevailing perceptions of the subject advanced to date are inadequate. Professor Pempel identifies three distinct patterns of policymaking within Japan's current system of...

The first-year seminar continues to be a common structure for supporting student success in higher education. Yet, it represents only one of many first-year programs. With this in mind, the 2017 National Survey on The First-Year Experience marks a change...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978801875Author A. Fiona PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978805637Author Laura NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and...

"Warrior Women" makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic,...

Written by a sitting college president who has presided over transformative change at a state university, this book takes on the big questions and issues of change and change management, what needs to be done and how to do it. Writing in a highly...

Eleventh in ""AAHE and Campus Compact's"" series on service-learning in the disciplines, this book focuses on incorporating service-learning in communication, one of the fastest growing disciplines in higher education. The first part...

Documenting a black professor's account of his own professional experience, this study describes what it feels like to be a nonwhite academic in one of the 'big three' disciplines in the humanities - English, history, and philosophy.Book InformationISBN...

This book presents a comprehensive institutional level analysis of a single public institution of higher education in the Republic of Kenya using the case study method of investigation. It is the first case study to use both qualitative and quantitative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579220907Author Elana MichelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Stylus PublishingPublisher Stylus Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975505066Author Anne DuewekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Stylus PublishingPublisher Stylus PublishingWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536178371Author Sun KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 258g

Students’ ability to integrate learning across contexts is a critical outcome for higher education. Often the most powerful learning experiences that students report from their college years are those that prompt integration of learning, yet it remains...

Every year, more online or technology-enhanced learning experiences are added to the landscape of education, and the number of students taking online courses on residential campuses continues to grow. In addition, new instructional tools are creating...

Learning communities have been demonstrated to dramatically improve student outcomes by engaging students in their learning.This book constitutes a comprehensive guide for readers who want a broad strategic view of learning communities, enabling them to...

The purpose of this work is to improve service learning research and practice through strengthening its theoretical base. Contributing authors include both well-known and emerging service learning and community engagement scholars, as well as scholars...

This guide book is intended for advisors, administrators, and faculty members engaged with study abroad who are concerned with answering the question: what does study abroad achieve? It will also inform the work of study abroad organizations as well as...

This set includes Strategic Diversity Leadership in the Academy and The Chief Diversity Officer Role. Book InformationISBN 9781579228231Author Damon A. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1112Imprint Stylus PublishingPublisher Stylus...

While sexual violence has been present and prevalent on campus for decades, the recent work of college student activists has made it an issue of major societal and institutional concern. This book makes an important contribution to and provides a...

Co-published with ACE.This book addresses the critical and looming issue of retirement in higher education as the cohort of boomer generation faculty come to the close of their careers. On the one hand institutions need to replenish themselves, and so...

This book constitutes a guide for student and staff leaders in alternative break (and other community engagement, both domestic and international) programs, offering practical advice, outlining effective program components and practices, and presenting...

A professional text written for social science researchers and practitioners, Research, Actionable Knowledge and Social Change provides strategies and frameworks for using social science research to engage in critical social and educational problem...

A collection of essays examining the historical and contemporary roles of women in higher educationl. They address the intersection of gender and women's other social identities, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and ability. Written by...

Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been...

This comprehensive and integrated resource prepares leadership educators to develop their training and facilitation practice that is informed by theory, imbued with healthy leadership habits, and imparted with time-tested facilitation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421445908Author Gina Ann GarciaFormat PaperbackImprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 318g

• Each chapter in Part II provides multiple activities, discussion questions, and cases studies to encourage engagement on challenging issues. • Includes FAQ with sample responses that can be used in real conversations. • Covers some of the most...

Schools and universities educate (mostly young) people, to equip them to deal with the future as it unfolds from the present. The question — whether these schools and universities are fit for that purpose — has always been relevant, even in slow-paced...

In 2005, Elizabeth Aries chronicled what 58 Amherst College freshman—Black and white, affluent and lower-income—learned from racial and class diversity. Her study emphasized the value of campus diversity at elite colleges. Four years later, Aries...

Developing alternative student development frameworks and models, this groundbreaking book provides student affairs practitioners, as well as faculty, with illuminating perspectives and viable approaches for understanding the development of today’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947602991Author Rita KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint University of Cincinnati PressPublisher University of Cincinnati PressWeight(grams) 152g

The COVID-19 pandemic presented higher education with an unprecedented challenge: how could institutions continue the basic work of teaching and research while maintaining safe environments for their faculty, staff, and students. In The Pivot, Robert J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642672497Author Jane Marie SouzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Stylus Publishing (VA)Publisher Stylus Publishing (VA)Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046053Author David A. JoynerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd