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This book examines the key debates relating to the rights, responsibilities, policies and practices of the higher education sector when dealing with students from refugee backgrounds. Exploring the political context of forced migration to countries of...

- Draws on best practice from across higher education to ensure inclusion of disabled students across higher education - Discusses what should be considered a reasonable adjustment and what shouldn’t - Uses real case studies that focus on specific...

At a moment when over half of US colleges are employing ePortfolios, the time is ripe to develop their full potential to advance integrative learning and broad institutional change.The authors outline how to deploy the ePortfolio as a high-impact...

This book provides step-by-step guidelines for setting up, planning, and facilitating mentoring programs for new faculty members, whether one-on-one, or using a successful group model developed and refined over twenty-five years by the authors. While it...

College and university administrators are increasingly called to confront the deeply entrenched racial inequities in higher education. To do so, corresponding attention must be given to historical and contemporary manifestations of whiteness in higher...

Between 2000 and 2015 the Asian American Pacific Islander population grew from nearly 12 million to over 20 million—at 72% percent recording the fastest growth rate of any major ethnic and racial group in the US.This book, the first to focus wholly on...

In responding strategically to the need to increase online enrollments at a time when enrollments for traditional face-to-face delivered courses are declining annually, higher education institutions recognize not only that they urgently have to develop...

This book arises out of a recognition that student affairs professionals have little preparation or guidance in dealing with matters of spirituality, religion, secularism and interfaith work at a time of greater diversity in students’ beliefs; and from...

Written with faculty in mind, Assessment by Design is a practical resource that will also be useful to student affairs staff and administrators dedicated to using assessment to improve learning in curricular and co-curricular settings. This book presents...

The purpose of this set 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...

Presents the history of Spelman's foundation through the tenure of its fourth president, Florence M. Read, in1953. The story is brought up to date by the contributions of Spelman's current president, Beverly Daniel Tatum, and by Johnnetta B. Cole. The...

• The volume explores the relationship between higher education, employment and economic development in India • It provides a platform to discuss, debate and exchange ideas and insights on various issues, challenges relating to employment generation and...

This book centers the experiences of Multiracial people, those individuals claiming heritage and membership in two or more (mono)racial groups and/or identifies with a Multiracial term. These terms include the broader biracial, multiethnic, and mixed, or...

Colleges sell themselves by the numbers—rankings, returns on investments, and top-ten lists—but these often mislead prospective students. What numbers should they really be paying attention to?High school and college students are inundated by indicators...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421444406Author Michael N. BastedoFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University...

This open access book explores how educational researchers working at the edges of innovations in languages and literacies, leadership, assessment, social and cultural transformation, and pedagogies rethink the educational turn in new sites. It engages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942072591Author Michael T DialFormat PaperbackImprint First-Year Experience and Students in Transition University of South CarolinaPublisher First-Year...

The current social reality and changing global forces and spaces are inspiring the rethinking, refining, and re-empowering of the world social sciences to broach the frontiers of human knowledge, enhance mutual understanding across cultures and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642671612Author Kacie L ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Stylus Publishing (VA)Publisher Stylus Publishing (VA)Weight(grams) 152g

The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy offers a comprehensive survey of issues, practice, and current developments in the teaching of aural skills. The volume regards aural training as a lifelong skill that is engaged with before, during, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472132812Author Andy Rhodes ThomasonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

This book is a study of cross-border activity in and around Japanese universities, employing 'Asia' as the cornerstone of inquiry. It offers qualitative, case-based analysis of Asia-oriented student mobility and partnership projects, framed by critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978801516Author Steven M. CahnFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945459184Author Lina D. DostilioFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Campus CompactPublisher Campus Compact

This edited collection is the first book to address the topic of how leaders work with teams to manage and transform community colleges. There is a need to develop better leadership teams in order to administer community colleges effectively and to...

Scarcely a week goes by without a headline about the unsustainability of higher education as we know it, under threat from new models, for-profits, or online education. Most threatened are small liberal arts colleges - with commentators predicting the...

Colleges and universities are currently undergoing the most significant challenges they have faced since World War II. Rising costs, increased competition from for-profit providers, the impact of technology, and the changing desires and needs of...

There generally remains a gulf between the way most Black faculty perceive the racial climate at their institutions and the recognition by non-Black faculty and administrators that there are problems and that these perceptions have merit. This book is...

As a new generation of African Americans completes college, an increasing number of students are aspiring to the Ph.D. as a stepping stone to a career in the academy and to fully participate in shaping our society. Most African Americans are conscious...

Few in the United States will dispute the assumption that every high school graduate should be entitled to go to college regardless of financial need. But should everyone be able to go regardless of academic preparedness? Jackson Toby explores the idea...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421445601Author Ariana Gonzalez StokasFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945459252Author Verdis L. RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Campus CompactPublisher Campus CompactWeight(grams) 363g

For courses in Paramedic Emergency Medical Services A strong, evidence-based foundation in the principles and practices of modern EMS Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice, Fifth Edition, offers EMS students and professionals a foundational guide...

Laboring Positions aims to disrupt the dominant discourse on academic women’s mothering experiences. Black women’s maternity is assumed, and yet is also silenced within the disembodied, patriarchal, racist, antifamily, and increasingly neoliberal work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972939461Author Richard E. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Campus CompactPublisher Campus CompactWeight(grams) 407g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579221911Author David SadkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Stylus PublishingPublisher Stylus PublishingWeight(grams) 385g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579221898Author Claire Van UmmersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Stylus PublishingPublisher Stylus PublishingWeight(grams) 512g

This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States. It meets a growing and urgent need in our society—the need to bring together religiously diverse ways of...

This book brings together a collection of chapters with different research designs that explore the research, practice, and policies of community colleges.The chapters in this book are the result of the graduate students and their faculty mentor’s...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, online and distance education enrolled over 19 million students in the US. As colleges and universities return to in-person instruction, the number of online courses and programs is poised to grow exponentially. At the same...