Higher Education category: 3664 books
God on the Quad
How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Religious colleges and universities in America are growing at a breakneck pace. In this startling new book, journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley explores these schools-interviewing administrators, professors, and students-to produce the first popular, accessible, and comprehensive investigation of this...
The Mexican American Community College Experience
Fostering Resilience, Achieving Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge ofeducating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges, the largest institutions in today’s landscape of higher education. It describes the cultivation of resilience...
The Urgency of Now
Equity and Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
With the student body evolving quickly, and the looming challenge of the “completion agenda,” community colleges are facing circumstances like never before in serving all students and propelling them to fulfilling their education aspirations. The Urgency of Now suggests a way forward, with students...
My Word!
Plagiarism and College Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers." "Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers." "Faking the Grade." Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having cheated;...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university is now considered...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Building Sustainable Futures for Adult Learners is an edited and refereed collection of papers published in conjunction with the joint Adult Higher Educational Alliance (AHEA) and American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conferences (AAACE). This book is the third in a series of scholarly...
by Barbara Cozza, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also include university-school...
Teaching Research Processes
The Faculty Role in the Development of Skilled Student Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Information literacy may be defined as the ability to identify a research problem, decide the kinds of information needed to tackle it, find the information efficiently, evaluate the information, and apply it to the problem at hand. Teaching Research Processes suggests a novel way in which information...
Student Activism in the Academy
Its Struggles and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise is a wide-ranging, provocative survey of student activism in America’s colleges and universities that critically analyzes the contentious problems and progress of a movement that has stirred public reaction in and out of academe. Its fundamental...
Educating the Deliberate Professional
Preparing for future practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
This book takes a fresh look at professional practice and professional education. In times of increased managerialism of academic teaching and a focus on graduate learning outcomes, it discusses possibilities to teach and learn otherwise. A deliberate professional is someone who consciously, thoughtfully...
PreparedU
How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
How can we as parents, educators, and members of the business community prepare students to be successful leaders in today's global environment? It's a critically important question. Gloria Cordes Larson, president of Bentley University, explains why today's practices in higher education are inadequate...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The chapters in this book should stimulate the reader not only to think about the kind of leadership that is needed to improve schools in the Caribbean (using 'schools' in the widest sense to range from early childhood to higher education institutions) but also other forms of support. The book deals...
The Age of STEM
Educational policy and practice across the world in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and research-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This volume examines the diverse ways universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also include university-school (basic education)...