Student Student Life category: 717 books
Student Voices
We Believe in You
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
We are surrounded by voices, but how often do we actually stop and listen to the stories they have to tell? Martha E.Casazza and Sharon L. Silverman have been listening to the stories of students for the past five years, and they share how high achievers have overcome obstacles. Throughout the interviews,...
Risk Management in Student Affairs
Foundations for Safety and Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
A comprehensive, accessible guide to the policies and practices of risk management in higher education
Student affairs staff at all types of colleges and universities need to be equipped to help manage risk and protect their institutions, the people they serve, and their resources from unintended...
College in Four Years
Making Every Semester Count
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
College Success is more than getting into a college or university. Success means leaving—in four years—with a college degree. College in Four Years is the essential guide to graduating in just four years with better grades and less stress while keeping tuition costs low.
At colleges...
Real College
The Essential Guide to Student Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
Few people have as much experience helping students cope with college life as Douglas Stone, a long-time Harvard residential adviser and coauthor of Difficult Conversations, and Elizabeth Tippett, recent Harvard graduate and founding director of the university?s peer mediation program. In Real College,...
by Charlie Weaver Rolfe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
A hilarious and poignant novel about the end of the world, before and after, as experienced by apparently its lone survivor, who hadn't been paying attention. Following an unforeseen apocalyptic event, Clifford, an in-no-way-dedicated student, still sleeping on his best friend's sofa after...
We Are All Equal
Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988–1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
We Are All Equal is the first full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school available in English. Bradley A. U. Levinson observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on poignant and illuminating interviews, to study how the the school’s powerful emphasis on equality,...
by Cyril Mugove Siringwani
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Multitudes of students graduate worldwide from colleges and universities. Regrettably, many of them are not ready to make an impact on the world as they leave college, and become life victims and not victors. Worse still, some spoil their lives through negative influences and leave college in a worse...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Discover The Importance of Balancing Your Life!
Are you planning to work while studying? Then, you are not alone! With the continuous rising cost of living along with amplifying financial pressures, most students find ways to earn income while studying. Based on researches, this trend will continue...
We're Not Gonna Take It: a Youth's Tool Bag of Essential Life Skills
For Transitioning from High School to Post-secondary Education to Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
As a mother and youth advocate Sandra Finkelstein can no longer stand by and watch what is being handed down to her children - or any child. We're Not Gonna Take it is a resource and tool book geared to the 15-to-25-year-old millennial youth yet there is guidance for parents and youth workers. This book...
by Holly R. Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Dazed and confused, nervous and excited, over 800,000 international students step off the plane each year and into new lives in colleges and universities all around the United States. The journey is exhilarating, but it is not always easy. International students share a number of challenges that can...
Ivy Briefs
True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
From first-day nerves to first-year grades, from bizarre job interviews to bar exam insanity, Ivy Briefs pulls back the curtain on the marbled halls of law school, revealing the absurdity often bubbling beneath the surface.
Meet Martha Kimes: a naïve small-town girl with strong neurotic tendencies...
Succeeding In College and Life
How To Achieve Your Career Goals and Live Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Your Guide to College Success
Congratulations, you’re on your way to college! But that doesn’t mean you can rest easy for the next four years. You need to start planning for your future in the job market right now, and the best way to succeed in the job market is to succeed...
Student Affairs Leadership
Defining the Role Through an Ecological Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Kuk and Banning offer readers a new lens for viewing leadership, one that goes beyond a focus on the behavior and values of leaders as individuals to examine how positional leaders interact with their environments to engage in leadership “in context”. This book is addressed to aspiring and senior...
The Student Leadership Challenge
Facilitation and Activity Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The guide includes language, guidance, and activities for teaching each Practice and its associated leadership behaviors, as well as tips...