Excelsior: 18 books
Competency-Based Education and Assessment
The Excelsior Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Assessment is the bedrock upon which any quality CBE program should be built. Yet, while educators understand the concept of measuring learning, they may not be familiar with the complexities involved in measuring the application of that learning. Using Excelsior College’s model–-shaped over four...
Retire the Colors
Veterans & Civilians On Iraq & Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
The impact of war, and the lingering aftereffect it has on both veterans and civilians, is—for myriad reasons—largely invisible to the public. Popular media may create news cycles around horrors or stereotypes, but the effort required to redefine and sustain “normal” lives after war stays below...
America's Broken Promise
Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Most community college leaders, administrators, faculty, and policymakers take pride in knowing that community colleges are the only postsecondary institutions that promise to educate and prepare all interested Americans. Yet, they are often publicly criticized by politicians, tax payers, and fellow...
Learning at the Speed of Light
How Online Education Got to Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Learning at the Speed of Light is a collection of stories, articles, and interviews by and with pioneers and visionaries across the United States who shared a belief in greater access to higher education.
This belief that education was a right, not a privilege, put them on a path to create...
by M. Scott Burns, Jane LeClair
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection will be of particular interest to those with a vested interest in the protection of critical infrastructures in the U.S. – its dams, chemical plants, emergency care facilities, energy plants, and nuclear facilities. Terrorists and rogue nation states have...
by Jane LeClair, Denise Pheils
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Women in Cybersecurity provides a basic overview of the employment status of women in the cybersecurity field. While women comprise over 50% of the workforce in the U.S, less than 25% of cyber staff are female. This book offers a close look at the current status of women in the cybersecurity arena, highlights...
by Anthony D'Aries
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
An incisive, eloquent literary memoir that transports us to the crossroads of gender and history, then leads us through the unsettling terrain that shapes fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands. "The Language of Men isn't just a beautifully written memoir about a Vietnam vet father and the complicated...
by Jane LeClair, Denise Pheils, Carolyn Schrader
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses and Nonprofits is a must read for the small business owner. Worldwide, over 40% of all cyber-attacks happen to small businesses, and nearly 60% of the businesses that have had their digital systems breached close their doors within 6 months. This book provides an overview...
The Sanctuary of Illness
A Memoir of Heart Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
We all know someone who has suffered a heart attack. But how often do we learn the intimate, potentially life-saving details that accompany coronary disease? In The Sanctuary of Illness, Thomas Larson gives a powerful and personal inside tour of what happens when our arteries fail. He chronicles the...
See Me for Who I Am
Student Veterans' Stories of War and Coming Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Because so few Americans have served in the military since 9/11—or even know anyone who has—many look to the media for information about veterans and military service. Popular news outlets, however, traffic in tragedy and often paint those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan with one of three...
The Call of Nursing
Stories from the Front Lines of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Call of Nursing is not your typical book about nurses. In it, we go behind the curtain of silence that hangs across the profession. It lets us hear why nurses today do what they do, and allows those nurses to show us—in their own words—what has mattered most to them in their professional careers....
Shot
Staying Alive with Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Shot is an intimate portrait of a young woman’s sudden transition to a chronic, life-threatening, auto-immune disease. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose monitor, test strips, insulin vials, and a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. In Shot, Amy...
The Language of Men
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Growing up in a working class town on Long Island, Anthony D’Aries watched his father rebuild muscle cars, groove to rock ‘n’ roll, slice meat at the local deli, and bring roadkill back to life in his taxidermy workshop. Anthony, the impressionable younger son, loved his father. Emulated him. Acted...
Courageous Learning
Finding a New Path Through Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
THE TRUE MAJORITY OF AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE WORKING-AGE ADULTS. They have families, jobs, and other full-time responsibilities. Approximately 80% of those who need to start or finish a degree are over 25 years old, yet most institutions of higher education treat them as an afterthought. Courageous Learning...
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