Stylus Publishing: 272 books
Dynamic Lecturing
Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Is the lecture an outmoded teaching method that inhibits active learning or is it a potentially powerful tool that is an essential part of every teacher’s repertoire?
This book presents up-to-date research on the different types of lecture, on what constitutes effective lecturing, and on...
Social Class on Campus
Theories and Manifestations
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
A first-year experience text, and a resource for diversity and student affairs courses and workshops"Barratt successfully breaks class down in a way that allows the reader to observe it through a variety of lenses (education, capital, prestige, etc.) and helps us to understand it in terms beyond just...
Creating the Path to Success in the Classroom
Teaching to Close the Graduation Gap for Minority, First-Generation, and Academically Unprepared Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This is a book for all faculty who are concerned with promoting the persistence of all students whom they teach.
Most recognize that faculty play a major role in student retention and success because they typically have more direct contact with students than others on campus. However, little...
ePortfolio as Curriculum
Models and Practices for Developing Students’ ePortfolio Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
At a moment when the ePortfolio has been recognized as a high impact practice – as a unique site for hosting student integrative learning and as a powerful genre for assessment – this book provides faculty, staff, and administrators with a set of frameworks and models useful for guiding students...
Teaching as the Art of Staging
A Scenario-Based College Pedagogy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
College teachers all too often still play Sage on the Stage – lecturing to rooms full of passive and supposedly absorbed students. The cutting-edge opposite is still supposed to be the Guide on the Side – facilitating wherever students themselves are already going, mentoring and coaching them...
America's Forgotten Student Population
Creating a Path to College Success for GED® Completers
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
"This book sheds some much needed light on an understudied part of our higher education system. Researchers and policymakers should take heed of the potential to tap into the underutilized human capital present in GED Completers as a means to improve national competitiveness and promote individual opportunity."—Nicole...
Student Learning Abroad
What Our Students Are Learning, What They’re Not, and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
"The book is a good source for study-abroad professionals and has the ability to provide direction for programs needing new life breathed into them, particularly at a time when budgets are shrinking, calls for accountability are increasing, and students deserve, more than ever, to have truly meaningful...
Seasons of a Dean's Life
Understanding the Role and Building Leadership Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book identifies the range of leadership skills required, and illuminates the process of building leadership capacity, by drawing on interviews with over 50 sitting deans and on the authors’ 48 years of collective experience in eight different deanships.The abundant examples and accounts of individual...
Critical Race Spatial Analysis
Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
How does space illuminate educational inequity?Where and how can spatial analysis be used to disrupt educational inequity?Which tools are most appropriate for the spatial analysis of educational equity?This book addresses these questions and explores the use of critical spatial analysis to uncover the...
Making Meaning
Embracing Spirituality, Faith, Religion, and Life Purpose in Student Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book addresses religion and secularism as critical and contested elements of college student diversity. It both examines why and how this topic has become an integral aspect of the field of student affairs, and considers how scholars and practitioners should engage in the discussion, as well as...
Beyond Access
Indigenizing Programs for Native American Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
This book argues that two principal factors are inhibiting Native students from transitioning from school to college and from succeeding in their post-secondary studies. It presents models and examples of pathways to success that align with Native American students’ aspirations and cultural values.
Many...
We ARE Americans
Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Winner of the CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary Scholarship
About 2.4 million children and young adults under 24 years of age are undocumented. Brought by their parents to the US as minors—many before they had reached their teens—they account for about one-sixth of the total undocumented...
Outcomes-Based Program Review
Closing Achievement Gaps In and Outside the Classroom With Alignment to Predictive Analytics and Performance Metrics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Second Edition
This book introduces the reader to the principles of assessment of student learning outcomes in the context of program review, and illustrates how to implement a sustainable outcomes-based assessment program review process based on over 30 case studies of exemplary practice across...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
What are the institutional politics associated with fostering trans* inclusive policies? When formalizing a policy, what unanticipated challenges may emerge? How are students, particularly trans* students, influenced by the implementation of gender-inclusive housing practices and policies? Also, what...