Stylus Publishing: 272 books
Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Communities and Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
While community colleges have traditionally focused on providing students with opportunities to gain credentials for employment, the increasingly important question is: Are they preparing students for the looming dynamic, disruptive, and entrepreneurial environments ahead?
This book addresses...
Cautionary Tales
Strategy Lessons From Struggling Colleges
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
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 demise of colleges with fewer than 1,000, or even...
Crossing Boundaries
Tension and Transformation in International Service-Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Are there better ways to address community challenges than expending funds on international service-learning?In attempting to wed learning and service, are we are exploiting the “other” for new, or recycled, aims?As these questions attest, of all types of service-learning, international service-learning...
Passport to Change
Designing Academically Sound, Culturally Relevant, Short-Term, Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
There has been enormous growth in faculty-led short-term study abroad programs because they offer flexibility and expand opportunities for students and faculty members who wish to study and work abroad but do not have the resources or time to spend a semester or year away. These experiential programs...
A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education
From Inception to Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
As interest in competency-based education (CBE) continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the need for a practical resource to guide development of high-quality CBE programs led the authors to write this book. Until now, there has been no how-to manual that captures in one place a big picture view of...
Contested Issues in Troubled Times
Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Contested Issues in Troubled Times provides student affairs educators with frameworks to constructively think about and navigate the contentious climate they are increasingly encountering on campus.
The 54 contributors address the book’s overarching question: How do we create an equitable...
Connected Teaching
Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
At a time when many aspects of the faculty role are in question, Harriet Schwartz, the author of Connected Teaching, argues that the role of teachers is as important as ever and is evolving profoundly. She believes the relationships faculty have with individual students and with classes and cohorts...
A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom
History, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room’s central focal point and disrupt the conventional seating plan to which faculty and students have become accustomed.
The...
Top 10 Flashpoints in Student Ratings and the Evaluation of Teaching
What Faculty and Administrators Must Know to Protect Themselves in Employment Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
“Those who read the entire book will end with a much more sophisticated understanding of the problems in evaluating college teaching as well as a helpful guide to possible solutions. I learned a great deal from this book. I recommend it to all faculty, administrators, and scholars in the field.”?Wilbert...
Education Abroad and the Undergraduate Experience
Critical Perspectives and Approaches to Integration with Student Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Co-published with NAFSA.
This volume focuses on two questions. First, how can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education and something they help shape, rather than as time away from their education and...
SoTL in Action
Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
What are the foundational moments of meaningful scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects? How do teacher-scholars collect, develop, and share useful insights about student learning? How do they work through the pinch points that frustrate, confuse, or elude many SoTL practitioners? By...
Success After Tenure
Supporting Mid-Career Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This book brings together leading practitioners and scholars engaged in professional development programming for and research on mid-career faculty members. The chapters focus on key areas of career development and advancement that can enhance both individual growth and institutional change to better...
by Mario C. Martinez, Brandy Smith, Katie Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Service delivery is part and parcel of every higher education professional’s job, both to improve service to students and to each other as “internal customers”. Until now higher education professionals have had to rely on books and training designed for the business sector. This book is the first...
Ethnicity in College
Advancing Theory and Improving Diversity Practices on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students’ interactions on campus, and the communities in which they live.
Based on qualitative interviews with White, Latina/o, African American and Asian students,...