Education - Higher

This books tells a number of Short Stories in Post-Colonial Apartheid South Africa. Some are a light hearted look at the everyday occurrences in the days of people whose stories are often lost amid today's fast moving life of technology and commerce centered life....

This book offers a broad overview of many issues related to assessment in higher education, with specific application for understanding the impact of service-learning and civic engagement initiatives. This revised edition includes an additional chapter that explores recent changes in the assessment landscape and...

This book demonstrates how university lecturers can document their impactful teaching and evidence their teaching achievements in the contemporary HE landscape.It is an essential read for all lecturers who might need to evidence their achievements for academic development including job promotions and Advance HE...

Do Better illustrates the meaning of ableism through compelling narratives of graduate students in student affairs and higher education graduate preparation programs, who self-identify as disabled. These stories provide meaningful examples based on lived experiences. Furthermore, they aim to help higher education professionals, faculty,...

Do Better illustrates the meaning of ableism through compelling narratives of graduate students in student affairs and higher education graduate preparation programs, who self-identify as disabled. These stories provide meaningful examples based on lived experiences. Furthermore, they aim to help higher education professionals, faculty,...

The landscape of higher education is rapidly evolving, presenting both new opportunities and significant challenges. In our interconnected world, institutions of higher learning must not only transmit knowledge but also actively address the social, economic, and cultural issues arising from diverse and dynamic societies....

The landscape of higher education is rapidly evolving, presenting both new opportunities and significant challenges. In our interconnected world, institutions of higher learning must not only transmit knowledge but also actively address the social, economic, and cultural issues arising from diverse and dynamic societies....

Writing is a necessary skill that allows people to communicate their ideas. For this reason, writing evokes change, and our words persist long after we are gone. We celebrate heroes of the past by the words they leave behind. Writing for Rights is a...

Writing is a necessary skill that allows people to communicate their ideas. For this reason, writing evokes change, and our words persist long after we are gone. We celebrate heroes of the past by the words they leave behind. Writing for Rights is a...

As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right's growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives. Morbid Symptoms examines the far-right's ascendancy, uniquely tracing its history from the end of the Cold...

This book shares the story of the Becoming Community initiative, a multi-year effort to pursue transformative inclusion on college campuses. The contributors hope to begin to dismantle oppression and foster inclusive community formation in colleges and universities.Author: Amanda Macht JantzerISBN-10: 1666939897ISBN-13: 9781666939897Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage:...

The complexity of the decisions that today's higher education leaders face-as they engage with a diversifying student body, globalization and technological advances-requires embracing new ways of thinking about leadership. This book examines the new theories and concepts of leadership that are described in the...

Speak Up! teaches students how and why they should reach out and connect with their professors. Author Amy Handlin provides thoughtful and strategic advice based on her 25+ years of teaching and advising experience.Students know it's important to connect with their professors, since those...

Letters to Students discusses the meaning of higher education for the individual and offers advice on navigating the college experience, life, work, the meaning of success, the role of creativity and leadership.Author: Drew Bogner, Robert Allyn ScottISBN-10: 1475873727ISBN-13: 9781475873726Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.For the past two decades, colleges and universities have focused significant attention on helping female faculty balance work and family by implementing a series of family-friendly policies. Although most policies were...

Balliol College (1899) is a historical book written by Henry William Carless Davis that provides a detailed account of the history and development of Balliol College, one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges of the University of Oxford. The book covers the college's...

""A Short Course In Higher Algebra"" is a comprehensive textbook written by Webster Wells, originally published in 1889. This book is designed to be used as a course material for academies, high schools, and colleges, covering a wide range of topics in algebra. The...

The Ten Commandments: A Course Of Lectures Delivered Before The University Of Pennsylvania (1889) is a book written by George Dana Boardman. The book contains a series of lectures that were delivered by the author before the University of Pennsylvania in 1889. The lectures...

Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Forms of institutional governance critically shape the culture, creativity and academic outcomes of higher education. The book provides a new, updated and research based account of the changing face of the governance of British higher education. Historically,...

The PlayBook is an anthology of almost 100 play techniques from over 65 professors across a variety of disciplines. The collection of techniques is organized around four key themes: the playful professor, connection-former or icebreaker activities, play to teach content and playful whole course...

The Chief Online Learning Officers' Guidebook explores the essential competencies required of Chief Online Learning Officers (COLOs) using insights from real-world leadership and expert perspectives from higher education. Digital and online learning have become strategic priorities for higher education institutions working toward enrollment growth,...

Bringing together narratives and theory-based analyses of practice, this volume illustrates collaborative curricular and co-curricular approaches to promoting vocational discernment amongst students in a Catholic university setting.Author: Karen LovettISBN-10: 1032009691ISBN-13: 9781032009698Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2023Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Consul Willshire Butterfield offers a comprehensive account of the University of Wisconsin's origins and early history. This book includes biographical sketches of the chancellors, presidents, and professors who have contributed to the university's legacy. Education scholars and history enthusiasts will appreciate Butterfield's meticulous research...

Honors of Inequality is a historical analysis of the origins and key contributions to the scholarship about American higher education authored by tenured faculty and professional scholars during the last half of the twentieth century. Higher education--as an organized discipline or field of study--is...

When Flora Roy accepted a teaching position at Waterloo College in 1948, she imagined it would be a temporary posting until she finished her dissertation and returned to Toronto or another large Canadian university. Little did she know that, as head of the English...

By focusing on Chicago's first generation of activist professors, Diner shows how modern public policy evolved. Chicago's early academic professionals, believing that they alone could solve the problems of a complex urban society, united to press for reforms in education, criminal justice, social welfare,...

In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how social...

The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to today's undergraduates. To explore firsthand how college students understand,...

Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge--the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around...

A riveting analysis of the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California.Burning Down the House presents a riveting analysis of one of the most nationally prominent and bitterly contested policy battles in the history of American higher education: the struggle to...

Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market--no more than 2 percent of enrollees. Yet they produce a stunningly large percentage of America's leaders in virtually every field of endeavor. The educational experience they offer--small classes led by professors devoted...

A former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better "People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in higher education]. Anyone wanting to understand why even the best American...

Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality offers practical guidance, tools, and resources to assist practitioners in creating effective, engaging workshops for adult learners.Author: Tolulope NoahISBN-10: 103275804XISBN-13: 9781032758046Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2025Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.51d

Inverse kinematics, the art of determining a structures configuration to accomplish a specific task, is an important and challenging topic. For instance, finding the joint angles for robots so they're able to perform coordinated controlled motions, like picking up objects or walking. While inverse...

Based on ATLAS' highly acclaimed workshop, Effective Communication in Higher Education, this guide addresses general principles for how academic leaders can express themselves (and help others in their programs express themselves) with greater success. It addresses the three questions every administrator should ask before...

How and why does improvisational theater (improv) serve the learning and development of adults in higher education? What new approaches to higher education are possible with and because of improv activities? This edited collection considers these questions while illustrating the power of improv activities...

This text is designed for faculty, graduate students, service-learning and other engaged learning and scholarship practitioners, alliance members, special interest groups, and organizations that desire to strengthen student learning and utilize research for improvement in their communities.Author: Mary BeckmanISBN-10: 1620363569ISBN-13: 9781620363560Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2016Pages:...

This book urges educators to go beyond the episodic ways we currently link on-campus curricula to off-campus experience. As our disciplines and institutions face the complexities of a rapidly changing world, this book seeks to fuel the necessary conversations.Author: Scott D. Carpenter, Helena Kaufman,...

How appropriate for today and for the future are the policies and practices of higher education that largely assume a norm of traditional-age students with minimal on-campus, or no, work commitments?Despite the fact that work is a fundamental part of life for nearly half...

Lectures On Preaching: Delivered Before The Theological Department Of Yale College is a book written by Matthew Simpson. The book is a collection of lectures that were delivered by Simpson to the students of the Theological Department of Yale College. The lectures cover a...

Student life can be overwhelming, and it is not surprising that you might struggle to cope sometimes. This book guides you through your student journey with simple and effective strategies to help you take ownership of your mental health and stay in control.Author: Rachael...

With a focus on practical, implementable strategies to enhance learning experiences, the extensively updated sixth edition of The Lecturer's Toolkit is an essential guide for those new to teaching in Higher Education, as well as a companion to improve the practice of more experienced...

With the goal of improving efforts and initiatives to promote college completion, this book offers an engaging, in-depth analysis of the cultural journeys of rural, poor and working-class college students.Author: Ty C. McNameeISBN-10: 1032745096ISBN-13: 9781032745091Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2025Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Bringing together international authors to examine how diversity and inclusion impact assessment in higher education, this book provides educators with the knowledge and understanding required to transform practices so that they are more equitable and inclusive of diverse learners. Assessment drives learning and determines...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution that was pivotal in its making--the small college. During the antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable number of colleges in the Midwest that would help cultivate...

Making Reform Work is a practical narrative of ideas that begins by describing who is saying what about American higher education, who's angry, who's disappointed, and why. Most of the pleas for changing American colleges and universities that originate outside the academy are lamentations...

A must read for all research students! ""The core material in Professor Cryer's previous editions is classic. I welcome this new edition setting it into current contexts." - PhD supervisor "When I was doing my own PhD, Pat Cryer's book was my constant reference...