Education - Higher

Leaders in the Labyrinth sheds light on the ways presidents conduct the influence and power of their office, especially in the use of their pulpits, how they navigate issues of political correctness, and how they hold the center of the university together in contentious...

When their country calls, Texas Aggies go to war. From the Spanish-American War and World War I to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Aggies have been in the forefront of America's armed forces, producing more officers than any other school outside the service academies. More than...

This book is designed primarily to help higher education instructors identify and clarify the philosophical and definitional issues related to cultural competency, understand and appreciate multiple perspectives and ways of knowing, and provide strategies and recommendations for inclusive teaching and learning practices for faculty...

The authors wrote this book, the tenth in their "It Works for Me" Series, to encourage scholars to attempt to produce the fastest growing form of research, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, or SoTL. The collection begins with their essay on the rapid...

These writings provide a thematic examination of how faculty are involved in the governance process in different areas of higher education management. Although this text offers different styles and tones in various chapters, the discussions of involvement in academic and student affairs, athletics, advancement,...

The aim of this script is to give a compiled overlook about the most important issues of Physiology. The profound knowledge of Physiology and Anatomy are the fundamental basis of the medical profession. Every other subject is building on these two basics, therefor it...

For underrepresented groups in academia there is often a struggle of voice, invisibility, tokenism and isolation; therefore, how do women of color create a sisterhood in academia? This book integrates research with personal narratives and content of two students (Sophoria and Alexis) as they...

Did you know that there are U.S. colleges that offer FREE tuition? It's true! FREE Tuition Colleges is your guide to finding FREE money to continue your education. In these pages you will discover a number of colleges and programs that offer FREE tuition...

Achieving the Ultimate Dream of Education is a book that describes the process of growing from elementary education through the ranks of higher education. The author describes her journey through each level and the obstacles that she overcame in order to complete her Associate's...

The increasing emphasis on a "practical" education in this technological age has threatened to deprive more and more students of a thorough schooling in the humanities. In this book Edwin E. Aubrey seeks to show how humanistic values and the humanistic spirit may better...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

What every high school student needs to know before starting the college selection process.Author: B. V. GrayISBN-10: 1502848228ISBN-13: 9781502848222Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2014Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d

This resource is a starting point and an excellent reference for women of color seeking funding for higher education. We have compiled this text based on research of well-known, as well as more obscure funding opportunities available to minority women in the U.S. We...

Do we see the end of traditional classroom-led universities? MOOCS or Massive open online courses offered by the leading universities challenges the traditional university teaching in classroom setting. Some like the MIT and Harvard even offer courses for anyone who wishes to enrol anywhere...

A unique exploration of outcomes for graduates unable to find work in their field of study. Graduates are interviewed and discuss the tolls of long-term unemployment and underemployment on their lives and physical and emotional well-being.Author: Tia MitsisISBN-10: 1494862875ISBN-13: 9781494862879Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

Assembly line workers came out of the plants and into the classrooms in droves during the Great Recession. If you think their experience at community and technical colleges is just like everyone else's, you would be mistaken. This is a human interest story, but,...

The story of the American university in the past half century is about the rise of women in participation as students, faculty members, college athletes, and in subsequently changing the overall university culture for the better. Now almost sixty percent of the overall college...

The changing role and expectations of higher education have reached a crisis point. The heart of the problem is an isolation of the professoriate. An emphasis on obscure research and lack of accountability is undermining the academy. Creating a dissertation is usually an exhausting...

Unfortunate obsessions dominate the culture of colleges and universities and shortchange students and everyone else. Professors have become an obstacle to learning. They are not interested in or rewarded for teaching. They scramble to survive in a surreal world of nonsense scholarship and obscure...

Drop that Chalk! A Guide to Better Teaching at Colleges and Universities is designed for those planning to teach - or already teaching and hoping to improve instruction - in colleges, universities, or other institutions of higher education. This book delineates the process of...

Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews explores the growing phenomenon of Israel-hatred and covert anti-Semitism on college campuses. Fomented by extreme Left-wing institutes, funded by Saudi dollars, and led by professors with a barely-hidden intolerance for even the continued existence of...

Linn-Benton Community College got its start in 1966 when a group of local businessmen and women petitioned the state of Oregon to hold an election to establish a community college district. Discussions had gone on for some time about a community college to serve...

California State University, San Bernardino opened in 1965 in San Bernardino. This chronological history records the major and minor developments in the history of the campus, between 1960, when it was created by the California Legislature, to the end of the 2009/10 academic year....

Gregg Shorthand: A Light-Line Phonography For The Million is a book written by John Robert Gregg and published in 1916. The book is a comprehensive guide to the Gregg shorthand system, which is a method of writing shorthand using a series of symbols and...

The book ""Institutes of Moral Philosophy: For the Use of Students in the College of Edinburgh"" by Adam Ferguson is a comprehensive guide to moral philosophy for students studying in the College of Edinburgh. The book covers a wide range of topics related to...

This timely volume conceptualises and applies the philosophical notions of wonder, wander, and whisper, serving as evaluative paradigms for objective assessment of quality doctoral research work and supervision in South African higher education.Author: Yusef WaghidISBN-10: 1032715642ISBN-13: 9781032715643Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2025Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.50h...

This book utilises the Expectancy-Value theory and the Undermining Effect of Extrinsic Reward theory to examine the impact of the Central Government-Funded Teacher Education policy (CGFTE) policy on Chinese pre-service teachers' motivations for choosing the teaching profession. Author: Yi LiuISBN-10: 1032639709ISBN-13: 9781032639703Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Leadership in Higher Education has been designed to bring together case studies to facilitate the development of effective and well-equipped leaders within the higher education sector.Author: Josephine LangISBN-10: 1032418435ISBN-13: 9781032418438Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

By employing learning analytics methodology and big data in Learning Management Systems (LMSs), this volume conducts data-driven research to identify and compare learner interaction patterns in Massive Private Online Courses (MPOCs). Author: Di Sun,Gang ChengISBN-10: 1032360992ISBN-13: 9781032360997Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2024Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.21h...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...