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Participants in this workshop were asked to explore three related questions: (1) how to create measures of undergraduate learning in STEM courses; (2) how such measures might be organized into a framework of criteria and benchmarks to assess instruction; and (3) how such a...

This collection includes summaries of presentations given at the NAE Symposium in September 2002. Topics include chemical and molecular engineering in the 21st century, human factors engineering, the future of nuclear energy, and engineering challenges for quantum information technology.Author: National Academy of EngineeringISBN-10: 0309087325ISBN-13:...

The Workshop on the Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education documents changes seen in the postsecondary education system. In her report Lisa Hudson focuses on who is participating in postsecondary education; Tom Bailey concentrates on community colleges as the most responsive institutions to employer needs;...

The concept of postdoctoral training came to science and engineering about a century ago. Since the 1960s, the performance of research in the United States has increasingly relied on these recent PhDs who work on a full-time, but on a temporary basis, to gain...

The author of A Gentle Madness recounts the lively stories behind a century of publishing at a leading university press For Yale University Press, which celebrates its hundredth birthday in 2008, the century has been an eventful one, punctuated with no few surprises. The...

Lynne Welch has compiled 26 provocative essays representing the latest research findings on the topic of women in higher education. This volume addresses issues which are particularly current and timely, including equity issues, mentoring, career mobility, challenges specific to various disciplines, support systems, division...

A pioneering contribution to the literature of intrapreneurship, this volume offers a unique new perspective on the subject by focusing on intrapreneurship in academe. The authors assert that the corporate lessons of survival, competition, and getting the job done--all widely documented in studies of...

Author: Nell P. EurichISBN-10: 0275906116ISBN-13: 9780275906115Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/1981Pages: 172Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

No history of Penn State is complete without the stories of its many achieving women. From Rebecca Ewing, the first female graduate, to early pioneering faculty members like Harriet McElwain and Lucretia Van Tuyl Simmons, to latter-day standouts Pat Farrell, Nina Federoff, Cynthia Baldwin,...

The Knowledge Most Worth Having represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago--faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one's chosen field. The papers collected...

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the relationship between higher education and working life from three different perspectives: society, higher education and the world of work. The purpose of the volume is twofold: first, to critically analyse the relationship between higher education and...

The role of higher education in establishing structures and procedures in society and industry is clearly articulated in scholarly discussions. The narrative has recently taken a new momentum in Kenya with acknowledgement of the creative industry involves many youth, as an area that impacts...

The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on 'world-class' universities - inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increasingly, East Asia. The rest of the world, including Africa, is left to play 'catch-up'. But that discourse should focus rather on the...

Sacred and secular worldviews have long held a place in U.S. higher education, although non-religious perspectives have usually been privileged in the modern era. This book illustrates the importance of cultivating multiple worldviews.Author: Michael D. WaggonerISBN-10: 0415887550ISBN-13: 9780415887557Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2011Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize:...

In a world where lab tests are a cornerstone of modern medicine, this book transforms abstract medical concepts into tangible insights. It empowers you to discover the significance of common lab tests, from blood work and urinalysis to genetic screenings, and see how they...

Small Talk and Friendships in English gives you the tools to feel comfortable in real conversations. Learn how to start small talk, make friends, join casual conversations, attend social events, navigate dating, send natural text messages, and understand the unwritten social rules of English-speaking...

Author: Ben WildavskyISBN-10: 0691239819ISBN-13: 9780691239811Publisher: Princeton University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2026Pages: 176Format: Paperback

We are living in complex and divided times. As a professor of 8 years, and before that, 17 years of serving children and families on the margins, and as a person of color, I have come to learn that individuals and marginalized communities are...

This volume offers replicable approaches for centering equity as a core value in community-campus relationships.Through interrogation of contemporary practice, chapter authors examine the many ways in which equity is deliberately centered in community relationships, practices, research, and pedagogies, thereby accounting for how equity is...

Intercultural Preparation in Higher Education critically examines the complexities of intercultural preparation, challenging reductionist, competence-based approaches and emphasising critical reflection, linguistic sensitivity and intersectional perspectives, which offer transformative insight.Author: Ning ChenISBN-10: 1041116837ISBN-13: 9781041116837Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 98Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

The book aims to study the current transformations of higher education in the BRICS countries. The conditions imposed by the pandemic exposed many vulnerabilities in higher education systems, but also provided valuable lessons that led to the implementation of effective changes.Author: Nicholas Sun-Keung PangISBN-10:...

Bamboo cultivation and utilization are guided by several fundamental principles that ensure sustainable practices and maximize the benefits offered by this versatile plant. Firstly, proper site selection is essential which involves considering factors such as soil type, drainage, sunlight exposure, and moisture levels to...

he Art and Science of Decision-Making: Navigating Complexity, Ethics, and Growth invites you to embark on a transformative journey through the intricate processes that define our choices and shape our lives. Part of the Core Concepts Series, this book explores decision-making as a multifaceted...

This book is written for engineering students and working professionals. Technical professionals are increasingly involved in IT issues, such as implementing IT systems, managing them, and taking part in requirements analysis/vendor selection. In this book, the basics of production planning systems (PPS) are covered,...

The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. Florida has...

Advances in technology are making virtual education a force behind the educational policies and programmes being developed for use in today's colleges and universities. This work examines the challenges and issues that universities face when implementing virtual education technologies.Author: AlbalooshiISBN-10: 193177739XISBN-13: 9781931777391Publisher: IGI GlobalLanguage:...

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and...

Women were at the forefront of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, with the Arab Spring protests providing an unprecedented opportunity to make their voices heard. But these women also faced an intense backlash from Egypt's patriarchal authorities, with female activists subjected to sexual violence...

The invention of the nation state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. As a geostrategic move to divide, defeat, and dismantle the Ottoman Empire during the World War I it was a great success...

Amidst the turmoil of the Middle East, few have noticed the extent to which Israel has slowly but surely been building alliances on the African continent. Facing a growing international backlash, Israel has had to look beyond its traditional Western allies for support, and...

The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these institutions have never been unhappier places to work. Corporate-style management, cost-cutting governments,...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens. But while state infrastructure continues to decay, many essential services continue to be provided at the local level, often through grassroots...

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before. While both activists and governments alike have turned to social media as a new form of political mobilization, some African...

When Hissène Habré, the deposed dictator of Chad, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2016, it was described as 'a watershed for human rights justice in Africa and beyond'. For the first time, an African war criminal had been convicted on African...

Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious programme -...

By blending norm-challenging, robust discussion on enrollment management with practical guidance for administrative and academic leaders, this book seeks to tackle long-standing issues of recruitment, retention, persistence, and completion in higher education.Author: Jason L. MeriwetherISBN-10: 1642673161ISBN-13: 9781642673166Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2024Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h...

At the time of its initial publication in 1904, The Higher Learning in America was known in educated circles as the most reflective study ever made of the university system in America. Veblen's evaluation of the misleading notions and erroneous beliefs were inherent in...

Provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of online collaborative learning (also known as CSCL, computer-supported collaborative learning), particularly those working within a tertiary education environment. It includes articles of relevance to those interested in both theory and practice in this...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s...

MENTAL SYSTEMS THEORY This book offers a unique and extremely useful model of the mind mechanism and its connections with the soul and the body. It develops a set of concepts and laws that explain the mind phenomena and lay the foundations for a...

This book explores issues of teaching science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through the medium of English in the context of higher education in Hong Kong. It analyses policy issues and language challenges faced by university students and pedagogical strategies for the professional development...

This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice...

Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal forces and state actions brought about the region's one thousand two hundred institutions of higher...

Moore asks the question of whether and under what conditions experience constitutes a legitimate source of knowledge and learning in higher education. Drawing on theory and research, the book addresses three types of challenges and opportunities facing experiential educators: the epistemological, the pedagogical, and...

""Plane Geometry Problems With Solutions: College Outline Series"" by Horblit and Marcus is a comprehensive guidebook that offers a collection of mathematical problems and solutions in the field of plane geometry. This book is part of the College Outline Series and is designed to...

""Ethical and Moral Instruction in Schools"" is a book written by George Herbert Palmer, an American philosopher and educator. The book explores the importance of teaching ethics and morality in schools, and provides practical guidance for educators on how to do so effectively. Palmer...

This book provides a framework for analysis and reviews the changing landscape of doctoral education across fourteen global case studies before providing conclusions and recommendations for further research and development. Traditionally, doctoral education was a matter of the talented few being apprenticed to learn...

As Asia alone holds the majority of the world's fast-expanding private higher education (PHE), this volume probes the character, diversity, and significance of Asian PHE.Across seven national case studies, astride both developing and developed countries, older and newer HE systems, in entrenched democracies to...

The new edition of Governance of Higher Education explores the work of traditional and contemporary higher education scholarship, providing readers with an understanding of the assumptions, historical traditions, and paradigms that have shaped the scholarship on governance worldwide.Author: Ian Austin,Glen A. JonesISBN-10: 1032255137ISBN-13: 9781032255132Publisher:...

In this scholarly work, Theodore Wesley Koch offers a detailed history of the University of Louvain and its library. The book covers the founding of the university, its growth and development over the centuries, and the important role that its library has played in...