Student category: 717 books
Academic Advising Approaches
Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little training...
Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Praise for Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
"An essential guide to the thorny task of not only developing successful first-year programs, the critical building blocks for student college completion, but also sustaining them over time. It should be at the top of...
The Secrets of Top Students
Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Straight talk and tips from top students to help make academic excellence a lifestyle.
Getting a passing grade is one thing—cramming to memorize facts, knowing what's on the test, finishing a paper just before the deadline—but being a top student is something else entirely. So what makes...
The College and University Counseling Manual
Integrating Essential Services Across the Campus
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
Campus counseling services today must face the challenges of greater diversity and complexity on campus while making do with fewer resources. In order to be maximally effective, they must be willing to engage with other services within and beyond the campus itself. This comprehensive manual for campus...
Student Voices
We Believe in You
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
We are surrounded by voices, but how often do we actually stop and listen to the stories they have to tell? Martha E.Casazza and Sharon L. Silverman have been listening to the stories of students for the past five years, and they share how high achievers have overcome obstacles. Throughout the interviews,...
Risk Management in Student Affairs
Foundations for Safety and Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
A comprehensive, accessible guide to the policies and practices of risk management in higher education
Student affairs staff at all types of colleges and universities need to be equipped to help manage risk and protect their institutions, the people they serve, and their resources from unintended...
by Karen Dickinson, Richard Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Increased demands. Living with roommates. Exploring independence. New romantic relationships. Tons of opportunity. Academic life is full of new stressors—but stress doesn't have to be a bad thing! A Student's Guide to Stress Management provides you with strategies to not only manage stress, but...
Ivy Briefs
True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
From first-day nerves to first-year grades, from bizarre job interviews to bar exam insanity, Ivy Briefs pulls back the curtain on the marbled halls of law school, revealing the absurdity often bubbling beneath the surface.
Meet Martha Kimes: a naïve small-town girl with strong neurotic tendencies...
Student Affairs Leadership
Defining the Role Through an Ecological Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Kuk and Banning offer readers a new lens for viewing leadership, one that goes beyond a focus on the behavior and values of leaders as individuals to examine how positional leaders interact with their environments to engage in leadership “in context”. This book is addressed to aspiring and senior...
The Student Leadership Challenge
Facilitation and Activity Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The guide includes language, guidance, and activities for teaching each Practice and its associated leadership behaviors, as well as tips...
Adapt and Overcome
Essays on the Student Veteran Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The essays in Adapt and Overcome: Essays on the Student Veteran Experience explore issues faced by veteran-students when they confront the demands of college. Written for students, faculty and staff, and university administrators, the text helps readers gain a deeper understanding of the veteran-student...
Online Social Networking on Campus
Understanding What Matters in Student Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
In the era of such online spaces as Facebook, Instant Messenger, Live Journal, Blogger, Web Shots, and campus blogs, college students are using these resources and other online sites as a social medium. Inevitably, this medium presents students with ethical decisions about social propriety, self disclosure...
Teaching Tough Kids
Simple and Proven Strategies for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
How can you really make a difference for your students?
Teaching Tough Kids delivers a refreshing collection of realistic ideas to sustain the organisational and behavioural transformations of all students, particularly those who 'do it tough'; who learn and react differently. They are complex...
by Terrell Lamont Strayhorn
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Theoretical Frameworks in College Student Research was written to offer those who engage in college student research a framework, tool, or guide for understanding the role that theory plays in research. Each of the seven chapters in the volume are organized around five major questions which address...