Stylus Publishing: 272 books
Faculty Retirement
Best Practices for Navigating the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This book addresses the critical and looming issue of retirement in higher education as the cohort of boomer generation faculty come to the close of their careers. On the one hand institutions need to replenish themselves, and so need older employees to retire. On the other, mass retirements can decimate...
Breaking In
Women's Accounts of How Choices Shape STEM Careers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Why is it that, while women in the United States have generally made great strides in establishing parity with their male counterparts in educational attainment, they remain substantially underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)? Why is it that, in proportion...
Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning
Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Research has identified the importance of helping students develop the ability to monitor their own comprehension and to make their thinking processes explicit, and indeed demonstrates that metacognitive teaching strategies greatly improve student engagement with course material.This book ? by presenting...
Assessing Study Abroad
Theory, Tools and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This guide book is intended for advisors, administrators, and faculty members engaged with study abroad who are concerned with answering the question: what does study abroad achieve? Following an account of how, and why, assessment in the field has evolved, the first part of the book sets the stage for...
Exploring More Signature Pedagogies
Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This companion volume to Exploring Signature Pedagogies covers disciplines not addressed in the earlier volume and further expands the scope of inquiry by interrogating the teaching methods in interdisciplinary fields and a number of professions.
Building on Resilience
Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success Across the P-20 Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
How do we fix the leaky educational pipeline into a conduit of success for Black males?That the issue is critical is demonstrated by the statistics that only 10% of Black males in the United States are proficient in 8th grade reading, only 52% graduate from high school within four years, and only 35...
Teaching Across Cultural Strengths
A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Promoting learning among college students is an elusive challenge, and all the more so when faculty and students come from differing cultures. This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning; and offers an empirically-based framework and model,...
Democratic Dilemmas of Teaching Service-Learning
Curricular Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
"This book provides faculty with thought provoking scenarios on how to address dilemmas encountered in implementing service learning. It provides useful illustrations on how ‘to handle’ the dilemmas without infringing on intellectual freedom, values, or judgment of all parties involved by utilizing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In these days when every college or university needs to make the best use of resources, Student Affairs for Academic Administrators is intended to help academic administrators make the best use of one vital campus resource: student affairs. By providing this concise introduction to student affairs as...
Community-Based Research
Teaching for Community Impact
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Community-based research (CBR) refers to collaborative investigation by academics and non-academic community members that fosters positive change on a local level. Despite recent trends toward engaged scholarship, few publications demonstrate how to effectively integrate CBR into academic course work...
The Diversity Consultant Cookbook
Preparing for the Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Written to advise how to get started in, and develop a career as, diversity consultants. This succinct cookbook provides the guidance to get you going and succeed.
The cookbook metaphor reflects the delicate nature of diversity consulting where the little things can make a significant difference...
Taking College Teaching Seriously, Pedagogy Matters!
Fostering Student Success Through Faculty-Centered Practice Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Taking College Teaching Seriously: Pedagogy Matters! breaks new ground in professional development. Each faculty member is at the center of the learning experience, stimulated and supported by peers working in similar contexts. They share a desire to see more students learn deeply and find that honing...
Research on Service Learning
Conceptual Frameworks and Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
IUPUI Series on Service Learning Research The purpose of this work is to improve service learning research and practice through strengthening its theoretical base. Contributing authors include both well-known and emerging service learning and community engagement scholars, as well as scholars from other...
Reflection in Action
A Guidebook for Student Affairs Professionals and Teaching Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This guidebook will stimulate student affairs professionals and higher education faculty alike to adopt new approaches when discussing sensitive or controversial topics with their students. It provides teachers and professionals with a critical social understanding of social justice, social agency, reflection,...