Higher Education category: 3664 books
Recruiting International Students in Higher Education
Representations and Rationales in British Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the UK’s policy on recruiting international students. In a global context of international education policy, it examines changes from New Labour policies under Tony Blair’s Prime Minister’s Initiative, to the more recent Coalition...
Reconsidering College
Christian Higher Education for Working Adults
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A simple, clear introduction to higher education from a Christian perspective for the adult student. More and more adults are seeking to develop themselves and improve their professional opportunities by completing a college degree. Whether business professionals, salespersons, nurses, parents, or persons...
A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education
From Inception to Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
As interest in competency-based education (CBE) continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the need for a practical resource to guide development of high-quality CBE programs led the authors to write this book. Until now, there has been no how-to manual that captures in one place a big picture view of...
The College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty?
Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Despite the Great Recession and looming “student loan debt crisis”, college education remains the most proven, invaluable lifetime investment and serves as the most reliable path to upward mobility and socioeconomic class reassignment. Mfume suggests that “the value added” of even one year...
Effective Teaching
Educators Perspective of Meaning Making in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
What is effective teaching and what pedagogical models are being used in teacher education and evaluation? The purpose of this book is for current educators to share their effective practices in higher education—the program demographics, the vision, the preparation, the process, and the outcome....
by Just another grad student
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
There are various books and websites from talk about the challenges and awards of pursuing graduate studies. To outsiders of academia, grad school is a glamorous and wonderful intellectual paradise. After all, who would discourage their kids from pursuing higher education? Education is good right?
This...
Bridging the Gaps
College Pathways to Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
College-for-all has become the new American dream. Most high school students today express a desire to attend college, and 90% of on-time high school graduates enroll in higher education in the eight years following high school. Yet, degree completion rates remain low for non-traditional students—students...
by David Willetts
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools - a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the university as an institution...
At This Time and In This Place
Vocation and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Seeking to deepen current scholarly engagement with vocational exploration in both theory and practice, At This Time and In This Place champions the themes of calling and vocation as key elements of effective undergraduate education. Growing out of a year-long seminar sponsored by the Council of Independent...
The Brother Code
Manhood and Masculinity among African American Men in College
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Brother Code: What is the role of manhood and masculinity in the lives of African American males in college? How do manhood norms influence decisions within and beyond college? How might mothers and fathers differentially affect manhood and masculinity in their sons? What are African American’s...
College
What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and...
Philanthropy in Black Higher Education
A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Analyzing the circumstances surrounding the creation and development of the Atlanta University System, this book shows how philanthropists' positive involvement created a unique higher educational center for black Americans that exists nowhere else in the nation.
The University of Chicago
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 150 countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting.
With...
Advancing Democracy
African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for...