Higher Education category: 3664 books
International Students and Global Mobility in Higher Education
National Trends and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book examines current trends in global student mobility patterns in several key host and destination countries, including the United States, China, India, South Africa, Mexico, Australia, and Germany, among others, and will explore the national and global-level factors that contribute to these trends.
by Sonja Ardoin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
“The Strategic Guide to Shaping Your Student Affairs Career is a one of a kind resource for student affairs administrators in any stage of their career. The book is well organized around five key elements of career strategy that helpfully prompt readers to not only focus and reflect on critical...
Reflection and the College Teacher
A Solution for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Higher education is facing many challenges, not least of which is retaining excellent faculty and cultivating their continued professional growth. This book explicitly ties the literature to the practical concerns and recommendations related to applying the reflective process in a college setting. In...
We’re Losing Our Minds
Rethinking American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
America is being held back by the quality and quantity of learning in college. Many graduates cannot think critically, write effectively, solve problems, understand complex issues, or meet employers' expectations. The only solution - making learning the highest priority in college - demands fundamental change throughout higher education.
Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty
Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher...
Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs
Perspectives on Innovation by Faculty, Staff, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer...
Global Co-Mentoring Networks in Higher Education
Politics, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book offers faculty and leaders of academic institutions insights on issues surrounding faculty mentoring and how national and international co-mentoring networks can contribute to the success of their members. These networks help female faculty and faculty from traditionally marginalized groups...
Universities in Change
Managing Higher Education Institutions in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from...
Freedom to Learn
The threat to student academic freedom and why it needs to be reclaimed
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The freedom of students to learn at university is being eroded by a performative culture that fails to respect their rights to engage and develop as autonomous adults. Instead, students are being restricted in how they learn, when they learn and what they learn by the so-called student engagement...
Internationalisation and the Student Voice
Higher Education Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This groundbreaking volume seeks to take the first steps in analyzing the impact of internationalization initiatives from student perspectives. As programs are increasingly delivered overseas and we seek to offer domestic students an international experience, how do we know what works for students...
by Roy Rada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
All those involved in Higher Education are under pressure to familiarise themselves with the newest developments in Information Technology, and to understand the ways in which they can make use of these resources. This book will help academics from all disciplines take full advantage of IT. Anticipating...
by Paul Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Since the vast majority of students can’t afford the cost of going to university or college, they have to look towards the government or the institution they are enrolling at for financial help to fund their higher education. In some cases, private lenders come to their rescue. With the recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
To recapitulate, Greeks differ from Independents and from the academy's value priorities, but for the most part these differences derive from antecedent charac teristics. Moreover, there are some grounds for speculating that these anteced ent differences reflect fundamental temperamental differences...
The Provost's Handbook
The Role of the Chief Academic Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administration’s spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has...