Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Eric Morgan, Malcolm Prowle
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Full of tried and tested case material, examples and useful illustrations, this book considers the latest developments and covers all levels of financial management from the structure of the management of institutions right down to the course level and managing budgets.
Class and Campus Life
Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for elite...
Teaching Naked Techniques
A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Put Teaching Naked to work in your classroom with clear examples and step-by-step guidance
Teaching Naked Techniques (TNT) is a practical guide of proven quick ideas for improving classes and essential information for designing anything from one lesson or a group of lessons to an entire course....
by Steven M. Janosik, Diane L. Cooper, Sue A. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
For future student affairs professionals and higher education administrators, the supervised practice experience is where theory learned in the classroom is put into practice. Learning through Supervised Practice in Student Affairs assists students in applying leadership, advising, conflict management,...
One Size Does Not Fit All
Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In the day-to-day work of higher education administration, student affairs professionals know that different institutional types—whether a small liberal arts college, a doctoral intensive institution, or a large private university—require different practical approaches. Despite this, most student...
F. R. Leavis
The Creative University
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This is a critical introduction to the educational thought of F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), the greatest English literary critic of the twentieth century, providing the first in-depth examination of Leavis’s ideas in relation to contemporary mass higher education. During the course of a long, prolific...
Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education
A Strategy to Transform Universities and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
While an increasing number of universities have or are committed to engaging their campuses in their surrounding communities, many recognize they lack the strategic focus and resources to maximize and sustain their impact on those communities. Place-based community engagement provides a powerful way...
by Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Marshall Gregory argues that teachers at the university and high school levels can achieve teaching excellence by grounding their teaching in pedagogical theory that takes into account students' abilities and the ultimate goals of teaching: to develop students' capacities for thought, reflection, questioning, and engagement to their fullest extent.
The Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing
Catholic Higher Education in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China.
Futures for English Studies
Teaching Language, Literature and Creative Writing in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Futures for English Studies brings together chapters by leading writers across the curriculum area of English to investigate how the component parts of English (literature, language, and creative writing) are located institutionally in higher education and to explore the interdisciplinary prospects...
Higher Education and First-Generation Students
Cultivating Community, Voice, and Place for the New Majority
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them.
Stories from the Front of the Room
How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Research demonstrates that faculty of color in historically white institutions experience higher levels of discrimination, cultural taxation, and emotional labor than their white colleagues. Despite efforts to recruit minority faculty, all of these factors undermine their scholarship, pedagogy, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics...
Thinking and Rethinking the University
The selected works of Ronald Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars compile career-long selections of what they judge to be among their finest pieces so the world has access to them in a single manageable volume. Readers are able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes...