Higher Education category: 3664 books
Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities
From Tactics to Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
This book is intended to serve as a road map for strategy creation and execution for leaders and decision makers who, by choice or by necessity, are looking to use strategy to optimize the development of their institutions. It is the first book of its kind to focus exclusively on strategy as it applies...
Advancing Youth Work
Current Trends, Critical Questions
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This path-breaking book brings together an international list of contributors to collectively articulate a vision for the field of youth work, sharing what they have learned from decades of experience in the training and education of youth workers. Carefully designed evaluation and research studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
As more Americans are attending college, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are now in a position where they must directly compete with other institutions. While other colleges and universities might have more resources and stronger infrastructures, HBCUs provide better opportunities...
Stand and Prosper
Private Black Colleges and Their Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Stand and Prosper is the first authoritative history in decades of black colleges and universities in America. It tells the story of educational institutions that offered, and continue to offer, African Americans a unique opportunity to transcend the legacy of slavery while also bearing its burden....
Transformative Learning Through Engagement
Student Affairs Practice as Experiential Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
"This book examines the important role student affairs professionals can and should play in teaching and learning. As colleges and universities adapt to the new realitites of higher education (including new understandings about how people learn), student affairs professionals can provide experiential...
Student Affairs Assessment
Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
With the recognition of the integral role of student affairs in student education, and with stakeholders requiring increasing accountability at a time of tight resources, it has become imperative that staff be familiar with and competent in undertaking assessment. This book provides student affairs staff...
Facilitating Workshops
A Resource Book for Lecturers and Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
The only book providing advice on facilitating workshops aimed specifically at lecturers and academics. Full of practical resources and materials including suggested activities, handouts and whiteboard layouts to help people tasked with running workshops in higher education settings or at conferences, even without having received specific training.
Lessons from the Virtual Classroom
The Realities of Online Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Lessons from the Virtual Classroom, Second Edition
The second edition of the classic resource Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom offers a comprehensive reference for faculty to hone their skills in becoming more effective online instructors. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent...
The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning
Understanding Effective Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practices in continuing education. It highlights...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Praise for the First Edition
*"The book is very comprehensive. It gives plenty of practical examples and also refers to teaching and learning theory."—*Martin Lightfoot in Management & Education
"This Handbook contains advice and approaches for teaching practices...
by Bill Morrison, Ken S. Coates
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Going to university used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more...
Inclusion and Diversity
Meeting the Needs of All Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
How should you prepare for the first day of class? How can you encourage all students to participate in discussions? How do you ensure disabled students can take part in field work? Increasingly, universities are drawing from a less traditional group of students – international students, disabled...
Teaching Unprepared Students
Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education—not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than tripled), but students (with and without special...
Campus Speech in Crisis
What the Yale Experience Can Teach America
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Free speech is in crisis on America’s campuses. Rather than refute an idea with which he disagrees, today’s college student demands censorship. At the slightest hint of offense, the weak-willed administrator complies and disinvites a speaker while a close-minded protestor disrupts a lecture. This...