Stylus Publishing: 272 books
Positioning Student Affairs for Sustainable Change
Achieving Organizational Effectiveness Through Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Intended for practitioners, graduate students, interns and student affairs leaders, this book presents the key ideas and concepts from business-oriented organizational behavior and change theories, and demonstrates how they can be useful in, and be applied to, student affairs practice – and, in particular,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Advancing Black Male Student Success presents a comprehensive portrait of Black male students at every stage in the U.S. education system: preschool and kindergarten; elementary, middle and high schools; community colleges and four-year postsecondary institutions; and master’s and doctoral programs....
Working With Students in Community Colleges
Contemporary Strategies for Bridging Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This timely volume addresses the urgent need for new strategies and better ways to serve community colleges’ present and future students at a time of rapid diversification, not just racially and ethnically, but including such groups as the undocumented, international students, older adult learners...
Idea-Based Learning
A Course Design Process to Promote Conceptual Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
“Edmund Hansen shows faculty how college courses need to be designed! Hansen has the blueprint we all need to follow if we are to put together courses that will produce meaningful and long-lasting learning for our students."?Terry Doyle, Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning, Ferris State UniversityIdea-based...
Building a Pathway to Student Learning
A How-To Guide to Course Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This book is written as a “how-to” handbook, providing step-by-step guidance on creating a pathway to student learning, including 26 workboxes (also available free online) that lead you through each element of the course design process and promote a rich reflection process akin to being in a workshop...
For-Profit Colleges and Universities
Their Markets, Regulation, Performance, and Place in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
“For-profit higher education is exploding in the U.S. and across the globe. This has produced a torrent of rhetorical claims from advocates and opponents, little of which is based in evidence. At last, a fair minded and comprehensive examination of this phenomenon by a team of top thinkers and researchers....
Coordinating Student Affairs Divisional Assessment
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Co-published with ACPA, College Student Educators International and NASPA, The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Inc.
Assessing and Improving Student Organizations
A Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
A unique new program to build both organizational effectiveness and leadership in student organizationsAISO is designed to promote the assessment of student organizations by their leaders and their members, to help them with planning and improvement, and assist them in responding to reviews by governing...
Search Committees
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Faculty, Staff, and Administrative Searches
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Faculty, Staff, and Administrative SearchesFinding the right candidate for administrative, professional and faculty positions is one of the most important tasks that any institution or enterprise undertakes. However, few higher education professionals receive training...
Strategic Diversity Leadership
Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A conceptual and evidence-based framework for addressing diversity, and blueprint for rethinking institutional strategies and organizational structures for effective implementation“The book is a moral compass for how we are to proceed in the 21st century, necessitating that we take risks into uncharted...
Training to Imagine
Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques for Trainers and Managers to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Principles and improve-based activities to promote creativity and leadership“In this revised edition of Training to Imagine, Kat no longer has to call from the fringes. Clearly we are all performing, all the time, and business requires ‘surfing’ the waves of change. Why not get good at it? By outlining...
The Coach's Guide for Women Professors
Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This is a practical guide for women in academe – whether adjuncts, professors or administrators – who often encounter barriers and hostility, especially if women of color, and generally carry a heavier load of service, as well as household and care responsibilities, than their male colleagues. Rena...
Higher Education Accreditation
How It's Changing, Why It Must
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
“Paul Gaston has crafted a balanced, thoughtful explanation of accreditation. With higher education changing faster than it has at any period in its history, Gaston’s book is a must-read to understand the sea change impacting higher education and how accreditation can impact our future."—Robert...
Excellence in Higher Education Guide
A Framework for the Design, Assessment, and Continuing Improvement of Institutions, Departments, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
The new (eighth) edition of the Excellence in Higher Education Guide: A Framework for the Design, Assessment and Continuous Improvement of Institutions, Departments and Programs updates and extends the classic EHE series. This edition includes a broad and integrated approach to design, assessment, planning,...