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Here is a compelling read for every teacher in higher education who wants to refresh or reexamine his or her classroom practice. Building on the insights offered by recent discoveries about the biological basis of learning, and on his own thought-...

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As most instructors, presenters and trainers have discovered, cartoons are an excellent classroom resource for making key learning points in an enjoyable, engaging manner. Cartoons function well as metaphors for the subject at hand, help introduce...

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Research shows that five strategies correlate with the successful completion of a dissertation: establishing a consistent writing routine; working with a support group; consulting your advisor; understanding your committee's expectations; and sett...

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This title deals with higher education/anthropology & sociology: race, gender & diversity. Through the inspiring stories of sixteen students - from seniors at high school to graduate students - William Perez gives voice to the estimated 2....

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Assessment on college campuses has a sordid history, and it is fairly simple to find someone with a traumatic tale to tell. It is wise to respect that that reputation is deserved. How do you modify the inner workings and culture of a massive insti...

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Each volume in this series of five, illustrates an array of approaches to examining a community issue and its hoped that, by exploring examples across the disciplines, faculty will be inspired to develop their own concepts for courses that combine...

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What are the characteristics and conditions that lead to successful educational partnerships?What can we learn from partnerships that fail, cannot be sustained over time, or cease to benefit their partners?This book serves as a guide to the succes...

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Now available in paperback, this two-volume work is intended to help readers develop powerful new ways of thinking about organizational principles, and apply them to policy-making and management in colleges and universities.The book is written wit...

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This book leads you through the process of designing a learning-centered course. It 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) tha...

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The purpose of this set is to improve service learning research and practice through strengthening its theoretical base. Contributing authors include both well-known and emerging service learning and community engagement scholars, as well as schol...

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This concise guidebook is intended for faculty who are interested in engaging their students and developing deep and lasting learning, but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Acknowledging the gr...

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Given the continued plight of men of color in college after a decade of ineffective interventions focused more on fixing the student than on addressing the social, structural and institutional forces that undermine his academic achievement, this b...

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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 postsecond...

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Finding 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 on the search committ...

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While both committed to providing effective programs and services that help students succeed in college and beyond, and aware of the increasing demands from internal and external stakeholders that every dollar spent benefits students and contribut...

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Based upon years of field experience, this Guide is addressed to you, whether your non-profit has experience of working with university interns or volunteers but wants to deepen and increase the effectiveness of the relationship; whether your agen...

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Based upon years of field experience, this Guide is addressed to you, whether your non-profit has experience of working with university interns or volunteers but wants to deepen and increase the effectiveness of the relationship; whether your agen...

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An ACPA/NASPA Joint Publication The need for the new role of student affairs assessment coordinator has emerged in response to the increasing demand for outcomes information, the proliferation of data, and the recognition that coordinating this wo...

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An ACPA/NASPA Joint Publication The need for the new role of student affairs assessment coordinator has emerged in response to the increasing demand for outcomes information, the proliferation of data, and the recognition that coordinating this wo...

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Co-published with The field of Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) has long been influential beyond its already porous borders and continues to be a source of important ideas, inspiration, and innovative practices for those in disciplines such as...

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A growing number of people completing or holding graduate degrees now seek non-faculty positionsalso called alternative academic, or alt-ac positionsat different stages in their careers. While an increasing number of people with doctoral degrees a...

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From the foreword by Walter G. Bumphus, President & CEO of AACC: Becoming an Equity-Centered Higher Education Institution is a significant contribution to the on-going struggle to find practical approaches to implementing an equity agenda in h...

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With costs rising, traditional college student populations shrinking, and pundits predicting that huge numbers of colleges will close in the next few decades, small colleges cannot afford to pretend that business-as-usual can sustain them. This bo...

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The research is clear: online learning works best when faculty build regular, positive, and interactive relationships with students. A strategy that helps forge such a relationship is the use of videos. Student satisfaction and course engagement l...

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The research is clear: online learning works best when faculty build regular, positive, and interactive relationships with students. A strategy that helps forge such a relationship is the use of videos. Student satisfaction and course engagement l...

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Before the Covid-19 pandemic, online and distance education enrolled over 19 million students in the US. As colleges and universities return to in-person instruction, the number of online courses and programs is poised to grow exponentially. At th...

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Mentoring demonstrably increases the retention of undergraduate and graduate students and is moreover invaluable in shaping and nurturing academic careers. With the increasing diversification of the student body and of faculty ranks, theres a clea...

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Mentoring demonstrably increases the retention of undergraduate and graduate students and is moreover invaluable in shaping and nurturing academic careers. With the increasing diversification of the student body and of faculty ranks, theres a clea...

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As an archetypal student success higher-educator myself, I did not enter this profession intentionally.But my life experiences did prepare me to be very successful at this work. So, what are those experiences, and types of knowledge, insight, skil...

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As an archetypal student success higher-educator myself, I did not enter this profession intentionally.But my life experiences did prepare me to be very successful at this work. So, what are those experiences, and types of knowledge, insight, skil...

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