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Mother Paul, June Wright's beloved nun-detective, returns to her sleuthing ways after she takes up a new position as warden of a student hall of residence at the University of Melbourne.
No sooner has Judith Mornane arrived on campus than she startles her fellow residents by announcing her intention to discover the murderer of her sister, who disappeared from the same dorm a year earlier. The ever-curious Mother Paul is drawn to investigate what...
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When Fred Tarrasco retired from teaching, he thought he had his next career all locked up. It wasn't to be. A loving teacher for many years, Fred now found himself at loose ends. He had worked since he was twelve, become a full-fledged teacher at twenty-four, and now in his mid-fifties, was adrift. Many wonderful experiences to look back upon. Great students, many of whom he was a father figure to. Lots of laughs. Lots of terrific lessons and colleagues....
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At the world's most exclusive law school, there's a secret society rumored to catapult its members to fame and fortune. Everyone is dying to get in . . .
Jeremy Davis is the rising star of his first-year class. He's got a plum job with the best professor on campus. He's caught the eye of a dazzling Rhodes Scholar named Daphne. But something dark is stirring behind the ivy. When a mysterious club promises success beyond his wildest dreams, Jeremy...
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Team-Based Learning (TBL) engages students in active learning, which promotes both the acquisition and retention of knowledge. This is in sharp contrast to the classic method of teaching by lecturing to students. The didactic lecture creates a passive learning environment in which students memorize facts and then regurgitate them on exams. We refer to this as bulimic learning. Knowledge retention is short-lived when the learning process is passive.
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The 19th-century was the "Golden Age" of Russian literature with Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Turgenev, Goncharov, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, and Gorky creating some of Russia's greatest literary works. These writers wrote about the human condition, Russian society and offered insights into the human soul.
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A fever dream of a novel-strangely funny, entirely unconventional-Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie Solanas
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas-the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol-was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.
In Valerie, a nameless...
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Recognizing the need to educate women about women, Yogi Bhajan created a special summer intensive training program for women called Khalsa Women's Training Camp (KWTC). The women in training program took place in Española, NM, USA, during summer starting in 1976 and continued for twenty years. Every year he spent up to 8 weeks directly teaching women. He personally lectured and led Kundalini Yoga classes every day, taught special meditations for...
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Understanding the risks involved in hiring new faculty is becoming increasingly important. In Managing Risk in High-Stakes Faculty Employment Decisions Julee T. Flood and Terry Leap critically examine the landscape of US institutions of higher learning and the legal and human resource management practices pertinent to college and university faculty members. To help minimize the potential pitfalls in the hiring and promotion processes, Flood and Leap...
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Colleges and universities across the US have created special initiatives to promote faculty development, but to date there has been little research to determine whether such programs have an impact on students' learning. Faculty Development and Student Learning reports the results of a multi-year study undertaken by faculty at Carleton College and Washington State University to assess how students' learning is affected by faculty members' efforts...
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Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty, who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story entitled "From Graduate School to Welfare: The PhD Now Comes with Food Stamps." Today three-fourths of all faculty are characterized, as "contingent instructional staff,"...
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Today more and more ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students enroll in our college and university courses. These diverse, multilingual students enrich our campuses and at the same time present challenges. Who are these students? What skills do these diverse students need to be successful in college? How can faculty help them succeed? For faculty in all disciplines seeking answers to these questions, this is an essential book. This...
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Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty 'contingents' who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education.
Power Despite Precarity is part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four...
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In this holistic study of the integration of faith and learning, Dr. Sarinah Lo challenges the Western tendency to privilege knowing over being and doing. In the context of Indonesian higher education, Dr. Lo addresses the cognitive, affective, spiritual, relational, and vocational aspects of human nature. She demonstrates that effective integration of faith and learning must reach beyond the academic disciplines to address the formation of a Christian...
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Non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct instructors face particular challenges at US colleges, including heavy teaching loads, lack of office space, little control over the selection of course topics or textbooks, and long commutes between jobs at two or more schools. Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers contains short, practice-oriented articles by experienced instructors that offer valuable teaching and career tips for balancing competing...
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Among Huntington College emeriti, what were their most unusual classroom experiences, and their most treasured moments? Their worst nightmares? When offered more lucrative jobs elsewhere, why did they choose to stay? And what did they find most worthwhile about an ordinary class, taught on an ordinary day?
Also find the answers to the following questions. What pranks have been pulled by Huntington College faculty? Which time period produced the wildest...
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This book is written for senior faculty and administrators at resource-strapped institutions who are not trained in higher education administration who are concerned with mentoring. It is written in accessible, nontechnical language but references the more scholarly and statistically based journals and books for those who wish to dig deeper. The book covers the mentoring of junior faculty on the tenure-track line through senior faculty and include...
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Hispanics are not a current trend. They have been here for centuries and embody an integral part of the United States and higher education.
Every racial term-including Hispanic, Latino/a, and more recently Latinx and Latine-is imperfect and problematic. There is no consensus about what works best. Despite this reality, the lives and stories of non-White faculty are essential to the future of Christian higher education.
Each author shares their account...
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