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Publisher
Java Films Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
There were 13 million university students in 1960. In 2015, their ranks had swollen to nearly 200 million. Universities are operating in the world's most competitive knowledge economy and they are waging a ferocious battle to attract the brightest minds from around the globe. Higher Education delves into the key, decision-making seats where money and politics intermingle, and reveals the deep cultural divide between a lucrative Anglo-Saxon model of...
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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Racism in American Public Life: A Call to Action is part of The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life. Cole examines the influence of race and racism on education, particularly the liberal arts, and the wider implication for American society specifically looking at three groups: first, further marginalized groups within Black communities, such as poor and/or queer people; secondly, institutions of higher education...
4) Equality U
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Examining the complicated relationships between schools, religion, and human rights, Equality U is a feature-length documentary following a group of 33 young activists on the Soulforce Equality Ride, a first of its kind, two-month, cross-country tour to confront anti-gay discrimination policies at 19 conservative religious and military colleges. Against the backdrop of the Equality Ride, the film focuses on seven of the 'Equality Riders' and two courageous...
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In dorm rooms across the country, students wonder "I'm so lucky to be here; am I doing the right things to take advantage of this?" Too often, students do not know how to seek, understand, and take advantage of the resources that a comprehensive college or university can offer its students. This book is the answer. Likewise, in a 2018 study, 63% of students surveyed expressed that they have experienced overwhelming anxiety in the past year, revealing...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America and how to work towards a new model that works for all Americans.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity.
Author
Publisher
Discovery Institute Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Eric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a physics professor at Ball State University when the letter from a militant atheist arrived and all hell broke loose. The conflict spilled first onto the pages of the local newspaper, and then into the national news. The atheist attack included threats from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which targeted Hedin after learning his Boundaries of Science course exposed students to an evidence-based...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Lizet--the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school--secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy--Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom--without a steady income and scrambling for...
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Language
English
Description
The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978-four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors-remember them?-rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Put yourself in Palo Alto with this in-depth guide to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Learn about the school's new curriculum, ties with the Silicon Valley, entrepreneurial focus, special programs, student clubs and strong alumni network. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides,...
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Series
Language
Español
Description
La práctica profesional es un lugar de encuentro entre el docente, en cuanto supervisor, y el estudiante, en el rol de practicante. Para el estudiante de psicología, quien se prepara a lo largo del pregrado para afrontar de manera integral distintas realidades y necesidades de su contexto, es además un espacio de autorreconocimiento, donde confluyen tensiones y experiencias nuevas.
Dilemas y confrontaciones del estudiante de último año frente...
13) Handbook of RUSA
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Language
English
Description
Higher education is very important for the development of any country. Government also realized the same and giving more importance to it. The success of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) has laid a strong foundation for primary and secondary education in India. However, the sphere of higher education has still has not seen any concerted effort for improvement in access or quality. In the coming decades, India...
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Series
Language
English
Description
At last, a brief, readable introduction to the unique purpose and value of a Christian college education. This book draws on the insights of a wide range of Christian philosophers, historians, scientists, and theologians, but communicates key concepts in straightforward language and analogies that will connect with today's college students. Brief enough to be paired with other 'first-year' texts, it is an ideal introduction to the Christian college...
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Language
English
Description
Are you ready to dazzle your College Interviewer?
If you are a high school student, the answer is "probably not." But you can be ready! This book will show you how to answer tough college interview questions. What This Book Will Do For You: • Lists the Most Common College Interview Questions • Describes an interviewer's motivation for certain questions • Teaches you the key to successfully answering any question • Offers insight into what...
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Language
English
Description
Do you want to get into the Air Force Academy? Then you need to ace your interview! The interview is one of the BEST ways to stand out during the Admissions process.
Written by a former Service Academy Admissions Officer, this book is a MUST HAVE guide on interviewing if you want to attend the United States Air Force Academy. This book gets right to the point and teaches you how to be more than just a file. Ace Your Air Force Academy Interview includes...
Author
Language
English
Description
The education system provides a great way to peer into the potential of the human mind, but it's come up short in unleashing it. Marquis R. Nave, who has taught English at the college level for 10 years, has discovered that students minds are the center of education and that their ideas about their mental capabilities is crucial to developing a new education. Students who don't believe in the creative power of their minds end up being trained to do...
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Language
English
Description
Western Universities have been major contributors to our civilization and others through scientific discovery and humanistic scholarship. Knowledge both old and new has been expanded, enriched, and diffused. Universities have also been an important channel of upward social and economic mobility through academic achievement, thus reinforcing the vision of America as a land of opportunity. But since the 1980s, universities have increasingly turned away...
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Series
Language
English
Description
As Canadian universities work to increase access to graduate education, many are adopting blended modes of delivery for courses and programs. Within this changing landscape of higher education, The Finest Blend answers the call for rigorous research into these methods to ensure quality learning and teaching experience and presents case studies of French and English universities across Canada that are experimenting with blended learning models in graduate...
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Language
English
Description
All the Advice You Need to Get In To the College You Want! Getting in to your dream college has never been more competitive. Swamped with applications, admissions officers spend 10-20 minutes on each, looking for reasons to say no. It's crucial that students make it easy for colleges to say yes. In his new book, Brand U, renowned college admissions adviser David Montesano shows you exactly how to position yourself as the kind of applicant colleges...
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