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La educación superior en Colombia está atravesando por un momento interesante: mientras las expectativas sociales en torno a su rol en la sociedad crecen y todavía se debate su financiamiento, la irrupción de la globalización en la educación superior trae nuevos y más complejos retos. Desde el reciente intento fallido de reformar la Ley 30 de 1992, el tema de la reforma educativa ha tomado un nuevo aire en el país. Por esta razón, el Center...
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In recent years American colleges and universities have become the locus of impassioned debates about race-conscious social policies, as conflicting theories clash over the ways to distribute the advantages of higher education in a fair and just manner. Just below the surface of these policy debates lies a complex tangle of ideologies, histories, grievances, and emotions that interfere with a rational analysis of the issues involved. As never before,...
3) Welcome to College Your Career Starts Now!: A Practical Guide to Academic and Professional Success
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For every student, both a successful transition into college, and the subsequent transition from college to career, are critically important. Written by an author who has had long experience in both the corporate and academic worlds, "Welcome to College - Your Career Starts Now!" is the ideal book to help guide students through both transitions, while giving good advice on how to integrate the college years into the process of determining one's career....
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Making the Most of Your College Education demonstrates that in order to be more competitive and marketable in the workplace, it is necessary to partake of the myriad opportunities the college/university environment holds. This invaluable guide, rich with anecdotes from students across the nation, presents the many overlooked and underutilized resources that college campuses offer. It illustrates how learning begins in, and extends far beyond, the...
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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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A brief introduction to the unique purpose and nature of a Christian college education for students, their parents, teachers, and others. The new edition expands the discussion of Christian worldview beyond intellectual analysis to include actions and attitudes. Sections on the Christian mind, redemption, and cultural engagement have been revised to incorporate the recent insights of Christian thinkers such as Andy Crouch, James Davison Hunter, Gabe...
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The author is current an adjunct professor in the United States, and has enjoyed years of teaching students from around the world. A number of students from Saudi Arabia in particular have passed through the author's courses. In conversations with both American and International students, it became clear that students need more information on colleges. Advertising is fine, but college is too expensive to select based on a radio or television advertisement....
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Higher education is in a state of crisis!
College budgets are becoming a challenge to balance. Expenses are continually increasing in an environment of declining enrollments, endowments, and government support. The stop-gap solution for decades was to increase tuition--this is no longer viable.
Students, parents, donors, and government agencies are scrutinizing the cost and return on investment of a college education. Colleges are under pressure...
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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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This book, edited by Kettering Foundation Vice President and Program Director John Dedrick along with Laura Grattan and Harris Dienstfrey, demonstrates how deliberation can help higher education renew its mission of preparing citizens to sustain democracy and stimulate civic involvement on college campuses around the country. It also describes how deliberative dialogue-in both the classroom and on campus-can promote learning and problem solving amidst...
11) The Insiders Guide to a Free Ride: Learn How You Too Can Win $500,000 of Scholarships for College
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Winning scholarships is not an art, it's a science. And this book is the science of how to win. More than 50 winners / staff members working at the nation's most acclaimed scholarship agencies have contributed to this book, (Gates Millennium, Horatio Alger, Coca-Cola Scholar, and many more). It provides a holistic review of what it takes to win BIG! A fun read with specific strategies organized by grade level.
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Do you want to get into the Naval 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 Naval Academy. This book gets right to the point and teaches you how to be more than just a file. Ace Your Naval Academy Interview includes an easy...
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There are many decisions you have to make during your life that have major impacts on your future. Buying your first new car, renting your first apartment all on you own, finding a soul-mate and getting married, buying your first house, applying for and accepting a new job, investing money to build a retirement fund all begin with big decisions that are usually based on reliable information, newly gained knowledge, and often help from an expert such...
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The Ancillary Army. Freeway Flyers. Roads Scholars. Turnpike Teachers. These are some of the nicknames given to part-time college teachers. They may teach one or two courses at a single institution, or, in some cases, they may teach multiple courses at multiple institutions. Often their office consists of the front seat of their car, and their desk is a cardboard box. Their lunch is whatever they can grab at McDonalds while zipping through traffic...
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Most community college leaders, administrators, faculty, and policymakers take pride in knowing that community colleges are the only postsecondary institutions that promise to educate and prepare all interested Americans. Yet, they are often publicly criticized by politicians, tax payers, and fellow educators. In America's Broken Promise, Dr. Eduardo Marti shows how community colleges have multiple, difficult, and often competing missions, particularly...
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In The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Patricia Owen-Smith considers how contemplative practices may find a place in higher education. By creating a bridge between contemplative practices and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Owen-Smith brings awareness of contemplative pedagogy to a larger audience of college instructors, while also offering classroom models and outlining the ongoing challenges of both...
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Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory is about choosing what you want to be, when you grow up, and finding out you still have to wait tables on the weekends. The book follows one year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character, and Billy Graham Crusader.
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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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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...
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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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