Higher education, tertiary education

Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer.

Editors Marta Deyrup and Beth Bloom have brought together well-known educators from the fields of library science, communication, composition, and education to show you how to develop successful strategies for teaching undergraduates how to conduct basic research and write papers.

This book offers a fresh perspective on understanding university library work with international users in North America.

This collection of collaborative, high-impact learning experiences in information literacy teaches librarians how to engage students in hands-on, experiential learning.

The associate university librarian is tasked with running the various services and workflows of academic research libraries, allowing the head university librarian to focus on the acquisition of resources through fundraising and external public relations.

Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers.

Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill.

In 1951, the American Library Association (ALA) Council approved new standards for accrediting library education programs.

Liberal education aspires to excellence through the cultivation of free human beings who excel in thought, word, and deed.

The growing emphasis on globalization in the context of higher education has resulted in changes in academic curricula, increasing numbers of global partnerships, and in more concentrated efforts to recruit international students at North American universities.

Academic Culture introduces students to the demands of university study in a clear and accessible way, and helps them understand what is expected of them.

This second edition of the critically acclaimed core textbook provides students from technology and science based backgrounds with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses for profit or social ends.

A revolution has been taking place in the ranks of higher education.

Community colleges serve as a critical gateway to English-language instruction, higher education, workforce training, and civic engagement for many immigrants and refugees looking to gain an economic foothold in the labor market and integrate into the social fabric of their communities.

Black Administrators in Higher Education: Autoethnographic Explorations and Personal Narratives presents to the reader a group of administrators from predominantly white and historically black institutions from both four-year and two-year institutions.

The scope of this research focuses on a sample of undergraduate university students who attended the Westchester campuses of Pace University in New York to determine the relative significance of ethnicity in the educational and professional options perceived by Italian-American vs.

Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice identifies core knowledge and skills that educational leaders should be exposed to during pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development.

High School to College Transition Research Studies offers two uniquely designed sections that provide a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research findings surrounding a diverse group of college students.

Based on the authors' experiences in academe over seventy-five years, The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations discusses a number of issues that confront America's higher education scene today.

Internationalization of higher education is a concept that is currently making its way to every corner of the globe.

Net-Generation Student Motivation to Attend Community College explores the factors that affect student retention rates in community college by presenting net-generation (or millennial) students with the opportunity to tell their stories and give insight into why they chose and completed their respective community college programs.

The purpose of this book is to help international students navigate the academic issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the United States.

Human Resource Management Study Games offers a variety of short games to help human resource practitioners and students study for human resource-related certifications and learn new aspects of human resource management.

In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M.

What is it to be truly human at work?

Edited collection featuring essays from exceptional National Teaching Fellows.

A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories and inspiration from the women who have most influenced his creative path and explores the ways we can pursue success by implementing their wisdom in all aspects of our lives.

Equality, Inequalities and Diversity offers an authoritative critical analysis of equality, inequality and diversity in organizations.

Professional ethics require continuous self-improvement of professors, through writing, reading, and learning: no less than for students.

Creative Labour provides an insight into the unique employment issues affecting workers in film, television, theatre, arts, music, radio and new media.

This is a story of a music-training program at one among many American institutions of higher learning.

Awareness in Action is a user-friendly text/workbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing mental health degrees (e.

Fritz Marti (1894-1991) came from Switzerland, where he had completed his doctorate in philosophy, to The University of Oregon, Eugene, in 1923.

This book is a collection of essays that reflect the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in more meaningful and relevant ways for literacy.

This text will demystify interprofessional education, showing readers how theory can be turned into practice.

The community and technical college mission requires offering relevant Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.

Within These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that impact higher education, federal and state government entities, and other stakeholders.

Spirituality Research Studies in Higher Education offers two uniquely designed sections that showcase a group of talented scholars from major research institutions.

The purpose of this book is to describe critical success factors impacting students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at historically Black colleges and universities.

Liberal education aspires to excellence through the cultivation of free human beings who excel in thought, word, and deed.

Embarking on a journey to become a counselor does more than prepare a person for a new and rewarding career.

Passing the Torch describes the remarkable achievements of public university students from marginalized populations who transcend oppression and poverty to become powerful leaders for social justice.

College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American, and first-generation college students.

Universities in Decline examines the declining role of universities in policy generation and analyzes the increasing political influence of Washington-based institutions.

In The Best Dang Job in the World, Bill Rezak creates a fictional campus to highlight characteristics, attributes, and behaviors which are key to success in leading an institution of higher learning.

Why do new teachers change schools or leave the profession?

This groundbreaking book edited by Terence Hicks, a quantitative research professor, and Abul Pitre, a qualitative research professor, builds upon the usefulness of each research method and integrates them by providing valuable findings on a diverse group of college students.

Conversation Classrooms: A Profound Shift from Delivery of Information to Partnership invites teachers to let go of dispensing knowledge and information to be given back on quizzes and tests.

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.