Authors:LASTKezar, Rozana Carducci, Melissa Contreras-McGavi
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: education, higher, ashe, report, aehe, series, research, word, revolution, rethinking, leadership
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-05-19
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0787986771
ISBN-13: 9780787986773
In these times of change and challenge in higher education, pleas for leadership have become frequent. However, the type of leadership required within this new context (of globalization, demographic changes, technological advancement, and questioning of social authority) may call for different skills, requiring a re-education among campus stakeholders if they want to be successful leaders. In the past twenty years, there has been a revolution in the way that leadership is conceptualized across most fields and disciplines. Leadership has moved away from being leader-centered, individuali
Authors:Vasti Torres, Mary F. Howard-Hamilton, Diane L. Co
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: higher, education, ashe, report, aehe, series, eric, administration, diverse, development, populations, implications, teaching, identity
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-08-19
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0787963518
ISBN-13: 9780787963514
This monograph is focused on educating faculty and administrators about the developmental issues faced by students from different racial, ethnic, or other social groupings as they attempt to define themselves during the college years and the ways this information can enhance campus classrooms, programs, and policies. Although there is a growing body of work on how various racial, ethnic, gender and other social groups develop their identity, there has been limited synthesis or application of this literature to the practice of professionals in higher education. The authors have higher education
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: higher, education, foundations, america, learning
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1560008083
ISBN-13: 9781560008088
Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins’ classic is once again available, with a brilliant personal and professional appreciation by Harry S. Ashmore. When it was published in 1936 The Higher Learning in America brought into focus the root causes of the controversies that still beset the nation’s educational system. Hutchins began tenure as a university president by declaring that the learning available in even the most prestigious universities was grossly defi cient. The curricular reforms and administrative reorganizatio
Author: Mike Tooley BA; Advanced Technological and Higher
Publisher: Newnes
Keywords: second, engineering, national, higher
Number of Pages: 664
Published: 2004-11-23
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0750661771
ISBN-13: 9780750661775
Higher National Engineering 2nd Edition is a new edition of this extremely successful course book, covering the compulsory core units of the 2003 BTEC Higher National Engineering schemes. Full coverage is given of the common core units for HNC/D (units 1 - 3) for all pathways, as well as the two different Engineering Principles units (unit 5) for mechanical and electrical/electronic engineering, and the additional unit required at HND for these pathways (Engineering Design - unit 6).Students following the HNC and HND courses will find this book essential reading, as it covers the core material
Author: Geisler Paul R.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: higher, crossroads, education
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2006-09-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0820479144
ISBN-13: 9780820479149
The central argument of this book posits that today’s American university is dysfunctional or, perhaps, "Dysacademic." This affective disorder is traced to the increasingly corporate and performative utilities of many contemporary institutions of higher education. Today’s commodified and closed university doesn’t transform the self as it once did, when the pedagogy of Bildung emphasized the development of character and culture by teaching "the rules of thought." Rather, the dysfunctional American university controls, constricts, and normalizes its subjects according to hyper-structured,
Author: Tom Leinster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: higher, lecture, series, society, london, operads, categories, mathematical
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-08-09
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521532159
ISBN-13: 9780521532150
Category theory has experienced a resurgence in popularity recently because of new links with topology and mathematical physics. This book provides a clearly written account of higher order category theory and presents operads and multicategories as a natural language for its study. Tom Leinster has included necessary background material and applications as well as appendices containing some of the more technical proofs that might have disrupted the flow of the text.
Author: Walter W. McMahon
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: higher, benefits, education, social, private, learning, greater
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801890535
ISBN-13: 9780801890536
A college education has long been acknowledged as essential for both personal success and economic growth. But the measurable value of its nonmonetary benefits has until now been poorly understood. Walter W. McMahon, a leading education economist, carefully describes these benefits and suggests that higher education accrues significant social and private benefits. McMahon’s research uncovers a major skill deficit in the United States and other OECD countries owing to technical change and globalization. Yet a college degree brings better job opportunities, higher earnings, and even improv
