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A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.
Higher education always seems to be in crisis. Governments, foundations, professional associations, and the occasional scornful professor all tend to lament one or another problem plaguing America's colleges and universities. The more apocalyptic claims state that the United States is a "nation at risk," that our...
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Atendiendo a las consecuencias históricas y a la realidad social de posacuerdo en Colombia, se consideran en este trabajo postulados teleológicos, para la universidad soportados en la obra del filósofo colombiano Estanislao Zuleta y sus aportes teóricos sobre tres conceptos nucleares: el conflicto, la diferencia y el diálogo. Así, se vincula a la universidad en la búsqueda y promoción del respeto, como valor ético mínimo de consenso y garantía...
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This is a beginning book on statistics and research. It could be used by undergraduate students and graduate students alike. The book covers several methods of research including correlational and experimental methods. Rudiments of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics are also presented.
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Learn all about life at Chicago Booth. This in-depth guide to the University of Chicago MBA program includes comprehensive information about the school's flexible core curriculum, recruiting success and student clubs, innovative new facilities, additional campuses and International MBA program. The Clear Admit School Guides go beyond each school's marketing message to give you the hard facts about a program, and then put these school-specific details...
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Caribbean Quality Culture takes the Caribbean higher education community and its stakeholders beyond quality assurance of higher education to delve into an exploration and assessment of the application of continuous quality improvement principles and strategies that are essential elements of a mature and effective quality management system in higher education institutions.
The principles and strategies that can actually result in continuous quality...
26) Conflicto y reconciliación: El litigio de Perú contra Chile en la Corte de La Haya (2008 - 2014)
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El litigio por los límites marítimos del Perú y Chile en la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) ha sido también una oportunidad de iniciar el camino hacia la reconciliación de dos países hermanos, pero históricamente enfrentados. A poco tiempo después del fallo de La Haya, aún está por verse si realmente esta experiencia ha servido para sanar heridas y pasar la página.
En esta obra, el historiador peruano Daniel Parodi Revoredo comparte...
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How is your institution enabling Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students to thrive? Is your institution effectively tackling racism? Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, the higher education sector has started making bold commitments to dismantling structural racism. However, big questions remain about how higher education can combat institutional racism and achieve real change. This book disrupts the higher education sector...
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Price divergence is readily apparent to anyone who shops. Travelers from Manchester to London, or from Chicago to Paris, are hit by sticker shock. Products ranging from London Fog raincoats to Viagra are available over the Internet at half their retail store prices. Common experience tells us that prices for identical products differ between countries, between cities, even between neighboring shops. On the other hand, common experience also tells...
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Despite the widely differing perspectives held by those who work in higher education, there is one goal upon which all educators and educational leaders agree: students should leave college stronger than they came. Now more than ever, today's students come to college with unique intellectual, emotional, relational, and spiritual challenges. They need more than appropriate curricula, programs, facilities, and resources. Educating college students well...
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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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The book 'Attitude towards Science of Secondary School Students ' written by Dr. Savita Mishra is an effort to explain the importance of inculcating right kind of attitude amongst the students for achieving coveted success in their studies. This piece of work is the result of psychological scanning of behavioral aspects of cross sections of students' vis a-vis their achievement in studies. The book is expected to help all those concerned with their...
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Princess must choose between a lifestyle of luxury (boring!) and cleaning up a mountainous mess. The only question is: will her parents let her have her way? This ecological fairy tale involves an unplanned pony ride up steep and stinky Trash Mountain, and the simple steps back to an entirely different future. Set on a vast and beautiful prairie, the story follows royal farming folk (the Hays) on their journey as they take neighborly advice and transition...
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Offers valuable insights into the governance process in higher education.
Shared Governance in Higher Education Set (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)
Building on the resources offered in the first volume of this series, this second volume offers governance members, leaders, and other academics valuable insights into the governance process in higher education. In a chapter drawn from his keynote address at the March 2015 SUNY Voices conference, Steven Bahls,...
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Learn everything you need to know to get in to law school. This re-written and completely updated version of the bestselling law school admission guide (first published in 2009) provides detailed information on how to present yourself in the law school application process. Ann Levine brings more than a decade of experience in law school admissions (as director of admissions for law schools and as a law school admission consultant) to provide advice...
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The history of Randolph-Macon Woman's College has a claim upon the attention of all who are interested in the education and achievement of women. Its course through the years is set forth in the present volume, in which the author has dealt with the pattern of life developed in the cultivation of the liberal arts.Originally published in 1951.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available...
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A simple, clear introduction to higher education from a Christian perspective for the adult student. More and more adults are seeking to develop themselves and improve their professional opportunities by completing a college degree. Whether business professionals, salespersons, nurses, parents, or persons engaged in any other profession, many working adults recognize the value of furthering their education. And more and more universities are providing...
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'Física Mecánica. Nivelación para estudiantes universitarios' es un libro que presenta los conocimientos de física de forma muy sencilla y los relaciona con situaciones reales y cotidianas para los estudiantes.
Esta obra fue escrita inicialmente para enseñar la física en un nivel introductorio a los estudiantes de carreras como ingeniería y arquitectura. Sin embargo, su lenguaje y metodología facilitan su uso a nivel de educación secundaria...
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Long an afterthought of the American higher education ecosystem, multi-campus systems have become more important than ever. In recent years, leading higher education systems have engaged in transforming the way they work, scaling best practices, leveraging data and analytics, and creating platforms to optimize and personalize these systems for increasingly diverse students. In Higher Education Systems Redesigned, leaders of these efforts share their...
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El repensamiento, tal como lo entendemos en la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, consiste en contemplar nuestras asignaturas con una mirada distinta, que brota de la razón ampliada, busca la unidad del saber, tiene su base en las preguntas fundamentales (antropológica, epistemológica, ética y de sentido) y requiere de la puesta en juego del profesor. Se trata de abrir cada disciplina a la realidad de un modo plenamente humano....
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Explores the impact of shared governance in times of campus and system transition. Shared Governance in Higher Education Set (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)
Shared governance impacts every member of the campus community, including faculty, staff, students, and administrators. Contributors to this volume-presenters at multiple SUNY Voices conferences on Shared Governance-explore how campus members can effectively improve the dialogue about critical issues and...
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