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2) To improve the academy: Vol. 19 :resources for faculty, instructional and organizational development
Publisher
Anker Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Stylus
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This book offers far more than an introduction to the principles of assessment of student learning outcomes in the context of program review. Within a clearly structured framework, it systematically shares the good practices of some forty institutions recognized by independent scholars for their improvements in teaching/learning, research, and service, to offer examples and ideas for others to learn from and adapt. While the book focuses on assessment...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"33 Simple Strategies is designed to offer university faculty simple and straightforward ways they can interact with students both during class time and during office hours that will help mediate some of first-year students' most stressful challenges. The suggested strategies require just 5-15 minutes a week. Every suggestion is rooted in first-year students' own voices, gathered during research at one four-year private and one four-year public institution....
5) Forrest Gump
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, Forrest Gump, a pleasant and obedient son with low intelligence, joins the army, returns from Vietnam famous for his heroics, and makes millions on a Louisiana shrimp boat while steadfastly loving a girl from his childhood.
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"The hugely popular New York Times Your Money columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college— a decision made even more confusing because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the...
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Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate options for entrepreneurialism and experiment with the internal (strategic, budgetary, organizational) changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders"--
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From researching to remixing, library users need your guidance on a wide range of copyright topics. The way to move beyond "yes, you can" or "no, you can't" is to become a copyright coach. In this collection, librarian and attorney Smith teams up with information literacy expert Ellis to offer a framework for coaching copyright, empowering users to take a practical approach to specific situations. Complete with in-depth case studies, this collection...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college...
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Publisher
University of Colorado Boulder
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The ICJMT Steering Committee proposes that CU Boulder make the best use of its rich array of existing assets to create a College of Media, Design and the Arts. In addition to recognizing the many benefits of this new configuration for the Boulder campus, the Steering Committee's recommendations respond to the needs and interests of a growing body of students who seek to master digital media and information and communication technology. The College...
Publisher
Stylus Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach to the transfer experience. The book brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration, and is supplemented by an online compendium for continual updates of...
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some contributors are new to the practice and some have been engaging in it for decades. Some are in humanities and social sciences, some in STEM fields. Some are in higher education, but some are the K-12 pioneers who led the way. Based on rigorous and replicated...
Publisher
Information Age Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As the general population of Latinxs in the United States burgeons, so does the population of college-going Latinx students. With more Latinxs entering college, the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), which are not-for-profit, degree granting postsecondary institutions that enroll at least 25% Latinxs, also grows, with 523 institutions now meeting the enrollment threshold to become HSIs. But as they increase in number, the question remains:...
18) Human terrain
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies.... The other story is about a brilliant young scholar who leaves the university to join a Human Terrain team. After working as a humanitarian activist and winning a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael Bhatia returned to Brown University to conduct...
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries, A division of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"As librarians, we often find ourselves outside the traditional structure of our education system. Time limits add another layer of complexity; how can we motivate students to learn when we only see them for an hour or two? Motivating Students on a Time Budget begins with a section of research-based, broad-level considerations of student motivation as it relates to short-term information literacy instruction, both in person and online. It then moves...
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Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Women Becoming Mathematicians looks at the lives and careers of thirty-six of the approximately two hundred women who earned Ph.D.'s in mathematics from American institutions from 1940 to 1959. During this period, American mathematical research enjoyed an unprecedented expansion, fueled by the technological successes of World War II and the postwar boom in federal funding for education in the sciences. Yet women's share of doctorates earned in mathematics...
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