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God and Man at Yale
by William F. Buckley  Synopsis In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F....
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Protect Yourself at College: Smart Choices--Safe Results
by Thomas Kane Publisher Comments After the horrific Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007, all of us are now aware of the majordisasters that can strike our students at college. But each year more than 500,000 collegestudents become victims of crimes and accidents that rarely get...
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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research #23: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research: Volume 23
by John C. (edt) Smart Synopsis Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a...
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Jb-Carnegie Foundation for the Adavancement of Teaching #14: A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice
by William M. Sullivan Publisher Comments A Life of the Mind for Practice proposes a new model of undergraduate teaching, focused on the interdependence of liberal education and professional training. This book shows how both liberal arts educators and educators of professionals can provide...
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History Lesson: A Race Odyssey
by Mary Lefkowitz Publisher Comments In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade...
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Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments In Can We Talk About Race? psychologist and educator Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of our leading commentators on race and schools, analyzes some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. A provocative and important book...
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Jb - Anker #130: Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women: Success and Sacrifice
by Maike Ingrid Philipsen Publisher Comments Based on interviews with female faculty members at various stages in their careers, this compelling resource examines how women faculty members juggle the extraordinary demands of their personal lives with the pressures of their academic careers...
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What the Best College Teachers Do (04 Edition)
by Ken Bain Publisher Comments What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable...
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Conquering the Content: A Step-By-Step Guide to Online Course Design
by Robin M. Smith Synopsis "Conquering the Content is a practical resource for faculty who tackle overwhelming amounts of course content that must be tailored for Web-based learning. This important guide offers step-by-step instructions for creating online learning experiences...
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Mckeachie's Teaching Tips
by Wilbert J. Mckeachie Publisher Comments McKeachie's Teaching Tips is a handbook designed to provide helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday problems of teaching at the university level, and those that pop up in trying to maximize learning for every student. The suggested...
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Degree Mills: The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas
by Allen Ezell Publisher Comments Do you know where your doctor, lawyer, or clergyman earned his or her degree? In 1986, a congressional committee report concluded that "more than 500,000 working Americans have a fraudulent degree." Since then things have gotten much, much worse. Fueled...
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On Course
by Skip Downing Publisher Comments The concise length, tight focus, and emphasis on self-development are keys to this text's appeal. Written in a positive, motivational style, On Course empowers students with tools they need to take charge of their success in college and life...
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for College Students
by Marcy Levy Shankman Publisher Comments This is the first book for students that combines the concepts of emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership into one model of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership (EIL). The EIL model is defined as consciousness of context, consciousness of self, and...
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
by Jerome Karabel Publisher Comments The competition for a spot in the Ivy League—long considered the ticket to success—is fierce and getting fiercer. But ever since the 1920s, when bitter anti-Semitism caused elite universities to limit the number of Jews, admissions policies...
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Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize
by Joie Jager Hyman Publisher Comments A former Ivy League admissions officer, Joie Jager-Hyman follows five bright and eager high schoolers—students from diverse ethnic, social, and financial backgrounds—as they each put their best foot forward on the road they hope will lead...
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How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
by Marc Bousquet Publisher Comments Marc Bousquet's How the University Works should be required reading for anyone with an interest in the future of higher education, including administrators, faculty members, graduate students, and--even more significantly--undergraduates and their...
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Tutor's Guide (2ND 05 Edition)
by Ben Rafoth Publisher Comments Well-informed by contemporary theory, the essays in this collection touch on important but often neglected aspects of writing-center tutoring, from dealing with emotionally charged topics, to engaging diffident writers, to working with students on thorny...
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Literate Economist : a Brief History of Economics (01 Edition)
by E. Ray Canterbery Book News Annotation In this introductory economics textbook, Canterbery (former president of the Eastern Economic Association and the International Trade and Finance Association) takes a non-standard approach to the material that rests on his belief that "mathematics...
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The Oregon Experiment
by Christopher Alexander Publisher Comments After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture,...
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Been There, Should've Done That: 995 Tips for Making the Most of College
by Suzette Tyler Synopsis Since 2nd edition of Been There, Should've Done That, technology has become interwoven into the everyday academic and social interactions of students and faculty across America. This update reflects how the strategies and opportunities for success have...
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