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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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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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Offers practical advice for achieving shared governance in higher education.
Shared Governance in Higher Education Set (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)
For those seeking a way to change opinions of shared governance from pointless and unlikely to possible and intriguing, Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1 will trigger meaningful conversations by offering valuable new perspectives. Experienced governance members, the contributors provide practical...
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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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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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The College Affordability Academy: A Blueprint for Counseling Families is for anyone involved in the college recruitment and enrollment process. The book provides information that high school and college administrators can use to advise prospective and current students and their families with unbiased information about enrolling in and paying for college. The book may be used as a stand-alone volume or to accompany the College Affordability Academy...
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Immerse yourself in everything that Wharton has to offer! Get the details on the program's hundreds of electives, recruiting success and abundance of professional clubs. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides, with their reliable, centralized information, to be a valuable and time-saving...
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The definitive guide to the Columbia Business School MBA program. Presents details of the school's core curriculum, domestic and international exchange opportunities, on-campus recruiting process, popular professors and access to business leaders in NYC. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School...
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Desde hace mucho tiempo se viene hablando de la centralidad del libro de texto en el curriculo y de sus carencias, debilidades y exigencias. Poco, sin mebargo, se ha hecho en el contexto colombiano para abordar estas falencias desde la perspectiva de una teoría de lenguaje. Como respuesta a esta carencia, e colectivo Urdimbre, adscrito al Grupo de Investigación Lenguaje y Educación de la Universidad del Norte, presenta esta obra que busca concientizar...
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Put yourself in Palo Alto with this in-depth guide to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Learn about the school's new curriculum, ties with the Silicon Valley, entrepreneurial focus, special programs, student clubs and strong alumni network. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides,...
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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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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...
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La brecha entre la educación superior y el empleo puede haber existido desde hace mucho tiempo en el Perú, pues las universidades y los institutos no siempre se conectan con las empresas y organizaciones para captar sus demandas de personal y adecuar sus contenidos formativos. Sin embargo, a pesar del auge reciente experimentado en la oferta de educación superior como respuesta a la creciente demanda, la brecha persiste y hasta parece haberse ampliado....
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In recent years American colleges and universities have become the locus of impassioned debates about race-conscious social policies, as conflicting theories clash over the ways to distribute the advantages of higher education in a fair and just manner. Just below the surface of these policy debates lies a complex tangle of ideologies, histories, grievances, and emotions that interfere with a rational analysis of the issues involved. As never before,...
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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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Learn about one of the most student-driven b-schools in the top tier. This comprehensive guide to the Kellogg MBA program provides in-depth information on the school's academic offerings and special degree programs, leading professors, career placement record (in the Midwest and beyond), and pioneering emphasis on teamwork. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding...
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Competition only gets stiffer. Regardless of university or scholarship application, odds are always stacked against candidates, unless they are sufficiently prepared. To be sufficiently prepared, you need to know what your assessors are looking out for. What makes you stand out from the crowd? On 1 January 2014, more than two million Common Application forms were submitted in total for US university applications. Yes, two million. So there are about...
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Dissonant Methods is an innovative collection that probes how, by approaching teaching creatively, postsecondary instructors can resist the constrictions of neoliberalism. Based on the foundations of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, whereby educators are asked to explore teaching as scholarship, these essays offer concrete and practical meditations on resistant and sustainable teaching. The contributors seek to undermine forms of oppression frequently...
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This collection is a unique exploration of the quality assurance landscape in higher education in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It celebrates the "coming of age" of the quality assurance movement in the region by tracing the main currents of development in internal and external quality assurance. Pulling together articles by respected academics, practitioners and thought leaders from within higher education and industry, the collection explores fundamental...
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The comprehensive history of the State University of New York system.
This is a fascinating history of the State University of New York, America's largest comprehensive university system. As such, it incorporates community colleges, colleges of technology, university colleges, research universities, medical schools, health science centers, and includes specialized campuses in fields as diverse as optometry, ceramics, horticulture, fashion, forestry,...
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