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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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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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The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything-and nervous "fuzzy major" students, their even more nervous parents, college career center professionals, and prospective employers would do well to embrace liberal...
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Staying the Course is about a college that many describe as being the way colleges used to be: beautiful, well-maintained buildings and grounds; caring, capable faculty; administrators who manage frugally and compassionately; a bright, energetic president willing to dedicate his life to assuring a solid future for the institution; and students who study hard and work hard to serve those in need. Still the college struggles to maintain what it has...
65) 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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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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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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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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Interest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this growing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of faculty conversations across disciplines remains murky. Through six case studies of interdisciplinary seminars for faculty, Interdisciplinary Conversations investigates pivotal interdisciplinary conversations and analyzes the factors that...
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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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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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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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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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Under the Banyan Tree is a memoir of an orphan boy who struggled as a child in Palestine, to survive under extreme poverty, to become a highly educated and respected member of society. Abdallah, the youngest of four children, lost his parents before he attained the age of two. After the death of their parents, a squabble erupted among family member as to who will gain custody of the orphans. A distant relative of their father's, uncle Mohamad, was...
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"Winner of the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Sociology and Anthropology, Association of American Publishers" Henry N. Drewry is Senior Advisor to the Mellon Foundation, where he was a program officer from 1988 to 1997. He served on the Board of Trustees of Talladega College, and has taught at both the college and high-school level. He was Director of the Teacher Preparation Program and Lecturer in History at Princeton University....
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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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The Ancillary Army. Freeway Flyers. Roads Scholars. Turnpike Teachers. These are some of the nicknames given to part-time college teachers. They may teach one or two courses at a single institution, or, in some cases, they may teach multiple courses at multiple institutions. Often their office consists of the front seat of their car, and their desk is a cardboard box. Their lunch is whatever they can grab at McDonalds while zipping through traffic...
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Do you want to get into the Naval Academy? Then you need to ace your interview! The interview is one of the BEST ways to stand out during the Admissions process. Written by a former Service Academy Admissions Officer, this book is a MUST HAVE guide on interviewing if you want to attend the United States Naval Academy. This book gets right to the point and teaches you how to be more than just a file. Ace Your Naval Academy Interview includes an easy...
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There are many decisions you have to make during your life that have major impacts on your future. Buying your first new car, renting your first apartment all on you own, finding a soul-mate and getting married, buying your first house, applying for and accepting a new job, investing money to build a retirement fund all begin with big decisions that are usually based on reliable information, newly gained knowledge, and often help from an expert such...
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With the increasing integration of global economies and societies, the nation-state is no longer the sole force shaping and defining citizenship. New ideas of "global citizenship" are emerging, and universities, which are increasingly involved in international engagements, provide a unique opportunity to explore how fundamental understandings of modern citizenship are changing. Drawing on case studies of universities in China, the United States, Hungary,...
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