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Since the publication of the first edition of Mastering the Techniques of Teaching in 1984, national interest in promoting effective college teaching has risen to an all-time high. While Joseph Lowman's revised second edition of this widely praised work retains the vision of exemplary teaching presented in the original, it has been completely updated to reflect the results of a wealth of additional research and practice. Lowman presents for the first...
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Today's faculty members, like other professionals, find themselves caught between the pursuit of individual gain and the common good. Society is increasingly demanding that faculty demonstrate social responsibility toward both the institution and the larger community. This book is a practical resource for fostering and assessing faculty achievements in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, practice, and citizenship. Larry A. Braskamp and...
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This book provides a unique perspective on the discussion of educational quality as reflected through outcomes assessment -- or the application of student outcomes and student-learning outcomes to ensure institutional effectiveness -- with its broad, cross-disciplinary approach. It focuses on assessing institutional quality and effectiveness, as well as responding to the increased demand for greater accountability at all levels of institutional activity....
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The Active Learning Continuum introduced in this volume is important given our concern that some faculty believe only complicated, group-oriented activities constitute genuine active learning. The continuum's framework underlines the importance of context in making decisions about teaching methods. Strong lecturers who make use of short, uncomplicated strategies to enhance students' understanding and interest are practicing active learning just as...
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"A college education can open the door to greater participation in the workplace and community. With Going to College, professionals who work in high schools and universities will discover how to make this crucial opportunity available to young people with a wide range of disabilities. Disability service coordinators, guidance counselors, administrators, general and special educators, families, and parent resource centers can use this important resource."--Jacket...
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This practical manual offers essential information and guidance for anyone involved with ADA issues in higher education settings. Fundamental principles and actual clinical and administrative procedures are outlined for evaluating, documenting, and accommodating a wide range of mental and physical impairments. Contributors draw upon extensive hands-on experience with managing ADA issues. Throughout, chapters provide helpful diagnostic roadmaps, sample...
15) Human resource management in today's academic library: meeting challenges and creating opportunities
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"This book examines the management of human resources within the contexts of organizational development and change, along with the differences and similarities in academic settings. It also examines those factors in the environment that are shaping the direction of academic libraries in the 21st century."--Jacket.
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"Our sources of information, and the practices we use to find it, are in a period of rapid flux. Libraries must respond by selecting, acquiring, and making accessible a host of new information resources, developing innovative services, and building different types of spaces to support changing user behaviors and patterns of learning. A Field Guide to the Information Commons describes an emerging library service model that embodies all three spheres...
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In this book, the author explains reasons behind the financial crisis in higher education in the twenty-first century and addresses the challenges that remain ignored, including rising birth-rates, changing demographics both on campus and across the country, the globalization of higher education and advanced research, and the necessity for greater inter-disciplinarity in undergraduate education. Moreover, while sensitive to the burdens placed on faculty...
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"Who owns academic work? This question is provoking political and legal battles, fought on uncertain terrain, for ever-higher stakes. The posting of faculty lecture notes on commercial websites is being hotly debated in multiple forums, even as faculty and university administrators square off in a battle for professorial copyright. In courtrooms throughout the country, universities find themselves embroiled in intricate and expensive patent litigation....
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"Substance use among college students can result in serious academic and safety problems and have long-term negative repercussions. This state-of-the-art volume draws on the latest research on students' alcohol and drug use to provide useful suggestions for how to address this critical issue on college campuses. Leading researchers from multiple disciplines examine the prevalence and nature of substance use by students; biological and neuropsychological...
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Native American students entering college often experience a dramatic confrontation of cultures. As one of the writers in this remarkable collective memoir remarks, "When I was a child, I was taught certain things: don't stand up to your elders; don't question authority; life is precious; the earth is precious; take it slowly; enjoy it. And then you go to college and you learn all these other things that never fit." Making things fit, finding that...
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