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Book SynopsisTeresa Perkins, EdD, has served at every level of education for over 30 years with a mission rooted in creating and sustaining equity-centered communities of hope and belonging. A former English teacher and middle school administrator, she transitioned to higher education in 2019 at Doane University as department chair, master of education leadership director, and assistant professor. She is currently serving as an assistant professor in educational Leadership at the University of Nebraska- Omaha.

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Book SynopsisAlthough access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, third edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue by examining a number of areas critical to the retention of students, including the history, the theories and concepts, models, and a standardized definition of the term. Seidman and his contributors also lay out the financial implications and trends of retention. Current theories of retention, retention of online students, and retention in community colleges are also thoroughly discussed. Completely new to this edition are chapters that examine retention of minority and international students. Tying all of these components together, Seidman then presents his formula and highly successful model for student success that colleges can implement to effect change in retaining stud

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Book SynopsisJohn Mauk began professional life as a liaison between university initiatives and school curricula. As a graduate student in rhetoric and composition, he worked closely with public school teachers and their students. Later, with a PhD, he taught writing and rhetorical theory at three different colleges. He was twice elected professor of the year and received numerous commendations for teaching excellence and student support. He also served as co-director of a National Writing Project site and as the coordinating advisor for Professional Writing majors at Miami University. Mauk also wrote three successful college textbooks: The Composition of Everyday Life (Cengage Learning), Inventing Arguments (Cengage Learning), and Culture: A Reader (Oxford University Press). His pedagogical approach became known for its practical application across curricula and institutions. In recent years, Mauk took up literary writing, publishing stories, essays, and articles about multi-genre writing. He now teaches for adult continuing education programs.

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Book SynopsisDavid E. Johnson, Ed.D., is a career-long, certificated educator who has served as building and district administrators providing leadership, supervision, and coordination to school safety programs. He is also a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran where he directed the Emergency Management Program and the Defense Support of Civil Authorities program.Shaun Hurtado has 19 years of experience in education as a teacher, coach, administrator, consultant and presenter. He has worked in urban, rural and suburban communities with TK-12 experience. He has presented at local, regional and state conferences and provided consulting services to school districts within California. He enjoys facilitating leadership and coaching development sessions on positive school culture, cultivating leadership skills and roles while addressing student mental health, and incorporating restorative practices. He is passionate about his role as an instructional and transformational leader. He desires to have a lasting positive impact in communities by educating youth and developing a positive transformational school culture that creates an environment for cultivating strong leaders.Glenn Norling is a retired FBI Special Agent and former U.S. Air Force officer. In addition to his consulting business, he serves as the Executive Director for the Active Shooter Prevention Project. Norling has trained over 25,000 people in active shooter awareness and preparation since 2014. He has extensive experience in national- level training exercises, as well as local critical incident and special event planning, training, preparation, and response. He is a court-designated expert witness for school emergency drills and has written numerous articles for multiple law enforcement publications.Pamela VanHorn, PhD, has served in leadership, consulting, and educator roles for the University of Cincinnati, University of Dayton, Ohio Department of Education, Ashland University, Xavier University and in urban and suburban school districts. Her experience and expertise include leading systemic-wide school improvement efforts in districts. She has published in peer reviewed journals and contributed a chapter to Inclusive Education: a Systemic Perspective. 2020.Chief Jeffrey Yarbrough, a 28-year police veteran and school safety expert, led two Texas ISD police departments, one with over 51,000 students. He established a nationally recognized model for innovative school safety. Yarbrough authored Redefining School Safety and Policing: A Transformative Four Pillar Model, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

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Book SynopsisArmand Pires, PhD, has served as Superintendent of Schools in Medway, Massachusetts since 2015. Prior to this role he served as assistant superintendent, director of curriculum, principal and assistant principal at the middle and high school level, as well as a teacher at the middle and high school level. Armand was also recognized as the 2025 Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year.Ryan Sherman, DBH, has been the director of wellness for a Massachusetts school district since 2016, bridging school and mental health services. He previously worked as a behavioral health provider at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a senior professor in social and emotional learning at Bay Path University . Dr. Sherman has received multiple awards, including the MIAA Wellness Coordinator of the Year. For more, visit www.SELTier4.com.

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Trade Review“The only way to begin any new endeavor is with a sense of excitement about life. In connection to that, Anthony Kronman has a bracing book on American higher education, its purposes and problems. Mr. Kronman, a professor and former dean at Yale Law School, observes the academy in which he's spent his career and doesn't like everything he sees. He is generally progressive yet opposes the leveling produced by the steamroller of prevalent political, cultural and educational attitudes. It is a rich book, densely argued. I want to call it a cry of the heart, but it's more like a cry of the brain, a calm and erudite one.” — Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal“Today’s students are not chafing under some bow-tied patriarchal WASP dispensation. Instead, they are the beneficiaries of a system put in place by professors and administrators whose political views are almost uniformly left-wing and whose campus policies indulge nearly every progressive orthodoxy. So why all the rage? The answer lies in the title of Anthony Kronman’s necessary, humane and brave new book: The Assault on American Excellence.” — Bret Stephens, The New York Times“What would happen if the academy lost its reverence for excellence and instead took on the virtues and methods of argumentation found in political life? Universities would lose their souls, as Anthony Kronman shows in this brilliant book. He weaves together legal and intellectual history, a humane concern for students, and a love of the life of the mind to diagnose the core confusion undermining the confidence and coherence of the academy. The book is beautifully written, it is erudite yet accessible, and it is essential for any discussion of the future of higher education—or of liberal democracy.” — Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business and New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind “As a new generation of college students gets ready to return to campus, I’m reminded of the late Allan Bloom, the University of Chicago professor… No one had any reason to expect his 1987 book with the stuffy title The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students to be a bestseller. But it was… Now decades after Bloom, a new book by Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School, in some ways picks up where Bloom left off. But Kronman’s book is enlivened by the new era of Black Lives Matter, antifa and a new campus culture that too often values ‘feelings’ and ‘safety’ over the fundamental values of free speech and rational arguments.” — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune“Brilliant and exceedingly provocative. This book is bound to infuriate many, but it’s the wakeup call this country needs for an urgent conversation about the role of colleges and universities in a rapidly changing America. You may not agree with this book, but it will open your mind.” — Amy Chua, Yale Law professor and New York Times bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations“Kronman… is flamboyantly undiplomatic. The Assault on American Excellence may well be the most full-throated attack on the academic embrace of diversity produced by a prominent, if former, senior university official in the entire half-century history of affirmative action in higher education.” — Nicholas Lemann, The New York Times“What is college for? The answers that colleges themselves give are almost exclusively utilitarian: A college education prepares you to succeed in the global marketplace, trains you to ‘think critically,’ and so on. Anthony Kronman proposes a very different answer. The true purpose of an undergraduate education, he argues in The Assault on American Excellence... is to induct students into an ‘aristocracy’ of soul and mind.” — Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal“Last month, a Pew Research Center poll found that only half of Americans believe our colleges have a positive impact on the nation… Some of our most esteemed institutions are starting to feel the blowback… But there's been little obvious soul-searching among academics, until now. Anthony Kronman is an academic insider par excellence: a former dean of Yale Law School, a professor there for four decades and a self-proclaimed progressive who cut his political teeth as a student radical in the 1960s...In his new book, The Assault on American Excellence... Kronman tries to coax academia back from the precipice. Rooting his argument in 2,500 years of philosophical tradition, he wants to convince his colleagues that they must turn away from politics and reclaim their role as protectors of independent thought and the free search for truth.” — Mary Kay Linge, The New York Post“Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School, is fighting for aristocracy—and not the kind made up of gouty men in brocade and powdered wigs, or Wall Street executive in bespoke suits. He believes in the ‘rule of the best’ as America’s top universities have long defined it: an unabashed elitism that elevates ‘character, wisdom, and excellence’ over the pursuit of wealth and power… [H]is discussion of free speech is an essential guide for all who work in higher education today. A seminar discussion is not a debate, not a therapy session, but 'a joint enterprise' in which students and teachers seek truth by collaborating 'in the production of something whose authorship they share’… At its best, this ‘conversational ideal’ is the democratic gateway to Kronman's aristocracy of excellence.” — Molly Worthen, Yale Alumni Magazine“An extraordinary book that is sure to launch many impassioned conversations. Kronman brings erudition, eloquence, and candor to bear on the most controversial subjects roiling our campuses. He unflinchingly defends elitism in academia, maintaining that doing so is essential not only to the maintenance of scholarly standards, but to the strengthening of democratic values. His arguments are brilliant, arresting, memorable. Although I do not agree with all that he wrote, I gained instruction on nearly every page.” — Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School professor and author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law"Invoking Arendt, Orwell, de Tocqueville, and others, Kronman delivers a coherent, provocative case for a return to traditional academic values” — Kirkus Reviews

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