Funding of education and student finance Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Greenes' Guides have always been a source of great information and timely advice, and these new editions are no exception." -- Tina Segalla Grant, Director of College Counseling, Choate Rosemary Hall School

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsChapter 1. University Financial Management Chapter 2. Principles of Accounting Chapter 3. IncomeChapter 4. ExpensesChapter 5. Capital AssetsChapter 6. BudgetsChapter 7. Financial ReportsChapter 8. Grants and ContractsChapter 9. Indirect CostsChapter 10. Institutional Financial StrategiesIndex

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Book SynopsisNamed one of the best books of 2021 by NPRNew York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick“Masterly . . .represents an extraordinary achievement: It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous.”—Daniel Markovits, New York Times Book Review“Ron Lieber is a gift.”—Scott Galloway The hugely popular New York Times Your Money columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college—a decision made even more confusing because of the Covid-19 pandemic.Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple—over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and humor that infuse his personal finance column, Ron Lieber offers a much-needed roadmap to help families navigate this difficult and often confusing journey. Lieber begins by explaining who pays what and why and how the financial aid system got so complicated. He also pulls the curtain back on merit aid, an entirely new form of discounting that most colleges now use to compete with peers.While price is essential, value is paramount. So what is worth paying extra for, and how do you know when it exists in abundance at any particular school? Is a small college better than a big one? Who actually does the teaching? Given that every college claims to have reinvented its career center, who should we actually believe? He asks the tough questions of college presidents and financial aid gatekeepers that parents don’t know (or are afraid) to ask and summarizes the research about what matters and what doesn’t.Finally, Lieber calmly walks families through the process of setting financial goals, explaining the system to their children and figuring out the right ways to save, borrow, and bargain for a better deal. The Price You Pay for College gives parents the clarity they need to make informed choices and helps restore the joy and wonder the college experience is supposed to represent.

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Book SynopsisFocussing on the shortage in supply of science-trained students, this book addresses the question of how best to plan investment in science at secondary level in developing countries using insights from the studies conducted under a five-year research programme carried out by the International Institute for Educational Planning.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Science Education and Development. The State of Science Education in Different Countries. Main Issues in Planning Science Education. Cost Effective Approaches to Science Education: An Analysis of Issues. Information Base on Science Education. Conclusions and Recommendations for Planners and Decision-Makers. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisAbout our authors Deborah Verstegen, PhD is a professor of educational leadership, College of Education, University of Nevada, Reno. She served as Edwin J. O'Leary Endowed Chair of Financial Management, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and was a professor of finance and policy in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia for nearly 2 decades. Prior to joining the university community she was a teacher, administrator and legislative aide in state government. She has had teaching experience at all levels, from pre-school, elementary and secondary to community college and university. Her administrative experience in education is also broad. She has been a central office administrator for a K-12 school system in Alaska's Iditarod Area School District, Director of the Mid-management Program at the University of Texas at Austin, and Department Chair in Educational Leadership at UNR. She is author or co-author of over 300 books, articlesTable of ContentsTable of Contents The Economics of Education Education as Human Capital Creation of Wealth and Education Education: An Important Industry A Public-Sector Responsibility Economics and Social Progress Economic Benefits of Education Noneconomic Benefits of Education Cost-Quality Relationship in Education: Does Money Matter? The Need for Adequate Funds Adequacy and the Factors Impacting It Education Deserves High Priority The Public Wants Good Schools The Increasing Costs of Education Spending on Education and the Size of the Enterprise Impacts on the Cost of Providing an Adequate Education What is the Cost of an Adequate Education? A Failure to Provide Opportunity and Associated Costs Society Suffers the Effects of Poor Education Financing Education Equitably Inequalities in Financing Education Equity: An Objective of School Finance Reform Measures of School District Wealth Income Tax Historical Influences on Equity The Equalization Principal Improving State Equalization Practices Foundation Programs and Variations The Impact of Average Daily Attendance on Equity The Changing Climate and Current School Finance Practices Patterns for School Finance Systems Developing Patterns Determining the Best Finance Plan Full State Funding District Power Equalization Property Reassessment and Local District Revenues Emphasis on Weighting Factors Principal Types of Weights Sources of Revenue Education- Financed by Government The Taxation System Characteristics of a Good Tax System Taxes for Education Income Tax Sales Tax Property Tax Excise Tax Severance Tax Other Funding Sources Potential New Taxes Education: A State Function Early Development of State Responsibility Development of Decentralized Educational Systems Development of School Finance Policies Developmental Stages of School Finance The Varying State Programs State Ability to Support Education Eroding Local Control Changing Rural-Urban Influence on Education Basic School District Administrative Units The Administration of Local School Districts Advantages of Local Control Fiscal Independence of School Districts Trends in Local Taxation Practices Measures of Local Taxpaying Ability Local, State, and Federal Tax Responsibility Federal Interest in Education Federalism Historical Role of the Federal Government U.S. Department of Education Constitutional Role Block Grants, Categorical Aid, and General Aid Federal Expenditures Fiscal Advantages and Disadvantages Increased Government Service The Future of Federal Aid to Education The Influence and Climate of the Courts Three Waves of School Finance Litigation The First Wave of School Finance Litigation The Second Wave of School Finance Litigation The Third Wave of School Finance Litigation: A Shift from Equity to Adequacy? Second-Generation Adequacy Cases Impact of School Finance Litigation over Time Pressure for Reform Finance Reform or Tax Reduction? Court Decision Guidelines Public Funds and Nonpublic Schools History Educational Choice The Law and Church-State Relations Financing School Facilities The Need Early Capital-Outlay Programs Capital-Outlay Court Decisions State Support Equity in Financing Educational Facilities The Federal Government and Capital Outlays Capital-Outlay Finance Plans School Bonding Practices Other Alternatives Impact Fees Sales Taxes Future Policies for School Facilities Administering the District and School Budget Evolution of Budgetary Practices Development of a Systems Approach to Budgeting District and School Budgetary Approaches District-Level Budgetary Practices Administering the District Budget School/District Coordination Budgeting at the School Level Challenge of Leadership Accounting and Auditing The School Accounting System The Changing Accounting Environment Comprehensive Annual Financial Report Characteristics of Governmental (Fund) Accounting Encumbrance Accounting Cost Accounting Accrual Accounting Receiving and Depositing Funds Expending School Funds Auditing Protecting School Funds Business Aspects of the School Community Increased Safety Hazards The Business Office Supplies and Equipment Purchasing Supply Management Risk Management Transportation School Food Services Human Resources and School Finance The Expanded Role of Human Resources Administration Teacher Compensation Certification Pay-for-Performance— Merit Pay Additional Issues Teachers and School Finance The Changing Assignments of Teachers Administrative and Supervisory Salaries Noncertified Personnel Salaries Payroll Policies and Procedures Government Influence The Road Ahead in School Finance The Future of Public School Finance Unresolved Issues Some Characteristics of Educational Structure School Finance Goals The Challenge Some Characteristics of Educational Structure School Finance Goals The Challenge

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Book SynopsisAn illustrated, practical guide to navigating your financial life, no matter your financial situationa potent mix of deeply practical and wonderfully empathetic —Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial one of the most approachable financial books I''ve ever read. —Refinery 29We are all weird about money. Whether you have a lot or a little, your feelings and beliefs about money have been shaped by a combination of silence (or even shame) around talking about money, personal experiences, family and societal expectations, and a whole big complex system rigged against many of us from the start. Begin with that baseline premise and it’s no surprise so many of us find it so difficult to save enough money (but way too easy to get trapped in ballooning credit card debt), emotionally draining to deal with student loans, and nearly impossible to understand the esoteric world of investing.

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Book SynopsisThere is a profound linkage between the quality of a university and its financial resources. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge rank among the world''s finest educational institutions, and are able to draw on invested assets that are large by any standards. Endowment Asset Management explores how the colleges that comprise these two great universities make their investment decisions.Oxford and Cambridge are collegiate institutions, each consisting of a federal university and over 30 constituent colleges. While the colleges may have ostensibly similar missions, they are governed independently. Since they interpret their investment objectives differently, this gives rise to some remarkably dissimilar approaches to investment, which the authors explore in detail.The first study of its kind, Endowment Asset Management analyses the objectives, investment philosophy, asset management and governance of over 60 college and university endowment funds. Drawing on exhaustive research and detailed discussions with Oxford and Cambridge investment bursars, the authors investigate issues such as asset allocation and spending policy, which have a major influence on the institutions'' financial health. This study reveals the colleges'' individualism and diversity, and carefully analyses their strategies, which range from the traditional to cutting edge.The authors'' findings are thought provoking for anyone concerned with the assets of foundations, endowments, charities, family offices, or trusts. All investors with a long-term investment horizon will find it extremely engaging.Trade ReviewAll in all, Archarya & Dimson are to be hugely praised for producing a really useful and solid book, full of thought-provoking and stimulating material * David Palfreyman, Oxford Magazine *A thought provoking read. * Wealth Management *Table of Contents1. Endowment Definition ; 2. The Investment Committee ; 3. Investment Objective ; 4. Spending Policy ; 5. Asset Allocation ; 6. Investing in Property ; 7. Issues in Portfolio Management ; 8. Portfolio Risk ; 9. Consultant Selection and Monitoring ; 10. Manager Selection and Monitoring ; 11. Socially Responsible Investment ; 12. Performance Measurement ; 13. Endowment Management Cost ; 14. Fund Raising: Role of Gifts ; 15. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAims to reveal that campus capitalism is more complicated and less profitable than media reports would suggest. This book includes interviews with scientists and administrators. It is useful for those who care about scientific research. It shows that industry dollars are dwarfed by government support and other funds.Trade Review"Daniel Greenberg is still the bad boy of American science policy - and that's good for all of us. His message of 'follow the science, not the money' is the right one for public health, for the nation's productivity, and for the research enterprise." - Alan Kraut, executive director, Association for Psychological Science"

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Book SynopsisPublic research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gained greater access, and now less prestigious public universities face major economic challenges. In Broke, Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen examine virtually all aspects of campus life to show how the new economic order in public universities, particularly at two campuses in the renowned University of California system, affects students. For most of the twentieth century, they show, less affluent families of color paid with their taxes for wealthy white students to attend universities where their own offspring were not welcome. That changed as a subset of public research universities, some quite old, opted for a new approach, making racially and economically marginalized youth the lifeblood of the university. These new universities, howevTrade Review"In a crowded field of studies on higher education, Broke distinguishes itself by presenting a truly unique, multifaceted, and critical portrait of the 'new university' as a racial project. Hamilton and Nielsen convincingly demonstrate how processes of 'postsecondary racial neoliberalism' concentrate underrepresented students of color in the least resourced public universities. In these institutional settings, diversity policies and practices are shaped not by only colorblind ideology, but austerity as well."--Michael Omi and Howard Winant, coauthors of Racial Formation in the United States "Broke has the makings of a classic for the sociology of higher education, race, and class stratification. Hamilton and Nielsen document the evolution of the 'new university' in race- and class-stratified society during what they coin as the 'postsecondary racial neoliberal' era. Bolstered by strong empirical analyses and captivating, incisive writing, this book draws the reader in and beckons us to shatter both the realities and ironies of segregated university education as conduits of economic mobility in a wealthy society." --Prudence L. Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African SchoolsTable of ContentsIntroductionThe Changing Face of the UC 1. Battle with the Rankings 2. P3 Paradise 3. Running Political CoverResponses to Underfunding 4. Austerity Administration 5. Tolerable SuboptimizationDealing in Diversity 6. Student Labor and Centers of Support with Veronica Lerma 7. Marketing DiversityBreaking the Cycle Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: On Being White and Studying Race Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisArgues that an intelligent debate on the future of higher education in America requires a study of its institutions, not its ideals. Showing how US higher education has changed in the 20th century, this book examines how its institutions respond to financial, technological and cultural change.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a crowded field of studies on higher education, Broke distinguishes itself by presenting a truly unique, multifaceted, and critical portrait of the 'new university' as a racial project. Hamilton and Nielsen convincingly demonstrate how processes of 'postsecondary racial neoliberalism' concentrate underrepresented students of color in the least resourced public universities. In these institutional settings, diversity policies and practices are shaped not by only colorblind ideology, but austerity as well."--Michael Omi and Howard Winant, coauthors of Racial Formation in the United States "Broke has the makings of a classic for the sociology of higher education, race, and class stratification. Hamilton and Nielsen document the evolution of the 'new university' in race- and class-stratified society during what they coin as the 'postsecondary racial neoliberal' era. Bolstered by strong empirical analyses and captivating, incisive writing, this book draws the reader in and beckons us to shatter both the realities and ironies of segregated university education as conduits of economic mobility in a wealthy society." --Prudence L. Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African SchoolsTable of ContentsIntroductionThe Changing Face of the UC 1. Battle with the Rankings 2. P3 Paradise 3. Running Political CoverResponses to Underfunding 4. Austerity Administration 5. Tolerable SuboptimizationDealing in Diversity 6. Student Labor and Centers of Support with Veronica Lerma 7. Marketing DiversityBreaking the Cycle Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: On Being White and Studying Race Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the current world of tightening budgets and increased competition for grant money, Developing A Winning Grant Proposal provides the guidelines, strategies, plans, and techniques to craft a fundable grant proposal. Table of ContentsPreface1: Developing a Proposal2: Monitoring Funding Sources3: Establishing Needs4: Beginning Elements of the Proposal5: Procedures, Management, and Evaluation6: Calculating a Budget7: Preparing Research Proposals8: Strategies for Classroom Support9: Submitting the Proposal10: Implementing Your Grant Or I have the $$, What Now?

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Book SynopsisIt is widely understood that student loan assistance has inflated college tuition, student debt, and lender profits. Less often recognized is that these outcomes were intended. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer uncovers the history of federal student loans, showing that they were designed to appease constituencies opposed to affordable higher education.Trade ReviewValuable…Patiently reconstructs the evolution of our student lending system. * Wall Street Journal *The roots of today’s student debt crisis run deep, and Indentured Students is the first work to uncover them. Works like this that successfully combine original and sophisticated scholarship, moral urgency, and political relevance rarely come along. Shermer has written a brilliant gem of a book. -- Jonathan Levy, author of Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United StatesWe look back on the New Deal as a heyday of progressive policymaking. Shermer pulls back the veil to show how political maneuvering sowed the seeds of the student debt crisis. Moreover, she documents in exquisite detail how the racialization of student debt was not an accident, it was inevitable. Empirically rich and clearly written, Indentured Students not only unearths the foundations of a national emergency crippling generations and stalling economic mobility but also provides lessons for the fight against it. -- Anthony Abraham Jack, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged StudentsCrafting an effective new approach to financing higher education requires grappling with the past. Policymakers, scholars, and anyone who has experienced the burden of paying for college and paying off loans will benefit from this important book. -- Sara Goldrick-Rab, author of Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American DreamIndentured Students is a superb history of the financing of higher education for students in the United States who are not rich and privileged. Shermer details the politics, policies, values, motivations, and compromises from the New Deal forward concerning college affordability. This book is essential for understanding the history of higher education and today’s student debt crisis. -- William A. Herbert, Executive Director, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter CollegeThis impressive, important book unravels the roots of the student debt crisis. Shermer traces the federal government’s involvement in higher education financing from its halting nineteenth-century origins right up to the present. No one has offered so comprehensive and wide-ranging an account of the tangled development of federal policy, financial practices, and higher education in the United States. -- Bruce J. Schulman, author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and PoliticsWith vivid clarity, Shermer shows how unsustainable the debt-driven financing of US higher education financing has become. Illuminating how bad policy saddled millions with crushing debts, she helps us envision liberation from the savage inequalities of the system on which higher education now depends. Indentured Students is essential reading for anyone concerned about the intertwined futures of education and democracy. -- Joseph A. McCartin, Executive Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University[Has] important contributions to make on the present debate about what to do with existing student loan debt, while even leaving room for more discussion of what should be done to help students on higher education institutions moving forward…Shermer’s book is a sustained indictment of the entire edifice. -- John Warner * Chicago Tribune *This well-researched history provides crucial context for understanding a thorny social problem. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisTaking a look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, this book probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. It shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2003 "Silver" Frandson Award for Literature in Higher Education Winner of the Alice L. Beeman Research Award in Communications for Educational Advancement "Provocative and original... Bok is one of the premier elder statesman of American higher education."--Stephen B. Sample and Warren Bennis, Los Angeles Times "Astute and fair-minded... Derek Bok, a sensible man, has written a sensible book about the commercialization of the American university."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Contending that the trend toward excessive commercialization is not yet irreversible, Bok offers cogent, urgent arguments for reorienting universities toward fulfilling their unique purpose uncorrupted by the insidious influence of money."--USA Today "Derek Bok begins his new book with [a] nightmare of university avarice and moral decay. Some of the moneymaking schemes are imaginary, but, as Mr. Bok warns, the dangers inherent in the insatiable demands for revenue are not... It is increasingly difficult ... to meet higher education's insatiable financial demands through conventional means... Mr. Bok notes that commercialization has seeped even into the core educational mission... Having a Derek Bok to remind us of our higher calling and the present dangers may, if his words are heeded, be more consequential than we can imagine."--Anthony W. Marx, New York Times "Raises lots of big, disquieting questions... Universities that blur the lines between their own culture and that of the corporate world endanger their values without substantially raising the value of their endowments. It is, in short, shortsighted. With the publication of this book, the nation's universities can't say they weren't warned."--David M. Shribman, Chicago Tribune "Derek Bok, the former president of Harvard, argues that institutions have, perhaps unwittingly, made Faustian bargains... Athletics provides a cautionary tale... The dangers of corporate-sponsored research are even greater."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Barron's "Bok realizes that there are times when allowing a business to provide funding for research or clothing for an athletic team is critical to a particular college's survival, but the trend of marketing various aspects of higher education is becoming more prevalent. This book is Bok's way of sounding the alarm for universities to analyze their practices critically."--Library Journal "A humane and beautifully crafted book. Bok believes that the intrusion of the marketplace into the university is eroding fundamental academic values, and that we must act now to halt this decline... [A] thoughtful and thought-provoking book."--Jeremy Gunawardena, Nature "This is a good and needed book... Bok strives for balance. He tries to puncture both the dangers to academe raised by its purists and the promises of easy money made by mortarboard Babbitts. He calls for new scrutiny of financial relationships between university researchers and companies. He [worries that] ... corporate cash, fed slowly but in rising and addictive doses, will become the force behind what is discovered and what is ignored and even suppressed."--Ned Barnett, Raleigh News & Observer "Bok shows that he knows his subject well and that he has done his homework. Moreover, he marshals the relevant facts with an even hand and unsparing candor... One can only hope that his book will help the public understand what is at stake and will generate support for the needed reforms. Derek Bok has sounded a warning that ought to be heeded."--Arnold S. Relman, New England Journal of Medicine "Bok is sensibly, judiciously and presidentially concerned. He puts the commercialization of the university into the same frame as big-time intercollegiate sport: both are unambiguous distractions from what universities are properly supposed to be about."--Steven Shapin, London Review of Books "A thoughtful, clear-eyed inquiry into the impact of commercialization on the university's fundamental missions of education and research."--Daniel J. Kevles, American Scientist "Bok is a retired President of Harvard, who was Dean of Harvard Law School before becoming President, and has been a distinguished professor in the Kennedy School of Government in his retirement. Harvard's endowment is worth something around $20 billion, so Professor Bok's views on money in higher education carry a certain weight. Bok provides a measured account of what goes wrong when too much of what a university does is seen to be up for sale--but not so measured that the point is lost or the lesson muffled... Bok's patient attention to useful policies that each university can institute on its own--forbidding coaches to lean on professors for better grades, putting gin place policies about disclosure that commercial sponsors must sign up to--is the sort of thing that is needed."--Alan Ryan, Times Literary Supplement "[An] excellent and beautifully written book."--Gordon Johnson, Times Higher Education Supplement "Informed, concise, readable, temperate yet sounding necessary alarms."--ChangeTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*1. The Roots Of Commercialization, pg. 1*2. Avoiding Bias, pg. 18*3. Athletics, pg. 35*4. Scientific Research, pg. 57*5. Education, pg. 79*6. The Benefits And Costs Of Commercialization, pg. 99*7. Reforming Athletics, pg. 122*8. Protecting The Integrity Of Research, pg. 139*9. Preserving Educational Values, pg. 157*10. Living Up To The Rules, pg. 185*11. Seizing The Moment, pg. 199*Notes, pg. 209*Index, pg. 227

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Game of Loans, we learn that only a quarter of first-year college students can predict their debt load within 10 percent of the correct amount, in large part because students are regularly overpromised financial aid in complex deals that then change year by year, just like the subprime mortgages that blew up in 2008."---Rana Foroohar, New York Review of Books"Successfully aimed at non-economists, [Game of Loansis] clearly written. [It is a] powerful antidote to the stereotypes and myths that have grown up around student loans."---David Wessel, Wall Street Journal"For many casual observers, the evidence and arguments presented in …Game of Loanswill be new. And if [you] read [the] book, that could help inform a public debate that's bound to stick around for some time."---Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education"The authors [ofGame of Loans] deserve credit for taking a good hard look at prevailing narratives, such as the one that holds that student loans are causing borrowers to delay major life decisions, such as buying homes or getting married, and building a case that many of those narratives are unfounded."---Jamaal Abdul-Alim, Diverse Magazine"[Akers and Chingos] provide compelling evidence that paying for the costs of higher education is relatively feasible under the plethora of public financing options available." * AEIdeas *"Influential."---Stephen Dash, Forbes.com"Game of Loansincludes a clear and concise analysis of college prices and student borrowing patterns over time, filling in holes in a debate often bereft of relevant and reliable data."---Jason Delisle, Education Next

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Book SynopsisA critical and deeply informed survey of the brave new world of UK Higher Education emerging from government cuts and market-driven reforms.Trade Review'In the 1960s student activists argued that books are weapons. Today, student activists and trade unionists require an arsenal of weapons to fight back against the Tories' assault on higher education. Andrew McGettigan offers just that' -- Mark Bergfeld, NUS National Executive and spokesperson for the Education Activist Network'Andrew McGettigan is one of the most respected and incisive commentators on higher education. There are no other texts at present that address the political economy of higher education and none that put all the pieces of the jigsaw together to reveal the picture with such clarity' -- John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham, co-founder of the Campaign for the Public University and editor of A Manifesto for the Public University (2011)'Whether you agree or disagree with him, Andrew McGettigan's critique of the Government's higher education policies is essential reading. He brings a unique perspective to the debate, which is all the richer for it' -- Shabana Mahmood, Shadow Minister of State for Higher Education'What a splendid book, bang up-to-date and comprehensive. Anybody wanting to understand the present UK policy framework and wanting to have a critical account of it could not do better than start with this book; and so engagingly presented and written too. It deserves to be a winner' -- Ron Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London.'Andrew McGettigan is in my opinion by far the most knowledgeable person in the country on the government's obscure and yet revolutionary programme of change for universities. Essential and deeply worrying reading' -- Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge'This is a must-read book for those who work in higher education and are interested in current education policies' -- Samantha A. Shave, Journal of Social PolicyTable of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgement Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Privatisation the plan and the gamble Part I Funding: Fees and Loans 1. The Mass Higher Education System and its Funding 2. Tuition Fees 3. Student Loans – the basics Part II Marketisation 4. Why a Market 5. Market Mechanisms 6. Regulating the New Market 7. ‘New providers’, for-profits & private equity Part III Privatisation 8. University Finances and Overseas Income 9. Corporate Form, Joint Ventures & Outsourcing 10. University Bonds & other credit products 11. Governance Part IV Financialisation 12. Loans – the government’s perspective 13. Managing the Loan Book Conclusion Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisExplores activist movements in higher education from around the world, and their connections to broader anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles.Trade Review'Student movements all over the world, covered in The University and Social Justice, show the potential student protest has to challenge the current order' -- Counterfire'Essential reading for anyone interested in the state of Higher Education across the globe' -- LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsList of figures and tables Acknowledgements 1. Lessons in struggle, studies in resistance - Aziz Choudry (McGill Univ., Canada) and Salim Vally (Univ. of Johannesburg, South Africa) 2. The Trajectory of the 2010 Student Movement in the UK: From Student Activism to Strikes - Jamie Woodcock (Univ. of Oxford, UK) 3. Insurgent Subjects: Student Politics, Education, and Dissent in India - Prem Kumar Vijayan (Delhi Univ., India) 4. Neoliberalism, National Security and Academic Knowledge Production in Turkey - Gülden Özcan (Univ. of Lethbridge, Canada) 5. 'Nous' Who? Racialized Social Relations and Quebec Student Movement Politics - rosalind hampton (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) 6. Learning from Chile's Student Movement: Youth Organising and Neoliberal Reaction - Javier Campos-Martinez (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) and Dayana Olavarria (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 7. Resisting the US Corporate University: Palestine, Zionism and Campus Politics - Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi (San Francisco State Univ., USA) and Saliem Shehadeh (Univ. of California) 8. The Palestinian Student Movement and the Dialectic of Palestinian Liberation and Class Struggles - Lena Meari (Birzeit Univ., Palestine) and Rula Abu-Duhou (Birzeit Univ., Palestine) 9. The New Student Movements in Mexico in the 21st Century: #YoSoy132, Ayotzinapa and #TodosSomosPolitecnico - Alma Maldonado-Maldonado (Center for Advanced Research, Mexico) and Vania Bañuelos Astorga (CREFAL, Mexico) 10. How Did They Fight?: French Student Movements in the Late 2000s and Their Contentious Repertoire - Julie Le Mazier (Pantheon-Sorbonne Univ., France) 11. The Mustfall Mo(ve)ments and 'Publica[c]tion': Reflections on Collective Knowledge Production in South Africa - Asher Gamedze (cultural worker, South Africa) and Leigh-Ann Naidoo (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa) 12. Revolutionary Vanguard No More?: The Student Movement and the Struggle for Education and Social Justice in Nigeria - Rhoda Nanre Nafziger (Pennsylvania State Univ., USA) and Krystal Strong (Pennsylvania State Univ., USA) 13. Postcolonial versus Transformative Education in the University of Philippines - Sarah Raymundo (Univ. of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines) and Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya (Univ. of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines) Notes on contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLearn step by step how to craft a winning case statement! This tool in the Excellence in Fund Raising WorkbookSeries offers you a practical, hands-on guide to creating thecornerstone of any successful fund raising program--an effectivecase for support. Written by Tim Seiler--a leader in the field offund raising and a disciple of master fund raiser HankRosso--Developing Your Case for Support provides you with acomplete framework for bringing together all the reasons nonprofitsknow they are worthy of support, and shows you how to develop acase that makes those reasons concrete and real for donors. Filledwith helpful worksheets and examples, the workbook features astep-by-step methodology for gathering, organizing, and using theinformation essential for developing a compelling casestatement.Trade Review"I can heartily recommend this book." (CharityChannel.com,January 17, 2003)"I am not aware of any other workbook that addresses this topic.Developing Your Case for Support will be a welcome andvaluable contribution to the field." --Barbara Marion, CFRE,senior principal, Hayes Briscoe Associates "My compliments go to Timothy Seiler for writing a basic manualon a subject that is very confusing and often interpreted by manypeople differently." --Tere Lindhan, CFRE, George MasonUniversity

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Book SynopsisNo reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has been more important than the attempt to enlarge the dominant understanding of the scholarly work of facult--what counts as scholarship. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered assesses the impact of this widespread initiative to realign the priorities of the American professoriate with the essential missions of the nation''s colleges and universities: to redefine faculty roles and restructure reward systems. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered traces the history of the movement to redefine scholarship: examining the impact of the 1990 landmark report Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the decade-long work of the American Association for Higher Education''s Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards that initiated and sustained much of the work reported on here. The struggles to move beyond narrow definiTrade Review"a significant contribution to an important ongoing conversation and question: How can we encourage and support multiple kinds of faculty contributions and talents…" (Journal of Higher Education, 11/2007)Table of ContentsForeword (Russell Edgerton). Acknowledgments (KerryAnn O’Meara and R. Eugene Rice). The Authors. Introduction (KerryAnn O’Meara and R. Eugene Rice). PART ONE: CONTEXT. 1. “Scholarship Reconsidered”: History and Context (R. Eugene Rice). 2. The Four Forms of Scholarship. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Today (Mary Taylor Huber, Pat Hutchings, and Lee S. Shulman). Tracing the Scholarship of Engagement Through My Professional Memoirs (Amy Driscoll). The Scholarship of Discovery (George E. Walker). The Scholarship of Integration (David K. Scott). 3. Issues of Implementation. Scholarship Reconsidered: Barriers to Change (Robert M. Diamond). Redefining Scholarship: A Small Liberal Arts College’s Journey (Kenneth J. Zahorski). Preparing Future Faculty and Multiple Forms of Scholarship (Jerry G. Gaff). PART TWO: LESSONS LEARNED FROM CAMPUS STUDIES. 4. A Question of Mission: Redefining Scholarship at Franklin College (David G. Brailow). 5. Redefining the Culture of Scholarship: Madonna University (Dennis Bozyk). 6. Encouraging Multiple Forms of Scholarly Excellence at Albany State University (Barbara DeVeaux Holmes). 7. Faculty Scholarship in a Nontraditional University: The University of Phoenix (Catherine Garner, William Pepicello, and Craig Swenson). 8. Ensuring Equity Across the Missions of a Land-Grant University: South Dakota State University (Carol J. Peterson and Diane Kayongo-Male). 9. Optimism With Our Eyes Wide Open: Reconsidering Scholarship at Kansas State University (Victoria L. Clegg and Gretchen R. Esping). 10. Identifying and Managing University Assets: A Campus Study of Portland State University (John Rueter and Talya Bauer). 11. Signs of Change at a Research-Extensive University: Promoting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Arizona State University (Don Evans, Judy Grace, and Duane Roen). 12. Broadening the Definition of Scholarship: A Strategy to Recognize and Reward Clinician-Teachers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (Steven R. Lowenstein and Robin A. Harvan). PART THREE: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. 13. Effects of Encouraging Multiple Forms of Scholarship Nationwide and Across Institutional Types (KerryAnn O’Meara). 14. Principles of Good Practice: Encouraging Multiple Forms of Scholarship in Policy and Practice (KerryAnn O’Meara). 15. The Future of the Scholarly Work of Faculty (R. Eugene Rice). APPENDIX: SURVEY TABLES. Table A.1: Catalysts. Table A.2: Barriers. Table A.3: Increases and Improvements From Reform. Table A.4: What Counts for Faculty Evaluation. Table A.5: Change in Reward Systems. Table A.6: Criteria Used to Evaluate Scholarship. Table A.7: Support for a Broader Definition of Scholarship. Table A.8: Acceptance of Multiple Forms of Scholarship Within Institutional Cultures. Index.

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Book SynopsisPublic concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universities cannot behave more like businesses and cut their costs to hold tuition down. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and his coauthors assert that...Trade ReviewGoverning Academia offers a multidisciplinary perspective on governance issues in American higher education that is valuable to both researchers and practitioners in the field. The book has wide appeal and it forced me to consider many new topics and impending issues in higher education. -- Debra A. Barbezat * Journal of Economic Literature *Although US-focused, the book's analyses and discussions could be generalized to higher education governance elsewhere, particularly given the increasing internationalism of the sector. * The Bulletin *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Ronald G. EhrenbergI. Presidents, Trustees, and External Governance1. Presidents and Trustees by James O. Freedman2. Higher Education Boards of Trustees by Benjamin E. Hermalin3. State Oversight of Academia by Donald E. HellerII. Internal Governance and Organization4. Darwinian Medicine for the University by Susanne Lohmann5. Herding Cats in University Hierarchies: Formal Structure and Policy Choice in American Research Universities by Thomas H. Hammond6. Tiebout Competition versus Political Competition on a University Campus by John Douglas WilsonIII. Governance in Practice7. How Academic Ships Actually Navigate by Gabriel E. Kaplan8. Collective Bargaining in American Higher Education by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Daniel B. Klaff, Adam T. Kezsbom & Matthew P. NagowskiIV. Challenges from Nonprofits and Nonlegal Legal Influences9. Nonprofit and For-Profit Governance in Higher Education Brian Pusser & Sarah E. Turner10. The Rise of Nonlegal Legal Influences on Higher Education by Michael A. OlivasConclusion: Looking to the Future by Ronald G. EhrenbergAppendix Notes References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIt will be of interest to anyone concerned about the future of American higher education.Trade ReviewBelongs on any academic bookshelf that seeks to balance the wave of criticism now so prevalent in the field. University Business A confident overview of the current condition of today's universities. Researchers, policymakers, and graduate students will appreciate the opportunity to react to some of the best minds in the field of higher education as they examine the state of the American university and predict its future direction. -- Brandyn Payne Peabody Journal of Education The value of this thoughtful collection of essays is more in its enduring than its timely concerns. The legacy of American higher education, we are reminded, is one of resilience, promise, and, to be sure, excellence despite the many challenges it faces in the near and longer terms. -- Matthew Miller Planning for Higher Education 2003 The contributions are informative and gather together scholars and evidence from many areas. -- Leonard L. Baird Teachers College Record 2003 Comprehensive and informative to both academic and non-academic readers. -- Elise Langan Higher Education Policy 2006Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part One - The University in SocietyChapter 1: The American Academic Model in Comparative Perspective - Philip G. Altbach Chapter Two: Higher Education as a Mature Industry - Arthur Levine Chapter Three: The "Crisis" Crisis in Higher Education: Is that a Wolf or a Pussycat at the Academy's Door? - Robert Birnbaum and Frank Shushok Jr. Chapter Four: Built to Serve: The Enduring Legacy of Public Higher Education - Patricia J. Gumport Chapter 5: The Mass Higher Education to Universal Access: The American Advantage - Martin Trow Chapter 6: Higher Education and Those "Out of Control Costs" - D. Bruce Johnstone Part Two - Within the Academy Chapter 7: The Liberal Arts and the Role of Elite Higher Education - Nannerl O. Keohane Chapter 8: The Technological Revolution: Reflections on the Proper Role of Technology in Higher Education - Jack M. Wilson Chapter 9: Academic Change and Presidential Leadership - Richard M. Freeland Chapter 10: Graduate Education and Research - Jules B. Lapidus Chapter 11: College Students Today: Why We Can't Leave Serendipity To Chance - George D. Kuh Chapter 12: Governance: The Remarkable Ambiguity - George Keller Chapter 13: Understanding the American Academic Profession - Martin J. Finkelstein List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAs Ruch makes clear, the major for-profit colleges and universities offer a different approach to higher education-one that may be increasingly influential in the future.Trade ReviewA balanced description of how and why [for-profit colleges and universities] continue to attract growing enrollments, and his text will be useful for anyone who wants to understand this significant trend... The chapters about for-profit finance and academic culture are particularly insightful. Highly recommended. Library Journal Higher Ed., Inc: The Rise of the For-Profit University offers a window into, as well as a defense of, this brave new pedagogical world. -- Christopher Shea Washington Post MagazineTable of ContentsContents:Foreword, by George Keller Acknowledgments1. Confessions of a For-Profit Dean 2. The Players 3. The History of For-Profit Education in the United States 4. The Financing of For-Profit Higher Education 5. The Academic Culture of For-Profit Universities 6. Lessons from the For-Profit SideNotes Index

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Book SynopsisThe book includes detailed information on developing budgets, before and after versions of proposals, and descriptions of common pitfalls that everyone can avoid.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Prepare the Ground2. Plan Ahead3. Zoom In, Zoom Out: Putting Your Work in Context4. Notes toward the Text5. Un-Curb Your Enthusiasm6. The Budget: Core Strength7. Get It Down: The First Draft8. Get It Right: The Second Draft9. Get It Smooth: The Final Draft10. Get It Done: Review, Refresh, Release11. Close the Circle12. Build Your CredentialsAppendix A: Sample Research ProposalAppendix B: Sample Project SummaryAppendix C: Effective Letters of SupportAnnotated BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFinancing Higher Education Worldwide combines sophisticated economic explanations with sensitive political and cultural analyses of the financial pressures facing higher education throughout the world.Trade ReviewThis book is a must read for policy-makers, researchers, educationalists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. -- Asha Gupta Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 This is a book full of detail and informed comment that should be read by all who want to understand and be informed about many of the major issues surrounding the financing of higher education in the 21st century. -- Johns Mace HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW 2011 This book is a must read for the policy-makers, researchers, educationists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 A great overview of the financing challenges facing each country's higher education system. -- John J. Cheslock Journal of Higher Education 2011 Usefully describes various policies and different countries' approaches to dees, loans, and other financial aid. -- Claire Callender Comparative Education Review 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Diverging Trajectories of Higher Education's Costs and Public Revenues Worldwide2. Financial Austerity and Solutions on the Cost Side3. The Perspective and Policy of Cost-Sharing4. Parental Contributions, Means-Testing, andFinancial Assistance5. The Spread of Tuition Fees6. Student Loan Schemes in Purpose, Form, and Consequence7. Student Loan Schemes in Practice8. Cost-Sharing, Financial Assistance, and Student Behavior9. Cost-Sharing in Practice Worldwide10. Cost-Sharing and the Future of International Higher Educational FinanceAppendix: Selected Country Examples of Cost-SharingSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFinancing Higher Education Worldwide combines sophisticated economic explanations with sensitive political and cultural analyses of the financial pressures facing higher education throughout the world.Trade ReviewThis book is a must read for policy-makers, researchers, educationalists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. -- Asha Gupta Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 This is a book full of detail and informed comment that should be read by all who want to understand and be informed about many of the major issues surrounding the financing of higher education in the 21st century. -- Johns Mace HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW 2011 This book is a must read for the policy-makers, researchers, educationists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 A great overview of the financing challenges facing each country's higher education system. -- John J. Cheslock Journal of Higher Education 2011 Usefully describes various policies and different countries' approaches to dees, loans, and other financial aid. -- Claire Callender Comparative Education Review 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Diverging Trajectories of Higher Education's Costs and Public Revenues Worldwide2. Financial Austerity and Solutions on the Cost Side3. The Perspective and Policy of Cost-Sharing4. Parental Contributions, Means-Testing, andFinancial Assistance5. The Spread of Tuition Fees6. Student Loan Schemes in Purpose, Form, and Consequence7. Student Loan Schemes in Practice8. Cost-Sharing, Financial Assistance, and Student Behavior9. Cost-Sharing in Practice Worldwide10. Cost-Sharing and the Future of International Higher Educational FinanceAppendix: Selected Country Examples of Cost-SharingSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn 1966 the Canadian government announced the abrupt termination of a longstanding conditional grant relationship with the provinces in the domain of technical and vocational education. It sought to substitute a radically new arrangement whereby it would purchase occupational training for adults as an integral part of an over-all manpower policy. This book examines what ensued with particular reference to the province of Ontario and offers unique insights into the conduct of federal-provincial relations from the level of first ministers through that of operating officials down to the grass roots of individual Canadian communities. It also assesses the opportunities and limitations attendant upon a major departure in manpower policy. By focusing on the role of public servants with quite distinct professional orientations – economists  and educationists – the book yields new insights into the contribution of appointed specialists to policy development.

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Book SynopsisPartnerships are now pervasive in global education and development. Through case studies of prominent multi-stakeholder partnerships, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the global education network, this book exposes clear power imbalances that persist in the international aid environment.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Steven Klees ix Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xv 1.Introduction: Conceptualizing Power in an Era of Partnerships 1 Understanding Partnership Understanding Power Methods and Data Collected 10 Notes on Terminology14 Rationale for This Book 16 A Note on Scope 18 My Position as Author 19 Overview of the Book 20 2. The Era of Partnership 24 Multistakeholder Partnerships 29 Partnerships as Public–Private Arrangements 31 Questioning Partnerships 34 Partnerships in Education and Development 39 Conclusion 43 3.New Actors and Relationships in Aid to Education: Understanding Power in a Transnational, Partnership-Based Network 44 The Changing “Architecture” of Development Aid 44 Understanding Power in Networks 47 Network Research on International Development and Aid 50 Networks, Partnerships, and Aid to Education 51 Conclusion 58 4.Power Dynamics in a Multistakeholder Fund: The Case of the Global Partnership for Education 61 The History and Mandate of the Global Partnership for Education 61 Power Dynamics in the Global Partnership for Education 64 The Empowering of Private Actors in the Global Partnership for Education 71 Conclusion 80 5. The Challenges of Partnering for Aid to Education in Emergencies: The Case of the Education Cannot Wait Fund 81 The History and Mandate of the Education Cannot Wait Fund 82 Power Dynamics in Education Cannot Wait 85 The Empowering of Private Actors in Education Cannot Wait95 Conclusion 100 6. Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Partnerships in International Aid to Education 102 Structural Power in Partnerships: North/South Hierarchies 102 Productive Power in Partnerships: The Framing of the Private Sector 105 Shifting Power Dynamics in Partnerships 107 Reconceptualizing Partnerships 111 Conclusion 117 References 119 Index 133 About the Author 141

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Book SynopsisExamines the long-standing campaign that resulted in today's school voucher policies. In this book, scholars and national experts untangle this complex story to show how law and policy have aligned to dramatically alter the likely future of American schooling.Table of Contents Contents (Tentative) 1. Introduction: Voucher Expansion and the Abandonment of Equity Kevin G. Welner, Gary Orfield, and Luis A. Huerta2. The Segregationist Origins and Legacy of Today's Private School Vouchers Steve Suitts3. Private School Vouchers: Legal Challenges and Civil Rights Protections Kevin G. Welner and Preston C. Green4. Voucher Expansion and the Threat to Students' Educational and Civil Rights Derek W. Black5. Vouchers as a Mechanism for State-Sanctioned Private Discrimination Julie F. Mead and Suzanne E. Eckes6. Evolving Voucher Policies: Broadening Eligibility Through Rules & Schools Luis A. Huerta and Steven Koutsavlis7. Bait and Switch: How Voucher Advocates Shift Policy Objectives Christopher Lubienski, T. Jameson Brewer, and Joel R. Malin8. Educational Privatization in Congress From Reagan to Biden: An Ideology Unfulfilled Elizabeth H. DeBray and Ann E. Blankenship-Knox9. School Vouchers in Indiana: Policy Shifts and Their Implications for Economically Disadvantaged Families and Students of Color Mark Berends, R. Joseph Waddington, and Megan Austin10. A Voucher by Any Other Name: Empowerment Scholarship Accounts and the Future of School Choice David R. Garcia and Makayla Steele11. Washington, D.C. Voucher Program: Civil Rights Implications Mary Levy12. Private Sector Schools: Limited Scope & Stratification Jongyeon Ee, Gary Orfield, and Jennifer Teitell13. Conclusion: Can Vouchers Be Reshaped to Accomplish Their Initial Rhetorical Goals? Kevin G. Welner, Gary Orfield, and Luis A. HuertaEndnotes Index About the Editors and Authors

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Book SynopsisGrant funding has become increasingly crucial to universities and university faculty, even as government and private funding reductions and increased application pools result in a more and more competitive environment.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and Boxes vii Foreword ix Preface: What’s in a Name? xi Acknowledgments xv About the Authors xvii PART 1 THE HOW-TO MANUAL Section 1 Diving into Grants Culture 1 Grants Culture: The Big Picture 5 2 The Matching Game: Finding Funders 17 3 Tapping Support on Campus 33 4 Collaboration: The New Frontier 43 5 Preparing to Write 55 Section 2 Developing Your Proposal 6 The Writing 71 7 The Abstract 81 8 The Heart of the Matter: The Proposal Narrative 91 9 Budgets 111 10 Making It Shine: The Proposal Package 129 Section 3 Next Steps 11 Review, Rejection, and Reshaping 149 12 Your Project Is Funded—Now What? 161 PART 2 GRANT-SEEKING TOOLKIT Section 1 Diving into Grants Culture 179 Grant Glossary 179 Tools for Finding Funding 188 Funding Search Cheat Sheet 190 Prewriting Questions 192 Section 2 Managing the Proposal Work 197 Planning for Proposal Development 197 Developing a Concept Paper 202 Four Sentences to Focus Your Elevator Pitch 203 Contacting a Program Offi cer 204 Managing Proposal Development 206 Narrative Timeline for Proposal Development 207 Section 3 Developing Your Proposal 215 Proposal Logic 215 Moving from the Larger Context to the Detail 216 Proposal Outlines 217 Evaluation 220 Budget Justification 223 Subcontracts and Consulting Agreements 229 Sample Subcontract Scope of Work 232 Travel Expenses 233 Letters of Support and Commitment 235 Project Timelines 239 Proposal Review Processes 246 Section 4 Building Institutional Grants Culture 251 Tools for Hiring Grant Writing Consultants 251 Interview Questions 253 Interview Writing Prompts 254 Reference Check Questions 256 Tools for Managing and Nurturing Grant Writing Consultants 257 Survey Instrument 269 Flextime Memo 273 Afterword: Summing It Up 275 Appendix: Building a Grants Culture: A Word to Campus Leaders 279 References 303 Index 309

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Stock Investing 5 Chapter 1: Introducing the World of Stock Investing 7 Chapter 2: Assessing Your Current Financial Situation and Goals 15 Chapter 3: Defining Different Approaches to Stock Investing 33 Chapter 4: Understanding Risk and Volatility 45 Part 2: Doing Some Digging Before You Buy Stocks 65 Chapter 5: Gathering Information on Investments 67 Chapter 6: Choosing Winning Stocks with Basic Accounting 91 Chapter 7: Deciphering Company Documents to Pick Stocks 111 Chapter 8: Working with Brokers 125 Part 3: Understanding Essential Stock Strategies and Tactics 139 Chapter 9: Investing in Stocks for Long-Term Growth 141 Chapter 10: Investing in Stocks for Income and Cash Flow 153 Chapter 11: Exploring Exchange-Traded Funds 171 Chapter 12: Surveying Emerging Sector and Industry Opportunities 181 Chapter 13: Looking at Brokerage Orders and Trading Techniques 195 Chapter 14: Handling Taxes on Stock Investments 213 Part 4: The Part of Tens 227 Chapter 15: Ten Hallmarks of a Great Stock 229 Chapter 16: Ten Investment Strategies That Work Well with Stocks 239 Index 247

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Book SynopsisUltimately, the authors recommend that states create new ways of helping colleges with many at-risk students, define performance indicators and measures better tailored to institutional missions, and improve the capacity of colleges to engage in organizational learning.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction Widespread Adoption of Performance Funding The Different Forms of Performance Funding Conceptualizing How Performance Funding Works Chapter Contents and Preview of Findings 2. Research Perspectives, Questions, and Methods Existing Scholarship on the Impacts of Performance Funding and Its Limitations Policy Instruments Organizational Changes Student Outcomes Obstacles to Effective Functioning Unintended Impacts Overall Limitations Enlisting Insights from Other Bodies of Literature Performance Management in Public Agencies Policy Design: Policy Instruments and their Strengths and Weaknesses Data-Driven Decision Making and Organizational Learning in Higher Education Policy Implementation Principal-Agent Theory Conceptual Framework Research Questions Research Methods 3. Policy Instruments and their Immediate Impacts Financial Incentives Little Initial Impact on Institutional Finances Explaining the Low Initial Impact on Institutional Finances Perceived Impact of Financial Incentives on Institutional Behavior Communication of State Program Goals and Methods State Communication College Communication Variations in Awareness of State Goals and Methods Perceived Impact of Awareness of State Goals and Methods on College Efforts Communication of Institutional Performance on the State Metrics State Communication of Institutional Performance College Communication of Institutional Performance Variations in Awareness of Institutional Performance Perceived Impact of Awareness of Institutional Performance Building Up Institutional Capacity to Respond to Performance Funding What State Officials Were Doing Institutional Officials' Assessment of the State Effort to Build Capacity Disaggregating Our Main Patterns Differences by State Differences by Type of Institution: Community Colleges and Universities Differences by Estimated Organizational Capacity of Institutions Summary and Conclusions 4. Organizational Learning in Response to Performance Funding Deliberative Processes Used to Respond to Performance Funding General Administrative Deliberative Processes Special Purpose Deliberative Structures Informal Deliberative Structures Variations in Deliberative Processes Variations by State Variation by Type of Institution Variations by Expected Institutional Capacity Aids and Hindrances to Deliberation Organizational Commitment and Leadership Communication and Collaboration Time and the Opportunity to Deliberate on New Policies and Practices Timely and Relevant Data Variations in Aids and Hindrances Differences by State Differences by Type of Institution Differences by Institutional Capacity Summary and Conclusions 5. Changes to Institutional Policies, Programs, and Practices Perceptions about the Impact of Performance Funding Ratings of the Impact of Performance Funding on Institutional Changes Reasons Given for Not Rating the Impact of Performance Funding "High" The Joint Influence of Several Different Factors Changes in Academic Policies, Practices, and Programs Developmental Education Changes STEM-Field Academic Changes General Curricular Changes Changes to Instructional Techniques: Technology/Online Education Student Services Changes Advising and Counseling Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction Orientation and First-Year Programs Tuition and Financial Aid Policies Registration and Graduation Procedures Restructuring Student Services Departments and Staffing Other Student Services Changes Isomorphism and the Institutionalization of Campus Changes Disaggregating Our Main Patterns Differences by State Differences by Institutional Type Differences by Institutional Capacity Summary and Conclusions Chapter 6: Student Outcomes Descriptive Data Indiana Ohio Tennessee Multivariate Study Findings Studies Specific to Our Three States Studies of Performance Funding outside Our Three States U. S. Performance Funding Outcomes Outside of Higher Education Summary and Conclusions Chapter 7: Obstacles to Effective Response Student-Body Composition Inadequate Preparation for College Non-Degree Seekers Lower Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Its Financial Burdens Inappropriate Performance Funding Measures Insufficient Institutional Capacity Insufficient State Funding of Higher Education Institutional Resistance to Performance Funding Insufficient Knowledge of Performance Funding Variations Within Our Main Findings Differences by State Differences by Institutional Type Differences by Institutional Capacity Summary and Conclusions Chapter 8: Unintended Impacts of Performance Funding Restrictions of Student Admission General Restrictions Raising Admission Requirements Selective Student Recruitment Directing Institutional Aid to Better Prepared Students Weakening of Academic Standards Lowering Academic Demands in Class (Grade Inflation) Reducing Degree Requirements Compliance Costs Cost of Improving Institutional Research Capacity Increased Workload Reduced Institutional Cooperation Lower Faculty and Staff Morale Less Faculty Voice in Academic Governance Narrowing of Institutional Mission Variations Within Our Main Findings Differences by State Differences by Institutional Type Differences by Institutional Capacity Summary and Conclusions Chapter 9: Summary and Conclusions Key Findings Policy Instruments Organizational Learning Institutional Changes Student Outcomes Obstacles to Responding to Performance Funding Unintended Impacts Differences within These Main Patterns Implications for Policy Reducing Unintended Negative Impacts Reducing Obstacles to Effectively Responding to Performance Funding The Importance of Extensive Institutional Consultation and Periodic Review Implications for Research Concluding Thoughts Appendixes Appendix A: The Nature and History of Performance Funding in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee Appendix B: Interview Protocol for State Officials Appendix C: Interview Protocol for Community College Administrators and Faculty Appendix D: Interview Protocol for University Administrators and Faculty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDean's List offers a thoughtful, commonsense approach to higher education that allows students to make the most of their four years on campus-and beyond.Trade ReviewThe second updated edition of Dean's List: 10 Strategies for College Success is a 'must' for any new student who would excel in college, and gathers the latest thoughts of deans at top schools across the country, who share insights on what makes for a superior college experience.—Donovan's BookshelfDean’s List: 11 Habits of Highly Successful College Students should be recommended to any person who is facing college for the first time or is working with first-year college students. This book offers useful tools in decision making that enable students to have successful college career. Bader organizes the chapters of his book extremely well in order to find and explore the answers to all the questions an incoming student may have while including the all important advice from college deans.—NACADAIn Dean’s List, John Bader draws on advice from deans at leading universities—including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and Columbia—as well as over a decade of experience as a dean at Johns Hopkins University to present strategies designed to help new college students succeed. From “focus on learning, not grades” to “learn from diversity at home and abroad,” the 10 approaches outlined in Bader’s book will aid graduating seniors, first-generation, and non-traditional students alike in having the most productive and rewarding college experience possible.—Rutgers University LibrariesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Facing Freshman YearFeaturing Guest Essays by ...brenda bretz, ph.d., Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Dickinson CollegeStrategy #1. Focus on Learning, Not on Grades 13Featuring Guest Essays by ...thomas a. dingman, ed.m., Dean of Freshmen, Harvard Universityleah blatt glasser, ph.d., Dean of First-Year Studies and Lecturer in English, Mount Holyoke CollegeStrategy #2. Build an New Relationship with Your Parents Featuring Guest Essays by ...kathryn stuart, d.m.a., Dean of Studies and Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Oberlin Collegematthew lazen, ph.d., Director of Studies, Butler College, Princeton Universityraima evan, ph.d., Assistant Dean, Bryn Mawr CollegeStrategy #3. Work the System by Understanding the SystemFeaturing Guest Essays by ...margaret bruzelius, ph.d., Dean of the Senior Class and Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Smith Collegemichele rasmussen, ph.d., Associate Dean and Director, Academic Advising Center, Duke Universitycole m. crittenden, ph.d., Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students, Princeton UniversityStrategy #4. Approach the Curriculum Like a Great Feast Featuring Guest Essays by ...anya bernstein bassett, ph.d., Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard Universitymarcy kraus, ph.d., Dean of Freshmen, University of Rochestergeorge levesque, ph.d., Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Yale College, Yale UniversityStrategy #5. Understand That Majors and Careers Are Not the Same ThingFeaturing Guest Essays by ...george levesque, ph.d., Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Yale College, Yale Universitym. cecilia gaposchkin, ph.d., Assistant Dean of Faculty for Pre-Major Advising and Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth Collegejoseph holtgreive, ed.m., Assistant Dean and Director of the McCormick Office of Personal Development, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern UniversityStrategy #6. Don't Just Work Hard-Work SmartFeaturing Guest Essays by ...leora brovman, ed.d., Advising Dean, Columbia Universityadina glickman, m.s.w., Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford UniversityStrategy #7. Learn from Diversity at Home and AbroadFeaturing Guest Essays by ...janet a. tighe, ph.d., Dean of Freshmen and Director of Academic Advising, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvaniaraima evan, ph.d., Assistant Dean, Bryn Mawr CollegeStrategy #8. When You Are Failing, Understand WhyFeaturing Guest Essays by ...john t. o'keefe, ph.d., Director of Advising and Academic Support Services and Class Dean, Wellesley Collegeleah blatt glasser, ph.d., Dean of First-Year Studies and Lecturer in English, Mount Holyoke CollegeStrategy #9. Cope with Failure by Rebuilding and Forgiving 202Featuring Guest Essays by ...john t. o'keefe, Ph.d., Director of Advising and Academic Support Services and Class Dean, Wellesley Collegethomas n. chiarolanzio, m.a., Associate Dean, Georgetown College, Georgetown UniversityStrategy #10. Plan Boldly for Life after CollegeFeaturing Guest Essays by ...anya bernstein bassett, ph.d., Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard Universityandrew n. simmons, Assistant Director for Pre-Health Advising in the Honors Program, University of Rhode Island List of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: The Language of BudgetsChapter 2: University BudgetsChapter 3: Budget ModelsChapter 4: Strategic PlansChapter 5: Operating Budget PreparationChapter 6: Budget ImplementationChapter 7: End of the Fiscal YearChapter 8: Power of the BudgetNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue. Preview of ApplicationsPart One. Introduction to AR Modeling1. Changing the Conversation2. Getting into AR Models3. Building Trust in Your AR ModelPart Two. Full-Function AR Models4. Pilbara's Full-Function AR Model5. Historical Models and Operating Decisions6. Predictive Models and Scenario PlanningPart Three. Other AR Tools7. Comprehensive Program Review8. Universities as Mission-Driven Enterprises9. The Way ForwardAppendix A. Activity Analysis DetailAppendix B. Scoring Market Data with Fuzzy LogicNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the student-led protest movement known as #FeesMustFall, which began in 2015. It tells the journey of the youth who participated in a movement that redefined politics in post-apartheid South Africa.Trade Review“With my head wrap sitting as stern as a crown, my fist in the air and a student card leeched around my wrist, I sang as loud as my lungs could allow. But I didn’t sing, really. To say I sang sounds too pleasant. I wailed, I roared. I screamed into the air that I was punching, as if fighting with an invisible presence. One that I had known all my life but never really understood. My mother, my grandmother and my ancestors all know of this presence. And like me, they have lived their lives fighting and finding solace in the pursuit of emancipation from it.” – Tshepiso Modupe, Student on the cover of the book

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Book SynopsisCurrent concern with the problems of university education was reflected in the Royal Society’s choice of a theme for its 1960 annual symposium: “The Responsibilities of Canadian Universities.” The Fellows contributing to this symposium shed light on various problems, national and local, far-reaching and immediate, scientific and humanist, French- and English-Canadian, financial and intangible. All generally agree that the chief responsibility of the Canadian university today is to itself, to its own purpose and traditions, and hence all emphasize the importance of education rather than mere training.James S. Thomson presents a comprehensive chapter on the general theme of this volume, emphasizing the quality of academic work and what such quality can mean in the university community and beyond. Léon Lortie also reflects on the responsibilities of Canadian universities, youthful as they are, before new challenges. Northrop Frye incisively examines the role

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Book SynopsisThe universities of Canada are now expanding rapidly and becoming very costly to run and equip. Increasingly the bill is borne by the public exchequers, federal and provincial. What then should be the proper relationship between government and universities if university freedom is to be preserved? This book, based on the Plaunt Lectures given at Carleton University in 1967, discusses the various aspects of the question.The author for example, discusses the British solution of a buffer committee between government and university, and the American concept of a lay board of regents which has jurisdiction over the university system in the name of the people. He suggests that the best device is for the universities themselves to form a strong cooperative body and for the state to arm this body with statutory instruments. Most provinces now have a Provincial Advisory Committee and the author proposes that the staff needed to assess and scrutinize budgets for university funds equita

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Book SynopsisThe government documents included in this book are comprised of reports and testimonies from April 2018 to September 2018 on Student Loans. As of April 2018, over a million borrowers had taken steps to pursue Public Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from the Department of Education, but few borrowers have been granted loan forgiveness to date. The first report examines the 1. Number of Borrowers pursuing PSLF and the extent to which Education has conducted outreach to increase borrower awareness of program eligibility requirements and 2. The extent to which Education has provided key information to PSLF servier and borrowers. Recommendations follow. The second report describes the roles of Federal Student Aids (FSA) non-school partners in the federal student financial aid program and assesses the extent to which FSAs policies and procedures for overseeing non-school partners protection of federal student aid data align with federal requirements, federal guidance and best practices. The third report examines how schools work with borrowers to manage schools cohort default rates and how these strategies affect borrowers and schools accountability for defaults, and the extent to which Education oversees the strategies schools and their default management consultants use to manage schools cohort default rates and informs the public about its efforts to hold schools accountable. Finally, the last report examines the status of Educations efforts to improve oversight of federal student loan services. Federal loans play a key role in ensuring access to higher education for millions of students each year. This report provides testimony over the last 3 years examining the weaknesses in Educations management and proposals for a new student loan servicer system.

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