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Book SynopsisA discussion of how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of universities, particularly through the development of distance education. It looks at universities which have risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility using technology.Table of ContentsUniversity renewal for a new millennium; challenges on campus; the mega-universities; the essentials of distance education; universities and competitive advantage; making technology attractive; the knowledge media; implementing a technology strategy.

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AuthorHouse The Road to a College Education

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Random House USA Inc How to Win at College Simple Rules for Success

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Book SynopsisThe essential guide to getting ahead once you’ve gotten in—proven strategies for making the most of your college years, based on winning secrets from the country's most successful students“Highly recommended because it is full of practical tips that will help high school grads take the next step in life.”—MoneyHow can you graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, gain access to the best post-college opportunities, and still have a life? Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College presents seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of your class. These often surprising strategies include:• Don’t do all your reading• Drop classes every term• Become a club president• Care about your grades, Ignore your GPA• Never p

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University of Ottawa Press Learning to Practise

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Wiley Leading Academic Change

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Book SynopsisTo ensure its continued validity, higher education needs to change, something it cannot do without the participation of department chairs. In this book, Ann Lucas has assembled some of the most thoughtful people in higher education to provide the ''line leaders'' of higher education with the essential knowledge they need to bring those changes about. --Margaret A. Miller, president, American Association for Higher Education Department chairs are typically amateurs, entering upon their position for a limited time with no formal training to prepare them for the many roles and responsibilities that the job requires. Both new chairs and more experienced ones will find in Leading Academic Change help in dealing with problems they are facing as well as inspiration and insights to go beyond minimum expectations and provide leadership for the future. --W.J. McKeachie, professor of psychology, University of Michigan With practical advice and aTrade Review"To ensure its continued validity, higher education needs to change, something it cannot do without the participation of department chairs. In this book, Ann Lucas has assembled some of the most thoughtful people in higher education to provide the 'line leaders' of higher education with the essential knowledge they need to bring those changes about." (Margaret A. Miller, president, American Association for Higher Education) "Department chairs are typically amateurs, entering upon their position for a limited time with no formal training to prepare them for the many roles and responsibilities that the job requires. Both new chairs and more experienced ones will find in Leading Academic Change help in dealing with problems they are facing as well as inspiration and insights to go beyond minimum expectations and provide leadership for the future." (W.J. McKeachie, professor of psychology, University of Michigan) "Ann Lucas inspires chairs beyond the jokes about 'herding cats' to see their central role at the intersection of the institution and their discipline. With practical advice and a platform of sound social science, Lucas offers a promising paradigm for chairs to move their departments from a federation of islands to a decision-making team." (Carla B. Howery, deputy executive officer, American Sociological Association) "This book is unusually good. Clear, comprehensive, and immediately useful, it should be read by every department chair." (Peter Seldin, Lubin School of Business, Pace University)Table of ContentsLEADING CHANGE. A Teamwork Approach to Change in the Academic Department (A. Lucas). A Collaborative Model for Leading Academic Change (A. Lucas). Handling Resistance to Change (S. Cheldelin). Transforming Departments into Productive Learning Communities (T. Angelo). THE COLLABORATIVE ROLE OF THE CHAIR IN DEPARTMENTAL CHANGE. The Departmental Statement on Promotion and Tenure: A Key to Successful Leadership (R. Diamond). Post-Tenure Review (C. Licata). Strengthening the Departmental Voice in the Faculty Reward System (H. Altman). LEADING INNOVATIVE CHANGE IN CURRICULUM AND TEACHING. Monitoring and Improving Educational Quality in the Academic Department (L. Gardiner). Service Learning and the Engaged Department: A Strategy with Many Uses (E. Zlotkowski). Giving Faculty Ownership of Technological Change in the Department (A. Bates). Leading Curriculum Renewal (A. Ferren & K. Mussell). The Academy as Learning Community: Contradiction in Terms or Realizable Future? (P. Senge).

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Springer Philosophy and the Liberal Arts 2 Contributions to Phenomenology

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Hopkins Fulfillment Service College Football History Spectacle Controversy

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Book SynopsisUltimately, however, Watterson concludes that the history of college football is one in which the rules of the game have changed, but those of human nature have not.Trade ReviewWatterson provides a broad overview of the rise, demise, and rise again of college football over the past century... His coverage of the facts-the scandals, the commissions, committees, and conferences-is not likely to be surpassed, either in depth of detail or sharpness of analysis. Kirkus Reviews Carefully researched and thoroughly documented... This is a thoughtful, intellectually challenging historical examination of college football that places today's headlines in the context of a century of controversy. Booklist Watterson painstakingly details the development from an overly rough, rugby-like battle to the highly organized, semiprofessional game of today. Library Journal Sweeping and definitive history... [Watterson's] overall analysis of college football and its place in American culture is superb. -- Lane Hartill Christian Science Monitor Working with an impressive assortment of historical materials and documents, Watterson documents how, over the years, reformers have made the game less hazardous for players and more exciting for spectators. -- Allen L. Sack Chronicle of Higher Education Scholarly and fair. -- Michael Curtin Columbus Dispatch This is an excellent book for serious scholars of both football and general sports history. Choice A thick, deeply argued book, full of passion, anecdote, and a well-reasoned, if protracted, argument. -- Steven P. Gietschier Journal of Illinois History This book is an important contribution to sports history, and to a better understanding of the place of organized athletics in American culture. -- Timothy Wood Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography College Football is the best single volume for someone who wants to understand how the game evolved and how larger political, social, and economic forces affected its development. -- John M. Carroll Georgia Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Injuries1. The Origins of Big-Time Football, 1876 to 18942. The First Football Controversy, 1893 to 18973. Spreading Scandal: Football in the 1890s4. Football's Longest Season: The Fall of 19055. Football in Crisis, 1905 to 19066. The Game in Flux, 1906 to 19097. The Invention of Modern Football, 1910 to 1917Part II: Subsidies8. Playing and Caching for Pay in the 1920s9. The Growth of Subsidized Football, 1920 to 192910. Overcoming Hard Times: Gridiron Stratgeies in the 1930s11. Saints and Sinner, 1941 to 195012. Crisis and Reform, 1951 to 195213. De-emphasis or Demise: Gridiron Decisions of the 19502Part 3: Half-Truths & Halting Reforms14. The Flight from Disorder: Big-Time Football in Postwar America15. The Professional Paradigm, 1956 to 1974

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Johns Hopkins University Press The Culture of Classicism Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life 17801910

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Trade ReviewA conscientious and important history of the study of classicism in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... Ms. Winterer sheds light on the virtual disappearance of the ancients from the modern imagination. -- Rochelle Gurstein Wall Street Journal This book makes, in particular, two significant contributions to the field: it expands the scope of inquiry beyond the opening decades of the nation's history, where scholarly interest has tended to concentrate; and it shifts the focus from what has become familiar (the classicism of the founding fathers and the influence of nineteenth-century German scholarship) to what is less well-known... Winterer's prose moves swiftly and with punch, and she displays an easy familiarity with her subject matter. -- Matthew M. McGowan Bryn Mawr Classical Review Richly informative yet concise and lucid, this book is filled with interesting insight... It is, without question, one of the greatest contributions to [the field of classics in nineteenth-century America] yet published. -- Carl J. Richard American Historical Review The first full and sympathetic account of the changing role of classical education in pre-World War I America... The story told is, on the whole, one of gradual if heroically resisted extinction. -- Thomas L. Pangle Journal of American History 2003 Worthwhile reading not only for those interested in the history of the classics in American education, but also for anyone interested in the changes wrought in American education between the American Revolution and the twentieth century. -- Joseph Casazza New England Classical Journal This clearly-written and perceptive book provides the first general survey of the role of classics in the USA in the nineteenth century. -- Christopher Stray Mouseion: Journal of Classical Association of Canada An intelligent book about an important period. -- Karl Galinsky Libraries & the Cultural Record 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Antiquity in the New NationChapter 2. The Rise of GreeceChapter 3. From Words to Worlds, 1820–1870Chapter 4. Classical Civilization Consecrated, 1870–1910Chapter 5. Scholarship Versus Culture, 1870–1910 EpilogueNotesWorks Cited Index

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Johns Hopkins University Press Sociology of Higher Education

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Book SynopsisFeaturing extensive reviews of the literature, this volume will be invaluable for scholars and students of sociology and higher education.Trade ReviewThe book is outstanding in two respects: it presents a comprehensive state of the field, and it explores the role of sociological research in guiding higher education practice... Summing Up: Essential. Choice 2008 Unique in its genre... provides an analytical survey of the work accomplished in the sociology of higher education since the inception of this subfield, as well as suggesting directions for future research. -- Anne Friederike Delouis Reflecting Education 2008Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Points of Departure1. Development of the Sociology of Higher Education2. Sociology of Higher Education: An Evolving FieldPart II: Four Domains3. The Study of Inequality4. The Study of College Impact5. The Study of the Academic Profession6. The Study of Colleges and Universities as OrganizationsPart III: Emerging Lines of Inquiry7. Higher Education as an Institution8. Sociological Studies of Academic Departments9. The Sociology of Diversity10. Sociological Frameworks for Higher EducationPart IV: Looking Ahead11. A Note on Pursuing Things That Work12. Reflections on a Hybrid Field: Growth and Prospects for the Sociology of Higher EducationContributorsIndex

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Taylor & Francis Inc Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy

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Book SynopsisThis landmark volume articulates and develops the argument that new directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power that are central to understanding literacy research and literacy learning as social and cultural practices. With an overarching focus on the research process as it relates to sociocultural research, the book is organized around two themes: conceptual frameworks and knowledge sources. *Part I, âœRethinking Conceptual Frameworks,â offers new theoretical lenses for reconsidering key concepts traditionally associated with sociocultural theory, such as activity, history, community, and the ways they are conceptualized and under-conceptualized within sociocultural theory.*Part II, âœRethinking Knowledge and Representation,â considers the tensions and possibilities related to how research knowledge is produced, represented, and disseminated or sharedâchallenging the locus of authority in research relationships, asking who is authorized to be a legitimate knowledge source, for what purposes, and for which audiences or stakeholders. Employing the lens of âœcritical sociocultural research,â this book focuses on the central role of language and identity in learning and literacy practices. It is intended for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in literacy education, social and cultural psychology, social foundations of education, educational anthropology, curriculum theory, and qualitative research in education.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2007 NRC Edward Fry Book Award "Cynthia Lewis, Pat Enciso, and Elizabeth Moje have published thought-provoking writing that pushes against the deracinated, agency-free borders of some, though by no means all, current socio-cultural theory...The book is targeted at other researchers and graduate students; as I read it, I began to see its utility for pre- and inservice teachers as well." -- Language Arts, Vol. 86, No. 1, September 2008 "This volume offers a critical sociocultural research framework that challenges the taken-for-granted positions in literacy research and scholarship, and therefore broadens the scope of research in the field of literacy learning and practice. This volume is also of considerable pedagogical significance because it helps us better understand how disenfranchised literacy learners negotiate and construct their social identity, agency and power through their learning processes."--Jie Zhao, Pedagogies: An International Journal, October 2009Table of ContentsContents: B. Street, Foreword. Preface and Acknowledgements. C. Lewis, P. Enciso, E. Moje, Introduction: Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy. Part I:Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks. E.B. Moje, C. Lewis, Examining Opportunities to Learn Literacy: The Role of Critical Sociocultural Literacy Research. P. Enciso, Narrations of History and Transformation in Sociocultural Theories. R. Rogers, C. Fuller, 'As If You Heard It From Your Momma': Reconstructing Histories of Participation With Literacy Education in an Adult Education Class. K.D. Gutiérrez, Commentary. Part II:Rethinking Knowledge and Representation.M.F. Orellana, Moving Words and Moving Worlds: The Challenges of Being “In the Middle”. J. Guerra, Out of the Valley: Transcultural Repositioning as Rhetorical Practice in Research. B. Fecho, S. Meacham, Research Sites as Transactional Spaces. L. Moll, E. Rubenstein-Ávila, Commentary.

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Rutgers University Press Mama PhD

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Book SynopsisCandid, provocative, and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, the thirty-five essays in this anthology speak to and offer support for any woman attempting to combine work and family, as well as anyone who is interested in improving the university's ability to live up to its reputation to be among the most progressive of American institutions.Trade Review"Well-written, personal, insightful and engaging, Mama, PhD gives an accurate glimpse into the feelings and conflicts that mothers in academia don't often reveal because such disclosure is felt to be unprofessional." -- Karen V. Hansen * author of Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care *"All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your hair-where's the discursive construction of motherhood when you need it? It's here, in these smart, funny, poignant essays that struggle to balance mind and body, to balance body and soul." -- Catherine Newman, PhD * author of Waiting for Birdy *"Through the voices of those who have weathered the storm, Mama, PhD provides invaluable lessons for young scholars-both men and women-striving to navigate family and academic careers." -- Robert Drago * author of Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life *"This is a charming, heartfelt book that expresses the difficulties and the joys of combining a life in academia with motherhood. Each story is different, but the experiences and challenges are widely shared." -- Mary Ann Mason * author of Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Families *"Each writer beautifully articulates the personal details of her own experiences. Whether working to conceal their family lives in order to maintain professional credibility, fighting with administrators for fair and flexible treatment, defiantly toting infants into the offices of their advisers, or dropping out of academia to search for different ways to combine intellect and motherhood, the contributors to Mama, PhD offer themselves up as potential role models to women wondering how to tackle these two demanding responsibilities." -- Katura Reynolds * Bitch Magazine *"An optimistic narrative of work-family balance among women with PhDs. Mama PhD gave advice about achieving a successful work-family balance in academia, presented several models of success, and left me with a more optimistic view of my chances at balancing child raising with s successful career." -- Arielle Kuperberg * Women's Studies Quarterly *"A unique and potent mixture of memoir, analysis, and advocacy. Mama PhD stands out in its ability to blend testimony, analysis, and advocacy, from a variety of perspectives. This volume raises striking questions about women's changing roles." * Feminist Teacher *"Well-written, personal, insightful and engaging, Mama, PhD gives an accurate glimpse into the feelings and conflicts that mothers in academia don't often reveal because such disclosure is felt to be unprofessional." -- Karen V. Hansen * author of Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care *"All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your hair-where's the discursive construction of motherhood when you need it? It's here, in these smart, funny, poignant essays that struggle to balance mind and body, to balance body and soul." -- Catherine Newman, PhD * author of Waiting for Birdy *"Through the voices of those who have weathered the storm, Mama, PhD provides invaluable lessons for young scholars-both men and women-striving to navigate family and academic careers." -- Robert Drago * author of Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life *"This is a charming, heartfelt book that expresses the difficulties and the joys of combining a life in academia with motherhood. Each story is different, but the experiences and challenges are widely shared." -- Mary Ann Mason * author of Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Families *"Each writer beautifully articulates the personal details of her own experiences. Whether working to conceal their family lives in order to maintain professional credibility, fighting with administrators for fair and flexible treatment, defiantly toting infants into the offices of their advisers, or dropping out of academia to search for different ways to combine intellect and motherhood, the contributors to Mama, PhD offer themselves up as potential role models to women wondering how to tackle these two demanding responsibilities." -- Katura Reynolds * Bitch Magazine *"An optimistic narrative of work-family balance among women with PhDs. Mama PhD gave advice about achieving a successful work-family balance in academia, presented several models of success, and left me with a more optimistic view of my chances at balancing child raising with s successful career." -- Arielle Kuperberg * Women's Studies Quarterly *"A unique and potent mixture of memoir, analysis, and advocacy. Mama PhD stands out in its ability to blend testimony, analysis, and advocacy, from a variety of perspectives. This volume raises striking questions about women's changing roles." * Feminist Teacher *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: The Conversation Part Two: That Mommy Thing Part Three: Recovering Academic Part Four: Momifesto Contributors

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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Higher Calling

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LUP - University of Georgia Press Academic Lives Memoir Cultural Theory and the University Today

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Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Berube, Cathy Davidson, Jane Gallop, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianne Torgovnick, this title considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry.Trade ReviewTracing the rise of academic memoir to anxieties about the status of cultural theory, Academic Lives gives the genre the critical recognition and comprehensive survey it deserves. Cynthia G. Franklin is unsparing in her critique of the academic memoir's tendency to substitute individual feeling for institutional analysis, but her ultimate goal is to show the genre's potential for reshaping the humanities and public intellectual discourse. Academic Lives is indispensable reading not only for those interested in memoir but for those interested in the future of the university. - Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

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