Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education – serie
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8 produkter
Academic Disciplines
Holland's Theory and the Study of College Students and Faculty
Av John C. Smart, Kenneth A. Feldman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1155 kr
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Using as a framework the "theory of careers" developed by John L. Holland, the authors of this volume examine the patterns of student stability and change inherent in the college experience, as well as the variations in professional attitudes and behaviors of college faculty. Their goal is to learn …
Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle
Inbunden, 2000
1155 kr
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More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year. This phenomenon is known as the ""departure puzzle,"" and for years, the most important body of work on student retention has come from …
Lobbying for Higher Education
How Colleges and Universities Influence Federal Policy
Inbunden, 1998
1269 kr
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Historically, many faculty and administrators in higher education have regarded themselves as above the fray--part of the national interest, not a special interest--and considered lobbying a dirty business unworthy of their lofty enterprise. Now that academia no longer enjoys all the respect and …
Professional Professoriate
Unionization, Bureaucratization, and the AAUP
Inbunden, 2000
1130 kr
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Starting with the question "How have professors and educational institutions responded to pressures to be professional yet act bureaucratically," Philo Hutcheson uses federal and AAUP records and surveys and blends historical research and sociological analysis to develop a full understanding of the …
Creating Contexts for Learning and Self-Authorship
Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy
Inbunden, 2000
1269 kr
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In her thoughtful and innovative new book, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda writes of "bridging the worlds between educator and students." There is perhaps no task more fundamental to effective teaching and learning. All too often a distinct gap develops or cannot be overcome between instructor and …
Professional Professoriate
Unionization, Bureaucratization, and the AAUP
Häftad, 2000
585 kr
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Starting with the question "How have professors and educational institutions responded to pressures to be professional yet act bureaucratically," Philo Hutcheson uses federal and AAUP records and surveys and blends historical research and sociological analysis to develop a full understanding of the …
American College in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2000
619 kr
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At the end of the eighteenth century, just eighteen colleges existed in the United States, with an average enrollment of fewer than seventy. One hundred years later, over 450 American colleges and universities boasted enrollments up more than one hundredfold. The role of educational institutions in …
Creating Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching among College and University Faculty
Inbunden, 2001
1155 kr
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Interdisciplinarity, a favorite buzzword of faculty and administrators, has been appropriated to describe so many academic pursuits that it is virtually meaningless. With a writing style that is accessible, fluid, and engaging, Lisa Lattuca remedies this confusion with an original conceptualization …
