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Facilitating Change in Higher Education
Creating positive and sustainable change in higher education is hard. Facilitating Change in Higher Education provides a complete roadmap to support those interested in driving departmental change. This book blends theory and practice so that readers understand the why and the how behind creating change in higher education. Covered topics include developing change agency, building a productive team culture, and interfacing with key stakeholders. Supported by over 100 resources integrated into the text, readers will come away feeling prepared to facilitate change in their own context. For more information, please visit dat-project.org The authors (Courtney Ngai, Joel C. Corbo, Karen L. Falkenberg, Chris Geanious, Alanna Pawlak, Mary E. Pilgrim, Gina M. Quan, Daniel L. Reinholz, Clara Smith, and Sarah B. Wise) have collectively worked together to develop the Departmental Action Team model for creating change presented in this book. They have a combined 35 years of experience researching and facilitating change in higher education and more than 15 publications on the subject. They continue to work at the intersection of change, equity, and higher education.
Oxford English Dictionary
This is the third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (Citizen's Charter), North America (affluential, Clintonomics), Australia (beardie), and the West Indies (zouk). A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the sciences (buckyball, nanotechnology, Tourette syndrome), finance (junk bond, negative equity), literary theory (metafiction), computing (freeware, core dump), and sport (basho, lowball).
Beyond the Aspen Grove
The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger's subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment.These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland land her ancestor settled in the early 1730s, are a place of all seasons, for even in winter there is a promise of spring, and in spring the foretaste of summer. The white of snow becomes the white of summer clouds, the resonant green of spruce becomes the green head of drake mallard ... here part of each season is contained in every other.In beautiful and simple language and with 80 illustrations, Beyond the Aspen Grove tells of meadow, lake, marsh and forest, of algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the thin clear air of the mountain world.
A Few of the Descendants of Charles Mayberry/Mabry of Grayson (Carroll) Co. VA, 176?-1840
Charles Mayberry/Mabry (176?-1840) emigrated from England with two brothers and his father Isaac to Virginia. He settled in Carroll Co., VA and married (1) Elizabeth Helton about 1785-86. Their first child Amelia, was born about 1787. They were the parents of nine children: Amelia (Reynolds), Joshua, John, Isaac, Nancy (Sutphin). Samuel (b.1802) married Tabitha Branscome, Elizabeth (Montgomery), Joseph J. and Susannah (Montgomery). He married (2) Sarah. Several generations of descendants are given.
Increasing Student Success in STEM
This publication is for faculty, administrators, and other academic leaders who are poised to mount comprehensive STEM reforms to improve student learning and success, particularly for students from underrepresented minority groups. Based on the experiences of eleven colleges and universities in the Keck/PKAL STEM Education Effectiveness Framework project, the Guide contains advice on getting started, team and leader development, project management, and sustaining change. It also includes benchmarks, key questions for analysis, timeline information, challenge alerts to help anticipate common roadblocks, and a rubric to help campus teams gauge their progress. Examples from case studies developed by campus teams who participated in the project provide real-world illustrations.
Faculty Development and Student Learning
Colleges and universities across the US have created special initiatives to promote faculty development, but to date there has been little research to determine whether such programs have an impact on students' learning. Faculty Development and Student Learning reports the results of a multi-year study undertaken by faculty at Carleton College and Washington State University to assess how students' learning is affected by faculty members' efforts to become better teachers. Extending recent research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) to assessment of faculty development and its effectiveness, the authors show that faculty participation in professional development activities positively affects classroom pedagogy, student learning, and the overall culture of teaching and learning in a college or university.
Technically Speaking
Cell phones . . . airbags . . . genetically modified food . . . the Internet. These are all emblems of modern life. You might ask what we would do without them. But an even more interesting question might be what would we do if we had to actually explain how they worked? The United States is riding a whirlwind of technological change. To be sure, there have been periods, such as the late 1800s, when new inventions appeared in society at a comparable rate. But the pace of change today, and its social, economic, and other impacts, are as significant and far reaching as at any other time in history. And it seems that the faster we embrace new technologies, the less we're able to understand them...
