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Understanding and Facilitating Organizational Change in the 21st Century: Recent Research and Conceptualizations
There is a widespread discontent with the quality of education and levels of college student achievement, particularly for undergraduates preparing for the professions. This report examines the educational challenges in preparing professionals, reviews the specific types of curriculum innovations that faculty and administrators have created or significantly revised to strengthen college graduates' abilities, and focuses on the societal changes and expectations produced by the acceleration in technology.
Football U.
Toma scores with a balanced look at the use of athletic programs as a tool in "branding" universities and in building community spirit, support, and identity both on campus and off. 11 photos.
Linking Theory to Practice
The new edition of this acclaimed book offers twenty-six new case studies on student affairs issues that reflect the complexity of today's environment at colleges and universities. The cases present a challenging array of problems to tackle, such as racial diversity, campus violence, alcohol abuse, and student activism. The campus settings range from large research universities, community college campuses, historically black institutions, and residential liberal arts colleges. An excellent teaching tool, the book challenges students to consider multiple overlapping issues within a single case study. The book is also intended for student affairs workshops or for new or experienced professionals in student affairs. Outstanding features include: A two-part structure that sets the stage for case study methods and links student affairs theory with practical applications Cases set in a wide variety of institution types and locations Complex case studies reflecting the multifaceted issues student affairs professionals face in today's college university environment
Learning By Doing
The fifth volume in a AAHE and Campus Compact’s series on service-learning in the disciplines, this volume focuses on curriculum reform in accounting programs based on goals identified by accounting educators and describes specific implementations across the accounting curriculum. A practical guide with real solutions for both accounting educators and students.
Innovative Student Residences
Current design modes of student residences are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic, and social factors. Thinking innovatively about university accommodation led to the idea to write Innovative Student Residences. The author offer a fascinating insight into contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with outstanding examples, showcased by full-color photography and detailed plans.
The Motif of Hospitality in Theological Education
These are exciting times in theological education as old models are being reassessed and teachers and schools are looking for guidance on how best to do the job and how to profitably relate to students in the ministry of teaching. Increasingly, the motif of hospitality is being used to guide our thinking and practice, but it needs a careful assessment if it is to be of maximum use to theological education today. This book provides an integrated biblical, theological, and educational rationale to inform theological educators of the place of hospitality in enhancing their quest to create more effective learning environments for the holistic formation of students. Dr Davina Soh explores key elements of hospitality such as inclusion, presence, care, and reciprocity, which when combined, can deliver the best possible educational experience for theological students and transform an entire institution.
Student Housing and Residential Life
This book draws on the best sources of contemporary theory, research, and practice to provide a comprehensive handbook for meeting the challenges of campus violence, scarce resources, multiculturalism, and changing student attitudes. It surveys the full spectrum of housing programs and services, and provides strategies for managing student housing in a way that promotes students' personal as well as intellectual development.
The ERIC Review
Provides information on programs, research, publications, and services of ERIC, as well as critical and current education information.
Academic Departments
A literature review, the experiences of the authors, and the results of the Project To Improve and Reward Teaching (PIRT) at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, are used to derive suggestions for change in academic departments. A qualitative study of change in eight PIRT departments has provided data to support the suggestions. Assessing the pressures for change is a first step for practitioners who are planning change in an academic department. Seeking the greatest possible understanding of how departments work and how departmental structures and cultures suggest avenues for change is a necessary second step. Implementing change strategies adapted to the local situation must follow. A final...
Taking Teaching Seriously: Meeting the Challenge of Instructional Improvement
This report reviews the research and literature on the improvement of college teaching through use of a model that stresses a supportive teaching culture and helps motivate individual faculty members to improve their teaching by utilizing a variety of sources of informative feedback. The sources include: colleagues and consultants, department chairs, students, and self-evaluation. The report provides: (1) an examination of the nature of instructional improvement and the challenge of motivating faculty to improve their teaching through identifying, making, and maintaining necessary changes; (2) an exploration of important factors in the creation of a supportive campus teaching culture; (3) ex...
