Although students have been moving between institutions and attempting to import course credit for many years, current data show that transfer is becoming an increasingly common approach to higher education. This volume is dedicated to exploring this new normal and has been written with a broad constituency in mind.
It is intended to assist institutions, higher education agencies, and even state legislative bodies as they navigate the challenges of serving transfer students, a diverse, integral segment of our higher education system. Most available research has explored the two year...
Although students have been moving between institutions and attempting to import course credit for many years, current data show that transfer is b...
A rash of new publications from nearly every national higher education organization address accountability. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the emerging consensus from this work and show how these ideas are playing out across the country. It is a collection of essays by practitioners, many at the highest levels of U.S. higher education, who have been asked to focus on how accountability systems in their states and at their institutions are being used and for what purposes. As consensus emerges that state-level accountability should be focused on the state's public agenda rather...
A rash of new publications from nearly every national higher education organization address accountability. The purpose of this volume is to highlight...
Providing extensive real life examples, Transitions Between Faculty and Administrative Careers delves into the main challenges of transitioning between faculty and administrative careers. Issues such as building a diverse support team, developing flexible management skills to enhance all types of professional relationships, actively bridging academe and administration, and articulating your vision, among others, are discussed in detail.
This is the 134th volume of the quarterly report, New Directions for Higher Education, published by Jossey-Bass.
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Providing extensive real life examples, Transitions Between Faculty and Administrative Careers delves into the main challenges of transitioning...
In Educating for Deliberative Democracy, contributing authors and editor Nancy L. Thomas explore the critical role that higher education can play ? alongside expanding coalitions of civic organizations, public officials, and everyday citizens ? in strengthening democracy. At the heart of these efforts is a conviction that persistent public problems call for dialogue and deliberation that result in collective action by diverse groups of informed, skilled, motivated, and principled citizens--what many call deliberative democracy.
What makes deliberative democracy so appealing...
In Educating for Deliberative Democracy, contributing authors and editor Nancy L. Thomas explore the critical role that higher education can pl...
Proven solutions to the full range of challenges facing today's student affairs officers
This volume in the critically acclaimed New Directions in Higher Education series explores various ways in which university student affairs officers are addressing some of the newest and most critical issues in today's institutions of higher learning. It addresses an array of key issues, from how to address the needs of veterans and transfer students to cutting-edge solutions, such as crowdsourcing and campus concierge services. The authors describe the new entrepreneurial...
Proven solutions to the full range of challenges facing today's student affairs officers
Prepare your institution for a new generation of disability services that embraces the growing student, as well as staff and faculty population with disabilities. Legal compliance, reasonable accommodations, classroom instruction issues, strategies to improve the campus climate and more--this volume examines what disability services may have to offer, and have cmapuses and disability service professionals may need to collaborate or expand traditional notions of disability and disability services.
Volume editors Wendy S. Harbour, Lawrence B. Taishoff Professor of Inclusive Education at...
Prepare your institution for a new generation of disability services that embraces the growing student, as well as staff and faculty population with d...
Dedicated to the hundreds of practitioners who work at international branch campuses (IBCs), this volume examines the unique challenges ICB professionals face in the leading edge of development in the global higher education sector and how they are unlike those confronted by their colleagues on the home campus.
The volume is designed to provide readers with an overview of the IBC phenomenon, as well as provide practical insights from those directly involved in the development of multinational colleges and universities. Editors Jason E. Lane and Kevin Kinser of the Institute for Global...
Dedicated to the hundreds of practitioners who work at international branch campuses (IBCs), this volume examines the unique challenges ICB profession...
This volume focuses on how colleges can, and must, help its faculty with the challenge of balancing careers and family. This is a challnege for colleges and universities if they are to recruit and retain the most able faculty. In particular, as long as women are at a structural disadvantage in pursuing faculty careers to the full extent of their abilities, colleges and universities will not be drawing from the complete pool of potential faculty members.
The Challenge of Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work is an instructive and informative issue for both college faculty and...
This volume focuses on how colleges can, and must, help its faculty with the challenge of balancing careers and family. This is a challnege for colleg...
Peers have always been an important influence on students' college experience. Peer leadership programs are not only pervasive but also offer an effective means to advance students' adjustment, learning, development, and success. This issue covers peer leadership as an emerging high-impact practice in support of 21st Century Learning Outcomes. In it, you'll learn:
The benefits of peer leader programs
A history of peer education
How to provide academic support through peer education
Peer leadership in the cocurriculum
Integrating technology...
Peers have always been an important influence on students' college experience. Peer leadership programs are not only pervasive but also offer an ef...
Institutions of higher education are constantly facing economic challenges to their survival. Nowhere are the challenges greater than in small private colleges and universities across America. None of these colleges can assume that its stability is assured in perpetuity. No thriving college is immune from unforeseen disaster, just as no struggling college is irreversibly destined for closure.
This issue presents stories of colleges in crisis and considers what makes the difference between a college that closes and one that nearly closes but manages to remain open. It offers a range of...
Institutions of higher education are constantly facing economic challenges to their survival. Nowhere are the challenges greater than in small private...
