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From Here to University Access, Mobility, & Resilience Among Latino Youth

From Here to University: Access, Mobility, & Resilience Among Latino Youth

1st Edition

By Alexander Jun
September 30, 2021

From Here to University examines factors leading to successful college preparation and academic mobility for historically underrepresented, low-income, inner-city youth. Alexander Jun analyzes theories of social and cultural capital, as well as the effects of incorporating family and community ...

Teacher Education for Critical Consumption of Mass Media and Popular Culture

Teacher Education for Critical Consumption of Mass Media and Popular Culture

1st Edition

By Stephanie A. Flores-Koulish
July 26, 2013

The study develops a baseline of knowledge to encourage the inclusion of media literacy education in teacher education....

A Profile of the Community College Professorate, 1975-2000

A Profile of the Community College Professorate, 1975-2000

1st Edition

By Charles Outcalt
January 08, 2018

Through a national, longitudinal study, this book offers important insights into the attitudes and practices of the nation's 275,000 community college faculty. The book includes chapters on such crucial topics as instruction, satisfaction, professional involvement, and the use of reference groups....

Tenure on Trial Case Studies of Change in Faculty Appointment Policies

Tenure on Trial: Case Studies of Change in Faculty Appointment Policies

1st Edition

By William Mallon
January 08, 2018

This book examines how and why colleges abolish or institute tenure by profiling four colleges: two that moved from tenure to term contracts and two that moved from contracts to tenure....

The Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing Catholic Higher Education in China

The Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing: Catholic Higher Education in China

1st Edition

By John S. Chen
February 04, 2019

This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China....

Federalism and the Lander Autonomy The Higher Education Policy Network in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1948-1998

Federalism and the Lander Autonomy: The Higher Education Policy Network in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1948-1998

1st Edition

By Cesare Onestini
August 03, 2016

An interesting study of the German higher Education system, examining the development of higher education policies from the post-war years, to the post-unification period....

I Prefer to Teach An International Comparison of Faculty Preference for Teaching

I Prefer to Teach: An International Comparison of Faculty Preference for Teaching

1st Edition

By James J.F. Forest
November 30, 2001

This book draws on the perspectives of nearly 20 000 faculties from around the world to determine significant trends in how professors view teaching and research....

Technology Transfer Via University-Industry Relations The Case of the Foreign High Technology Electronic Industry in Mexico's Silicon Valley

Technology Transfer Via University-Industry Relations: The Case of the Foreign High Technology Electronic Industry in Mexico's Silicon Valley

1st Edition

By Maria Isabel Rivera Vargas
January 25, 2002

This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics corporations play in the process. Riveria Vargas delineates that technology transfer is occurring, describes it nature, the channels of ...

The Call For Diversity Pressure, Expectation, and Organizational Response in the Postsecondary Setting

The Call For Diversity: Pressure, Expectation, and Organizational Response in the Postsecondary Setting

1st Edition

By David J. Siegel
May 09, 2003

This book explores the organizational responses of professional schools and colleges to pressures, demands, requirements, expectations, and incentives related to diversity. The macro-organizational perspective supplies much-needed balance and complexity to traditional depictions of post-secondary ...

Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study

Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices: Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study

1st Edition

By Joan Elias Gore
June 28, 2012

This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality....

The Transformation of the Student Career University Study in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

The Transformation of the Student Career: University Study in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

1st Edition

By Michael Nugent
February 27, 2017

This study examines the transformation of the structural characteristics and ideological assumptions of university study in these three countries between the mid-1950s and the early 1990s....

Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador

Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador

1st Edition

By Charles J. Beirne, S.J.
September 02, 2016

This book examines a unique university model for social change-the University of Central America Jos Sime-n Ca-as (UCA) in El Salvador, where the military murdered six Jesuit priests and two women on November 16, 1989.The book addresses such important questions as: Is the role of a university to ...

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