Bøger af Higher Education (HE)

Take a candid look into how some traditional liberal arts colleges have incorporated nontraditional adult degree programs. This volume of case studies shows how a number of small, independent universities addressed various administrative and service functions for their adult programs.

This volume focuses on the goals, practices, policies, and outcomes of programs that enroll high school students in college courses for college credit.

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.

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.

Prepare your institution for a new generation of disability services that embraces the growing student, as well as staff and faculty population with disabilities.

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.

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.

Explore ways that concepts of organizational learning are being applied within higher education settings by examining the role of institutional research offices, librarians, centers for teaching and learning, and institutional leaders.