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College Belonging
How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
College Belonging reveals how colleges’ and universities’ efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the message to “get out there!” and “find your place” by joining student organizations, sports teams, clubs and the like. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works.
Climbing a Broken Ladder
Contributors of College Success for Youth in Foster Care
Rutgers University Press
Although foster youth have college aspirations similar to their peers, fewer than one in ten ultimately complete a two-year or four-year college degree. Drawing on data from one of the most extensive studies of young people in foster care, Climbing a Broken Ladder examines a wide range factors that contribute to the chances that foster youth enroll in college, persist in college, and ultimately complete a degree.
Ungrading
Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
Edited by Susan D. Blum; Foreword by Alfie Kohn
West Virginia University Press
Canadian Foreign Policy
Reflections on a Field in Transition
Edited by Brian Bow and Andrea Lane
UBC Press
Canadian Foreign Policy brings together leading scholars in a lively, engaging meditation on the current state and future direction of the Canadian foreign policy discipline, and on how we see Canada in the world.
The Finest Blend
Graduate Education in Canada
Athabasca University Press
As Canadian universities work to increase access to graduate education, many are adopting blended modes of delivery for courses and programs. This book provides a comprehensive overview of current practices and opportunities for blended learning success.
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
Edited by Corey Campion and Aaron Angello
Rutgers University Press
Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
Edited by Corey Campion and Aaron Angello
Rutgers University Press
Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.
Campus with Purpose
Building a Mission-Driven Campus
Rutgers University Press
Through personal and engaging anecdotes about his experience as the inaugural chancellor at the University of Minnesota-Rochester, Stephen Lehmkuhle describes how higher education leaders can focus on campus purpose to create new and fresh ways to think about many elements of campus operation and function, and how leaders can protect the campus’s purpose from the pervasive higher education culture that is hardened by history and habit.
It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not)
Mental Health Tips and Self-Care Strategies for Your Undergrad Years
UBC Press, On Campus
It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not) explores frequent sources of undergraduate mental distress and the steps students can take to meet those challenges head-on.
Innovation of Higher Education
Change-Makers at Incheon National University I
Seoul Selection, Seoul Selection USA, Inc.
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