Reflections On Life In Higher Education

Author : Rick D. Saucier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137560452
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Life in Higher Education written by Rick D. Saucier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.

Author : Gary A. Olson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438445784
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Creature of Our Own Making written by Gary A. Olson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, savvy, incisive, and entertaining short essays on the culture, mores, and practices of higher education.

Author : Anthony Aveni
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607323036
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Not Dismissed written by Anthony Aveni and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education. Although in recent years the lecture has come under fire as a pedagogical method, Aveni ardently defends lecturing to students. He shares his secrets on crafting an engaging lecture and creating productive dialogue in class discussions. He lays out his rules on classroom discipline and tells how he promotes the lost art of listening. He is a passionate proponent of the liberal arts and core course requirements as well as a believer in sound teaching promoted by active scholarship. Aveni is known to his students as a consummate storyteller. In Class Not Dismissed he shares real stories about everyday college life that shed light on serious educational issues. The result is a humorous, reflective, inviting, and powerful inquiry into higher education that will be of interest to anyone invested in the current and future state of college and university education.

Author : M. Gail Hickey
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498523714
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education written by M. Gail Hickey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—“Reflecting on Community Partnerships,” “Reflecting on Classroom Practice,” and “Reflecting on Diversity”—so as to represent interdisciplinary subjects, diverse student populations, and differing instructional perspectives about service-learning in higher education. Contributors provide service-learning programs and plans that can be replicated or adapted at other institutions of higher education. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of education.

Author : Robert J. Nash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317600126
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preparing Students for Life Beyond College written by Robert J. Nash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when STEM research and new technologies are dominating the curricula of colleges and universities, this important book refocuses the conversation on holistic education for all students. Organized around the most important and difficult questions that students face, Preparing Students for Life Beyond College explores a vision of education that will enable students to talk about universal issues openly and honestly, preparing them for life beyond their formal education. Featuring a variety of traditional and innovative pedagogies, strategies, recommendations, and case studies, this practical resource provides student affairs practitioners and higher education faculty in a variety of disciplines with concrete approaches for developing campuses and classes that encourage critical thinking and reflection. This exciting book prepares colleges and universities to help students create meaning in their lives—no matter the discipline, campus location or delivery system.

Author : Abraham Leo Gitlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Higher Education written by Abraham Leo Gitlow and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : William G. Bowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881366
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lesson Plan written by William G. Bowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how American colleges and universities need to change in order to meet the nation's pressing needs American higher education faces some serious problems—but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises—from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being driven by administrative bloat—are exaggerated or simply false. At the same time, many real problems—from the high dropout rate to inefficient faculty staffing—have received far too little attention. In response, William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson provide a frank assessment of the biggest challenges confronting higher education and propose a bold agenda for reengineering essential elements of the system to meet them. The result promises to help shape the debate about higher education for years to come. Lesson Plan shows that, for all of its accomplishments, higher education today is falling short when it comes to vital national needs. Too many undergraduates are dropping out or taking too long to graduate; minorities and the poor fare worse than their peers, reinforcing inequality; and college is unaffordable for too many. But these problems could be greatly reduced by making significant changes, including targeting federal and state funding more efficiently; allocating less money for "merit aid" and more to match financial need; creating a respected “teaching corps” that would include nontenure faculty; improving basic courses in fields such as math by combining adaptive learning and face-to-face teaching; strengthening leadership; and encouraging more risk taking. It won't be easy for faculty, administrators, trustees, and legislators to make such sweeping changes, but only by doing so will they make it possible for our colleges and universities to meet the nation’s demands tomorrow and into the future.

Author : Kimberly A. Kline
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000981185
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflection in Action written by Kimberly A. Kline and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook aims to stimulate student affairs professionals and higher education faculty alike to adopt new approaches when discussing sensitive or controversial topics with their students. It provides teachers and professionals with a critical social understanding of social justice, social agency, reflection, and actionable knowledge to develop new and effective skills, practice them in safe spaces, and apply them in the field. It offers tools that are equally applicable in a classroom or cocurricular setting.The exceptional teachers, scholars, and professionals contributing to this volume provide a diverse and alternative lens through which to examine the intersection of social justice education and professional practice. The text is organized in three overarching themes: Part One, “Existing Theories, Examining Claims, and Proposing New Understandings”; Part Two, “Concrete Tools and Safe Spaces for Practicing Difficult Dialogues in Professional Practice”; and Part Three, “Professional Development, Action Research, and Social Agency.” In Part Four, “Moving Forward,” the book concludes with a chapter on implications for daily life and practice.The action-oriented research model provides strategies and frameworks for using social science research to engage in critical social and educational problem solving. The emphasis is on moving colleges and universities to widen their moral and ethical lenses, beyond understanding diversity, to developing multicultural competence and enriching their campus communities.Written for faculty in higher education and student affairs professionals, along with master’s and doctoral students in these fields, this book provides a framework that is grounded in research and sound pedagogies and theories.

Author : Melissa Carter
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804411221
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Search for Meaning written by Melissa Carter and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together reflections on how students pursue the search for meaning and purpose in the context of higher education. It offers perspectives from humanities professors, college chaplains of multiple faiths, and observers of the changing shape of the American university as each considers the needs and expectations of today’s students. The collection address three key lines of inquiry: what the student search for meaning looks like in the context of higher education; how do presenters understand the dimensions of the search for meaning itself; and how do (or don’t) humanities faculty and religious life leaders talk to each other around the common student concerns addressed in both course work and the extracurricular world of religious life programs? Together, the conversation suggests that students pursue a search for meaning in the context of university life and the academic curriculum, but the particular dimensions of this search are yet undefined. This is often a contested pursuit because it conflicts with the other purposes of the university which some see as primary. A key audience for this book is university administrators who work in the field of chaplaincy and faith-based programming, as well as department chairs and faculty in the liberal arts who are directly involved in building humanities curriculum.

Author : Staci M. Zavattaro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137600098
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Academic Lives written by Staci M. Zavattaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together reflections from seventy academics – everyone from doctoral students to a retired provost – who share their lived experiences in graduate school and beyond. Career seekers, adjunct professors, those in or considering graduate school, and tenure-track professors alike will find truths revealed through these shared experiences of struggle, triumph, loss and hope.