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Teaching Matters
A Guide for Graduate Students
By Aeron Haynie and Stephanie Spong
West Virginia University Press
A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.
Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology
Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World
West Virginia University Press
What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?
The Successful TA
A Practical Approach to Effective Teaching
By Kathy M. Nomme and Carol Pollock
UBC Press, On Campus
Feel confident stepping into your role as a TA with help from this short, practical guide, which demystifies everything from how to interact with course instructors to giving students feedback on their work.
Black Space
Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower
Rutgers University Press
Protests against systemic racism have swept across elite colleges and universities, raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong on these campuses. Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of students in the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization with racially diverse members and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students, as a case study in exploring race, diversity, and safe space.
You @ the U
A Guided Tour through Your First Year of University
By Janet Miller; Foreword by Roy Bear Chief
UBC Press, On Campus
In this essential guide, university counsellor Janet Miller draws on her wit, wisdom, and decades of experience to help first-time students – of whatever age – prep for and survive their first year of university.
The Reimagined PhD
Navigating 21st Century Humanities Education
Rutgers University Press
Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have begun to shed this singular sense of mission. The Reimagined PhD normalizes the multiple career paths open to PhD students, while providing practical advice geared to help students, faculty, and administrators incorporate professional skills into graduate training, build career networks, and prepare PhDs for a range of careers.
Special Admission
How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes
Rutgers University Press
Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide an avenue for upward mobility. Kirsten Hextrum reveals the dynamic relationship between the state, elite groups, private entities, educational institutions, and athletic organizations that concentrate opportunities in white suburban communities. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their advantages through admission to elite universities.
U.S. Power in International Higher Education
Edited by Jenny J. Lee
Rutgers University Press
U.S. Power in International Higher Education demonstrates the advantage that the United States has in international higher education by presenting broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of international activities.
U.S. Power in International Higher Education
Edited by Jenny J. Lee
Rutgers University Press
U.S. Power in International Higher Education demonstrates the advantage that the United States has in international higher education by presenting broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of international activities.
Minding Bodies
How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning
By Susan Hrach
West Virginia University Press
What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not just “brains on sticks”)?
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
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