A Student Of Colleges

Author : Steven R Antonoff, PH D
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798377452546

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A Student of Colleges by Steven R Antonoff, PH D Pdf

This textbook is an introduction to a career in the field of independent educational consulting. It explores, analyzes, and explains many dimensions of this booming career. This book highlights the practices, principles, and tenets that are essential to those contemplating a career in this field or those wanting to hone, strengthen, and grow their current practice. Although written for an independent educational consultant (IEC), the content (running a business; counseling strategies leading to more effective communication; ways of growing and evolving a small business, etc.) is applicable to other small business women and men, particularly those wanting to be a consultant of any sort. Topics covered include how to become a consultant, the qualities necessary for a successful career as an IEC, the right timing for starting a private practice, how to run a consulting business, working with families on cost and affordability issues, how to organize time with students, how to build a college list, counseling basics for IECs, how to build knowledge of colleges and the admission process, ways of getting to know students, working with learning disabled students, forging a partnership with parents, the higher education and admission landscape, and expanding an IEC practice. The book is a culmination of the author's 30-plus years as an Independent Consultant. Materials were gathered through teaching at both University of California, Irvine and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), presenting at national and regional conferences, and training Independent Educational Consultants.

Author : Tia Brown McNair,Susan Albertine,Michelle Asha Cooper,Nicole McDonald,Thomas Major, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119119517

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Becoming a Student-Ready College by Tia Brown McNair,Susan Albertine,Michelle Asha Cooper,Nicole McDonald,Thomas Major, Jr. Pdf

Boost student success by reversing your perspective on college readiness The national conversation asking "Are students college-ready?" concentrates on numerous factors that are beyond higher education's control. Becoming a Student-Ready College flips the college readiness conversation to provide a new perspective on creating institutional value and facilitating student success. Instead of focusing on student preparedness for college (or lack thereof), this book asks the more pragmatic question of what are colleges and universities doing to prepare for the students who are entering their institutions? What must change in an institution's policies, practices, and culture in order to be student-ready? Clear and concise, this book is packed with insightful discussion and practical strategies for achieving your ambitious student success goals. These ideas for redesigning practices and policies provide more than food for thought—they offer a real-world framework for real institutional change. You'll learn: How educators can acknowledge their own biases and assumptions about underserved students in order to allow for change New ways to advance student learning and success How to develop and value student assets and social capital Strategies and approaches for creating a new student-focused culture of leadership at every level To truly become student-ready, educators must make difficult decisions, face the pressures of accountability, and address their preconceived notions about student success head-on. Becoming a Student-Ready College provides a reality check based on today's higher education environment.

Author : Donna Hardy Cox,C. Carney Strange
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773582330

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Achieving Student Success by Donna Hardy Cox,C. Carney Strange Pdf

This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "naming" has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies. It is a book about how we perceive and represent the world around us, about the creative and destructive power of language. Through its elaboration of the rich and lively ironies of the Columbus story, The Accidental Indies looks at the nature of storytelling itself.

Author : Robin G. Isserles
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421442082

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The Costs of Completion by Robin G. Isserles Pdf

To improve community college success, we need to consider the lived realities of students. Our nation's community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their time to completing a degree—or worse, causing many to drop out altogether. In The Costs of Completion, Robin G. Isserles contextualizes this crisis by placing blame on the neoliberal policies that have shaped public community colleges over the past thirty years. The disinvestment of state funding, she explains, has created austerity conditions, leading to an overreliance on contingent labor, excessive investments in advisement technologies, and a push to performance outcomes like retention and graduation rates for measuring student and institutional success. The prevailing theory at the root of the community college completion crisis—academic momentum—suggests that students need to build momentum in their first year by becoming academically integrated, thereby increasing their chances of graduating in a timely fashion. A host of what Isserles terms "innovative disruptions" have been implemented as a way to improve on community college completion, but because disruptions are primarily driven by degree attainment, Isserles argues that they place learning and developing as afterthoughts while ignoring the complex lives that define so many community college students. Drawing on more than twenty years of teaching, advising, and researching largely first-generation community college students as well as an analysis of five years of student enrollment patterns, college experiences, and life narratives, Isserles takes pains to center students and their experiences. She proposes initiatives created in accordance with a care ethic, which strive to not only get students through college—quantifying credit accumulation and the like—but also enable our most precarious students to flourish in a college environment. Ultimately, The Costs of Completion offers a deeper, more complex understanding of who community college students are, why and how they enroll, and what higher education institutions can do to better support them.

Author : Michelle Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136729683

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Improving the Student Experience by Michelle Morgan Pdf

The landscape of higher education (HE) has dramatically altered in the past 30 years and it continues to evolve and change. More students are entering HE and attending university or college on a global scale than ever before. Supporting and enhancing the undergraduate student experience across the student lifecycle, from first contact through to alumni, is a critical activity in higher education today not only to aid retention and progression but in a highly competitive HE market, the quality of the student experience is pivotal to an institution’s ability to attract students. The student experience encompasses all aspects of student life, i.e. academic, social, welfare, with the academic imperative at the heart of it. However, the increasing costs of delivering HE, a reduction in government/ state funding and constraints on resources means delivering a quality student experience has never been more challenging for those working in HE. Staff at all levels, and across all areas within an institution, are developing and implementing initiatives to improve and enhance the student experience whether they are at the coal face or on the periphery thus making them a ‘Practitioner’ in the student experience. This could include the admissions administrator improving the information available for potential applicants; the academic improving his/her feedback to students or central welfare departments ensuring that their services are being advertised and supported within a student’s home unit (faculty/department/school/course). In this book, the Editor, Michelle Morgan describes how her new student experience ‘Practitioner Model’ provides an organised and more detailed structure; guiding Practitioners in the identification of what they have to deliver, who they need to deliver it to and when they need to deliver it across her six key stages of the student lifecycle: · First Contact and Admissions; · Pre-arrival; · Arrival and Orientation; · Induction to Study; · Reorientation and Reinduction (Returners' Induction) · Outduction (preparation for life after undergraduate study). The Practioner Model offers a new way of thinking in terms of delivering ‘interlinked’ academic, welfare and support activities at the home unit and university level to support the student in their university journey. This book also provides working solutions to real problems in the form of exemplar case studies from the UK and internationally, including chapters from Liz Thomas, Di Nutt, Marcia Ody, Chris Keenan(UK), Mary Stuart Hunter, (USA), Kerri-Lee Krause and Duncan Nulty (Australia). Good practice must be adaptable and transferable because one size does not fit all. It must also be cost effective. And here the authors shows how practitioners can adapt and customise the 40 case studies presented to help them not only improve and enhance the experience of their undergraduate students in their own institution (both full and part-time) but also to support their students’ progression and retention.

Author : Jordan Goldman,Colleen Buyers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0143035584

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Students' Guide to Colleges by Jordan Goldman,Colleen Buyers Pdf

A guide to one hundred of America's top schools features descriptions written by attending undergrads from various walks of life, along with vital statistics and requirements for each school and information on the student body, academics, social life, and

Author : Richard J. Light
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674013599

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Making the Most of College by Richard J. Light Pdf

Draws on years of research and interviews with undergraduates to explore the choices students make to obtain an enriching college experience.

Author : Steven R. Antonoff
Publisher : Wintergreen Orchard House
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781933119861

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The College Finder by Steven R. Antonoff Pdf

A user-friendly guide written for the college shopper. A book of lists, this is the way to identify colleges where students will get in and fit in; includes the best schools in various fields, hidden gems, best dorm food, great low-cost colleges, best places to study abroad, and activisit campuses.

Author : Amy Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951693167

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College Success by Amy Baldwin Pdf

Author : Larry A. Braskamp,Lois Calian Trautvetter,Kelly Ward
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114583128

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Putting Students First by Larry A. Braskamp,Lois Calian Trautvetter,Kelly Ward Pdf

Brasksamp (emeritus, education, Loyola U., Chicago), along with colleagues at Northwestern and Washington State, discuss their study of how ten diverse church-related colleges and universities (of some 900) prepare their students for life beyond the campus. Through a "4C framework" based on personal investment theory--culture, curriculum, co-curriculum (connecting in-class and out-of-class experiences), and community, they examine the career training, intellectual, moral, and spiritual contexts in which this mission is pursued. Questions are posed about how campuses can support holistic student development.

Author : Kenneth L. Shropshire,Collin D. Williams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781613631386

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The Miseducation of the Student Athlete by Kenneth L. Shropshire,Collin D. Williams Pdf

In The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports, Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams, Jr., introduce The Student-Athlete Manifesto, a roadmap to increase the likelihood that student-athletes can succeed both on and off the field. They also offer a Meaningful Degree Model, which ensures education pays for everyone.

Author : Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190846305

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Cracks in the Ivory Tower by Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness Pdf

Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives. But as Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness show in Cracks in the Ivory Tower, American universities fall far short of this ideal. At almost every level, they find that students, professors, and administrators are guided by self-interest rather than ethical concerns. College bureaucratic structures also often incentivize and reward bad behavior, while disincentivizing and even punishing good behavior. Most students, faculty, and administrators are out to serve themselves and pass their costs onto others. The problems are deep and pervasive: most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent. To justify their own pay raises and higher budgets, administrators hire expensive and unnecessary staff. Faculty exploit students for tuition dollars through gen-ed requirements. Students hardly learn anything and cheating is pervasive. At every level, academics disguise their pursuit of self-interest with high-faluting moral language. Marshaling an array of data, Brennan and Magness expose many of the ethical failings of academia and in turn reshape our understanding of how such high power institutions run their business. Everyone knows academia is dysfunctional. Brennan and Magness show the problems are worse than anyone realized. Academics have only themselves to blame.

Author : Steven R. Antonoff,Marie Ann Friedemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1575090716

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College Match by Steven R. Antonoff,Marie Ann Friedemann Pdf

Author : Princeton Review (Firm)
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 1599 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : College choice
ISBN : 9780375429408

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Complete Book of Colleges by Princeton Review (Firm) Pdf

Target the schools that best match your interests and goals! TheComplete Book of Collegesprofiles all of the four-year colleges in the U.S. (more than 1,600!) and is the key to a successful college search. Complete Book of Collegesis packed with all of the information that prospective applicants need to know, including the details on: ·Academics ·Admissions requirements ·Application procedures ·Tuition and fees ·Transferring options ·Housing ·Financial Aid ·Athletics …and much, much more! Fully updated for 2010, theComplete Book of Collegescontains all of the latest information about each school. Its unique “Admissions Wizard” questionnaire is designed to help you find schools that meet your individual needs. With competition for college admission at an all-time high, count on The Princeton Review to provide you with the most thorough and accurate guidance on the market.

Author : Lisa M. Nunn
Publisher : Critical Issues in American Ed
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 1978807651

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College Belonging by Lisa M. Nunn Pdf

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. Drawing on the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim, College Belonging shows that belonging is something that members of a community offer to each other. It is something that must be given, like a gift. Individuals cannot simply walk up to a group or community and demand belonging. That's not how it works. The group must extend a sense of belonging to each and every member. It happens by making a person feel welcome, to feel that their presence matters to the group, that they would be missed if they were gone. This critical insight helps us understand why colleges' push for students simply to "get out there!" does not always work.