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The increase in diverse student populations and the growing complexity of higher education have made academic advising a critical component of student success.

An examination of the legal, ethical and practical concerns of higher education administrators. Each chapter targets a selected area of academic affairs. Hiring issues, employment issues, promotion, tenure, terminations, non-renewals, academic freedom, and student disputes are all addressed.

It allows the reader to understand substance abuse from theoretical/research perspectives and guides the reader from conceptualization to programming to intervention with the substance abusing student.

By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral reactions substantially. Helping students to understand death and loss is part of assisting them to become resilient, proactive individuals.

This professional reference provides a broad picture of cooperative learning methods. The volume includes descriptions of the main generic methods of instruction, applications of cooperative learning to various subject-matter disciplines, and discussions of the implementation of cooperative learning in schools.

This professional reference provides a comprehensive historical, theoretical, and practical overview of career centers in colleges and universities.

This professional reference provides practical information for K-12 principals about how to conduct their jobs in the most effective manner. The practical information in the book is informed by a solid discussion of the history of the principalship and the characteristics of effective schools.

This comprehensive compendium of research focuses on key aspects of Catholic education in the United States.

Many problems that plague modern American society, including disappearance of community, decaying inner cities, racial tensions, environmental degradation, declining civic engagement, and the increasing ineffectiveness of government, to name a few, are in many respects problems of leadership.

This handbook is intended for faculty and administrators who wish to create a welcoming and safe environment for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students on our campuses.

The first part of this book is concerned with classroom strategies and with student research projects. The second part is concerned with information resources which should be useful to both instructors and students.

The conviction of this work is that advisers can achieve maximum professionalization through commitment to developing themselves and advising as a systematic information service.

Students in Discord fills a void in the professional literature concerning adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders by providing theoretical information about psychiatric and psychological diagnoses with practical information about actual public school students who show both externalizing and internalizing disorders.

The book contains useful theoretical information on the learning styles of college students, and it presents practical information on how to teach courses in particular disciplines.

Administrators across the USA proclaim they wish to diversify their faculty, yet all too often, faculty of colour receive little guidance on how to create a career in higher education. This volume contains success stories contributed by faculty of colour who share their lessons of survival.

It uses a conferencing method to allow teachers, administrators, and students to discuss and reflect upon what they are doing inside the school building. Old ideas about leadership models have not been supported by empirical research and have not influenced the way school leaders and teachers do their work.

This handbook provides insights from women's centre directors at institutions on how best to build a women's centre that can improve the quality of women's experiences in college. Practical information is included on specific programmes, providing an overview of successful centres.

Covering a wide range of issues pertaining to student record management, such as confidentiality of student records, ethical practice and interpretation of foreign academic credentials, this book is aimed at those who work in a variety of offices at colleges and universities.

Through expert essays, this handbook covers all aspects of the admissions process, from a historical overview to a guide to future trends. Both new and experienced admissions officers and educational administrators will find here essential tools for successfully recruiting and enrolling a desirable mix of students for their institutions. This handbook has been prepared by the foremost leaders in the college admissions profession under the auspices of the American Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers. Topics include: the dilemma of quantity versus quality in admissions recruiting; understanding enrollment management; marketing strategies; the role of technology; and student body diversity (including international students).

Sybouts emphasizes that the human dimension of educational planning is paramount, and that leadership and vision are essential to the effective management of change. The volume begins with a rationale for improved planning in educational administration.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students arrive on campuses every year expecting their voices to be heard, their concerns acknowledged, and their needs met. This book offers guidelines for establishing and operating LGBT centers or programme offices on their own campuses.

There has been an explosion of Web-based courses in higher education.

He analyzes issues of immediate concern to Jewish educators today, such as the value of tracking students, teaching in Hebrew, whether Jewish studies courses should be taught in depth or cover more breadth of material, and whether text study skills or knowledge should be emphasized in such classes.