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This collection explores social processes and meanings germane to the educational mobility of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into higher education. The contributing scholars examine dynamics, policies, practices, and programs that inform college access and persistence for first generation students.

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This collection explores social processes and meanings germane to the educational mobility of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into higher education. The contributing scholars examine dynamics, policies, practices, and programs that inform college access and persistence for first generation students.

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In this book, faculty members from a wide range of disciplines reflect on how they engage their academic specializations to teach students about the science, politics, and ethics of climate change. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues in the university.

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This book offers innovative methods to improve teacher education, exploring options in coaching of interns completed through both traditional face-to-face and virtual formats and discusses the benefit of using coaching, shifting the focus of work with teachers from evaluation to increased support in the classroom.

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This book offers innovative methods to improve teacher education, exploring options in coaching of interns completed through both traditional face-to-face and virtual formats and discusses the benefit of using coaching, shifting the focus of work with teachers from evaluation to increased support in the classroom.

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This text introduces the reader to the academic union movement and describes the conflicts and challenges inherent in this "professional unionism" among full-time faculty, part-time faculty and graduate-employees on campuses across the US and Canada.

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Instructors and graduate students in education (many, like the four editors, are at Brock U., St. Catharines, Ontario) offer essays that sing the praises of collaboration in teaching and research. The individual experiences of some of the writers, and case studies researched by others provide materi

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With changes in the economy and in demography, college admissions officers need to target new populations and familiarize themselves with new developments that impact the enrollment pool.

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This book explores how a working-class rural environment influences students collegiate aspirations and access. Centered on a case study of the concepts of college knowledge and university jargon in rural public high schools, it offers analysis as well as strategies for helping students and counselors learn academic language.

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This book explores how a working-class rural environment influences students collegiate aspirations and access. Centered on a case study of the concepts of college knowledge and university jargon in rural public high schools, it offers analysis as well as strategies for helping students and counselors learn academic language.

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College Success for Students With Learning Disabilities offers teens the confidence, strategies, and guidance they need to effectively choose a college, get prepared for university life, and make the most of their collegiate experience.

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Because the real world is the best education.

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As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in

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Military training programs on campuses and how they differed from college training programs are described, as well as the impact of the war on faculty: depletion of the teaching ranks, wartime research on campus, and faculty in the military and government service, especially in OSRD and OSS.

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In this book, visionary leaders of community colleges will present their views about the present challenges and future approaches needed for community colleges to be successful.

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In this book, visionary leaders of community colleges will present their views about the present challenges and future approaches needed for community colleges to be successful.

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The only overview of research on the uniquely American community college system, which is increasingly becoming the site of entry for students seeking a higher education.