Administratively Adrift

Administratively Adrift
Author: Scott A. Bass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1316514919

An innovative analysis of the residential university's structure, culture, and functions, and their impact on student well-being and success.

Administratively Adrift

Administratively Adrift
Author: Scott A. Bass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1009089013

The multiple crises of 2020–21 have presented both challenges and opportunities for change in four-year residential colleges and universities. Evidence indicates that the historic structure of administrative and student services is increasingly mismatched to the needs of a diverse and stressed student body born in a digital age. Inspired by his leadership in a university-wide initiative that focused on how students' interactions with both academic and professional staff affect their success and well-being, Scott A. Bass presents fresh insights on the inner workings of traditional nonprofit four-year degree residential institutions. The book describes the influences of history, tradition, and internal and external pressures on the American university, highlighting its evolution to its staid and fragmented structure; it distills voices of students, faculty, and staff; and it explores how successful organizations outside of higher education deliver services, with potential applicability for the academy's ability to meet students where they are.

Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets

Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets
Author: Glenda Strachan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2024-09-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1803926864

This Handbook addresses the changing nature of academic labour markets, as they respond to moving university goals and developments in the measurement of research and teaching. Experts examine case studies from across the Global North and South and consider key issues such as equity, diversity, cross-border employment, and the precarity of academic labour.

Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World

Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World
Author: Kai Kresse
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2022-12-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110733196

As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical contributions from the ‘global South’ remain under-explored, this volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges. Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective positions. From their particular vantage points of (trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic, religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on their significant experiences and insights gained in both the global north and global south, the contributors offer original and innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. This volume builds on a lecture series held at ZMO in the winter 2019-2020

Community College Student Mental Health

Community College Student Mental Health
Author: Amanda O. Latz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2023-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 147586017X

Community college student mental health is a critical topic among community college leaders, faculty, and staff. Mental health concerns among community college students are more prevalent and more pronounced than among students at four-year institutions. The recent pandemic has further amplified students’ mental health concerns. Poor mental health can negatively affect student success outcomes such as persistence within courses, grade point average, and credential completion. Even though the research in this area is growing, additional work is necessary to fully grasp the scope and details of the issue. Within this book, Latz outlines the contours of the issue by explaining what is already known. She then uses data from a study involving interviews with community college faculty to further explain the issue from their unique and important vantage points. Readers will learn about both the professional lives of community college faculty and their experiences with and perspectives of their students, many of whom navigate mental health issues. The book is concluded with robust recommendations for community college leaders who are seeking ways to better support their students.

The Same But Different?

The Same But Different?
Author: Jessica V. Roitman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2011-02-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004202765

Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this book offers an innovative analysis of Sephardic merchants in 17th c. Amsterdam’s trade. Challenging views that Sephardic success stemmed from endogamous business relationships, it shows that Sephardic merchants traded with non-Sephardim.

Using Self-Efficacy for Improving Retention and Success of Diverse Student Populations

Using Self-Efficacy for Improving Retention and Success of Diverse Student Populations
Author: Herron, Jeffrey
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-10-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1668450402

Despite the many strides that have been made in diversity, equity, and inclusion, many educational systems across the world continue to struggle with equality in education for all students regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status. This struggle within education inevitably negatively impacts society, as only select groups are given the opportunity to excel. It is essential for school systems to be proactive when dealing with student learning outcomes and student retention for all student populations. Using Self-Efficacy for Improving Retention and Success of Diverse Student Populations discusses the best practices in supporting students during their educational journey and examines the current efforts to improve student retention. Covering topics such as computing education, academic counseling, and student success prediction, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for faculty and administrators of both K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, teacher educators, school counselors, sociologists, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations

Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations
Author: W. Andrew Achenbaum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2023-02-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000843343

This book offers a unique multigenerational approach to saving Social Security. Public programs have adapted to societal aging, but fears overwhelm hopes for Social Security’s future prospects. Conservatives want to privatize operations that liberals seek to expand. Younger workers are happy that Social Security protects their elders, but most do not expect benefits when needed. Achenbaum reframes conflicting perspectives and offers new models of respectful transgenerational dialogue that can mobilize pragmatic reforms. Designed for use in gerontology, social work, and public policy courses, Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations offers measured hope for leaving a legacy that safeguards the common good.

Policework

Policework
Author: Rickey D. Lashley
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1995-03-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A strong challenge against the present American system of law enforcement, this book contends that politics have prevented police from achieving their sworn mission. Although his analysis is based on established theory, the author uses his own research and experience as evidence of the failure of the criminal justice system. Police departments are revealed as examples of a bureaucracy that has lost sight of its purpose and only seeks to survive. This work will be of interest to those seeking a different and controversial view of criminal justice, police science, public administration, urban studies, and political science programs.