Shut it Down!

Shut it Down!
Author: William Horsley Orrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1969
Genre: Student movements
ISBN:

This is a report of the San Francisco State College strike concerning the events in the fall and winter of 1968-69.

Crisis on Campus

Crisis on Campus
Author: Mark C. Taylor
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0307593290

A provocative report on the state of American higher education discusses the consequences of decades of neglect and covers such recommendations as discontinuing tenure, refocusing on education over research, and tapping new technologies.

University President's Crisis Handbook

University President's Crisis Handbook
Author: Scott Green
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2023-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1394219954

Discover the non-traditional leadership techniques that took the University of Idaho from insolvency to international renown In University President’s Crisis Handbook, the President of the University of Idaho, C. Scott Green, and author Temple Kinyon deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on managing universities through periods of intense turmoil and difficulty. The book offers in-depth managerial insights into the three strategic pillars and industry expert guidance that helped Green shepherd the University of Idaho through years of deep deficits and the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ll find comprehensive discussions of how the university achieved financial solvency, soaring enrollments, record research awards, and record fundraising amid extraordinary challenges. You’ll also discover: Explorations of the strategic touchstones leading to U of I’s transformation: student success, pursuit of R1 Carnegie research classification leading to soaring grant awards, and narrative control How the university and its community supported itself in the face of a tragic and outrageous crime against 4 of its students The strategies used by the university and its faculty to safely reopen the school after lengthy closures in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic Perfect for university administrators, University President’s Crisis Handbook will also prove invaluable to academics with leadership responsibilities and managers, executives, board members and other leaders in the public and private sectors.

Grade Inflation

Grade Inflation
Author: Valen E. Johnson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2003-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0387001255

Grade inflation runs rampant at most colleges and universities, but faculty and administrators are seemingly unwilling to face the problem. This book explains why, exposing many of the misconceptions surrounding college grading. Based on historical research and the results of a yearlong, on-line course evaluation experiment conducted at Duke University during the 1998-1999 academic year, the effects of student grading on various educational processes, and their subsequent impact on student and faculty behavior, is examined. Principal conclusions of this investigation are that instructors' grading practices have a significant influence on end-of-course teaching evaluations, and that student expectations of grading practices play an important role in the courses that students decide to take. The latter effect has a serious impact on course enrollments in the natural sciences and mathematics, while the combination of both mean that faculty have an incentive to award high grades, and students have an incentive to choose courses with faculty who do. Grade inflation is the natural consequence of this incentive system. Material contained in this book is essential reading for anyone involved in efforts to reform our postsecondary educational system, or for those who simply wish to survive and prosper in it. Valen Johnson is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. Prior to accepting an appointment in Ann Arbor, he was a Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University, where data for this book was collected. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Strategies for Student Support During a Global Crisis

Strategies for Student Support During a Global Crisis
Author: Herron, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799870022

When a global crisis impacts nearly every industry, education is always one of the most impacted as students and faculty must frantically try to maintain their educational programs throughout uncertain times. Beyond the educational courses themselves being shifted online or to hybrid approaches, there must be a focus on the impact on students as well. With newfound ways of learning, new online environments, and new methods for teaching, students are greatly impacted by the changing face of education. The traditional ways in which students have been served and assisted have changed rapidly, and to make matters even more challenging, students must handle both living in a time of crisis while adapting to swift educational transformations. The dissemination of best practices and maintaining student success during global crises is an area of research that is not only growing in interest but is critical in pandemic times. Strategies for Student Support During a Global Crisis reflects on how educational professionals have worked with students during global crises, how serving and teaching students have been impacted, and the best practices for student success in both online education and hybrid formats. The chapters will include topics such as mentoring models, teaching methods, educational technologies, teacher insights, academic support services, and more. This book is ideal for educational professionals, leaders, school administration, teachers, teacher educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the best strategies for supporting students and promoting student success during global crises.

Free City!

Free City!
Author: Marcy Rein
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1629638455

Free City! The Fight for San Francisco’s City College and Education for All tells the story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US. In 2012, the accreditor sanctioned City College of San Francisco, one of the biggest and best community colleges in the country, and a year later proposed terminating its accreditation, leading to a state takeover. Free City! follows the multipronged strategies of the campaign and the diverse characters that carried them out. Teachers, students, labor unions, community groups, public officials, and concerned individuals saved a treasured public institution as San Francisco’s working-class communities of color battled the gentrification that was forcing them out of the city. And they pushed back against the national “reform” agenda of corporate workforce training that drives students towards debt and sidelines lifelong learning and community service programs. Combining analysis with narrative, Free City! offers a case study in the power of positive vision and solution-oriented organizing and a reflection on what education can and should be.

The Resilient University

The Resilient University
Author: President Freeman A (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Hrabowski
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1421448440

"This work shows how university leaders can apply their values, principles, and practices during crisis"--

Shut It Down! a College in Crisis

Shut It Down! a College in Crisis
Author: William Orrick, Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781410225337

This report of the San Francisco State College Study Team concerning the San Francisco State College strike was prepared under my direction at the request of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. It is largely the product of three highly trained, exceptionally gifted writers and fact gatherers: James Brann, Michael Parker, and Austin Scott. These men wrote most of the report from information obtained by them from examination of pertinent records, interviews, and on-the-spot observation. The report draws no conclusions from the tragic events that overtook San Francisco State in the fall and winter of 1968-69. It was conceived and executed, except for the comments in chapter VII entitled "Outlook for the Future," as a history of one of the most distressing episodes in American higher education.