Reclaiming Our Health

Reclaiming Our Health
Author: Michelle A. Gourdine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780300137057

Provides an overview of the primary health concerns facing African Americans, explains who is at greatest risk of illness, and offers advice on achieving a healthier lifestyle and navigating the health-care system.

System-wide Safety Improvements

System-wide Safety Improvements
Author: Benjamin V. Chatfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1987
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

This synthesis will be of interest to safety engineers, highway planners, and others concerned with the procedures used by states to plan and program safety improvements. Information is presented on current practice of states in using system-wide improvements to provide safety consistency. The primary purpose of system-wide safety improvements is to increase safety by improving roadway consistency - to minimize violations of driver expectancy and to avoid or reduce injury and damage that occur when a vehicle leaves the roadway. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the system-wide and spot approaches to safety improvement, explains strategies and programs for system-wide improvements, and gives general guidelines for a program of improving roadway consistency through system-wide safety improvements.

Higher Education Systems Redesigned

Higher Education Systems Redesigned
Author: Jonathan S. Gagliardi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 143848769X

Long an afterthought of the American higher education ecosystem, multi-campus systems have become more important than ever. In recent years, leading higher education systems have engaged in transforming the way they work, scaling best practices, leveraging data and analytics, and creating platforms to optimize and personalize these systems for increasingly diverse students. In Higher Education Systems Redesigned, leaders of these efforts share their insights into "systemness" and how to facilitate sustainable change in a system setting while navigating and leveraging tensions between campus and system priorities. Highlighting examples of successful realignment of these priorities with a focus on contextualized design and implementation, the book charts a shift in the aim of systems. Rather than perpetuating existing norms as they have traditionally done, systems are taking measures to spark innovation across campuses and use evidence-based practices to foster student access and completion rates, better serve communities, and drive social mobility and economic growth. Each chapter concludes with a list of takeaways to guide other system leaders and administrators. One of the few recent examinations of higher education systems, Higher Education Systems Redesigned offers a theoretical and practical framework for how systems can continually evolve.