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Author : Susan McWilliams
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2015-07-06
Best Kind Of College The written by Susan McWilliams and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-06 with Education categories.
Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education. The fevered controversy over Americas educational future isnt simply academic; those who have proposed sweeping reforms include government officials, politicians, foundation officers, think-tank researchers, journalists, media pundits, and university administrators. Drowned out in that noisy debate are the voices of those who actually teach the liberal arts exclusively to undergraduates in our nations small liberal arts colleges, or SLACs. The Best Kind of College attempts to rectify that glaring oversight. As an insiders guide to the liberal arts in its truest form the volume brings together thirty award-winning professors from across the country to convey in various ways some of the virtues, the electricity, and, overall, the importance of the small-seminar, face-to-face approach to education, as typically featured in SLACs. Before we in the United States abandon or compromise our commitment to the liberal artsoddly enough, precisely at a time when our global competitors are discovering, emulating, and founding American-style SLACs and new liberal arts programswe need a wake-up call, namely to the fact that the nations SLACs provide a time-tested model of educational integrity and success. At last, some good news about education! This collection brings together essays by professors at small liberal arts colleges, voices largely unheard in the debates raging about higher education. It ranges widely through disciplines and across colleges, taking us into classrooms where we see the creative, inventive kinds of teaching that go on when classes are kept small and professors can interact with students. This book is a welcome corrective to claims that higher education is broken and in need of a high-tech fix, a quiet reminder that innovation goes on as a matter of course at colleges where teaching is top priority and is kept to human scale. Gayle Greene, Scripps College McWilliams and Seery have achieved something remarkable: they have found a new and interesting way to present the case for the liberal arts model in American education. More than that, they have managed to show the value of, as well as present the argument for, the model. At its best, the book recreates something of the experience of a liberal arts education in microcosm. This is a wonderful, provocative, engaging, and moving book. It is unlikely to be surpassed. Simon Stow, author of Republic of Readers? The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis
The Best Kind Of College
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Author : Susan McWilliams
language : en
Publisher: Suny Press
Release Date : 2016-07-02
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Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.
Find The Perfect College For You
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Author : Rosalind P. Marie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Find The Perfect College For You written by Rosalind P. Marie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Education categories.
"A comprehensive approach to selecting a college that is in tune with a student's learning style, this guide offers a personalized, psychology-based approach to selecting the perfect university. With accessible tables and simple descriptions of campuses and majors, college bound students and their parents will find self-assessments and suggestions for 82 well-known colleges"--
What The Best College Students Do
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Author : Ken Bain
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-27
What The Best College Students Do written by Ken Bain and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-27 with Education categories.
The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college—and every other educational enterprise, too. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book—college graduates who went on to change the world we live in—aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives. Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys, fame, or the admiration of people in their field, Ken Bain identifies the key attitudes that distinguished the best college students from their peers. These individuals started out with the belief that intelligence and ability are expandable, not fixed. This led them to make connections across disciplines, to develop a “meta-cognitive” understanding of their own ways of thinking, and to find ways to negotiate ill-structured problems rather than simply looking for right answers. Intrinsically motivated by their own sense of purpose, they were not demoralized by failure nor overly impressed with conventional notions of success. These movers and shakers didn’t achieve success by making success their goal. For them, it was a byproduct of following their intellectual curiosity, solving useful problems, and taking risks in order to learn and grow.
The Lancet
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
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The Best 381 Colleges 2017 Edition
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Author : Princeton Review
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Review
Release Date : 2016-10-11
The Best 381 Colleges 2017 Edition written by Princeton Review and has been published by Princeton Review this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Study Aids categories.
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF HELPING STUDENTS SELECT THE PERFECT COLLEGE! The Princeton Review started publishing The Best Colleges in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. A quarter-century and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single “best” college, only the best college for you… and that this is the book that will help you find it! What Makes THE BEST 381 COLLEGES the Most Popular College Guide? DIRECTLY FROM STUDENTS TO YOU · 381 in-depth school profiles based on candid feedback from 143,000 students, covering academics, administration, campus life, and financial aid · Insights on unique college character, social scene, and more RANKING LISTS & RATINGS SCORES · Lists of the top 20 colleges in 62 categories based on students' opinions of academics, campus life, facilities, and much more · Ratings for every school on Financial Aid, Selectivity, and Quality of Life · Bonus list of the 200 "best-value" schools featured in Colleges That Pay You Back DETAILED ADMISSIONS INFORMATION · The "Inside Word" on competitive applications, test scores, tuition, and average indebtedness · Comprehensive information on selectivity, freshman profiles, and application deadlines at each school What the media is saying about The Best 381 Colleges from The Princeton Review: “The most efficient of the college guidebooks. Has entertaining profiles larded with quotes from students.”–Rolling Stone “The offbeat indexes, along with the chattily written descriptions of each school, provide a colorful picture of each campus.” –The New York Times “A great book.... It’s a bargain.” –CNN “Our favorite college guidebook.” –Seventeen “Provides the kind of feedback students would get from other students in a campus visit.” –USA Today From the Trade Paperback edition.
Best Practices For Making College Campuses Safe
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Parliamentary Papers
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
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The Review Of Reviews
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Author : Albert Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Review Of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Literature categories.
The Best Southeastern Colleges
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Author : Princeton Review (Firm)
language : en
Publisher: The Princeton Review
Release Date : 2003
The Best Southeastern Colleges written by Princeton Review (Firm) and has been published by The Princeton Review this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Self-Help categories.
The Truth About Colleges–from the REAL Experts: Current College Students Inside this book, you’ll find profiles of 100 great colleges in the Southeast, including schools you’ve heard about and great colleges that aren’t as widely recognized. There is simply no better way to learn about a college than by talking to its students, so we asked thousands of them to speak out about their schools. Sometimes hilarious, often provocative, and always telling, the students’ opinions will arm you with rare insight into each college’s academic load, professors, libraries, dorms, social scene, and more.