Higher Education Universities

Studying for the SAT doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth, and it definitely doesn’t have to bore you to tears. Welcome to Master SAT Vocabulary Words While Laughing Out Loud!, the book that flips the traditional drudgery of vocab drills on its head. Inside, you’ll find 1,000 high-frequency SAT words brought to life through jokes, funny stories, and quirky scenarios designed to make you laugh and learn. Forget the stale flashcards and uninspiring word lists—this book turns vocabulary into an adventure that’s as entertaining as your favorite sitcom.

Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experiences at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between the goals of the university and the needs of students.

The Universe-ity: A Spiritual Education Using the Law of Attraction is a new curriculum on life. This guidebook challenges the widely conceived notion that in order to be successful, we must have a standard education. The author, who has created his own successful business as well as published his own book, explains how you do not have to have years of education to live a prosperous, fulfilling life.

Dave Shutler analyzes twelve faulty assumptions about obtaining a higher education and shows how they can lead to debilitating college debt. Analogizing to the two realities in the Matrix movies, he reveals underlying facts about the assumptions to high schoolers and their parents. These assumptions range from deciding whether to attend college in the first place, to the importance of selecting a major, to how to minimize college living costs. This book is a systematic guide to the many misconceptions that students hold in the college application process.

A critical analysis of graduate education in the United States. Every current or prospective graduate student should read this essay. J. M. Beach is a lecturer at the University of Texas, San Antonio. He has advanced degrees in English, History, Philosophy, and Education. He has been a teacher and educational administrator for over fifteen years. Beach has taught many subjects in the Humanities to a broad range of students, from pre-school all the way to university, in public and private schools, in the U.S., South Korea, and China. Previously Beach was a Lecturer at Oregon State University...

Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education.

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation labeled this problem "truth decay", and Andrew J. Hoffman lays the challenge of fixing it at the door of the academy. But, as he points out, academia is prevented from carrying this out due to its own existential crisis - a crisis of relevance.

This ultimate essay writing guide will help you with every step of the essay writing process, from narrowing down a good title to writing thoughtful, structured body paragraphs. Bookmark our helpful guides throughout the book to keep as your own personal reference chart while you write every essay, paper, or assignment in your academic career. With our help, you'll turn in an A+ paper!

Why is it no longer worth it to go to college? In this book, you will learn why. Conducting original research into the rising costs and falling quality of higher education in the US, Professor Braus discovered that there are almost zero new colleges started in the United States, and this lack of new colleges coincided exactly with rising tuition and falling educational quality.

The doctor of philosophy is a complex degree. The space between students and supervisors is vexed and volatile. It can be exploitative. The Pernicious PhD Supervisor enters this difficult space and provides both the models and the strategies to categorize and manage difficult supervisors and supervisory practices. From the Flamingo to the Wizard, from the White Pointer Shark to the Bower Bird, ten models of supervision are revealed.

Campus Chronicles will inspire you, amuse you, and support you through your college years. Whether you are a high-school student just leaving for college, or a college senior who has seen it all, these stories will illuminate the college experience for you.

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 danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich.

For several years, campuses and sports teams across the country have been plagued with accusations of sexual violence, and they've been criticized for how they responded to the students involved. In Violated, two ESPN investigative reporters provide listeners with a shocking narrative of sexual crimes committed against women and a university's culture that kept them quiet.

Your Ivy competitive edge. The most effective college application strategies ever published. Transform your college applications into Bam! Pow! Wow!—without high-priced consultants, tutors, or prep courses. Using actual common application personal essays, activities and honors sections, supplemental essays, and letters of continued interest from accepted applications to University of Virginia, Duke, and Princeton, Coach Mom Top College Admission Playbook shows you how to stand tall above thousands in one quick listen.

It's Called Presenting, Not Talking Out Loud - is a quick and easy-to-use guidebook on improving your presentation skills - for professionals and students. This guidebook takes out the fat and provides you with what you immediately need. No drawn-out communication theories, but a pragmatic how-to approach. Whether you need to brush up on your industry skills, enrolled in a communications course, or preparing for an important presentation or speech, you can rely on this guide as a handy reference. Presenting is both art and science.

Frustrated or overwhelmed by the college admissions process? Imagine how confusing it may be for your college-bound teen. It's important for your maturing high schooler to be in the driver's seat of applying to and choosing the right school. But, how can you support and guide your teen without taking over? This book explains each step in the process and provides clear, concise tips on what your student should be doing, when they should be doing it, and why each step is so important.

Jack Edwards has spent the last three years figuring it all out and is here to impart his wisdom to other potential freshers. From university applications to socials, this book is filled with helpful tips and tricks, real advice and fun anecdotes and is perfect to turn to for any questions you have about university!

Written by the premier author in Windows administration, William Stanek, and addressing the needs of Windows 2003 administrators and support staff, Managing Group Policy Classroom To Go is designed to help you build your knowledge of Windows Server 2003.

Admissions by Design is a poignant, unorthodox, and thorough guide that upends the traditional paradigm of college admissions. Incorporating the latest research in brain science and human development and using stories from her nearly 20 years of work with students, Lisa Fisher offers students practical tools to reframe the college admissions process to one of an inspired and authentic journey toward self-discovery.

Philanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation - and the world - has remained largely unexplored. Why Philanthropy Matters takes an in-depth look at philanthropy as an underappreciated force in capitalism, measures its critical influence on the free-market system, and demonstrates how American philanthropy could serve as a model for the productive reinvestment of wealth in other countries.