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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sustainable development is a global priority, yet there needs to be more research that investigates the training of sustainable development practitioners to address critical multidisciplinary challenges. This disseration aims to analyze the ecosystem that trains development practitioners ; design a Masters in Sustainable Development Practice (MDP) program to train development practitioners and assess what their credentials should be to increase Jamaica's...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors--and their coffers--to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to let them in? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. In their first weeks they quickly learn that admission does not mean acceptance. In this bracing and necessary book, Jack documents how university policies...
Series
New directions for higher education volume no. 158
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a threat to low-skilled labor. Now, many high-skilled functions, including interpreting medical images, doing legal research, and analyzing data, are within the skill sets of machines. How can higher education prepare...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"While it is important to evaluate student-centered learning and outcomes, study abroad involves many more humans than just students. Many of the life-changing, perspective-broadening experiences marketed and delivered to study abroad participants depend on the participation of host families, community members, and local schools and educators. Living with someone from a different culture; exposure to other ways of knowing, being, experiencing, and...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This paper examines the relationship between structural economic change in Honduras, the pursuit of higher education among females, and high emigration rates among males. The socioeconomic target group of this study is Honduras's lower class males and females. Honduras's labor market trends are viewed as the primary stimulus behind gender differences in decisions to pursue higher education and emigration as a means for economic mobility. The principal...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct world-view through censorship, double standards, and a judicial system without due process. The Shadow University is a stinging indictment of the covert system of justice on college campuses, exposing the widespread reliance on kangaroo courts and arbitrary punishment to coerce students and faculty into conformity. Alan Charles...
Series
New directions for community colleges volume no. 130
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book will consist of seven or more essays, critical in different ways of racial "diversity" preferences in American higher education. Unlike many more conventional books on the subject, which are essentially apologies for racial reverse discrimination, this volume forthrightly exposes the corrosive effects of identity politics on college and university life"--
1357) The state must provide: why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
Author
Series
ASHE-ERIC higher education report volume no. 8
Publisher
Graduate School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)--not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25 percent or more Latinx students--are among the fastest-growing segments in America. They now represent 13 percent of all postsecondary institutions in the United States and enroll 62 percent of all Latinx college students. As they increase in number, the question remains: What does it mean to serve Latinx students? What special...
