Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : University extension
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The 1,000 Mile Campus
Author: The 1,000-mile Campus
Author: The People's University
Author: Donald R. GerthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Wolfpack Ramblings
Author: Larry A NielsenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781737071518
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Here's something special for the entire Wolfpack family! Larry Nielsen, professor emeritus at NC State, offers 32 entertaining stories about all aspects of life at the university, everything from the marching band to the Free Expression Tunnel and the joys of having a twelve-foot python in class. Nielsen, who was a college dean and the university's provost as well as a distinguished undergraduate teaching professor, provides his unique insights--and humorous style--to tell about the people, places and events that have shaped NC State over the decades. He is author of two recent books, Provost (2013) and Nature's Allies (2017). Most recently he has created the website Today in Conservation (todayinconservation.com), which includes stories from the history of conservation and the environment for every date of the year.Widely beloved for his nearly 300-student class on Conservation of Natural Resources, Nielsen continues to give back to the university: He will donate $1 from the sale of every book to a scholarship fund at NC State.
Visiting College Campuses
Author: Janet SpencerPublisher: The Princeton Review
ISBN: 9780375764004
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
"Includes profiles of 299 colleges and universities."--Cover
University Bulletin
Author: University of California (System)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Those Who Prey
Author: Jennifer MoffettPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534450971
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"College freshman Emily is seduced into joining a cult with deadly results"--
Who Gets In and Why
Author: Jeffrey SelingoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982116315
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search. Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about the sticker on the car window. Selingo, who was embedded in three different admissions offices—a selective private university, a leading liberal arts college, and a flagship public campus—closely observed gatekeepers as they made their often agonizing and sometimes life-changing decisions. He also followed select students and their parents, and he traveled around the country meeting with high school counselors, marketers, behind-the-scenes consultants, and college rankers. While many have long believed that admissions is merit-based, rewarding the best students, Who Gets In and Why presents a more complicated truth, showing that “who gets in” is frequently more about the college’s agenda than the applicant. In a world where thousands of equally qualified students vie for a fixed number of spots at elite institutions, admissions officers often make split-second decisions based on a variety of factors—like diversity, money, and, ultimately, whether a student will enroll if accepted. One of the most insightful books ever about “getting in” and what higher education has become, Who Gets In and Why not only provides an unusually intimate look at how admissions decisions get made, but guides prospective students on how to honestly assess their strengths and match with the schools that will best serve their interests.
Upending the Ivory Tower
Author: Stefan M. BradleyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479819271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History Society Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell—are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nation’s and the world’s leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most traditional and selective of American spaces. In the twentieth century, black youth were in the vanguard of the black freedom movement and educational reform. Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of America’s most esteemed institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and 1975, the civil rights and Black Power movements transformed the demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance their predominantly white institutions while advancing black freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools. This book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what privilege they had. Putting their status, and sometimes even their lives, in jeopardy, black activists negotiated, protested, and demonstrated to create opportunities for the generations that followed. The enrichments these change agents made endure in the diversity initiatives and activism surrounding issues of race that exist in the modern Ivy League. Upending the Ivory Tower not only informs the civil rights and Black Power movements of the postwar era but also provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst for change, there is no one better to inform today’s activists than those who transformed our country’s past and paved the way for its future.