Becoming Great Universities (eBook)

Small Steps for Sustained Excellence

Richard J. Light, Allison Jegla (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21260-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to greatBecoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus-from presidents to first-year undergraduates-can take to enhance student life and learning.This incisive book, written in a friendly and engaging style, draws on conversations with presidents, deans, and staff at hundreds of campuses across the country as well as scores of in-depth interviews with students and faculty. Providing suggestions that all members of a campus community can implement, Richard Light and Allison Jegla cover topics such as how to build a culture of innovation on campus, how to improve learning outcomes through experimentation, how to help students from under-resourced high schools succeed in college, and how to attract students from rural areas who may not be considering colleges far from their communities. They offer concrete ways to facilitate constructive interactions among students from different backgrounds, create opportunities for lifelong learning and engagement, and inspire students to think globally. And most of the ideas presented in this book can be implemented at little to no cost.Featuring a wealth of evidence-based examples, Becoming Great Universities offers actionable suggestions for everyone to have a positive impact on college life regardless of whether their campus is urban or rural, private or public, large or small, wealthy or not.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illus. 5 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • academic advising • academic department • Access IS • Adobe PhotoShop • Advanced Placement • alumnus • American High School (Miami-Dade County, Florida) • ap chemistry • archaeology • Art History • Attendance • Bachelor's degree • Bank account • Bill Clinton • Bridge program (higher education) • Bullying • bureaucrat • Business college • Camera Phone • Campus tour • Career • Case study • Charter school • Checkbox • Classroom • class size • Collaboration • College and university rankings • college application • college basketball • College Democrats • College Republicans • community leader • conference call • Continual Improvement Process • continuing education • Course credit • Criticism • Curriculum • Customer • Data Analysis • Day and Night (cellular automaton) • Dean (education) • direct experience • disadvantage • Distance Education • doctorate • dormitory • Early decision • Education • educational aims and objectives • Electronic Dance Music • Engineering • Ethos • Expense • Expert • extracurricular activity • Facebook • Faculty (academic staff) • Finding • food bank • food security • Forest management • From the Ground Up (book) • Funding of science • Gap Year • Georgetown university • gopnik • Grading (education) • Graduate school • Graduation • Gross Domestic Product • group work • gun safety • higher education • Holism • Homework • hostility • Ideology • Illustration • Informational Interview • Information technology consulting • innuendo • Institution • Internship • Ithaca College • johns hopkins • Junior (education) • K–12 • Laptop • learning • Learning curve • Leave of absence • Lecture • Leo Tolstoy • Liberal arts education • Lifelong Learning • listening • Lodging Expenses • Major (academic) • Marketing • medical school • Mission Statement • Name tag • New York University • Nonprofit Organization • One Step Further • Opening Statement • Peer Review • percentage • Personal Branding • Personal life • Photocopier • Pleasure • Poetry • Prediction • printing • problem set • professional development • Professor • Project Management • Project Manager • Psychoanalysis • Psychology • Psychometrics • Public speaking • Quiz • Residential college • Return on Investment • Scholarship • school district • Selective school • Self-Help • Seminar • sense of agency • Snapchat • Social Dynamics • Social Enterprise • Social Group • Southeast Asia • special circumstances • Spring Break • Statistic • statistician • Student • student affairs • Student group • Student leader • student newspaper • Study Abroad • Suggestion • Syllabus • Teaching Method • Telephone number • Textbook • The Dispossessed • Thesis • The Wall Street journal • Thought • undergraduate education • University of California • University of Michigan • University of Minnesota • University of Pennsylvania • Ursula K. Le Guin • VARIE (Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh) • work abroad • World • World Food Programme • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21260-0 / 0691212600
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21260-9 / 9780691212609