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Insiders, Outliers - Centering Adult Student Writers At An Hbcu

de Collie Fulford

~~29,73€~~ 20,81€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Insiders, Outliers showcases the educational histories and lifewide writing experiences of adult HBCU students to illuminate critical needs for more age-inclusive practices across academia. Their cases also show the centrality of writing in fueling changes for these students and the people and institutions that they care aboutâ€"including higher education.
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Stepping Away - Returning To The Faculty After Senior Academic Leadership

de Lisa Jasinski

51,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines how senior leadership role changes impact individuals and the institutions they serve. Drawn from research involving more than fifty college presidents, provosts, and deans, this book delivers fresh understanding of the challenges and opportunities leaders face as they assume a new place in the social architecture of their campus.
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Black And Smart - How Black High-Achieving Women Experience College

de Adrianne Musu Davis

38,36€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus.
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Unequal Choices - How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply To College

de Yang Va Lor

44,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Few highly able, socioeconomically disadvantaged students apply to selective institutions. In Unequal Choices, Yang Va Lor examines the college application choices of high-achieving students, looking closely at the ways the larger contexts of family, school, and community influence their decisions.
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Digital Me - Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online

de Alden C. Jones, Sy Simms e Z Nicolazzo

43,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Internet is a potent site from which to theorize, but also imagine, invest in, and explore the prismatic possibilities for life.Â Digital MeÂ explores how transgender people use the internet in myriad ways. The book explores online life--from cultivating identity to creating community and everything in between.
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Black Space - Negotiating Race, Diversity, And Belonging In The Ivory Tower

de Sherry L. Deckman

~~33,79€~~ 23,65€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Illuminates ways administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and indeed, students themselves, might productively address issues of difference and anti-Blackness for the purpose of fostering critically inclusive campus environments.
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Unequal Higher Education - Wealth, Status, And Student Opportunity

de Barrett J. Taylor e Brendan Cantwell

~~43,26€~~ 30,28€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the United States. The authors use quantitative analysis to map the contours of this system. They then explain the mechanisms that sustain it and illustrate the ways in which rising institutional inequality has limited individual opportunity.
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Black Space - Negotiating Race, Diversity, And Belonging In The Ivory Tower

de Sherry L. Deckman

44,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Illuminates ways administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and indeed, students themselves, might productively address issues of difference and anti-Blackness for the purpose of fostering critically inclusive campus environments.
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Special Admission - How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes

de Kirsten Hextrum

51,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Contradicts the American belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions.
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Climbing A Broken Ladder - Contributors Of College Success For Youth In Foster Care

de Nathanael J. Okpych

56,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Drawing on data from one of the most extensive studies of young people in foster care, Nathanael Okpych examines a wide range factors that contribute to the chances that foster youth enroll in college, persist in college, and ultimately complete a degree.
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Diversity Regimes - Why Talk Is Not Enough To Fix Racial Inequality At Universities

de James M. Thomas

50,28€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 As a flagship university in the American South, so-called â€œDiversity Universityâ€ has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. James Thomas draws on ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and contingencies over what diversity is and how it should be accomplished.
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Mothering By Degrees - Single Mothers And The Pursuit Of Postsecondary Education

de Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson

52,93€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Explores how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single mums, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think a good mother should be, and what society is telling them, and how that affects their choices to go to college, and whether to stay in college.
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Back In School - How Student Parents Are Transforming College And Family

de A. Fiona Pearson

48,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Fifty years ago, students who were parents were a rarity in college classrooms. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, over a quarter of all undergraduate students were parents. A. Fiona Pearson explores how these student parents navigate cultural norms and institutional resources, forging pathways as parents and students.
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Unequal Higher Education - Wealth, Status, And Student Opportunity

de Barrett J. Taylor e Brendan Cantwell

56,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the United States. The authors use quantitative analysis to map the contours of this system. They then explain the mechanisms that sustain it and illustrate the ways in which rising institutional inequality has limited individual opportunity.
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White Guys On Campus - Racism, White Immunity, And The Myth Of "Post-Racial" Higher Education

de Nolan L Cabrera

51,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while engaging the possibility of White students to participate in anti-racism. Ultimately, White Guys on Campus calls upon institutions of higher education to be sites of social transformation instead of reinforcing systemic racism.
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Empowering Men Of Color On Campus - Building Student Community In Higher Education

de Derrick R. Brooms, Jelisa Clark e Matthew Smith

62,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines how men of colour negotiate college through their engagement in Brothers for United Success (B4US), an institutionally-based male-centred program at an Hispanic Serving Institution. The authors introduce the concept of educational agency, which is harboured in cultural wealth and demonstrates how ongoing B4US engagement empowers the men's efforts and abilities to persist in college.
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Poison In The Ivy - Race Relations And The Reproduction Of Inequality On Elite College Campuses

de W. Carson Byrd

62,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse US. W. Carson Byrd shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students' beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation.
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From Single To Serious - Relationships, Gender, And Sexuality On American Evangelical Campuses

de Dana M. Malone

52,93€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Explores friendship, dating, and, sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at US evangelical colleges. Dana M. Malone examines the struggles they have in balancing their gendered and religious presentations of self, the expectations of their campus community, and their desire to find meaningful romantic relationships.
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Sport And The Neoliberal University - Profit, Politics, And Pedagogy

62,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.
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Developing Faculty In Liberal Arts Colleges - Aligning Individual Needs And Organizational Goals

de Laura Gail Lunsford, Meghan J. Pifer e Vicki L. Baker

62,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Analyses the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic leaders in their discipline and at these distinctive institutions.
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Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration - Theory And Practice Across Disciplines

55,58€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the US, Canada, and the UK.
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Envisioning The Faculty For The Twenty-First Century - Moving To A Mission-Oriented And Learner-Centered Model

82,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Weighs the concerns of university administrators, professors, adjuncts, and students in order to critically assess emerging faculty models and offer informed policy recommendations. Cognizant of the financial pressures that have led many universities to favour short-term faculty contracts, contributors investigate whether there are ways to modify the existing system or promote new faculty models.
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New Deal For The Humanities - Liberal Arts And The Future Of Public Higher Education

52,93€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Brings together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. The contributors offer spirited and thought-provoking debates on a diverse range of topics. A New Deal for the Humanities takes an intrepid step in making the humanities even stronger in the future.
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Developing Faculty In Liberal Arts Colleges - Aligning Individual Needs And Organizational Goals

de Laura Gail Lunsford, Meghan J. Pifer e Vicki L. Baker

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 Analyses the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic leaders in their discipline and at these distinctive institutions.
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