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Student clashes on campus : a leadership guide to free speech
\"This book unpacks the tension between free speech and the social justice priority to support all students. Drawing on court cases, institutional policies and procedures, and notable campus practices, this book answers the question: How do campus leaders develop interests of social justice and create a campus that is inclusive and inviting of all identities while also respecting students' free speech rights? This useful guide provides insights about the myriad of challenges that campus leaders have faced, along with practical approaches to address these issues on their own campuses. Experts Sun and McClellan interrogate the assumptions, thoughts, events, rules, and actions often at-play when free expression clashes with a college's mission of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. This book helpfully guides campus leaders to consider a series of legal frameworks and promising policies as solutions for balancing social justice and free speech.\" -- Provided by publisher
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Budgets and Financial Management in Higher Education
This book will help new administrators (department chairs, directors, deans) understand and become more proficient in their financial managementrole within the institution.Highly accessible, practitioners will be able toput the book's guidance to immediate use in their work. It is also grounded in the latest knowledge base and filled with examples from across all types of institutions, so that it makes an ideal text for a courses in graduate programs in higher education leadership and administration. Specifically, thebook:
• provides an understanding of the basics of budgeting and fiscal management in higher education
• defines the elements of a budget, the budget cycle, and the steps for creating a budget
• suggests ways of avoiding common pitfalls and problems of managing budgets
• contains effective strategies for dealing with loss of resources
• includes end-of-chapter reflection questions and an expanded glossary of terms Written in plain language this volume provides practical approaches to many complex problems in fiscal management.
This new edition of the book contains new information in every chapter reflecting both the most recent developments in higher education and feedback from readers of the earlier edition. The information on the current higher education financial environment has been updated, and the case studies have been revised. Readers will be introduced to Bowen's theory of resources and expenses as an important way to understand budgetary decision making in colleges and universities. Special attention ispaidtothe use of restricted funds, thebudget implications of faculty appointments and the challengescaused by personnel policies for staff. In addition, greater attention is given to development and implementation of repair and replacement programs in auxiliary enterprises. The challenges that arise when budget problems are postponed are also discussed.The volume contains a number of suggestions for practitioners with new budgeting and fiscal responsibilities.
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The handbook of student affairs administration
The Foremost Authorities on Student Affairs Address Issues Facing The Field Today The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration is a comprehensive and thoughtful resource for the field, with expert insight on the issues facing student affairs. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the most current and effective practices in student affairs administration. New chapters address persistence, retention, and completion; teaching and learning; working with athletics and recreation; leadership; purpose and civic engagement; spirituality; and fundraising. Emerging populations are discussed throughout, featuring specific advice for working with veterans and dual-enrolling high school students. New material includes the role of student affairs in study abroad programs, student use of technology and using social media to serve students, working with student athletes, and more. Professionals at all levels of student affairs administration need practical, timely, and applied information on the myriad issues that fall under the student affairs umbrella. This NASPA-sponsored guide collects the latest information, methods, and advice from the field's leading authorities to bring you up to date on the latest solutions and best practices. Learn about the dominant organization and administration models in student affairs Stay up to date on core competencies and professional development models Examine the latest literature, and consider both the newest and lasting issues facing student affairs Instructor resources available As both the student population and the college experience grow more diverse, student affairs professionals need to update their toolset to face the broader scope of the field and the new challenges that arise every day. The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration provides invaluable guidance to graduate students and professionals alike, and is the one resource you should not be without.
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Making Change Happen in Student Affairs
Change is inevitable. Managing change is a choice. Authored by three esteemed leaders in the field of student affairs, Making Change Happen in Student Affairs: Challenges and Strategies for Professionals is a thought-provoking and pragmatic guide to the increasingly complex challenges and expectations that administrators face from both students and the public. Whether it's pressure to provide better programs and services with fewer resources, or difficulties grappling with economic challenges and technological change, the book teaches how to become an effective leader and skillful strategist in order to respond to a rapidly changing landscape. Readers will learn to change their thinking about how they approach challenges by reframing their purpose, role, and function as leaders. Each chapter includes specific concepts and tools that can be used to tackle the most complex campus issues and develop effective plans of action. You'll learn how to: Manage financial resources and supervise staff effectively Advocate for specific students while still recognizing diversity and maintaining service to all Adapt to institutional culture, ethics, values, and changes in leadership Use technology as a tool to affect change on campus By applying shared foundations, ethical principles, a rich knowledge base, and experience, student affairs professionals can develop powerful strategies to confront and resolve vexing problems. With extensive examples and case studies that cover a wide array of issues, this book is an essential read for those looking to make a real difference in the lives of their students and the health of their institutions.
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Making change happen in student affairs
This book is a call to action for student affairs leaders as they encounter ongoing and emerging issues and problems facing their students, their staff, and their institutions. It reframes the purpose, role, and function of student affairs leaders as educators more than mere service providers. By applying shared foundations, ethical principles, a rich knowledge base, and experience, student affairs leaders can develop effective strategies to confront and resolve vexing problems. While not prescriptive, the book describes practical strategies for analyzing problems and issues and developing effective plans for action. Each chapter includes concepts or tools that might be used to confront issues and problems on campus (e.g. management of financial resources; staffing and supervision; diversity and multiculturalism; advocating for some students while serving all students; managing mental health issues, using of technology to affect change, working with and adapting to institutional culture, ethics, values, and change in leadership). Through extensive examples and case studies, the book shows student affairs leaders how to strategically apply these concepts or tools to resolve a variety of issues they face.
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Smart Grid as an Application Development Platform
This authoritative new resource explores the power grid from its classical role as a utility or service provider towards its new role as an application development platform. This book gives insight into the vision, problems and solutions, and risks of the smart grid model. The evolution of the power grid as it develops into an application-centric environment is explained in this book. This resource guides readers to better understand the primary motivation of the smart grid, and to explore how new technologies are creating a cleaner and more sustainable ecosystem for new business models to blossom. Key topics include the basics of electricity and the conventional grid structure, as well as the relationships between conventional economic models and emerging models based on transactive energy and the sharing economy. This book presents the orchestration of smart grid technologies as they are transforming the utility sector toward a human-centric grid. Readers gain insight into how they are playing an active role in the operation of the utility business as well as in the transfer of electrons.
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BIG DAY AT OBERLIN
It is quickly apparent that the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue was an incident waiting to happen. Students at Oberlin, Mr. [Nat Brandt] explains, were dedicated to saving the world through teaching, preaching, missionary work or whatever else it took. ''Oberlin is peculiar in that which is good,'' one of its founders boasted. Oberlin was tense in the late summer of 1858. Slave hunters had made three attempts to seize black families in the community. Each had been foiled. Oberlin abolitionists liked to boast that not one slave had ever been returned to bondage from their town, yet there had never been ''an instance of bloodshed or personal harm.'' Nevertheless, the mood of Oberlin's blacks was especially wary. They were keeping watch on any strangers who arrived in town. Many of them had guns or other weapons at the ready. If [John Price] was aware of the danger, he did not indicate it to anyone. Perhaps he was distracted because he felt so ill. He had lost weight and was considerably bloated. He was down on his luck, too; residents were being paid out of the town's pauper funds to take him in.
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LAND GRAB ON THE RIO GRANDE
[John S. D. Eisenhower], author of ''The Bitter Woods,'' an account of World War II's Battle of the Bulge, has taken the title of his new study of the Mexican War from [Porfirio Diaz]'s rueful remark. Mr. Eisenhower wants his subject to receive its due. He believes the Mexican War is too often treated by historians as simply a rehearsal for the later and far greater Civil War. ''The period between 1844 and 1848 was a significant time,'' he insists, ''not something to be relegated to the attic of memory.'' ''So Far From God'' is primarily military history, as befits the author's own military background and his heritage from his father, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. He gives little space to the dissent the war generated back home, instead commending his readers to John H. Schroeder's ''Mr. [James K. Polk]'s War: American Opposition and Dissent, 1846-1848,'' and leaves unrecorded the impact of the war on American society, which is better found in Robert W. Johannsen's ''To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination.'' What interests Mr. Eisenhower is command - how it was exercised in this war, who succeeded and who failed and why. On that subject he writes briskly and authoritatively, and his judgments are worth reading.
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I FELT FREEDOM IN MY BONES
In ''Forged in Battle'' [Joseph T. Glatthaar], who teaches history at the University of Houston, has fashioned an absorbing account of this revolution. Like his previous book ''The March to the Sea and Beyond,'' dealing with Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas, ''Forged in Battle'' is more social history than military narrative. ''My object is to explore the inner working of these black commands,'' Mr. Glatthaar writes, ''to investigate conduct, attitudes, and experiences among the participants.''
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