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China's rising research universities : a new era of global ambition
This tightly focused analysis of China's research universities offers important insights on the changing global landscape of higher education and the expanding role of China as a geopolitical leader. This timely study charts the intentional and accelerated rise of China's research universities by analyzing how state policy has transformed key institutions. Specifically, it addresses how state initiatives have influenced faculty life and academic culture at these campuses. Based on empirical studies at four of the nation's leading universities and including more than seventy semi-structured interviews with professors and key administrators, China's Rising Research Universities sheds light on fundamental changes in faculty life. These changes amount to nothing short of a dramatic transformation of academic culture at the nation's top universities. National initiatives driven by China's Ministry of Education seek to develop two overlapping sets of leading universities, through what are known as Project 211 (which affects about 100 universities) and Project 985 (which affects about 40 universities). Project 985 enhancements are particularly important to the country's efforts to strengthen university science and research. The book also addresses the broader context of higher education reform in China, arguing that recent efforts to elevate the nation's top universities toward world-class standing represent a shift in higher education policy development and implementation leading to what is described as China's Global Ambition Period. Offering important insights into the changing higher education policy context in an age increasingly defined by globalization, China's Rising Research Universities will appeal to higher education leaders and policymakers; students, faculty, and scientists who interact with Chinese counterparts; and scholars of international and comparative studies.
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Global citizenship and the university
This book examines faculty and students at four universities around the world to understand the diverse ways individuals experience and define citizenship in the age of globalization.
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MOOCs, high technology & higher learning
The first book to explore the rise of MOOCs through a social science lens. In MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads places the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement into the larger context of a revolution in educational technology. In doing so, he seeks to bring greater balance to increasingly polarized discussions of massively open online courses (MOOCs) and show their ongoing relevance to reforming higher education and higher learning. Rhoads offers a provocative analysis of a particular moment in history when cultural, political, and economic forces came together with evolving teaching and learning technologies to bring about the MOOC. He argues persuasively that the OCW and MOOC movements have had a significant impact on the digitalization of knowledge and that they have helped expand the ways students and teachers interact and develop ideas collaboratively. He also critically analyzes the extensive media coverage of MOOCs while examining empirical studies of MOOC content delivery, the organizational system supporting the OCW/MOOC movement, and faculty labor concerns. Too often, technology advocates champion the MOOC movement as a solution to higher education's challenges without recognizing the pedagogical, social, and economic costs. MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning challenges many of the democratic claims made by MOOC advocates, pointing to vast inequities in the ways MOOCs are presented as an alternative to brick-and-mortar access for low-income populations. This book offers a clear-eyed perspective on the potential and peril of this new form of education.
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The Warren Buffett way workbook
The Warren Buffett Way Workbook consists of over 500 questions and answers to help readers of The Warren Buffett Way reinforce and cement their knowledge of Buffett’s hugely successful investment approach. The Workbook follows The Warren Buffett Way, 3e, providing a combination of multiple choice and essay questions for each chapter in the core book. Given the depth and range of questions, a reader who masters the material in the Workbook will be equipped with the knowledge to begin to apply Buffett’s methods to his/her own investment portfolio. All answers are provided in the Workbook, including answers to the essay questions. The perfect accompaniment to The Warren Buffett Way, 3e and The Warren Buffett Way Video Course, the Workbook will provide readers with a sure path to begin investing just like Warren Buffett.
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The Warren Buffett way
\"The bestselling book on Warren Buffett returns, with new insights on his continued successOften described as the greatest investor of all time, Warren Buffett grew a $100 investment in the late 1950s into an investment empire. In the process, he has become one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, and the foremost authority on investing of our generation.With over one million copies sold, The Warren Buffett Way is the definitive book on \"The Oracle of Omaha's\" investment methods. Completely revised and updated, the Third Edition of The Warren Buffett Way focuses on the timeless principles and strategies behind Buffett's extraordinary investment success. This edition contains new chapters on the important distinctions between investing and trading, as well as an examination of the most successful disciples of Warren Buffett. Throughout the book, fresh examples and case studies are used and Buffett's successful formula is distilled in a way that will provide value to readers for decades to come. This edition represents the totality of Buffett's investment career and focuses on his timeless investing principles Companion website contains \"Buffett Investment Calculators,\" which you can use to calculate the value and investment potential of companies Written by foremost Buffett expert Robert Hagstrom Engaging and informative, the Third Edition of The Warren Buffett Way is a must read--not just for avid Buffett fans, but for anyone who wants to know what it takes to make the best investment decisions possible\"--
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Affirmative action's testament of hope : strategies for a new era in higher education
This book of 10 papers presents a collaborative effort of professionals in several disciplines to analyze the impact of affirmative action in higher education. Emphasis is on how affirmative action can be constructed for the 21st century to protect individuals who have been discriminated against and excluded from higher education. The papers are: (1) The State of Affirmative Action at the Threshold of a New Millenium\" (Mildred Garcia); (2) \"Affirmative Action in Historical Perspective\" (John R. Howard); (3) \"There Is Much More To Do\" (Robert W. Ethridge); (4) \"Affirmative Action: A Path Towards Enlightenment\" (Linda Flores and Alfred A. Slocum); (5) \"Reconciling College Access and the Affirmative Action Debate\" (Sylvia Hurtado and Christine Navia); (6) \"Faculty Diversity and Affirmative Action\" (Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner and Samuel L. Myers, Jr.); (7) \"Affirmative Action and Beyond: The Woman's Perspective\" (Bonnie E. Busenberg and Daryl G. Smith); (8) \"Toward a More Inclusive Vision of Affirmative Action: Improving Campus Environments for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People\" (Robert A. Rhoads); (9) \"Strict Scrutiny: The Law and Its Special Favorites\" (Alfred A. Slocum); and (10) \"The Hopwood Case: What It Says and What It Doesn't (Albert H. Kauffman and Robert Gonzalez). A final section, by Mildred Garcia, offers conclusions and suggested strategies. (Individual chapters contain references.) (DB)
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