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With the rising occurrence of human caused, natural, and
technological crises, Investigating the Design and Implementation
of Operational Safety Plans for Crisis at Higher Education
Institutions offers guiding principles, implementation factors, and
best practices for creating more effective operational safety plans
at higher education institutions. In many cases, limited resources
prior to a crisis may lead to inadequate planning that hampers
implementation. Additionally, operational safety plans typically
are created or revised in a reactive manner after the fact. As the
result of an exhaustive literature review, the author determined
that, unlike other fields, effective best practices for operational
safety planning are either unknown to the institutions that need
them most or institutional factors and financial constraints
prevent them from implementing them in full.
What does it really take to get a job in academia? Do you want to
go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80,000
students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while
almost all new PhD students say they want to work in academia, most
are destined for something else. The hard truth is that half will
quit or fail to get their degree, and most graduates will never
find a full-time academic job. In Good Work If You Can Get It,
Jason Brennan combines personal experience with the latest higher
education research to help you understand what graduate school and
the academy are really like. This candid, pull-no-punches book
answers questions big and small, including * Should I go to
graduate school-and what will I do once I get there? * How much
does a PhD cost-and should I pay for one? * What does it take to
succeed in graduate school? * What kinds of jobs are there after
grad school-and who gets them? * What happens to the people who
never get full-time professorships? * What does it take to be
productive, to publish continually at a high level? * What does it
take to teach many classes at once? * How does "publish or perish"
work? * How much do professors get paid? * What do search
committees look for, and what turns them off? * How do I know which
journals and book publishers matter? * How do I balance work and
life? This realistic, data-driven look at university teaching and
research will help make your graduate and postgraduate experience a
success. Good Work If You Can Get It is the guidebook that anyone
considering graduate school, already in grad school, starting as a
new professor, or advising graduate students needs. Read it, and
you will come away ready to hit the ground running.
As diversity continues to increase in classrooms, teachers need to
be culturally aware and sensitive in order to ensure student
success. It is important to understand what best practices are
available to support this ever-increasing awareness of learning to
respect those who are different and to understand how this is key
to orchestrating a series of social interactions and social
contexts. Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education is an essential scholarly reference source that provides
comprehensive research on culturally responsive teaching and the
impact of culture on teaching and contextualizes issues related to
cultural diversity and inequity in education. Featuring a broad
range of topics such as gender bias, STEM, and social media, the
goal of the book is to build transformative educators and
administrators equipped to prepare 21st century global citizens. It
is ideal for faculty, teachers, administrators, principals,
curriculum developers, course designers, professionals,
researchers, and students seeking to improve teaching methodologies
and faculty development.
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Index; 1951
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R936
Discovery Miles 9 360
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Knowledge management principles, strategies, models, tools, and
techniques have been proven in government, business, and industry.
More recently, knowledge management has emerged as an essential
enabler for the successful pursuit of scholarly activities in
higher education. Knowledge management has significant
contributions to make in capturing, storing, processing, and
disseminating knowledge between and across these stakeholder
entities and their processes to better support these interrelated
processes and activities. Given the impetus provided by the United
Nations Global Knowledge Economy Policy, institutions worldwide are
actively pursuing the use of knowledge management in all facets of
social and economic development. The importance of knowledge
management research and application in academia is a critical
element of this multifaceted endeavor. The Handbook of Research on
Knowledge Management Tools in Higher Education is a compendium of
cutting-edge research on the use of knowledge management in higher
education and provides original, theoretical, and
application-oriented research within this domain. The book will
also provide insights on the management of expertise, knowledge,
information, and organizational development in different types of
work communities and environments. By including research on global
perspectives, the implementation of knowledge management at
universities, current trends in the field, and the results, this
book is a valuable reference work for professionals and researchers
working in the field of information and knowledge management in
various disciplines, and academics, analysts, developers, students,
technologists, education consultants, higher education
administrators, academicians, stakeholders, and practitioners
seeking to learn, improve, and expand their theoretical and applied
knowledge of knowledge management tools and techniques, models,
processes, and systems in higher education.
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Index; 1956
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R1,040
Discovery Miles 10 400
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Index; 1993
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R937
Discovery Miles 9 370
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