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A critical history of the Americanization of legal education in
fourteen countries The second half of the twentieth century
witnessed the export of American power-both hard and
soft-throughout the world. What role did US cultural and economic
imperialism play in legal education? American Legal Education
Abroad offers an unprecedented and surprising picture of the
history of legal education in fourteen countries beyond the United
States. Each study in this book represents a critical history of
the Americanization of legal education, reexamining prevailing
narratives of exportation, transplantation, and imperialism.
Collectively, these studies challenge the conventional wisdom that
American ideas and practices have dominated globally. Editors Susan
Bartie and David Sandomierski and their contributors suggest that
to understand legal education and to respond thoughtfully to the
mounting present-day challenges, it is essential to look beyond a
particular region and consider not only the ideas behind legal
education but also the broader historical, political, and cultural
factors that have shaped them. American Legal Education Abroad
begins with an important foundational history by leading Harvard
Law School historian Bruce Kimball, who explains the factors that
created a transportable American legal model, and the book
concludes with reflections from two prominent American law
professors, Susan Carle and Bob Gordon, whose observations on
recent disruptions within US law schools suggest that their
influence within the global order of legal education may soon fall
into further decline. This book should be considered an invaluable
resource for anyone in the field of law.
Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western
Europe provides a conspectus of the great Western European
universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their
architectural heritage, and describes the art, literary, and
natural history collections they have accumulated over the
centuries. This book profiles the ancient universities and their
distinctive organizational cultures, reveals their customs,
ceremonies, and traditions, their quirks and quiddities, recounts
their complicated histories, describes their architectural wonders
(libraries, museums, anatomy theaters, botanical gardens) and
treasures (rare manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, and objects
d'art of all kinds), and introduces their famous alumni,
distinguished scholars, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and
famously eccentric personalities. It is a book for scholars,
researchers, and anyone interested in these ancient institutions
that remain centers of learning in the contemporary world.
Over the past few decades universities have opened their doors to
students whose parents and grandparents were historically excluded
from societal participation and higher education for reasons
associated with racial, ethnic, socio-economic and/or linguistic
diversity. Many of these students are first generation - or first
in their family to attend university. While some progress has been
made in responding to the needs of these internationally
underserved learners, many challenges remain. This edited book
features the unique and diverse experiences of first generation
students as they transition into and engage with higher education
whilst exploring ways in which universities might better serve
these students. With reference to culturally responsive and
sustaining research methodologies undertaken in Australia, Canada,
New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the USA, the contributors
critically examine how these students demonstrate resilience within
university, and ways in which success and challenges are
articulated. Elements that are unique to context and shared across
the international higher education milieu are explored. The book is
replete with diverse student voices, and compelling implications
for practice and future research. The studies featured are centred
on underlying theories of identity and intersectionality while
valuing student voices and experiences. Throughout, the emphasis is
on using strengths-based indigenous and decolonised methodologies.
Through these culturally sustaining approaches, which include
critical incident technique, participatory learning and action,
talanoa and narrative inquiry, the book explores rich data on first
generation student experiences at seven institutions in six
countries across four continents.
Because of the continued growth of online instruction, there is now
a need to better understand every demographic of students in higher
education. Achieving successful student-faculty engagement in
distance learning is a growing challenge. Fostering Multiple Levels
of Engagement in Higher Education Environments is an essential
reference source that serves as a guideline for institutions
looking to improve current undergraduate or graduate programs and
successful engagement practices with online faculty, staff, and
students. Featuring research on topics such as student-faculty
engagement, engaging curriculum, engaging platform, and engaging
relationships, this book is ideally designed for educators,
practitioners, academicians, and researchers seeking coverage on
successful engagement in higher education.
Data is the most important commodity, dubbed "the money of the
twenty-first century," which is why data protection has become a
global priority. Data breaches and security flaws can jeopardize
the global economy. Organizations face a greater risk of failing to
achieve strategy and business goals as cyber threat behavior grows
in frequency, sophistication, and destructiveness. A breach can
result in data loss, business interruption, brand, and reputation
harm, as well as regulatory and legal consequences. Furthermore,
cyber security has evolved into a critical component of national
defense. Furthermore, its sphere of control encompasses all facets
of a country's government, economy, and health, in addition to
military realms. Companies of all sizes, markets, and market
environments face the task of securing their vital systems and data
daily. A company needs a strategic, well-thought-out cybersecurity
strategy to secure its critical infrastructure and information
systems to overcome these challenges. As a result, businesses
should seek guidance from cybersecurity frameworks. When used
correctly, a cybersecurity system allows IT security leaders to
better handle their companies' cyber threats. The Framework can be
applied in phases and hence customized to suit the needs of any
organization. The Cybersecurity Framework is designed for
businesses of all sizes, divisions, and stages. The system can be
customized to be used by any company thanks to the built-in
customization feature, designed to be flexible enough to be used by
organizations that are developing information security and risk
management systems. This book examines potential solutions,
starting with an understanding of ICS security developments in
terms of cyber threats, weaknesses, attacks and patterns, agents,
dangers, and the effects of all of these on the industrial
environment and the organizations that depend on it. Equipped with
cybersecurity framework best practices, this book is an excellent
resource for PG students, Ph.D. scholars, industry practitioners,
manufacturing and service industries, researchers, professors, and
academicians. The book provides an understanding of the specific,
standards-based security controls that make up a best practice
cybersecurity program.
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Emerging Voices
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Barry L Saylor; Foreword by Paul R Alexander
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Management education is currently adapting to several societal
changes. Due to increased workload and outside pressures heaped on
students, business education programs are undergoing a unique
transformation to keep up with shifting industry expectations.
Innovative Management Education Pedagogies for Preparing
Next-Generation Leaders facilitates the discussion on a variety of
teaching methods and practices being used in current business
education programs. Highlighting the ways that technology can be
used to aid students in the advancement of their studies as well as
career development and preparation, this text covers a range of
topics, from leadership expectations and workforce requirements to
electronic course materials. The timely research-based practices
and methods included in this publication are beneficial to school
administrators, instructional designers, instructors, and
researchers in the fields of business and higher education.
A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education provides a timely
review of the significant growth of private higher education in
many parts of the world during the last decade. The book is
concurrent with significant changes in the external operating
environment of private higher education, including government
policy and its impact on the ongoing growth of the sector. The
title brings together the trends relating to the growth and the
decline of private higher education providers, also including the
key contributing factors of the changes from 17 countries.
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