"A long-awaited book, destined to become a classic."
--Jane A. Lamb Nichols, acting vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, University and Community College System of Nevada

"The Senior Year Experience" is the long-awaited sequel to the 1989 classic book "The Freshman Year Experience." Like its highly acclaimed predecessor, this important book fills a gap in the literature on the topic of student transition. It offers a blueprint of the best ideas and strategies for ensuring that the end of the college experience is as promising as the beginning.

The perspectives of over 30 Dartmouth students on topics ranging from the rules of pong to corporate recruiting have been collected and edited by three Dartmouth seniors.

A unique answer to the perennial question--why do college students drink so much? Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique answer to the perennial question of why college students drink. Vander Ven argues that college students rely on "drunk support:" contrary to most accounts of alcohol abuse as being a solitary problem of one person drinking to excess, the college drinking scene is very much a social one where students support one another through nights of drinking games, rituals and rites of passage. Drawing on over 400 student accounts, 25 intensive interviews, and one hundred hours of field research, Vander Ven sheds light on the extremely social nature of college drinking. Giving voice to college drinkers as they speak in graphic and revealing terms about the complexity of the drinking scene, Vander Ven argues that college students continue to drink heavily, even after experiencing repeated bad experiences, because of the social support that they give to one another and due to the creative ways in which they reframe and recast violent, embarrassing, and regretful drunken behaviors. Provocatively, Getting Wasted shows that college itself, closed and seemingly secure, encourages these drinking patterns and is one more example of the dark side of campus life.

Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, The Company He Keeps explores many factors--such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness--that have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, emphasizing the exclusion of different groups of classmates and the sexual exploitation of female college students. |Tracing the history of white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to modern-day college campus, Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at 12 different schools and analyzing 20 national fraternities, this book explores many factors--such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness--that have contributed to versions of fraternal masculinity at different times.

This book is an excellent resource for students who need help with their writing assignments. It provides numerous sample papers to help you jumpstart your brain and eliminate writer's block no matter what course you are taking. Research shows that samples of papers will create new paths to your brain. As you read this book you will say, "Oh Now I see what the professor means " Remember: imperfect students can excel Buy the book

Finally... a college skills book easy enough to read even when you don't have time to read. Over 197 techniques to help make the college experience fun and useful while reducing stress and saving time. These are the best techniques that were tried and tested by hundreds of students. Sections include Advisement, Buying Books, In the Classroom, Online Classes and Technology Issues, Get Organized, The Exciting Textbooks, Money, Note-taking, Presentations and Writing, Time Management, Assignments, and Studying for Tests, Taking Tests, Roommates and Living Environments, It's Your Only Body, and a "Been There, Done That" A Special Contributors' Section. Become a fan on FaceBook Join us on FaceBook for more tips and interactions. A National Board Certified Teacher compiled the strategies in a user friendly format. Kim Holdbrooks Townsel loves to learn, but doesn't like to spend more time studying than she has to. She used the strategies in College Skills 101 to earn a 4.0 Master's degree from the University of Alabama and a 4.0 CLAD from UCLA. She also used them to pass her National Board Certification on her first try.

An extensive step-by-step guide for helping teens navigate their way through high school to college. The Road To College is a must for empowering high school students to map out the path that is right for them based on who they are and what they want to achieve in life.

Have you set your life goals? Do you know what you are truly passionate about? Do you know how to reach your dream job after graduation? GRADUATING WITH CONFIDENCE will show you how to effectively use your time in college, so that when you graduate you will have a better idea of what career path to follow and how to achieve your goals. Drawing on personal experiences, advice from staff and faculty, and tips from graduate students, Trust has compiled a valuable resource for all students. This handy guide demonstrates the importance of simple tasks, such as attending an event, finding a mentor, or taking time to enjoy life, which can transform college from an academic arena into a world of self-discovery.

Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners responds to growing concerns about a crisis in boys' academic achievement. Kathleen Palmer Cleveland seeks to help K-12 educators cut through the hype to get at the real problem: who is underachieving, why are they struggling, and how can educators respond to these students' needs in new and productive ways? Cleveland presents findings from four large-scale studies about how boys learn best and combines these findings with insights about ongoing social and learning-style factors that affect learning in the classroom, plus lesson plans and anecdotes from real teachers working across all grade levels and subject areas. Cleveland's Pathways to Re-Engagement represents the culmination of her substantial research and personal experience. A flexible and practical framework for decision making in the classroom, the Pathways model seeks to: Replace the underachieving boy's negative attitudes about learning. Reconnect each boy with school, with learning, and with a belief in himself as a competent learner. Rebuild learning skills that lead to success in school and in life; and * Reduce the need for unproductive and distracting behaviors as a means of self-protection. Each aspect of the Pathways to Re-Engagement model offers educators a way to move underachieving boys from a position of weakness toward one of strength--giving them the tools to succeed in school and beyond.

As a consequence of the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) law, there is tremendous pressure on school principals, teachers, school superintendents, district staff, state departments of education and governors to maximize the increase in student achievement that is obtained with every dollar of expenditure. Currently, teachers are forced to rely on extremely inefficient approaches that take enormous amounts of time, both during the school day and throughout the K-12 learning years. This is experienced in terms of the reduced time that is available to teach subjects other than math and reading, as schools resort to double periods of math, double periods of reading, and enormous amounts of remedial instruction that directly reduce the time available for other subjects including science, art, and music. In contrast, this book suggests that student achievement may be increased in a way that is not only cost-effective in dollar terms, but efficient in the sense that it does not rely on unusual investments in the time required to obtain results. The book draws upon a wealth of cost-effectiveness data to dispel common notions about "what works" in addressing the achievement gap: increased expenditure per pupil, charter schools, voucher programs, increased educational accountability, class size reduction, comprehensive school reform, increased teacher salaries, more selective teacher recruitment, the use of "value-added" methods to measure and reward teacher performance, the use of National Board teacher certification to identify high-performing teachers, and a host of other approaches.

This is volume I of Crypt A Verse Fun. We started working on this book in January of 2010. Ninety percent of the royalties from this book will go to buy Bibles for people in foreign countries, those who are longing for God's Word. Romans 10:17 tells us that faith comes from hearing the word of God. When you purchased this book, you helped make it possible for someone to receive their very own copy of the best book in the world, God's Holy Word. May God bless you for your gift to them. We are planning volume II in 2011.We are retired and live on beautiful Lake Cumberland in Southern Kentucky. Somehow we found time to complete this book while pursuing our other passions. Such as spending time with our 17 grand children, working in local churches with a mentoring program, maintaining rental property, and volunteering in several community organizations.As we look forward to the future, with our 17 grand children, we are excited about the possibility of having many great grand children.

The idea of life curriculum came as a result of looking back at my past in relation to my studies in curriculum. I learn by reconstructing my past in the present to influence my future, and students, indeed everyone, can as well do so. Constructing a curriculum of life is also a continuous process of building, renewing, refining, and adapting self-defining values, ideals, beliefs, ideas, ethics, and convictions to the growing changes in the environment. Students obtain different curricula from various environments. Through a methodic process of thoughtful deliberation, students can reconstruct and integrate the different curricular experiences of their lives. To help students achieve this, there is the need to broaden the conception of curriculum to include life experiences in a way that interweaves school and outside school curriculum in the classrooms. And this can transform curriculum into a process of constructing life.

A new empowernent for parents, students and teachers to improve quality of life. Provides information on building bridges of trust in the classroom and at home. Students are held accountable for the consequences of their choices.

One of our most distinguished scholars of race shows us how public education is affected by the continuing influence of "color-blind racism as a system of power." Drawing examples from schools, media, and the workplace, Collins--a former schoolteacher herself-- maps out the dynamics of racism in a post-civil rights society in uncommonly clear and vivid ways. This is a book of social analysis that is also an energizing handbook for people looking to effect change, especially in schools.

African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African American fraternities and sororities have strong traditions of fostering brotherhood and sisterhood among their members, exerting considerable influence in the African American community, and being on the forefront of civic action, community service, and philanthropy. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Toni Morrison, Arthur Ashe, Carol Moseley Braun, Bill Cosby, Sarah Vaughan, George Washington Carver, Hattie McDaniel, and Bobby Rush are among the many trailblazing members of these organizations. The rolls of African American fraternities and sororities serve as a veritable who's who among African American leadership in the United States and abroad. African American Fraternities and Sororities places the history of these organizations in context, linking them to other movements and organizations that predated them and tying their history to one of the most important eras of United States history -- the Civil Rights struggle. African American Fraternities and Sororities explores various cultural aspects of these organizations such as auxilliary groups, branding, calls, stepping, and the unique role of African American sororities. It also explores such contemporary issues as sexual aggression and alcohol use, college adjustment, and pledging, and provides a critique of Spike Lee's film School Daze, the only major motion picture to portray African American fraternities and sororities as a central theme. The year 2006 will mark the centennial anniversary of the intercollegiate African American fraternity and sorority movement. Yet, to date, little scholarly attention has been paid to these organizations and the men and women who founded and perpetuated them. African American Fraternities and Sororities reveals the vital social and political functions of these organizations and places them within the history of not only the African American community but the nation as a whole.

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Somehow Aiden's world doesn't make sense any more. His neighbour keeps playing Duran Duran so he can't think. Fellow students comment on his frenzied dancing style at the Mega disco and he wonders whether all his life he has been too serious. Worst of all he can't stop thinking a petite freckled brunette called Janice.

Perhap's if he could make it with her then, then... everything would be solved.

Take the white knuckle ride of Aiden through the highs and lows of student life at Lanchester University through the frustration and devastation of mental illness, through therapy into a whole new unexpected world. This semi -autobiographical account of student life and its aftermath will challenge you about what is and what is not possible.

Believe the unbelievable.