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Colleges sell themselves by the numbers—rankings, returns on
investments, and top-ten lists—but these often mislead
prospective students. What numbers should they really be paying
attention to? High school and college students are inundated by
indicators and rankings supposedly designed to help them decide
where to go to college and what to study once they arrive. In
Metrics That Matter, coauthors Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar,
Aashish Mehta, Chris Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield take a
critical look at these metrics and find that many of the most
popular ones are confusing, misleading, and—most
importantly—easily replaceable by more helpful alternatives.
Metrics That Matter explores popular metrics used by future and
current college students, with chapters focusing on colleges'
return on investment, university rankings, average student debt,
average wages by college major, and more. Written for students,
their families, and the counselors who advise them, each chapter
explains a common metric's fundamental flaws when used as a basis
for making important educational decisions. The authors then draw
on decades of scholarship from many academic fields to pair each
metric with a concrete recommendation for alternative information,
both qualitative and quantitative, that would be more useful and
meaningful for students to consider. They emphasize that
students should be thinking beyond solely using metrics when making
college decisions—students should focus on their intellectual and
academic education goals, not just vocational or monetary ones.
Students' reliance on certain metrics has skewed universities away
from providing high-quality education and distorted the perception
of higher education's purpose, overemphasizing private financial
returns over the broader economic and social benefits of
universities. This book aims to facilitate important student
decisions while reorienting public perceptions of higher
education's values and how universities should measure their own
success.
The last few centuries have seen paper-based documents and
manuscript signatures dominate the way businesses enter into a
contractual relationship with each other. With the advent of
Internet, replacing paper-based contracts with B2B electronic
contracts is a possibility. However, an appropriate technology and
an enabling legislation are crucial for this change to happen. On
the technology front this feature has the potential to enable
business executives to sit in front of their computer and sign
multi-million dollar deals by using their electronic signatures. On
the legal front various pieces of legislation have been enacted and
policies developed at both national and international levels to
give legal recognition to such type of contracts. This book
presents the findings of an empirical study on large public listed
Australian companies that examined businesses' perception towards
the use of electronic signatures in B2B contracts. Essentially, it
identifies six key factors that create a disincentive to businesses
to move from the practice of paper- based signatures to the new
technology of electronic signatures. This book offers legal
practitioners, academics and businesses insights into issues
associated with the use of electronic signatures and suggests a
number of measures to promote its usage in B2B contracts.
The last few centuries have seen paper-based documents and
manuscript signatures dominate the way businesses enter into a
contractual relationship with each other. With the advent of
Internet, replacing paper-based contracts with B2B electronic
contracts is a possibility. However, an appropriate technology and
an enabling legislation are crucial for this change to happen. On
the technology front this feature has the potential to enable
business executives to sit in front of their computer and sign
multi-million dollar deals by using their electronic signatures. On
the legal front various pieces of legislation have been enacted and
policies developed at both national and international levels to
give legal recognition to such type of contracts. This book
presents the findings of an empirical study on large public listed
Australian companies that examined businesses' perception towards
the use of electronic signatures in B2B contracts. Essentially, it
identifies six key factors that create a disincentive to businesses
to move from the practice of paper- based signatures to the new
technology of electronic signatures. This book offers legal
practitioners, academics and businesses insights into issues
associated with the use of electronic signatures and suggests a
number of measures to promote its usage in B2B contracts.
This is the first socio-legal multi-jurisdictional study on hazing
(ragging). This book considers four countries: the USA, India, Sri
Lanka, and Australia. It states the legal position, identifies
lacunas in law, and proposes possible legal solutions.
Unfortunately, laws, regulations, and policies have failed to stamp
out hazing from university campuses and residential colleges.
Hazing has spiralled out of control in a number of countries. It
has descended into a cruel, barbaric, and inhuman practice. The
number of students subjected to hazing and sexual abuse is
alarming. According to a 2022 survey, more than half (53%) of
American students who were part of a fraternity or sorority
experienced hazing. Students are murdered, harmed, abused, and
suffer long-term trauma. The prevention of hazing is one of the
most important responsibilities of 21st century universities. The
theme of the book is that universities are in the best position to
protect students from hazing and must play a vital role. As a
sociological study, the book also considers why hazing occurs and
what can be done to prevent it. Without engaging with the
underlying causes, legal punitive measures continue to address the
symptom rather than the cause. The book, therefore, explores how a
more innovative approach to regulation can help tackle the cause.
The book will be of interest to policy makers, regulators at
universities, education and legal academics, and personal injury
lawyers.
The stories in this collection draw variously on the themes of love
and loss, Taoist metaphors, socio-political concerns, and the
writer's place and role in the world. Literary and complex yet
accessible and fast-paced, each story differs widely in style,
motivation, philosophy, and denouement from all the others. The
collection encompasses topographies and places from China to
France, and Ireland to India.
In the second age of the world, a time of prehistory, a time of
myth, Mandodari, queen of the demon king Ravana, invents chess to
carve out a role for herself in a world where male, martial virtues
are paramount. As a chess player, she can play at warfare; as
queen, she can be the most potent warrior on the battlefield. The
Queen's Play attempts to write the origin of chess into the
narrative cycles of the Ramayana, one of the two formative epics of
ancient India.The cursory mention of a chess-like game in the
Ramayana lore offers interesting parallels and openings between the
game and the themes of the epic poem. At the centre of it is a
queen, first entering and then growing from strength to strength to
become the most powerful piece on the board, inventing a game which
closely parallels the epic battle taking place not far from the
royal palace, a battle which she is not permitted to join, a battle
where she will lose her king. Foregrounding certain episodes from
the vast tapestry of the epic, the novel develops new narrative
variations that feed back into the classical text with freshly
imagined material.
The book entitled Hybrid Polyaniline Nanocomposite for Humidity
Sensing contains five chapters based on the conducting polymer
nanocomposites for humidity sensing application. The chapters
includes Introduction to Nanocomposite, Synthesis of nanocomposite,
Characterization techniques, Humidity tests and finally summary of
the work. Each chapter has got its own importance in the field of
sensor technology, this book will keep the interest of the
scientists, academicians update about new approach of wet Chemistry
and Nanocomposite. The main motto of my book is to enhance the
knowledge of science for the next generation of the contemporary
world.
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