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A college is only as strong as its board of trustees. While the
media frequently report on threats facing colleges and
universities, no sector of higher education is in more danger than
private colleges with small endowments and low enrollments.
Numerous small private liberal arts colleges could benefit from
careful consideration of characteristics and practices of
successful trusteeship. In How Boards Lead Small Colleges, Alice
Lee Williams Brown and Elizabeth Richmond Hayford focus on small
colleges-the kind that seldom attract the attention of researchers.
Integrating case studies with theoretical analyses of college
governance, they explain the basic responsibilities of boards while
demonstrating how some develop practices that fulfill these
responsibilities more effectively than others. The book emphasizes
strategic planning and collaboration between the board and central
administration-advice useful to those governing colleges and
universities of all sizes and strengths. For decades, the authors
led consortia of small colleges and served on boards of multiple
nonprofit organizations. Here, they interview trustees and
presidents at dozens of small colleges across multiple states to
identify the role governing boards play in building strong private
colleges. Encouraging presidents to consider new approaches for
working with their boards based on mutual dedication to
strengthening institutions, Brown and Hayford also urge trustees to
challenge new thinking from their presidents without interfering in
internal operations. How Boards Lead Small Colleges is designed to
appeal to anyone with a special interest in the future of small
private colleges, which play a critical role in the world of higher
education.
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A Family Like Ours
Frank Murphy, Alice Lee; Illustrated by Kayla Harren
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R525
Discovery Miles 5 250
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Describes The Daily Lives Of Early Plains Indians And How They Made
Their Moccasins, Cradles, Thread, Arrows, And Teepees.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
In her large body of work that spanned more than half a century,
Alice Marriott gave a wide audience fresh and lively accounts of
the complex cultures of the Southwestern American Indian. Trained
as an anthropologist/ethnologist, the first woman to graduate with
a degree in that field from the University of Oklahoma, she coupled
her scientific and creative writing skills to produce books that
have become classics. "Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso," a
definitive study of Pueblo Indian pottery making, has remained in
print for sixty years. The memoirs that comprise this volume were
written by Alice Marriott four years before her death in 1992, at
the age of 82. They were her response to a request from Still Point
Press for a full autobiography. Her frail health at the time-she
was ill with Bell's Palsy, blind in one eye, recovering from
multiple fractures from falls-prevented her from writing more.
Nevertheless, the pieces she did complete are delightful personal
stories, told in that unique Marriott style, still engaging and
humorous today. Charlotte Whaley is the author of "Nina
Otero-Warren of Santa Fe," also published by Sunstone Press; editor
emeritus of "Southwest Review," and founder and publisher, with her
late husband, of Still Point Press.
The new, third, edition of this indispensable guide for speech
pathology and therapy students is completely updated, applying the
results of the most recent research into speech disorders.
Phonetics for Speech Pathology introduces normative aspects of
phonetics and describes how these may go wrong in atypical speech,
and the consequences when they do. The book deals with the three
main areas of phonetics: articulatory, acoustic, and auditory, this
last being often neglected in phonetics textbooks. The chapters are
copiously illustrated, with most diagrams and figures newly drawn
for this edition. Correct use of phonetic symbolizations and the
importance of adequate transcription in the clinic are stressed, as
is the use of instrumental analyses to augment impressionistic
descriptions of speech. A range of modern instrumental techniques
in speech analysis is covered, as are developments in hearing
research including auditory processing disorder. The book concludes
with an introduction to current models of speech production and
perception.
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