Campus Voices and Student Choices

Campus Voices and Student Choices
Author: D. Tony Willis
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1607916800

Campus Voices and Student Choices is a devotional book written from a Christian perspective to give spiritual insight to the college student. It contains more than 150 quotes from students and graduates, Scriptural and devotional lessons, and a student journal. The collegiate journey is filled with many challenges. This book offers practical and relevant insight into issues that students may face and provides valuable devotions to strengthen, encourage, and help them be successful. ______________________________________ Tony and Kathy met at Lee University in Cleveland Tennessee. They were married in 1983, and have two children, Stephanie and Jonathan. They serve as Pastors at Soul's Harbor Church of God in Manassas, Virginia. Tony and Kathy grew up in South Carolina. Tony received his B.S. degree in Biblical studies from Lee University and his M.S. degree in Pastoral Studies from the Church of God School of Theology. He has served in ministry in various capacities including youth ministry and pastoral ministry for over 30 years. Kathy received her A.A. in Business from Anderson University, her B.S. in Business Education from Lee University, and she is pursuing her M.Ed. from Liberty University. She has taught in Christian school, public school, and community college. She was awarded Miss Future Business Teacher for Tennessee in 1983. She currently teaches at Hylton High School where she serves as Business Department Chairperson.

Campus Voices

Campus Voices
Author: Paula Miller
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1458795675

College students face a world of adjustments as they take on the challenges of campus life. One of the biggest tests is learning to thrive spiritually in the midst of chaotic and sometimes confusing change. Campus Voices is a collection of spiritual and practical reflections written by students, for students, that take an honest look at the most common difficulties and opportunities that college students encounter. These weekly readings are written by students from a variety of Christian and secular institutions, over 20 schools are represented and each entry opens a window into real campus experiences. Readers will instantly identify with the authentic voices of students finding their way through the maze of college life while growing their relationships with God. Reading are accompanied by journaling space and recommended Scripture readings to further encourage students to thrive.

Campus Voices

Campus Voices
Author:
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441265937

College students face a world of adjustments as they take on the challenges of campus life. One of the biggest tests is learning to thrive spiritually in the midst of chaotic and sometimes confusing change. Campus Voices is a collection of spiritual and practical reflections written by students, for students, that take an honest look at the most common difficulties and opportunities that college students encounter. These weekly readings are written by students from a variety of Christian and secular institutions. More than twenty schools are represented, and each entry opens a window into real campus experiences. Readers will instantly identify with the authentic voices of students finding their way through the maze of college life while growing their relationships with God. Readings are accompanied by journaling space and recommended Scripture readings to further encourage students to thrive.

Practice for Life

Practice for Life
Author: Lee Cuba
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674972406

From the day they arrive on campus, college students spend four years—or sometimes more—making decisions that shape every aspect of their academic and social lives. Whether choosing a major or a roommate, some students embrace decision-making as an opportunity for growth, while others seek to minimize challenges and avoid risk. Practice for Life builds a compelling case that a liberal arts education offers students a complex, valuable process of self-creation, one that begins in college but continues far beyond graduation. Sifting data from a five-year study that followed over two hundred students at seven New England liberal arts colleges, the authors uncover what drives undergraduates to become engaged with their education. They found that students do not experience college as having a clear beginning and end but as a continuous series of new beginnings. They start and restart college many times, owing to the rhythms of the academic calendar, the vagaries of student housing allocation, and other factors. This dynamic has drawbacks as well as advantages. Not only students but also parents and faculty place enormous weight on some decisions, such as declaring a major, while overlooking the small but significant choices that shape students' daily experience. For most undergraduates, deep engagement with their college education is at best episodic rather than sustained. Yet these disruptions in engagement provide students with abundant opportunities for reflection and course-correction as they learn to navigate the future uncertainties of adult life.

Beyond Free College

Beyond Free College
Author: Eileen L. Strempel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475848668

Beyond Free College outlines an audacious national agenda—consistent with, but far more comprehensive than, the current “free college” movement—that builds on the best of US higher education’s populist history such as the G.I. Bill and the community college transfer function. The authors align a wide constellation of higher education trends—online learning, prior learning assessment, competency-based learning, high school college-credit— with a rapidly shifting student transfer environment that privileges college credit as the pivotal educational catalyst to boost access and completion. The book’s agenda seeks greater productive investment in postsecondary education by privileging a single metric—lower-cost-per-degree-granted—as the animating driver of a transfer pathway that will fulfill the potential of its historical, progressive innovators. Beyond Free College’s goal is as simple as it is urgent: To galvanize higher education advocates in an effort to reorganize, reorient, and reignite the transfer function to serve the needs of a neotraditional student population that now constitutes the majority of college-goers in America; and in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education.

Academic Voices

Academic Voices
Author: Upasana Gitanjali Singh
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2022-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0323914969

Academia's Digital Voice: A Conversation on 21st Century Higher Education provides critical information on an area that needs particular attention given the rapid introduction and immersion into digital technologies that took place during the pandemic, including quality assurance and assessment. Sections discuss the rapid changes called into question as student mobility, pedagogical readiness of academics, technological readiness of institutions, student readiness to adopt online learning, the value of higher education, the value of distance learning, and the changing role of administration and faculty were thrust upon institutions. The unprecedented speed of international lockdowns caused by the pandemic necessitated HEIs to make rapid changes in both teaching and assessment approaches. The quality of these and sacrosanctity of the academic voice has long been the central tenet of higher education. While history is replete with challenges to this, the current, rapid shift to online education may represent the greatest threat and opportunity so far. - Focuses on the academic voice in HEI - Presents an authentic message and mode for the new world we live in post COVID - Includes a section on academic predictions for higher education institutions

We the Students

We the Students
Author: Jamin B. Raskin
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1483319180

We the Students is a highly acclaimed resource that has introduced thousands of students to the field of legal studies by covering Supreme Court issues that directly affect them. It examines topics such as students’ access to judicial process; religion in schools; school discipline and punishment; and safety, discrimination and privacy at school. Through meaningful and engagingly written commentary, excerpts of Supreme Court cases (with students as the litigants), and exercises and class projects, author Jamie B. Raskin provides students with the tools they need to gain a deeper appreciation of democratic freedoms and challenges, and underscores their responsibility in preserving constitutional principles. Completely revised and updated, the new, Fourth Edition of We the Students incorporates new Supreme Court cases, new examples, and new exercises to bring constitutional issues to life.

Children as Researchers in Primary Schools

Children as Researchers in Primary Schools
Author: Sue Bucknall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136298347

How often do your primary school pupils have the opportunity to engage in open-ended, sustained pieces of work that offer them choice and control? Do you find that the curriculum restricts openings to provide your pupils with real challenge? Is your school grappling with finding effective ways in which to elicit authentic pupil voice? Children as Researchers in Primary Schools is an innovative and unique resource for practitioners supporting children to become ‘real world’ researchers in the primary classroom. It will supply you with the skills and ideas you need to implement a ‘children as researchers’ framework in your school that can be adapted for different ages and abilities. Children in primary schools are accustomed to being set short-term goals and are often unaware of long-term aims or of the connections between the concepts and skills they are learning. In contrast, this book demonstrates that children engaging in the research process have authentic opportunities to apply invaluable personal, learning and thinking skills while managing their own projects, making their ‘voices’ heard and experiencing increased levels of engagement and self-esteem. Based on the author’s 4-year research study exploring the experiences of young researchers and teachers in primary schools, and on her considerable experience of training young researchers, this book also contains: the history and theory behind ‘children as researchers’ initiatives; a model for good practice based on successful real life case studies; questions for reflective practice; practical examples of research in the classroom; photocopiable resources; opportunities for self-evaluation. This comprehensive resource will be appeal to primary teachers, educational practitioners and students on CPD and ITT courses. It will also be of interest to teacher trainers, to academics involved in teaching and research and to all those interested in promoting children’s voices.