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In the transitional period between 18th century Enlightenment rationalism and 19th century romanticism, Charles Coffin set out in hopes of transplanting his native New England culture to the southwestern frontier, laboring to establish a Harvard-like college in Greeneville, East Tennessee. The educational theory of his institution assumed that the purpose of collegiate learning was to foster a class of gentlemen who would lead their communities by practicing their professions and occupying positions of political influence. Charting Coffin s successes and trials, this study illustrates the life of a man who sought to establish Atlantic seaboard culture and a classical collegiate curriculum in the American frontier ... Read more

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Presenting autobiographical teacher-educator narratives from around the world, this text considers teacher education through a range of personal experience, historical circumstances, and geographic settings, examining different styles, views, and different socio-cultural and historical contexts. ... Read more

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This volume explores the biography, contributions and influence of leaders in American higher education, relating the past to the late-1990s efforts to deal with issues, influences and pressures facing higher education as the 21st century approaches. ... Read more

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A tender but insightful true history of what makes the alumni of the University of Maryland, Munich Campus so special. This sequel to Bavarian Crème continues to be occasionally outrageous, sometimes hilarious, but always entertaining.

Like its (younger) sister campuses in Augsburg and Mannheim, UMMC was a magical place created under unique circumstances. In 2004, after a 54-year tradition, the last of these extraordinary two-year residential campuses will fade away into history. Everyone affiliated with the University of Maryland overseas can't help but to have come away from the experience uniquely tied to a special group like no other. These are some of their stories.

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Read Kittle's stories of teaching and learning. Then write your own. I plan to.
- Tom Romano, author of Crafting Authentic Voice

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touches your teaching soul
Penny has a wonderful way of helping the reader visualize her classroom and her teaching.Each chapter is titled with a child's pseudonymn and then delves into the way she reaches out to 'hook' this particular learner.This deals with some of the tough issues of classrooms as well, the child who is hiding emotional or sexual abuse but finally divulges this through writing, the family so 'on the edge' that school is the only refuge.Highly recommended as a reminder of why we all return to those classrooms come August! ... Read more

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Bad Boys of the Bible (2 books)
The content of these books may be good, but since I have difficulty reading small print, it was unacceptable to me. I am returning these books and ask that you credit my Mastercard.

I inadvertantly ordered 2 copies of the Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible workbook, so I am returning 1 of the copies. Again, please credit my Mastercard. ... Read more

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Native American students entering college often experience a dramatic confrontation of cultures. As one of the writers in this remarkable collective memoir remarks, "When I was a child, I was taught certain things: don't stand up to your elders; don't question authority; life is precious; the earth is precious; take it slowly; enjoy it. And then you go to college and you learn all these other things that never fit." Making things fit, finding that elusive balance between tribal values and the demands of campus life is a recurring theme in this landmark collection of personal essays. Navajo or Choctaw, Tlingit or Sioux, each of the essayists (all graduates of Dartmouth College) gives a heartfelt account of struggle and adjustment. The result is a compelling portrait of the anguish Native American students feel justifying the existence of their own cultures not only to other students but also throughout the predominantly white institutions they have joined. Among the contributors are a tribal court judge and a professional baseball player, the first Navajo woman surgeon, and the former executive director of a Native American preparatory school. Their memories and insights are unparalleled. ... Read more

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a great view
There is not much literature that exists about Native American students in Higher Education. I have used this book in three of my Master's projects. This book has ignited my passion to serve this identity. While this is only a few voices it helps us get a view into their college experiences.

A great snapshot of a unique Native American experience
Garrod & Larimore's First Person, First Peoples is a fine collection of personal accounts of leaving home.The stories are at once unique and universal.They are expressive of an experience to which Native Americanscan truly relate, and yet, set on the campus of one of America's mostselective colleges, the stories are from a elite few who may be speaking ofan experience that is virtually impossible to share.This is valuable asan oral history, and perhaps more importantly, as a voice of the NativeAmerican which remains too infrequently captured.Still, we must findthose voices which are seldom heard, rather than continuing the habit ofletting the elite culture speak for us all.

Stellar, a first class work on Native education
This was a truly wonderful and accessible book about Native American educational achievment. The story of Dartmouth College and its relationship to Native American education is captivating. The honesty of the students isat time heartbreaking and yet is continually inspiring. ... Read more

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Excellent within its limits
Part history and part autobiography, this is an account of Duderstadt's academic career at the University of Michigan, with special emphasis on his 8-year term as the institution's president.Duderstadt is an experienced academic, rising through the ranks to dean of Michigan's college of engineering, then to the position of provost and president.

He is also a prolific commentator on higher education issues.His discussions here are `full and complete'.I am not saying that he is overly loquacious or even a gasbag, but rather that he delineates issues in fulsome detail.Hence, the person with relatively little experience with the academic world who seeks to know more concerning its ways will find this book very, very useful.

Experienced academics will find much of the material familiar, but also agree that it is here deployed with skill and, definitely, completeness.The University of Michigan is one of the most important and successful institutions of higher education in the world, so that Duderstadt's ruminations on it (and insider information concerning it) are of great interest.Duderstadt is frequently associated with the expression that this great university was once publicly-supported, but became publicly-assisted and eventually little more than publicly-located.Others hasten to add, `but still publicly-regulated.'

In other words, part of Duderstadt's challenge was to transform Michigan into, essentially, a private institution, an effort initiated by his predecessor in the position of president, Harold Schapiro.This is not to say that the university lost its `public consciousness' or its sense of `public mission', but rather that this great public institution would have devolved into utter mediocrity if it had continued to count on taxpayer support for the core of its enterprises.

This is an omnipresent issue now in public higher education and in many ways Duderstadt and Michigan led the way.On a related matter, he has relatively little to say about his policies with regard to so-called Total Quality Management and Responsibility-based budgeting, but he was big on both and both are controversial within American higher ed.

He was heavily involved in efforts to `diversify' the university, efforts which drew the national spotlight.He sees all of his initiatives as good things to do and while he acknowledges that some initiatives were unsuccessful he expresses very little doubt about the worthiness of any of them.He is harsh on the professionalization of college athletics, with some reason, of course, but seems not to see their importance in any realm beyond that of entertainment.

As an engineer he acknowledges the importance of the arts and humanities, but he does not feel that importance in his bones.He does not, for example, appreciate the degree to which universities have been altered by the erosion of the position of the humanities (particularly the position of language, literature, rhetoric and the word) from the center of the university to its margins.Nor does he demonstrate a great deal of concern for the erosion of core curricula and the treatment of `general education' in our top universities.He is a great defender of quality and he worked hard (and effectively) to sustain and extend Michigan's excellence, but in his heart of hearts he is an engineer.He does not, to give a single example, challenge the current tendency to develop university `brands' rather than, for example, university `signatures'.There are hints of this.For example, Michigan social scientists are likely to be more quantitative than, e.g., Harvard's, which are likely to be more `institutional', but what is the difference between a Michigan undergraduate education and experience and . . . whoever's?What is special there?What is even unique there?

All of the discussion hovers at a higher level, with concern for the challenges of dealing with political regents, scandal-mongering reporters and editors, student activists and such (all real challenges, of course).Nevertheless, the book will be very useful to external observers and it will be quite resonant for others who have spent time in executive-level higher ed administration.It is particularly strong on the rhythms of these offices, the day to day experiences which real people encounter and the exhilaration they can spark and the toll that they can take.He says very little about educational philosophy, human learning, the wise (and misguided) ways of the past and the wise (and misguided) ways of the present. ... Read more

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To celebrate the intellectual achievement of the University of Chicago on the occasion of its centennial year, Edward Shils invited a group of notable scholars and scientists to reflect upon some of their own teachers and colleagues at the University. ... Read more

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An essential reference for understanding the evolution of the college student personnel field, "Student Affairs: A Profession's Heritage" traces the development of the field from its beginnings through the writings of Cowley, Williamson, Mueller, Lloyd-Jones, Wrenn, Penney, Greenleaf, Tripp, and Shaffer through the student development emphasis of Crookston, Parker and Hurst. This second and expanded edition of "Student Affairs" also discusses the development of identity during the college years and the feminization of the profession. Co-published with American College Personnel Association. ... Read more

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This volume illustrates the interconnections between science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to a close examination of one key university - that of Cambridge - and examines the major issues of the institutional setting of Newton's work, the religious and political circumstances that favoured its dissemination, and the way in which it was dealt with in the curriculum. The author also seeks to place the problem of the role of science in the early modern university in a larger, european context. To do so, he includes a close prosopographical analysis of the scientific community from the mid-15th until the end of the 18th century, and discusses the complex relations between the universities and the Enlightenment. ... Read more

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Windle was a privileged participant in Irish public affairs with friends in the British Government, Dublin Castle, the Irish Parliamentary Party, the Gaelic League and the Catholic Church. The son of a Church of Ireland rector, he studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. A convert to Catholicism in the early 1880s, he became a Professor of Anatomy in Birmingham, helping to found Birmingham University. He took up his post as President of Queen’s College Cork in 1904, transforming the university during the following decade and a half into a modern institution with an enhanced curriculum, more staff, a growing student body and new buildings and facilities. He was responsible for the building of the Honan Hostel and Honan chapel.

Windle viewed with great concern the rise of radical nationalism and the growth of Sinn Féin. He was a strong supporter of the British government’s participation in World War 1, a critic of the 1916 rising, and a member of the Irish Convention which sought to resolve the "Irish question" in 1917/1918. Windle had no sympathy for the new radical nationalist coalition which contested the general election of 1918. In the context of the decline of the Irish Parliamentary Party and the rise of Sinn Féin led by Eamon de Valera, he launched his second unsuccessful bid to establish an autonomous university of Munster. Thwarted by a combination of nationalist intransigence and the weakness of the British government, he left Ireland for Canada in 1919 thoroughly disillusioned by the politics of UCC, the Irish Catholic Church and the emerging independent Irish state.

Students of Irish history, politics, culture, society and education will find the work of interest together with those who wish to see Windle in his role as a scientist and commentator on evolution and on religious matters. Windle, given his background and formation, provides a unique view of Irish politics, history and education. The work is all the more important because of the richness primary sources on which it is based. ... Read more