Colleges and Universities Books

Written by college and university organizational development consultant Barbara A. Miller, Assessing Organizational Performance in Higher Education is a guide especially for leaders in higher education, offering a tested and proven model for integrating and expanding assessment practices that give a genuinely accurate picture of organizational successes, strengths, and weaknesses. Chapters discuss both internal and external elements in organizations as systems, practical assessment methods and terminology, how to define and measure organizational performance, how to create and maintain reliable assessment programs, and more. Black-and-white charts and tables help clarify the points and procedures spelled out in straightforward, readily accessible terms, in this excellent resource for garnering the necessary information to optimize institutional educational performance.

This book was even more than I expected. It was everything I needed to know to obtain a scholoarship to a good school!

The author has quite obviously taken a great deal of time to examine how a student/athlete can obtain a scholarship. It is a must read for the senior at the high school level with a dream of attending a U.S. or Canadian college or university. It worked for me!

For your little Auburn Tiger this is the perfect book. It is sturdy and captures the AU life that you want your little one to treasure!

This is an inspiring autobiography of one of the most successful African-American educators of his time. From about 1875-1925 Scarborough taught Greeek and Latin, mostly at Wilberforce University, where he eventually became President of the university. Scarborough gives an interesting and heartfelt account of his endeavors in education, classical literature, and the promotion of his race and faith. The book should interest the general reader, as well as professional classicists and historians.

If you're new to creative writing, or if you teach an introductory creative writing course, I strongly recommend that you read this book. It uses a structured approach to the different aspects of writing (writing about places, situations, people, etc.) and includes many thought-provoking exercises at the end of each section. The book also includes many excerpts of autobiographical writings from well-known male and female authors, including Annie Dillard and George Orwell. Finally, the editor ties it all together with several essays that help teachers and students get the most out of the excerpts and writing exercises. I have used the book successfully for many years to refresh my own writing skills and to build the skills and confidence of my writing students. I only wish that a newer edition would be published.

B.A.S.I.C. is an excellent publication which provides clear and effective information for building community in Residence Halls. It is an excellent resource for anyone working in a residence hall with students, particularly RAs. Great job!

This book is so incredible. All Duke fans HAVE to have this one! The pictures are amazing and the game summaries help to keep that great Duke season fresh on the brain. With the 98-99 team soon to win their NCAA title, it makes this book all the more special!! If you don't buy it, you are a fool!

The Adlers use a qualitative research study w/Peter becoming a participant observer to study the socialization of college athletes and the social psychology of the self. I believe this piece of research is valid research. It saddened me to read what our materialistic world is doing to the young individuals that are recruited for college basketball. It also proved to me that college basketball is about big business, and not really a sport. Unfortunately, it continues today and not only in basketball. Thank you Patricia and Peter for opening our eyes. Anyone interested in knowing the real truth about college athletics should consider reading this book.

I've read all of Jean McGarry's novels and story collections and this one ranks at the top. The assured, sometimes whimsical but always well-controlled style is here, but there's something about the characters Siri and Esther: they are ingratiating young women who grow on you as they themselves grow. In fact, Ms. McGarry's story works as a double bildungsroman, a chronicle of the intellectual growth spurt that can invigorate one's early college years. Although Ms. McGarry is an esteemed professor there is nothing of the usual academic musk: the college is too odd, the story too focused on underclasswomen's mental life to rehase the fixations of the conventional college novel. What starts as a variant on The Odd Couple evolves into a type of quest with both girls breaking free from their roots and trading intellectual places. Dare we ask for a sequel?