College and University Books

The most accurate description of Brandeis University.

Never has there been a book that so perfectly described Carnegie Mellon. This book was so right on about CMU it was frightening. I am currently a Junior at Carnegie Mellon and I got my hands on the CollegeProwler guide to this school. I wish I could have had a resource like this when I was choosing schools. The book answered all questions and was dead on accurate. I would reccomend this book to anyone who wants the truth on college.

Although this book was written primarily for students and their parents, taxpayers in general should also gain from reading and absorbing the real message presented by Simon. His message is simply this: A college education should not only provide the student with programs and courses that truly give the student the necessary knowledge and training to become a self-sustaining and useful citizen but also that the taxpayers' dollars are spent as efficiently as possible.

Simon covers many of the positive aspects of programs at various colleges but he deals mainly with the deficiences and inefficiences of the large number of offerings across the country. He goes into great detail with documented information on those two issues and views poor preparation at the high school level as just part of the problem.

Anyone who is genuinely interested in the subject of improving the educational system in this country can surely benefit from the well over 200 pages of fact-filled information and views put forth by the author. Not everyone will agree with him but his book does bring into focus that some serious changes must be made if we are to continue to be a world leader in higher education

Excellent resource. The authors advice is guided by both research and deeply painful personal experiences. Any university seriously committed to maintaining a proactive approach to crisis intervention and emergency response, will make this book a required reading by their student affairs and administrative staffs.

I just used Boyer's work for a paper on campus community, and I found that he is the only researcher to suggest valid and possible ways to facilitate an on-campus community. A definite for the bookshelf!

Whoa! I really don't agree with that lone review (currently). I wonder if the person even read the book? Helping people is not right wing, only left wing? There are a myriad of community service projects that these colleges support and finance. This book is very thorough in giving many examples of the types of projects and support available. Here are a few off-hand. Preparing meals and giving them to poor people, teaching children, helping with voter registration, fixing environmental toxicity in village's water supply, building houses in Honduras during spring break.

This series, this book inparticular, is really special. IT has problems, controversy and excitement. For anyone, any age, read this book.

This is truly a wonderful book! It's the one so many of us have been seeking. Its appeal has a broad stroke: to in-the-home workers, off-to-the-office workers, to students, and to those in Academe. Don't misunderstand me: this is no feel-good book; it tells it like it is and somehow that's reassuring. It's reassuring because someone out there is representing us. Someone has the scholarship, the background, the style, and yes, the humanity to say it for us. It makes me proud to be an "equal gender."

". . . good philosophy was not supposed to shed light on everyday problems" says Prof. Martin. For those of us who can't live through the day without "good philosophy" reading her book provides the path to sanity. Educators are a lonely lot up there, out there, on the line of fire; just you and a whole class of whatever age, background, and ability. Take my hand, says this book. Let's go there together. I'm happy to continue the bridge-crossing begun, for me, with Prof. Martin in her seminal book,"The Schoolhome." I look forward, and across, to the other truly "essential" shore, when the next bridge beckons us to cross.

Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Gail Gunst Heffner (Associate Director for Applied and Community-based Research at the Calvin Center for Social Research) and Claudia DeVries Beverluis (Dean of Instruction and Professor of Psychology at the Calvin Center for Social Research), Commitment And Connection: Service-Learning And Christian Higher Education addresses academically based service-learning as it has been implemented on Christian college and university campuses. Sixteen contributors focus upon the service-learning movement in Christian education as a builder of community and in developing students. Of special note is the final and illustratively insightful chapter "The Development of Academically Based Service-Learning at Calvin College: An Historical Perspective". Commitment And Connection is strongly recommended reading for all college and university level administrators and educators whether their campus is secular or parochial.

I've owned a copy of this book for 30 years and still refer to it. There's nothing the least bit fancy about it -- it's a "bulletin" of the New Jersey extension service, printed in black and white with a plastic comb binding. It covers about 100 of the trees you're most likely to find in NJ forests. Each tree gets two pages: one page with precise line drawings of the leaf, fruit, and twig, and one page with a no-nonsense description of where the tree typically grows, how to identify it, what it has been used for, etc. In terms of production values, it can't hold a candle to more recent tree books, but in terms of usefulness in making IDs and building your "tree vocabulary," it's hard to beat.