Saturday, 17. July 2010
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In this revised and expanded guide, College Placement Bureau Director Loren Pope profiles forty colleges that excel at developing potential, values, initiative, and risk–taking in a wide range of students. This new edition includes a revised group of colleges and for the first time addresses the issues of home schooling, learning disabilities, and single–sex education. Pope encourages students to be hard–nosed consumers when visiting colleges, and shows how the college experience can enrich every young person’s life, whether they are “A,” “B,” or “C” students.
Included in the profiles are:
• Evaluations of each school’s program and “personality”
Interviews with undergraduates, professors, and deans
Information on what happens to the graduates and what they think of their college experience.
Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You’re Not a Straight-A Student
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Monday, 12. July 2010
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This detailed guide outlines a strategic planning approach uniquely suited to the academic environment and proven effective in numerous institutions around the country. The authors address the complex nature of stakeholders and conflicting purposes in an academic setting. Their approach leads to?rather than starts from?the institutional mission statement, and includes realistic methods of negotiating the political barriers that often obstruct the development of a strategic plan and its implementation.
This informative book is particularly effective when used with the companion workbook Working Toward Strategic Change.
Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper
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Sunday, 11. July 2010
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Over the past several years, the military Services have reduced theirforces substantially. Military skill groups have been consolidated beforeand during that reduction. Such consolidations can benefit organizations.As a result of visits to military units and anecdotal reports from thefield, some members of Congress became concerned that the skillconsolidations were eroding readiness and expressed a particular concernabout maintenance skills in two Services. The Office of the Secretary ofDefense asked RAND to determine the extent of the consolidations and theireffects on readiness. On the basis of the indicators selected from ourframework, we found no evidence of deleterious effect of consolidation onreadiness after a two year period of transition. The experience andavailability of personnel in consolidated MOCs are comparable with thosefor other maintenance MOCs. The data for qualification are less clear.However, the Services’ procedures for these consolidations are clearlyunderstood, and these procedures very likely help smooth the transitions.
Military Occupational Specialties: Change and Consolidation
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Friday, 19. March 2010
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In the immediate aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, several countries went through political transformations. Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand all underwent political reform and democratization. Malaysia, although also hit by the financial crisis, remained authoritarian. Is there a connection between economic crises and political change? Once the crisis abates do changes stick? Why did political reform happen in some places and not in Malaysia? Several factors are useful in explaining the variation in political transitions: IMF involvement, popular protests, the nature of political opposition, and elite alliances at the highest levels of government all help determine the success or failure of democratization efforts.
Political Change and Consolidation: Democracy’s Rocky Road in Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia
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Wednesday, 10. March 2010
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Written by some of the leading international authorities in the field, this volume provides an overview of significant contemporary psychological research into shyness. It brings together perspectives from developmental psychology, social psychology and clinical psychology.
Shyness: Development, Consolidation and Change
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Wednesday, 17. February 2010
- ISBN13: 9780143037361
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Now fully revised—the perennially popular guide to choosing the right college
Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope’s expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only among A students but also among those who get Bs and Cs. Contents include:
• Evaluations of each school’s program and “personality”
• Candid assessments by students, professors, and deans
• Information on the progress of graduates
This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education.
Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges
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