The best value that readers will take from this book is the knowledge, skills, and wisdom offered by the editors and 26 chapter authors. The book covers a wide range of topics relevant to campus environments and serving increasingly diverse college student populations. The authors provide in-depth analysis of the needs of today's diverse populations; ways educators shape the campus environment, both in and out of the classroom; and strategies educators working in graduate preparation programs can use to effectively prepare future professionals to achieve these goals. By identifying some major shifts in student affairs work in history, the text demonstrates how student affairs professionals evolved from being primarily service providers to educators who actively shape the environment. Now more than ever, marginalized and minoritized communities are more represented on our campuses and we know more about how to effectively serve these populations, as a result of the work done by higher education scholars. This book provides that insight for professionals about how to construct environments for today's student populations that are inclusive, engaging and contribute to student success. Additionally, the book addresses the professional competency areas needed as educators seek to develop campus environments for diverse student populations. This book is written for those who are studying to become student affairs educators and those who are newer in the profession. It not only provides the reader with a theoretical framework, but also some direction on how to create college environments that allow diverse populations to thrive in higher education and reach their full potential.

College Students and Their Environments: Understanding the Role Student Affairs Educators Play in Shaping Campus Environments (American Series in ... ... Affairs Practice and Professionsl Identity)

Business & Money

Cathy Akens

Raquel Wright-Mair

Joseph Martin Stevenson

Education & Reference

Charles C. Thomas Pub Ltd

CATALYSTICS: Classroom Analytics for Teaching about Social Justice in Higher Learning can serve as the genesis for moving the usual mission statements promulgated by so many universities and colleges from the maintained pontification to the movement of proof. 
We use the word, CATALYSTICS to create a confluence between the terms catalytical and analytics, resulting in our subtitle about classroom instruction with action research for catalytical change. 
 Action research literacy empowers us to do this and it should be used for teaching about social justice. As our new global society continues to struggle with finding answers to complex questions concerning economic decline, racial and religious conflict, health disparities, corporate ethics, global warming, national and global security, technological reliance, educational failure and many other compelling challenges impacting the human condition, the demand to conduct actionable research to resolve real life problems becomes more amplified and the revelations of the research findings become more pronounced to society and the social justice within society. 
Time is of the essence, the greater good is at stake, the bigger picture is losing focus, the larger context is losing meaning, and change must come sooner than later as the world continues to terribly troubled, broadly broken and widely wounded. Integrating action research for social justice in reflective teaching can empower those to lead.

Catalytics

Education & Teaching

Richard A. Schmuck

Karen C. Wilson

Higher & Continuing Education

Academica Press

Neurodiversity Within A Divided Nation: The Nerve To Unite

This collaborative book by five distinguished scholars in overlapping fields suggests that fruitful living is extremely hard work and that social harmony requires the unlocking and the emancipation of the human brain the core cerebral source for advancing human coherence, connectivity, cohesion and civility. The stakes are simply too high for stakeholders across our country not to respond to the ongoing and escalating crisis of human division and the desperate need for engagement, enlightenment, and acceptance of human diversity. The authors strongly encourage academic and practitioner psychologists, as well as other students and social scientists, to join a timely framed narrative for greater progress in diversity. Neurodiversity aims to encourage dialogue, discourse, and discovery about what may be obvious to many but avoided by most because its forces us to look inward instead of outward. We can make such inward observations, through the lenses of psychology, cognition, mindfulness, and underleveraged brain capacity amid modern cultural neuroscience. This is critically important particularly in a time marked by the widespread amplification of ambiguity, angst, ambivalence, and anger. This book focuses on crucial thinking versus critical thinking. The authors pose fundamental questions -- about what we are calling a form of cognitive levitation and taxonomical climbing (CBDT) -- to think about purposes of intellectual discourse, not necessarily to seek empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is the inclusion of sample student learning outcomes as provisos throughout the narrative. We have attempted to integrate the student learning outcomes in the text's narrative and connect them to the sections where they are inserted for the reader. The book's embedded taxonomies can also facilitate the instruction, composition, and conceptualization of targeted student learning outcomes.

Neurodiversity Within A Divided Nation: The Nerve to Unite

Jay Finkelman

Bryant Horowitz

Melissa Druckrey

Karen Wilson-Stevenson

The authors have not considered a traditional executive summary for this book so that readers will read and absorb the entire the book to capture the essence, content and scope of this timely publication. Their experience has been that, too often, college students limit their reading of material about race to synopses versus synergies of information. The primary purpose of this holistic handbook is to provide guiding prescriptive principles toward institutionalization of policies and practices that foster global diversity and local inclusion in institutions of higher learning in the aftermath of the unsettling and disturbing racial incidents in the Deep South following the re-election President Barack H. Obama.
 Ironically, President Obama was criticized in 2013 for the lack of leadership diversity (especially women) among his cabinet and senior staff. In any event, this handbook has been conceptualized based on the individual, collective and culminating Southern ''cotton to'' experiences of the five authors from both predominantly/historically White institutions of higher learning (PWIs) and predominately/historically Black institutions of higher learning (HBCUs). Both institutional communities can use this book to create campus climate and culture for global diversity and local inclusion. The handbook encompasses seven chapters, seven conceptual frameworks in a logic model, and seven steps for campus-community collaboration. The book also highlights three dimensional circular themes and threads from spirituality in the preface and the initial chapter from several faiths and religions to introduce and symbolize spiritually different yet commonly denominating doctrines from around the world. We believe these themes and threads represent the Commonwealth of intellectual intersections in modern academe, driven by diverse intellectual capital and inclusive cerebral currency. This book was written to encourage systemic, holistic and systematic inputs, operations, outputs, outcomes and impacts that yield returns on investment (ROI) from campus-wide implementation of global diversity and local inclusion efforts.
 Academica Press is an independent scholarly press specializing in publishing monographs and reference material in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in producing works of scholarly interest English language studies, literary history and criticism ,drama, sociology, education and Irish studies. (Our dedicated imprint, Maunsel &amp; Co., specializes in scholarly research in Irish studies.) We have recently developed projects in African and Afro-American research areas as well as Theology and Legal Studies. 
 Some select areas where we publish include: 
 -American 19th- and 20th-Century Language and Literature -British 19th- and 20th-Century Language and Literature -Irish Studies -African Studies and African-American Studies -Law, including Sports Law -Higher Education -English Church History

FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF OUR PLACE: Living, Learning and Leading with Global Diversity and Local Inclusion From Holistic Higher Learning

Politics & Social Sciences

Carrine H. Bishop

Jacquelyn C. Franklin

Jerry Watson

Sociology

Academica Press,LLC

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