Download or read book Retaking College Hill written by Walter Donway and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impassioned, intellectual, and intense All who see the university as the battleground for our future will live this novel page by page A literary philosophical thriller By Walter Donway Returning to his famous Ivy League alma mater after three years in the Navy, Damian Kossak finds a university trashing its mission and standards. Crossing the college green, he barely avoids a violent encounter with students enforcing agreement with "climate change." His father, the dean of the college, is being "brought up on charges" of interfering with the "diversity" admissions machine. Soon, Damian and a few allies--his father, his former philosophy professor, his Navy Seal buddy, and a wildly sexually uninhibited Israeli girl--are battling on every front: Bullying by students. Admissions quotas. Intimidation of politically incorrect faculty members. Jettisoning the study of Western civilization and achievements. New courses in "victimology." Things quickly become dangerous The university Damian still revered just three years ago is collapsing into dogmas of postmodernist philosophy, political correctness, and righteous violence against dissent. Faced with Damian, his father, and his other allies, the opposition turns to destroying reputations, protests to silence politically incorrect speakers, and, finally, an assassination attempt. But...it is still 'homecoming' Amidst it all, Damian's passion for philosophy, for his faculty mentor, Bill Dyson, and for what the university has meant to him, make his homecoming exciting. And so, too, does Jessica, the orphaned Israeli girl with the straight-A record, who struggles to understand where passion ends, and promiscuity begins. Damian's new buddy, the Navy Seal Jules--even as he saves the day for a courageous woman who comes to try to speak on campus--shocks Damian with his affair with the University's VP for diversity. Individuals with true passions, however seemingly in conflict, see the importance of what they share. It is a theme of Retaking College Hill" that lifts our spirit, promises a better future, even amidst seemingly irreconcilable, bitter conflicts. The violence takes its tragic toll for Damian in a wild climactic motorcycle gang attack. But other battles are won. One victory is the answer to this question: Should America's great entrepreneurs and other creators of wealth, under sniper attack by the leftist professoriate, keep signing big checks for the university and leaving the ideas to the professors? Deliverance For Damian and his allies in Retaking College Hill to pose that question to the beautiful, wealthy daughter descended from the University's founder promises ultimate "deliverance." It is a crucial insight, and step, in reclaiming the University's essential and enduring mission from the professoriate of Postmodernism and students who all-too-often have become their tools. Retaking College Hill is about what might and ought to happen today on America's campuses. Literary and philosophical in its style and depth of ideas, it is also a thriller and a moving romance The drama of Retaking College Hill is unfolding today on American campuses. It is the story of today's heroes, their ideas and loves, and the personal price they pay. It is an honest look at your college, today--or at your alma mater. Discovering the novel Click on the "Buy now" button at the top of this page.

Download or read book City On A Hill written by James Traub and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traub relates the daily struggles of men and women trying to gain an education against the odds at the City College of New York, telling the story of the college's difficult present against the backdrop of its 150-year history. Students battle the cultural and economic forces that perpetuate inner-city poverty while the college that produced eight Nobel Laureates now tries to prepare survivors of the public school system for college-level work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The College on the Hill written by Ralph Nading Hill and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book College Hill written by Gail Deibler Finke and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Hill, Cincinnati's fifth largest and most diverse neighborhood, owes much of its character to the nineteenth-century colleges that gave the neighborhood its name. Though Farmers' College and the Ohio Female College are long gone, their bucolic campuses left a legacy of park-like streets. Large retirement homes, several more than a century old, make the neighborhood a haven for elderly people, while an abundance of cottage-style homes attract young families, and neat apartments, many dating from the 1920s, accommodate renters. From its earliest days, when settlers dreamed of educating a new generation of American pioneers, College Hill has remained a welcoming home to people of all ages, races, and classes.

Download or read book The College on the Hill written by Amy Dunkle and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Brown Reader written by Judy Sternlight and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come…that was what going to Brown felt like.” —Jeffrey Eugenides In celebration of Brown University’s 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories—many published for the first time—about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America’s most interesting universities. Contributors: Donald Antrim, Robert Arellano, M. Charles Bakst, Amy DuBois Barnett, Lisa Birnbach, Kate Bornstein, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Mary Caponegro, Susan Cheever, Brian Christian, Pamela Constable, Nicole Cooley, Dana Cowin, Spencer R. Crew, Edwidge Danticat, Dilip D’Souza, David Ebershoff, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Foreman, Amity Gaige, Robin Green, Andrew Sean Greer, Christina Haag, Joan Hilty, A.J. Jacobs, Sean Kelly, David Klinghoffer, Jincy Willett Kornhauser, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, David Levithan, Mara Liasson, Lois Lowry, Ira C. Magaziner, Madeline Miller, Christine Montross, Rick Moody, Jonathan Mooney, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Dawn Raffel, Bill Reynolds, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Ruhl, Ariel Sabar, Joanna Scott, Jeff Shesol, David Shields, Krista Tippett, Alfred Uhry, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Meg Wolitzer “At Brown, we felt safely ensconced in a carefree, counterculture cocoon—free to criticize the university president, join a strike by cafeteria workers, break china laughing, or kiss the sky.” —Pamela Constable

Download or read book College Hill 1961 written by College Hill, R.I. City Plan Commission and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crackback written by Fitzgerald Hill and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Saturday in the autumn, millions of Americans watch college football. They visit leafy campuses, tailgate with friends, and then sit down to enjoy one of the country's oldest and most beloved sporting traditions. They also witness one of the country's most visible tableaus of racial inequity. Some 120 colleges and universities field teams in the NCAA's top tier of the sport, known as the Football Bowl Subdivision. But only a small fraction of those teams are coached by African-Americans or other minorities. Yet there seems to be little focus on this issue in today's society, even from the African-American community itself. Why is it that the National Football League has advanced so much farther in giving opportunities to minority coaches? Dr. Fitzgerald Hill, along with award-winning sportswriter, Mark Purdy, attack the racial dynamics of the important Crackback syndrome, in which minority coaches are led to believe they actually do have a fair chance at every job opening-only to be blindsided at the last minute by hidden forces that undermine their dreams. There is hope for the future, but first we have to be willing to look closely at a sensitive topic. That is why Crackback is necessary for everyone, especially college football fans-of any color or team.

Download or read book Butch s Game Day written by Tony Poston and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about Butch T. Cougar and his excitement for WSU Cougar Football Game Day. Join young Butch and his Dad as they set out on an adventurous Cougar Football Saturday around Pullman, WA to enjoy all the things the best college town around has to offer.

Download or read book Hill Women written by Cassie Chambers and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “A gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities and the resourceful women who lead them.”—Slate Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Granny’s daughter, Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish college. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her “hill women” values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues from domestic violence to the opioid crisis, but they are also keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.

Download or read book How College Works written by Daniel F. Chambliss and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. At a liberal arts college in New York, the authors followed nearly one hundred students over eight years. The curricular and technological innovations beloved by administrators mattered much less than did professors and peers, especially early on. At every turning point in undergraduate lives, it was the people, not the programs, that proved critical. Great teachers were more important than the topics studied, and just two or three good friendships made a significant difference academically as well as socially. For most students, college works best when it provides the daily motivation to learn, not just access to information. Improving higher education means focusing on the quality of relationships with mentors and classmates, for when students form the right bonds, they make the most of their education.

Download or read book The McGraw Hill College Handbook written by Richard Marius and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Life on College Hill written by Lawrence F. Dooling and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life on College Hill is the story of a young couple thrown together by fate, Their futures depend on the choices they make during a crucial time in their lives.

Download or read book The Nix written by Nathan Hill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year A Washington Post 2016 Notable Book A Slate Top Ten Book NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The Nix is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.

Download or read book Mayflower Hill written by Earl H. Smith and published by Colby. This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of Colby College from its founding in 1813 to the present day.

Download or read book Hannah Arendt written by Samantha Rose Hill and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After World War II, Arendt became one of the most prominent—and controversial—public intellectuals of her time, publishing influential works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Samantha Rose Hill weaves together new biographical detail, archival documents, poems, and correspondence to reveal a woman whose passion for the life of the mind was nourished by her love of the world.

Download or read book Light on the Hill written by Russell E. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: