Download or read book From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses written by New Visions for Public Schools and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York City Department of Education, like other urban public school systems, is facing the task of reforming many large high schools that have had graduation rates under fifty percent for many years. With new federal sanctions for failing schools under the No Child Left Behind Act, many schools nation-wide that have been prominent institutions in their neighborhoods for decades are now slated to close. One promising strategy to reform secondary education is to create small schools with rigorous and personalized instruction for students in the place of large low-performing schools. With limited construction funding, New York City has turned to adaptive reuse of large high school structures to house a substantial majority of the new small secondary schools opened as part of this reform effort since 2002. The need to maintain the use of existing buildings meant that growing small schools and phasing-out large schools share the same buildings over a multi-year transition period. This book describes the Department of Education's dynamic approach to the nexus of academic reform and architectural adaptation, as buildings evolved to become campuses of small schools. As other school systems embark on large-scale high school reform strategies, the solutions New York found may assist them in this transition. This book describes the redesign of 21 campuses over the course of the past year. [This paper was written with Laura Kurgan.].
Download or read book Colleges That Change Lives written by Loren Pope and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Colleges that Change Lives written by Loren Pope and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctive group of forty colleges profiled here is a well-kept secret in a status industry. They outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing winners. And they work their magic on the B and C students as well as on the A students. Loren Pope, director of the College Placement Bureau, provides essential information on schools that he has chosen for their proven ability to develop potential, values, initiative, and risk-taking in a wide range of students. Inside you'll find evaluations of each school's program and personality to help you decide if it's a community that's right for you; interviews with students that offer an insider's perspective on each college; professors' and deans' viewpoints on their school, their students, and their mission; and information on what happens to the graduates and what they think of their college experience. Loren Pope encourages you to be a hard-nosed consumer when visiting a college, advises how to evaluate a school in terms of your own needs and strengths, and shows how the college experience can enrich the rest of your life.
Download or read book Becoming Great Universities written by Richard J. Light and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Becoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus--from presidents to first-year undergraduates--can take to enhance student life and learning."--
Download or read book The Small College Imperative written by Mary B. Marcy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With costs rising, traditional college student populations shrinking, and pundits predicting that huge numbers of colleges will close in the next few decades, small colleges cannot afford to pretend that business-as-usual can sustain them. This book offers five emerging models for how small colleges can hope to survive and thrive in these very challenging times: Traditional; Integrative; Distinctive Program; Expansion, and Distributed. In addition to offering practical guidance for colleges trying to decide which model is for them, the book includes brief institutional profiles of colleges pursuing each model. The book also addresses the evolving role of consortia and partnerships as an avenue to provide additional innovative ways to manage cost and develop new opportunities and programs while maintaining fidelity to mission and strategic vision.
Download or read book Campus Schools written by Mónica Ortiz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campus creation was the means to providing the children of NYC with the opportunity to engage in the learning process in a personalize environment of their choice that was safe and orderly regardless of where they lived. However, campus settings are complex environments with multiple principals responsible for one building; each leader with his or her unique personality, experience, and educational commitment. This book delves into the concept of collaborative leadership in campus principals charged with the task of transitioning two large underperforming and violent schools to campuses of small schools while learning to collaboratively manage a campus. Campus management, a new form of school leadership and administration, required consensus building among diverse and at time, competing forces. Multiple principals were now collectively responsible for agreeing on how to best serve the greater campus community while considering the unique needs of their small schools. Their greatest challenge was not the hostility from the closing school community or reducing school violence or even the countless restructuring from central administration but rather dealing with each other.
Download or read book Consolidation of Country Schools written by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crisis in Higher Education written by Jeffrey R. Docking and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Adrian College was home to 840 enrolled students and had a tuition income of $8.54 million. By fall of 2011, enrollment had soared to 1,688, and tuition income had increased to $20.45 million. For the first time in years, the small liberal arts college was financially viable. Adrian College experienced this remarkable growth during the worst American economy in seventy years and in a state ravaged by the decline of the big three auto companies. How, exactly, did this turnaround happen? Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America was written to facilitate replication and generalization of Adrian College’s tremendous enrollment growth and retention success since 2005. This book directly addresses the economic competitiveness of small four-year institutions of higher education and presents an evidence-based solution to the enrollment and economic crises faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.
Download or read book The Planning and Construction of High school Buildings written by Horace Adelbert Hollister and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Administration of the Part time School in the Small Community written by Ralph Edward Berry and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eight Schools written by Robert Spencer Barnett and published by Robert Spencer Barnett. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who spent part of their young adult lives on a campus has formed lasting memories of people, times, and places. This insightful and personal book portrays the importance of place on eight boarding school campuses in New England and New Jersey: Choate Rosemary Hall; Deerfield Academy; The Hotchkiss School; The Lawrenceville School; Northfield Mount Hermon School; Phillips Academy Andover; Phillips Exeter Academy; and St. Paul's School.These eight schools share a common ethos: educating the whole student. To provide context for this mission, the first chapter traces the evolution of public elementary and secondary education in America from Colonial times to the present. The following chapters look at different aspects of the whole student from the perspective of the buildings that support them, focusing on teaching and learning; boarding and bonding; diversity and inclusion; and body and soul. Pedagogy, technology, and life-styles have, of course, changed over time, and this book discusses how campus planning and building design mirror this evolution. Classrooms that once witnessed a "sage on the stage" lecturing to students seated in fixed rows are now small seminar rooms seating a dozen students and a teacher around an oval-shaped table. Libraries are now less oriented toward controlled access to books, and more to digital resources and group study. Science pedagogy has evolved from lecture and demonstration to hands-on experimentation. Dormitories once designed in a spartan, cellblock configuration, now provide all the comforts of home. Chapels at some schools have been converted to alternative lifestyle centers, while others remain true to their spiritual origins. Sports, formerly played only outdoors and in winter exercise buildings, now consume more square footage and acreage than any other campus use.The final chapters examine the natural settings and towns in which the schools are located; architectural styles that convey the values that schools want to project; and campus planning strategies accompanied by capital campaigns. The book concludes with a discussion of how certain schools have affirmed their core values by managing crises, and shares some contributions of emotional memories from graduates of these schools.The book features over ninety high-quality architectural photographs taken by the author, and thirty-five archival images. These include aerial campus views annotated to show major landmarks, landscape features, and building precincts. The appendix contains comparative historical and contemporary data citing milestone dates, quantitative benchmarks, and founders and heads of school. Eight Schools: Campus and Culture will appeal to a wide audience: alumni/ae, trustees, senior administration, faculty, and prospective students at the eight schools themselves as well as peer institutions; architects and campus planners, practicing in the secondary school market; and scholars of American education, and architectural and social history."Barnett traces the development of each school as it navigates the shifting educational, social, and financial cross currents of recent history, demonstrating both the remarkable persistence of mission based values and adaptation to emerging cultural conditions. Various stakeholders of independent boarding schools will find this clearly readable and lavishly illustrated study a valuable resource."Peter Neely, Director of Studies and Director of College Counseling emeritus, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA. "Barnett illuminates how trends in American education, planning, and architecture shaped the private, college-preparatory boarding school and campus, as well as the campuses of colleges and universities with which they are closely associated--not a subject that has received much attention, but one that adds new dimensions to our understanding of campus making. Natalie Shivers AIA, Associate University Architect, Princeton University
Download or read book John Carroll University written by Marian Morton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carroll University documents the rich and interesting story of this historic school. In September 1886, St. Ignatius College opened in a working-class neighborhood on Cleveland's Near West Side. The one classroom building was unpretentious, its mostly Irish and German students were few, its Jesuit faculty numbered four, and its opening was ignored by Cleveland's daily newspapers. Over the next 125 years, the small college became John Carroll University, moved to University Heights, built handsome buildings on a landscaped campus, gained students and faculty, and achieved national recognition. This is the story of how that happened.
Download or read book Modern School Buildings Elementary and Secondary written by Felix Clay and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only extensive treatise by a British architect of the early twentieth century on the planning and internal arrangement of schools, full of useful detail and relevant illustrations and plans. Clay went on to become the official architect to the Board of Education,
Download or read book How Big a Review of the Literature on the Problems of Campus Size written by California State Colleges. Division of Institutional Research and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Course Reinventing Colleges Avoiding Closure written by Alice W. Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutions of higher education are constantly facing economic challenges to their survival. Nowhere are the challenges greater than in small private colleges and universities across America. None of these colleges can assume that its stability is assured in perpetuity. No thriving college is immune from unforeseen disaster, just as no struggling college is irreversibly destined for closure. This issue presents stories of colleges in crisis and considers what makes the difference between a college that closes and one that nearly closes but manages to remain open. It offers a range of revealing, hard-won experiences of college presidents who led their campuses in times of crises. Some colleges found no way out, and their stories offer lessons that are just as valuable as the stories of colleges that reinvented themselves and survived. This is the 156th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education. Addressed to higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, it provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.
Download or read book Northern Arizona University written by Lee C. Drickamer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any university is composed of faculty, students, and staff. But these living components change over time and in varying degrees, while the campus buildings are more permanent, remaining for decades, a century, or longer. This book looks at the buildings that have graced the campus of Northern Arizona University from its opening in 1898 to the present. The school began with a single building, Old Main, and it was joined by five other structures prior to World War I. In the following decades the campus remained relatively small, expanding to approximately twenty-five structures by the late 1950s. During the tenure of President J. Lawrence Walkup (1957Ð1979), the university effectively doubled in size, spreading southward and adding more than forty buildings, including an entire south campus academic center. Since 1979 the campus has witnessed the addition of more than thirty structures, most as infill within the existing campus layout. Arranged chronologically, this extensively illustrated volume briefly describes the history of every building that has been a part of the universityÕs physical layout. The authors describe various structural aspects of each building and provide entertaining and informative anecdotes about events and people associated with the structures. By combing the universityÕs archives, Drickamer and Runge have turned up photographs of each building as it looked shortly after construction and at present, providing a fascinating visual time lapse. With more than two hundred images of campus buildings, many of them never before published, Northern Arizona University: Buildings as History provides a wonderful pictorial chronicle of the campus that will interest architectural historians as well as all those who have called NAU home.
Download or read book Branded Environments written by Brad Gunton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cities across the country, educators and civic leaders are taking on the challenge of transforming large, failing high schools where graduation rates have remained below 50 percent for many years. They are replacing these high schools with small schools that will prepare students in underserved urban communities to meet the high standards needed to be successful in college and beyond. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Department of Education have created nearly 200 small high schools in an aggressive effort to improve the city's graduation rates. As part of this effort, New Visions for Public Schools has led the New Century High Schools Initiative (NCHSI) and created more than 80 of these schools. The sitting of these schools raises significant questions. How can facilities built to educate large numbers of students in a single school be reconfigured as homes for several small schools? This pamphlet describes the visual branding process piloted on 16 campuses in New York City. In collaboration with the New York City Department of Education, the School Construction Authority (SCA), and the many stakeholders involved in these schools. New Visions and its partner Print International conceptualized, refined, and implemented the visual branding system.
