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Book The Intentional Dean

    Book Details:
  • Author : John C. Alessio
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-04-07
  • ISBN : 1351969382
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book The Intentional Dean written by John C. Alessio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on faculty leadership and administrative experiences, The Intentional Dean explores the reasons to pursue a deanship and how to successfully attain a position as an academic dean. Additionally, this accessible guide provides understanding of key activities and responsibilities of the deanship, such as setting positive agendas, budgeting and budget reductions, merit pay determination, and effectively attending to disciplinary issues. Stressing bold action, support for curriculum diversity, and the importance of protecting due process, this book helps prospective and current deans take deliberate steps toward making a positive difference in the lives of students. Unique in the manner in which it defends both faculty rights and important administrative prerogatives, The Intentional Dean effectively demonstrates how deans can play a key role in bettering their college, the university, and the communities they serve.

Book Building the Intentional University

Download or read book Building the Intentional University written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.

Book Deliberate Intent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rodney A. Smolla
  • Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Deliberate Intent written by Rodney A. Smolla and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting account of the landmark "Hit Man Case"--involving a man who hired a contract killer to execute his ex-wife, his severely brain-damaged son, and the boy's nurse--written by a noted First Amendment attorney who risked his reputation and career to take on the case.

Book Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line

Download or read book Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line written by Dean Crisp and published by Light Messages Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran police chief's hard-won lessons on leading yourself, leading others, and leading an organization. Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line is just that &– lessons learned the old-fashioned way through trial and error, studying, hard work, and experience while on our nation's front lines to serve and protect. Dean Crisp spent decades leading people where a single misstep could cost a life. Faced with the daily challenges of a police chief, Dean threw himself into learning all he could about effective leadership and applying those lessons in his departments. He shares those hard-won lessons in this book. Dean lays the book out into three key sections that build on each other to help you become a better leader: Leading Yourself, Leading Others, Leading the Organization. Dean's approach to leadership is built on his concept of Diamond Leadership, a four-point method that creates a self-perpetuating synergy for positive change. Dean has taught this method in elite conferences to countless rising leaders, and now he brings it to you. "I think that all leaders want to be really good at leading and most seek ways to improve. Some are even willing to go to extraordinary lengths to become the best. I am hoping this book will inspire others to be their best and to constantly strive to get better, to shoot for the stars, to get outside their comfort zones, and to push themselves to become remarkable." &–Dean Crisp Built on the success of Dean's debut leadership book, Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line, this new release features a revised approach to the curriculum, expanded information, and a streamlined formula to develop the leader within you. Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line uses personal anecdotes to drive home the human element of leadership and will connect with you at any point on your journey to becoming a significant leader. "My motive and intent in writing this book is simple: I want to provide the reader with leadership lessons and experiences which I hope will help you, the reader, to become a better leader and, more importantly, a better person." &–Dean Crisp

Book Dean v  Chrysler Corporation  434 MICH 655  1990

Download or read book Dean v Chrysler Corporation 434 MICH 655 1990 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 84065

Book Intentional Disruption

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Breier
  • Publisher : Forbesbooks
  • Release : 2021-08-03
  • ISBN : 9781946633804
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Intentional Disruption written by Benjamin Breier and published by Forbesbooks. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEARN TO HARNESS AN UNCONVENTIONAL TOOL FOR LEADERSHIP SUCCESS. As the president and chief executive officer of Kindred Healthcare LLC, Ben Breier has witnessed massive disruptions to the healthcare industry. Gaining an early understanding of how to survive disruptions on the baseball field proved to be invaluable when he entered this challenging field. Using techniques honed over the course of his leadership career, Ben has been able to not only survive disruptions but thrive using intentional disruption as a business strategy. Learning to harness the power of disruption and use it in an intentional way became the key to his success in business. This is not a technical business book; it's an emotional leadership survival guide that speaks to the trend in emerging leaders to be connected to a mission rather than just a salary. This book, written for today's leaders and tomorrow's emerging leaders, examines how disruptions have the power to control us unless we develop the skills and tools needed to control them.

Book Emily of New Moon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
  • Release : 2022-10-24
  • ISBN : 2322435139
  • Pages : 471 pages

Download or read book Emily of New Moon written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely - until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends: with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings; with Perry, who's sailed all over the world with his father yet has never been to school; and above all, with Ilse, a tomboy with a blazing temper. Amazingly, Emily finds New Moon beautiful and fascinating. With new friends and adventures, Emily might someday think of herself as Emily of New Moon.

Book The Successful Dean

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mari Koerner
  • Publisher : Teachers College Press
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0807778583
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book The Successful Dean written by Mari Koerner and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does leadership and change actually look like in myriad situations? This “boots-on-the-ground” resource, written by a former dean of education, pulls back the curtain on the crucial and complicated role of senior leadership and brings to the forefront experiences that often go unspoken. With humor and common-sense advice, the author draws on relevant scholarship to uncover the process for succeeding and thriving as a leader. The portrait of a dean is presented as a thoughtful activist whose leadership is defined by careful consideration of the responsibilities of the position and ethical responses to it all. Themes woven throughout the book include staying authentic, having courage, and remaining fair. Learning from the past but presenting a contemporary view, The Successful Dean responds to the rapidly changing context of higher education. “This book tells a story that feels authentic and cathartic.” —Karen Symms Gallagher, USC Rossier School of Education "Koerner proved to be an exceptionally able dean in an especially complex university setting. She has terrific advice for any aspirants to the deanship." —David C. Berliner, Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University “A must-read for novice and seasoned higher education leaders.” —Alfredo J. Artiles, professor and dean, Arizona State University

Book Springs of Action

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred R. Mele
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1992-02-06
  • ISBN : 0195344979
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Springs of Action written by Alfred R. Mele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reason, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. Part One comprises a comprehensive examination of the standard treatments of the relations between desires, beliefs, and actions. In Part Two, Mele goes on to develop a subtle and well-defended view that the motivational role of intentions is of a different sort from that of beliefs and desires. Mele, also offers a provocative explanation of how we come to have intentions and elaborates on his earlier work concerning akratic failures of will.

Book Pursue the Intentional Life

Download or read book Pursue the Intentional Life written by Jean Fleming and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will you live the rest of your life?

Book Building the Intentional University

Download or read book Building the Intentional University written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.

Book Intentional Mindset

Download or read book Intentional Mindset written by Dave Anderson and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people seem to be born with a mental makeup that predestines them for success. But anyone can master their mindset. Dave Anderson shows you how. In Intentional Mindset, LearnToLead founder Dave Anderson shows you how to purposefully develop both killer instinct and mental toughness by cultivating and strengthening ten specific traits. The author of 15 books and host of the popular podcast The Game Changer Life, Dave's guidance has impacted readers and listeners in more than 145 countries. Now, he shares a unique blueprint for developing the mindset you need to succeed, presenting foundational strategies for intentionally developing and strengthening what he calls the ACCREDITED traits: attitude, competitiveness, character, rigor, effort, discipline, intelligence, tenacity, energy, and drive. Throughout the book, readers will follow the progress of three "case studies." The frustrations, progress, and victories of "Fred," "Frank," and "Frances" will replace the sterile or academic approach so common in personal development books with a more readable, personal, and actionable experience. What's more, Anderson provides an optional 70-day follow-up course to integrate the book's lessons into one's daily routine and accelerate results. All materials for this course, including a downloadable workbook and 70 supporting videos—one for each day—are provided at no cost on the LearnToLead website. Intentional Mindset is a true game changer—a book that gives you the tools to shape your future by shaping your mind.

Book A More Perfect Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gwendolyn Wilson Dean
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2017-01-06
  • ISBN : 1684095816
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A More Perfect Way written by Gwendolyn Wilson Dean and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwendolyn Wilson Dean is a Dallas, Texas born author. She is the author of A More Perfect Way, a written project designed to provide a personal learning experience suitable for developing character and qualities relative to superior social status or prestige. This rendering presents charm, etiquette, civility, and social grace as a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group—the effortless conduct, grace, or attractiveness one uses to interact in social or official life. The intentional courteousness and politeness with which one administers societal traditions, traits, behaviors, activities, and interests will determine the quality of life one reveres and hopes to enjoy.

Book The Latina o Pathway to the Ph D

Download or read book The Latina o Pathway to the Ph D written by Jeanett Castellanos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latina/o population constitutes the largest racial and ethnic minority group in the U.S. and is disproportionately under-represented in college and in graduate programs. This is the first book specifically to engage with the absence of Latinas/os in doctoral studies. It proposes educational and administrative strategies to open up the pipeline, and institutional practices to ensure access, support, models and training for Latinas/os aspiring to the Ph.D. The under-education of Latina/o youth begins early. Given that by twelfth grade half will stop out or be pushed out of high school, and only seven percent will complete a college degree, it is not surprising so few enter graduate studies. When Latina/o students do enter higher education, few attend those colleges or universities that are gateways to graduate degrees. Regardless of the type of higher education institution they attend, Latinas/os often encounter social and academic isolation, unaffordable costs, and lack of support.This historic under-representation has created a vicious cycle of limited social and economic mobility. There is a paucity of the Latina/o faculty and leaders whom research shows are essential for changing campus climate and influencing institutions to adapt to the needs of a changing student body. As a result, Latina/o graduate students often have few role models, advocates or mentors, and limited support for their research agendas.By reviewing the pipeline from kindergarten through university, this book provides the needed data and insights to effect change for policy makers, administrators, faculty, and staff; and material for reflection for aspiring Latina/o Ph.D.s on the paths they have taken and the road ahead.The book then addresses the unique experiences and challenges faced by Latina/os in doctoral programs, and offers guidance for students and those responsible for them. Chapters cover issues of gender and generational differences, the role of culture in the graduate school, mentorship, pursuing research, and professional development opportunities for Latina/os.The book closes with the voices of by Latina/o students who are currently pursuing or recently completed their doctoral degree. These narratives describe their cultural and educational journeys, providing insight into their personal and professional experiences. These stories bring alive the graduate experience for anyone interested in successful recruitment, retention, and graduation of Latina/o doctoral students – an inspiration and guidance to those aspiring to the doctorate.

Book Dean s Domain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Art Chansky
  • Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Release : 1999-09-25
  • ISBN : 1461734460
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Dean s Domain written by Art Chansky and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-close, behind-the-scenes biography of the winningest coach in college basketball history.

Book Basic Tort Law  Cases  Statutes  and Problems

Download or read book Basic Tort Law Cases Statutes and Problems written by Arthur Best and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 1341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems: Cases, Statutes, and Problems, Sixth Edition

Book Learning That Matters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caralyn Zehnder
  • Publisher : Myers Education Press
  • Release : 2021-01-05
  • ISBN : 1975504534
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Learning That Matters written by Caralyn Zehnder and published by Myers Education Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 SPE Outstanding Book Honorable Mention Our society urgently needs education that motivates, challenges, engages, and affirms all students. No matter their previous successes or failures, every student has enormous learning potential and important contributions to make now and in the future. Such meaningful learning experiences don't just happen, they need to be intentionally designed. This book supports those who will undertake this vitally important work. Learning that Matters: A Field Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education is a pragmatic resource for designing courses that engage college students as active citizens. This "work" book provides research-informed approaches for creating learning experiences and developing innovative, intellectually-engaging courses. Whether a novice or a veteran, by engaging with the text, collaborating with colleagues, and reflecting on the important work of a teacher, any motivated educator can become a transformative educator. Every college course has the potential to transform students' lives. Through implementation of critical concepts such as connected and authentic assessments; dilemmas, issues, and questions; portable thinking skills and engaging strategies; and a purposeful focus on inclusivity and equity, readers begin the process of change needed for preparing students who will be able to address the monumental challenges facing our society. Click HERE to watch the book launch. Click HERE to hear the authors discuss their book. Perfect for courses such as: Education Curriculum and Instruction | Design for Transformative Learning | An Introduction to Evidence-based Undergraduate Teaching | New Faculty Orientations | Freshman Seminar Faculty Trainings | Center for Teaching & Learning | Workshops in Course Design