This book provides a comprehensive introduction to geographic information systems (GIS). It explains the ideas and methodology behind GIS, and disc...

In most developed countries a high proportion of the population (up to 50%) now enter higher education at some time in their lives. Higher educatio...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of different dimensions that influence university students, such as social factors (including the indig...

This book not only gives the factual background on the events leading to his termination from Western Illinois University but also examines other i...

Since the establishment of State land-grant universities, our country has rightly recognized higher education as an essential public good, in the n...

Higher education is a critical mechanism for socio-economic advancement among aspiring individuals and an important driver of economic mobility in ...

Higher education is universally viewed as essential, not only to economic prosperity in an increasingly globalized, knowledge-driven economies, but...

In the opening chapter the authors investigate and present the concept of internal quality assurance system implementation maturity, aiming to anal...

This book provides background information for the Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorisation process about the direct assistance for education expe...

More than ever before, students have the option of studying abroad. The character of the higher education experience in many countries has been dra...

According to the Council of Graduate Schools, only 57 percent of students who start their Ph.D.s complete them within ten years, and many times it'...

I Was There shares the insights and experiences of the generations of students, professors, and staff who lived and worked at the U of A for the pa...

To fulfill their academic purposes in higher education, students must mobilize knowledge learned in the classroom, but also obtained individually a...

For Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading scholars in c...

This book is a comprehensive study of innovative strategies and methods in higher education, and may serve as a guide for college and university le...

Based on thorough studies of several European business schools this book shows that the formation of the content is a complex issue that only can b...

Higher education is a complex package of issues which never seems to leave the limelight. The primary wedge issues are tuition cost, access, accoun...

The Job Corps program is a job training and academic program for youth ages 16 to 24 who are low-income and have a barrier to employment, such as h...

This book opens with a focus on the study of anatomy, the foundation of any medical education. Advances in technology involving radiological imagin...

Student stressors in higher education are not confined to those of traditional college age. Working adult students experience unique stressors due ...

Higher education is a complex package of issues which never seems to leave the limelight. The primary wedge issues are tuition cost, access, accoun...

What is the essence of leadership? Richard Larkins, a major figure of Australian science, medicine, and university administration, including as vic...

According to the US Census Bureau's report on the number of college students in the United States, more than 500,000 high school seniors pack up an...