Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner
Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner

Author: Victoria McDermott

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1793618097

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Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy & Education challenges the academic community to 1) reevaluate how they support military-affiliated learners (MALs) and address how the military-civilian-academic divide causes disparities and barriers to MAL academic achievement and retention and 2) implement programs and develop strategies to facilitate equitable academic integration from application to graduation. With contributions from veterans, military spouses, and communication educators, the chapters explicate barriers that MALs face when trying to transition to, navigate, and succeed in higher education. This edited volume explores the impact of the diversity and nuances of MAL identities on their experiences in higher education; promotes military competence by providing opportunities for educators and support staff to learn about potential barriers and promote best practices for connecting with MALs and validating their lived experiences; examines how technology/computer-mediated communication may be used to facilitate community building and promote connectedness for MALs within face-to-face and digital spheres. This book is intended to be a resource guide for administrators, policymakers, and educators by providing tangible strategies, recommendations, and resources to promote the academic success of MALs navigating higher education.

Grateful Nation
Grateful Nation

Author: Ellen Moore

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0822372762

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In today's volunteer military many recruits enlist for the educational benefits, yet a significant number of veterans struggle in the classroom, and many drop out. The difficulties faced by student veterans have been attributed to various factors: poor academic preparation, PTSD and other postwar ailments, and allegedly antimilitary sentiments on college campuses. In Grateful Nation Ellen Moore challenges these narratives by tracing the experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans at two California college campuses. Drawing on interviews with dozens of veterans, classroom observations, and assessments of the work of veteran support organizations, Moore finds that veterans' academic struggles result from their military training and combat experience, which complicate their ability to function in civilian schools. While there is little evidence of antimilitary bias on college campuses, Moore demonstrates the ways in which college programs that conflate support for veterans with support for the institutional military lead to suppression of campus debate about the wars, discourage antiwar activism, and encourage a growing militarization.

An Instructor's Guide to Teaching Military Students
An Instructor's Guide to Teaching Military Students

Author: Suzane Bricker

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1475828454

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An Instructor’s Guide to Teaching Military Students is a resource for online and on-ground educators in private and public learning institutions around the world. The content applies to faculty members in liberal arts and research-oriented institutions, and vocational trainers. Topics are related to the creation of lecture material and delivery of course content in computer and information science, engineering, and engineering technology, healthcare, business and finance, marketing communications and general education courses in the arts and social sciences. Suggestions on providing feedback that is sensitive to the unique culture and experiences of military students are provided as well. The last chapter includes the opinions of academic and military experts on what progress has been made in meeting the needs of this particular student population, as well as predictions about future changes that will facilitate the transition from service member to scholar. The term, “military learners” has been adapted for this text to include active-duty service members and their families, veterans, members of the U.S. National Guard, and reservists, as well as U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contractors. Language used that can be easily understood and applied by the novice instructor, or the seasoned professional. This handbook also provides useful suggestions on helping students translate their military training and experience into more active classroom participation.

Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside

Author: Jennifer Edstrom

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Published: 1999-06-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780805057553

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Teamed with the daughter of one of Bill Gates's closest associates, thirteen- year Microsoft veteran Marlin Eller illuminates every step along Gates's route to world domination and to Microsoft's current headline-making federal antitrust case, making all that's been written before seem like a rough guess. Revealing the smoke-and- mirror deals, the launching of products that didn't exist, and the boneyard of once-thriving competitors targeted by the Gates juggernaut, this book demonstrates with often hilariously damning detail the Microsoft muddle that passes for strategic direction, offset by Gates's uncanny ability to come from behind to crush whoever is winning. Edstrom and Eller's unrivaled access to key players and their ability to get them to tell the real story makes for a rollicking roller-coaster ride of narrative journalism.

Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education
Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education

Author: Alvarez, Wilfredo

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2022-04-22

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1799890023

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The U.S. higher education system is changing demographically. With these complex changes also comes a greater diversity of people entering spaces that they could not previously access. This new dynamic is exciting; however, it also comes with challenges. New approaches must be developed to facilitate the acceptance of this greater diversity. Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education extends the conversation on how to engage diverse and complex social identity groups in a system historically designed to be exclusive of their lived experiences. This book elevates the voices of people who have been absent in the academy and considers these experiences across various types of institutions, academic disciplines, and ranks. Covering topics such as critical race theory, diverse gender identities, and interpersonal needs, this book is an essential resource for higher education administrators, faculty and students of higher education, organizational leaders, academicians, pre-service teachers, and researchers.

Learning to Fight
Learning to Fight

Author: Aimée Fox-Godden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1107190797

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The first institutional examination of the British army's learning and innovation process during the First World War.

What’s Next for Student Veterans?
What’s Next for Student Veterans?

Author: David DiRamio

Publisher: The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1942072163

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With the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2008, more than 1.4 million service members and their families became eligible for higher education benefits, and veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan enrolled in colleges and universities in record numbers. The first wave of research about these new student veterans focused primarily on describing their characteristics and the transition from military service to civilian life and the college campus. This new edited collection presents findings from the second wave of research about student veterans, with a focus on data-driven evidence of academic success factors, including persistence, retention, degree completion, and employment after college. An invaluable resource for educators poised to enter the next phase of supporting military-connected college students.

Widening Access to Higher Education in the UK: Developments and Approaches Using Credit Accumulation and Transfer
Widening Access to Higher Education in the UK: Developments and Approaches Using Credit Accumulation and Transfer

Author: Wayne Turnbull

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0335250602

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Credit is intertwined with higher education around the world and this book introduces and analyses the long-term effects that this connection brings. Structured in three parts, the book is grounded in experience, practitioner research and detailed policy analysis. The greater availability of credit in higher education is closely tied to policies of widening access and this book addresses current issues including the consequences of Brexit, standards in higher education and the management of mobile student learning. The contributors to this book: -Explore the development and integration of credit within institutional policy -Outline the systems of student progression and achievement, including methods of assessment and measurement -Examine the official account of credit, widening access and curriculum in the UK -Analyse how credit can facilitate flexibility in curriculum design The book is relevant to anyone engaged in educational development, academic policy and learner support. The breadth of contributions from across the UK ensures the variation in policies is mapped and charts the implications for learners. “Rarely does a text come along which tackles challenging, technical aspects of higher education and presents them in an accessible and creative way. “ Maureen McLaughlin, Academic Registrar, Northumbria University, UK “This is a scholarly and timely analysis of the development of systems for recognising academic credit within the context of widening access to higher education.” Dr Marie Stowell, Director of Quality and Educational Development, University of Worcester, UK “This book is required reading for anyone interested in the future of higher education in a rapidly changing world.” Dr Andy W. Smith, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education "It is hard to find enough words of praise for this excellent collection of essays.” Herman de Leeuw, Executive Director and Founder, Groningen Declaration Network Wayne Turnbull was Head of Academic Policy and is now a historian at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Harvey Woolf was Head of Academic Standards at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is a founder member of the Student Assessment and Classification Working Group.

The Changing Faces of Higher Education
The Changing Faces of Higher Education

Author: Mitchell Mackinem

Publisher: Vernon Press

Published: 2022-04-24

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1648894038

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In a time of rapid change and arising challenges, Millennials are the latest generation to enter high education institutions as junior faculty, administrators, researchers, and scholars. As with each generation they bring new values, perspectives, technological expertise, and expectations. Higher education is facing potentially overwhelming challenges in finances, student debt, relevance, non-traditional hiring, with some institutions facing closure. Academic leaders, often Baby Boomers, attempt to meet these challenges while still tied to traditions from a bygone time. The Changing Faces of Higher Education gives voice to Millennial academics and their perspective of higher education. This thought-provoking volume provides the insights and lessons from Millennials working in higher education across various subfields. The contributing authors speak from divergent institutions including small mid-western private colleges to larger East coast public institutions and many locations in-between. The contributing authors are not limited to faculty but covers a range of professionals working in higher education. While diverse, all the authors focus on the challenges in teaching, mentorship, and leadership, challenges related to diversity, and improving technology and research. The thirteen chapters in this book address ongoing challenges faced by Millennials working in higher education, offers advice and best practices, and addresses the ways that Millennials serve as a bridge between their “Boomer” colleagues and Gen Z who make up the majority of currently enrolled college students. Each chapter presents the experiences of the author(s) and the strategies utilized to navigate the increasingly fast changing landscape of higher education.

Scarlett's Web
Scarlett's Web

Author: Robert Wolfe

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781503376182

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The woman screamed in despair, her fourth delivery, all lost, every child lost, like a plague or curse. Starship Arcturus is dying. Something is killing it, three thousand years into its journey, running from old Earth's catastrophic past. "Find out why," they order Scarlett. "You'll know how!" In this sci-fi/mystery thriller, Scarlett is a One Rabbit who wakes seeds. Young, crazed, and dangerous, Scarlett keeps the seeds from old Earth alive within Seeds and Spores, a guild of drug-ramped maniacs. She hardly knows the starship or its five thousand sojourners, a human remnant divided into feuding guilds united only by the forced sex schedules of its priesthood and its long journey to the stars. The starship is cloaked with mystery. The Priests suppress history. Guild feuds intensify. The ship braces for a revolt over a comet capture. None admits to knowing what kills them. The future of humanity depends on Scarlett to unravel a deadly web of deceit. And Scarlett doesn't know how.