The Basics of Achieving Professional Certification
The Basics of Achieving Professional Certification

Author: Willis H. Thomas

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 104008365X

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Professional certification has become a very popular topic and a significant number of individuals are making it a priority. Some people are torn on whether or not to obtain a certification to bolster their career. Others see the advantage of diversifying their professional portfolio and pursuing popular certifications in the areas of Project Management, Information Technology, Quality, or Human Resources. The Basics of Achieving Professional Certification: Enhancing Your Credentials provides clear-cut guidance on how to select a certification that is right for you and how you can continue to build your credentials in support of personal and professional goals. This easy-to-use guide can help anyone looking to achieve professional certification make informed decisions about the many options available. It can also help avoid the pitfalls of making the wrong choice as a result of being incorrectly informed. Examining the range of professional certifications offered by associations and organizations, it explains how to select the right professional certification and outlines best practices for completing the certification process. The book includes a CD that represents more than a year of development between resources in the U.S. and Europe. Packed with tools, it supplies permanent access to a suite of helpful training and development software, including:Library management system to track training material, books, and related items (created in MS Access)Learning management system to ensure training compliance (created in MS Access)A number of project management resources, including a comprehensive exam preparation programRoyalty free multimedia resources to add pizzazz to your e-learning programsForms, templates, and checklists to support training administrationTool

Degrees and Pedigrees
Degrees and Pedigrees

Author: Michael T. Nietzel

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-08-10

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1475837097

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The book answers the questions of how and where America educates its leading chief executive officers. Where are America’s top executives educated? What do they study? Do they typically attend the nation’s most elite colleges? Or do they, like millions of other students, choose colleges because of reasons like proximity, cost, and state pride? How important are advanced degrees to their success? Is the MBA a prerequisite for becoming a CEO? I address these questions based on a study of 344 of the country’s highest profile CEOs selected to represent a wide range of organizations and businesses. The book will establish a theme that the majority of America's most high-powered CEOs did not attend elite colleges/universities or earn an MBA or graduate from highly selective institutions. Certainly, a significant number did so and were advantaged by the opportunity, but more often they were able to fashion for themselves a high-quality education at a rich array of institutions - public and private, regional and flagship, small and large, religious and secular. What proves more important than what colleges these leading executives attended, is the kinds of deep relationships and mentored experiences they developed. I illuminate these experiences through several vignettes in each chapter.

Developing and Delivering Adult Degree Programs
Developing and Delivering Adult Degree Programs

Author: James P. Pappas

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 111893170X

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This issue explores the growing field of adult degree programs andconsiders the theoretical underpinnings of such programs andhands-on issues as curriculum, faculty, marketing, technology,financing, and accreditation, all with a goal of informing andequipping both scholars and practitioners. More and more adults who have been out of school for many yearshave turned to colleges and universities to complete undergraduateand graduate degrees that will make them competitive in theworkforce, fulfill a professional requirement, or enrich themintellectually. Higher education institutions and many privateorganizations have responded to this demand by creating innovativedegree programs aimed specifically at mature learners, students whowant to self-design their educational programs and do not hesitateto change institutions if they believe their needs are not beingmet. This explosive growth in adult degree programs is largely theresult of distance education technologies and the Internet. Othersignificant factors include the potential such programs have forproviding additional revenue streams for institutions, the fiercecompetition from the private sector and other higher educationinstitutions, and the rising interest in interdisciplinaryprograms. This is the 103rd volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Adult and ContinuingEducation.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue

Author: Barbara Slater Stern

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1607525917

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CONTENTS: The President' Message, Alan W. Garrett. The Editor's Notes: Pressures, Problems, and Possibilities in the World of Teaching, Research, Service, and Learning, Barbara Slater Stern. PART I. On the State of Curriculum Studies: A Personal Practical Inquiry, Michael Connelly with Shijing Xu. Narratives of Teaching and Learning: A Tribute to our Teacher, Elaine Chan and Vicki Ross. The Temporal Experience of Curriculum, Candace Schlein. Intergenerational Stories: A Narrative Inquiry Into an Immigrant Child's Life in Canada, Guming Zhao. Excavating Teacher Knowledge in Reforming School Contexts: A Collaborative Approach, Cheryl Craig. One Teacher's Practice in a Kenyan Classroom: Overcoming Barriers to Teaching HIV/AIDS Curriculum, Bosire Mwebi. Classrooms in Transition: Visions and Voices-Teachers in Lahore, Pakistan, Peggy Schimmoeller. New and Veteran Teachers' Perspectives About Delivering Multicultural Education, Timothy Thomas. Curriculum Wars Regarding Islam: Dissent in the Academy, James Moore. Self-Alienation: The Language of Discontent, William White.An Effective Form of Violence: Hegemonic Masculine Identity Performances in the Institutional Context of School, Mark Malaby. PART II. John Dewey and a Curriculum of Moral Knowledge, David Hansen. David Hansen: Influences at Multiple Levels of Teaching, Learning and Service, Blake Bickham, Jim Garrison, Susan McDonough, Janice Ozga, and Michelle Ward. The Angle of Incidence of Progressivism in Rural Science Education, William Veal. No Child Left Behind-A Critical Anaylsis: A Nation at Greater Risk, Charles Ellis. The Beast in the Matrix, Madeleine Grumet. Dealing with Shifting Expectations in a College of Education: Standing on a Moving Ship, Lynne Bailey, Adam Harbaugh, Kimberly Hartman, Tina Heafner, Charles Hutchison, Teresa Petty, and Lan Quach. The Hidden Hypocrisy of University Faculty Regarding On-Line Instruction, Kathie Good and Kathy Peca. Defining and Examining Technology Intelligence: Cultivating Beginning Teachers', Steven L. Purcell and Diane M. Wilcox. Virtual Literature Circles, Carol Klages, Shana Pate and Peter A. Conforti, Jr. Transforming Discussions From Collegiate to Collegial, Paul Michalec and Hilary Burg.BOOK REVIEW: Chaos, Complexity, Curriculum, and Culture: A Conversation, Angel Kymes. Reviewer Acknowledgments. Call for Manuscripts. About the Authors.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice
The Doctor of Nursing Practice

Author: Lisa Astalos Chism

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1449645607

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This book is written specifically for Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) graduate students by a DNP graduate. This book explores the roles and professional issues DNP students will encounter in their studies and their career. The book covers:*A description of the DNP degree, including discussion of the evolution of doctoral education in nursing and the development of the DNP.*Rationale for the development of the DNP degree, including relevant discussion of the American Association of Colleges of Nurses (AACN) Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Practice Nursing, the AACNs Position Paper on the DNP, and the Institute of Medicines Report calling for higher education among health care professionals*Discussion of the various roles of the DNP prepared advanced practice nurse, including role transition issues. *Other professional issues that DNP graduate students/new graduates are encountering, such as the use of the title doctor and educating others about the DNP degree

Handbook on Human Resources
Handbook on Human Resources

Author: Roslyn Korb

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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This handbook was undertaken in response to the needs expressed by the higher education community for a common language--common data categories and definitions--to describe the human resources of postsecondary education institutions, and is intended as a basic guide to help institutions develop analytically useful databases of faculty and staff to support institutional decision making. Chapter 1 reviews the basic concepts underlying the selection of elements and that guide their use, including descriptions of the basic categories of data. Chapter 2 lists the faculty and staff data items recommended for an institutional database. Chapter 3 contains the data element dictionary--the definitions and detailed codes necessary for creating a standardized database. Chapter 4 offers examples, in two major categories, of some common uses of these data: to support strategic planning and management (employee characteristics/amount of human asset available/price and cost considerations/allocation of available asset/productivity/student experience/asset renewal) and for data exchange; and for reporting to external agencies (employee demographics/salaries/assets available for allocation to various institutional functions). Chapter 5 contains a glossary of related terms. Appended are detailed definitions of human asset categories and subcategories; a cross-reference of standard occupational categories to human asset categories; information on how to compile data, an illustration of basic calculations, and country and language codes. (BF)

Profile of Contributors to the American Economic Review, 2010: Human Capital Theory, Gender and Race
Profile of Contributors to the American Economic Review, 2010: Human Capital Theory, Gender and Race

Author: Amadu Kaba

Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

Published: 2013-08-07

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1618960598

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This study begins by presenting an explanation of the Human Capital Theory and its relation to gender and race. Next, the methodology, data availability and limitations section of the study is presented. Next, the study presents the statistical findings and analysis of the compiled and computed data. Finally, the study presents a discussion section, focusing more attention on the various factors responsible for the wide gender and racial gaps in the statistics presented.