Baseline Report on HB2320
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Author: State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
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Published: 2015
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStaff provides this baseline report as a summary of its preliminary considerations and initial research in fulfillment of the requirements of HB2320 from the 2015 session of the General Assembly. Codified as สน 23-7.4:7, this legislation compels the Education Secretary and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) Director, in consultation with the public and private two- and four-year institutions, to: "develop a plan to establish and advertise a cooperative degree program whereby any undergraduate student enrolled at any two-year or four-year public or private, non-profit institution of higher education in the Commonwealth may complete, through the use of online courses at any such institution, the course credit requirements to receive a degree at a tuition cost not to exceed $4,000, or such cost that is achievable, per academic year." The legislation requires a report of plan-development progress by October 1, 2016. Through this introductory document, SCHEV staff seeks to: (a) inform Council of the legislation and early work to fulfill it; (b) provide reference data of relevance to the work of the new Joint Subcommittee on the Future Competitiveness of Virginia Higher Education, particularly in its evaluation of the use of distance education and online instruction; and (c) complement efforts of George Mason University to satisfy, in consultation with other institutions, state-budget language that requires development of a plan for a comprehensive online, adult-degree-completion program by September 1, 2015. Increasingly, colleges and universities deliver instruction in part or in whole via technology, ranging from incorporation of electronic content into traditional classroom-based courses to entirely online institutions of higher education. This analysis focuses on online courses and degree programs that allow undergraduate students to complete all degree-credit requirements without in-person attendance at physical campuses. By virtue of the delivery method, students taking online courses and programs can be located anywhere in the state or elsewhere. A chart of Online Bachelor-degree Programs Offered by Public Four-year Institutions is appended.
Author: Gerald L. Sittser
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1493419986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn our Western, post-Christendom society, much of Christianity's cultural power, privilege, and influence has eroded. But all is not lost, says bestselling author Gerald Sittser. Although the church is concerned and sobered by this cultural shift, it is also curious and teachable. Sittser shows how the early church offers wisdom for responding creatively to the West's increasing secularization. The early Christian movement was surprisingly influential and successful in the Roman world, and so different from its two main rivals--traditional religion and Judaism--that Rome identified it as a "third way." Early Christians immersed themselves in the empire without significant accommodation to or isolation from the culture. They confessed Jesus as Lord and formed disciples accordingly, which helped the church grow in numbers and influence. Sittser explores how Christians today can learn from this third way and respond faithfully, creatively, and winsomely to a world that sees Christianity as largely obsolete. Each chapter introduces historical figures, ancient texts, practices, and institutions to explain and explore the third way of the Jesus movement, which, surprising everyone, changed the world.
Author: Sylvie Naar
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1462531563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding tools to enhance treatment of any clinical problem, this book shows how integrating motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) can lead to better client outcomes than using either approach on its own. The authors demonstrate that MI strategies are ideally suited to boost client motivation and strengthen the therapeutic relationship, whether used as a pretreatment intervention or throughout the course of CBT. User-friendly features include extensive sample dialogues, learning exercises for practitioners, and 35 reproducible client handouts that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. See also Motivational Interviewing, Fourth Edition: Helping People Change and Grow, by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, and Building Motivational Interviewing Skills, Second Edition: A Practitioner Workbook, by David B. Rosengren. This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.
Author: Nicholas Lancaster
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-05-20
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 3030404986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInland sand dunes are widespread in North America and are found from the North Slope of Alaska to the Sonoran Desert in northern Mexico and from the Delmarva Peninsula in the east to Southern California in the west. In this edited book, we highlight recent research on areas of inland dunes that span a range from those that are actively accumulating in current conditions of climate and sediment supply to those that were formed in past conditions and are now degraded relict systems. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of physical geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, and earth sciences. Contributions include detailed analyses of individual active dune systems at White Sands, New Mexico; Great Sand Dunes, Colorado; and the Laurentian Great Lakes; as well as the vegetation-stabilized dunes of the Nebraska Sand Hills and the Colorado Plateau. Additional chapters discuss the widespread partially vegetated dune systems of the central and southern Great Plains; the relict dunes of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern USA; and active and stabilized dunes of the Colorado Plateau and the southwestern deserts of the USA and northern Mexico.
Author: J. Wright Horton
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780870496622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the Carolina Geological Society invited forty-three authors to contribute to the creation of The Geology of the Carolinas. The only comprehensive, modern treatment of the subject, the volume has been prepared for a diverse readership ranging from undergraduate students to specialists in the fields of geology and related earth sciences. Following the editors' general introduction are chapters on Precambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic and igneous rocks of the Appalachian Blue Ridge and Piedmont; rocks of early Mesozoic rift basins, formed just before the opening of the Atlantic Ocean; Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary deposits of the Atlantic Coastal Plain; Quaternary geology and geomorphology; Cenozoic tectonism, including evidence for the recurrence of large earthquakes near Charleston; and an overview of mineral resources in the Carolinas. The book includes an index of field guides produced by the society and a thorough bibliography. By introducing exciting new concepts and focusing on challenging problems on the frontiers of research, this authoritative book will stimulate research in the years to come. The Editors: J. Wright Horton, Jr., is a research geologist for the United States Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia. Victor A. Zullo is a professor of geology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Author: Ronald Fry
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 332
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 644
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