Real College
Real College

Author: Douglas Stone

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-09-07

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780143034254

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Few people have as much experience helping students cope with college life as Douglas Stone, a long-time Harvard residential adviser and coauthor of Difficult Conversations, and Elizabeth Tippett, recent Harvard graduate and founding director of the university's peer mediation program. In Real College, they join forces to help students deal with nightmare roommates, handle academic pressures, make smart choices about alcohol and sex, communicate with parents, and address all the other big issues that can make college as challenging as it is exciting. Stone and Tippett deliver insightful, pragmatic advice with humor and compassion, in a style that parents and students alike will appreciate. This is one book that no college student should be without.

Uncensored
Uncensored

Author: Zachary R. Wood

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1524742457

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Drawing upon his own powerful personal story, Zachary R. Wood shares his perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions—in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen. As the former president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at his alma mater, Williams College, Zachary Wood knows from experience about intellectual controversy. At school and beyond, there's no one Zach refuses to engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs—sometimes vehemently so—and this view has given him a unique platform in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own personal story. In Uncensored, he reveals for the first time how he grew up poor and black in Washington, DC, where the only way to survive was by resisting the urge to write people off because of their backgrounds and perspectives. By sharing his troubled upbringing—from a difficult early childhood to the struggles of code switching between his home and his elite private school—Zach makes a compelling argument for a new way of interacting with others and presents a new outlook on society's most difficult conversations.

College
College

Author: Lisa Maxwell Arter

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-12-15

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 153810413X

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Every year, millions of high schoolers take the next step to further their education by applying to college. While the typical eighteen-year-old spends two-thirds of his or her life in school, college can be a daunting prospect. Teens should be able to enjoy their final years of high school without feeling stressed about their life after graduation. In College: The Ultimate Teen Guide, Lisa Maxwell Arter addresses high school students’ concerns about their college futures. In addition to providing an overview of the application process, this book offers advice on: how to choose the right school successful application tips when and how to involve parents Uniquely, this book also outlines the college experience, particularly the first year, offering useful information every freshman needs to survive and thrive on campus—from housing and navigating the bookstore to safety and interactions with other students, faculty, and university personnel. Tips included here help students: develop successful relationships with roommates manage stress study effectively balance school and life responsibilities plan and manage finances Featuring real stories and quotes from teens about their experiences, this book guides young adults through their transition from high school to college and sheds light on the entire process—from committing to a school to the end of freshman year. College: The Ultimate Teen Guide serves as a valuable resource for all teens, whether they are just beginning to think about their future or are ready to take the next steps in their education.

African-American English
African-American English

Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1000428168

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This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon as well as the sociological, political and educational issues connected with African-American English. The editors have played key roles in the development of African-American English and Black Linguistics as overlapping academic fields of study. Along with other leading figures, notably Geneva Smitherman, William Labov and Walt Wolfram, they provide an authoritative diverse guide to these vitally important subject areas. Drawing on key moments of cultural significance from the Ebonics controversy to the rap of Ice-T, the contributors cover the state of the art in scholarship on African-American English, and actively dispel misconceptions, address new questions and explore new approaches. This classic edition has a new foreword by Sonja Lanehart, setting the book in context and celebrating its influence. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English, key reading for Varieties of English and World Englishes modules and an important reference for students of linguistics, black studies and anthropology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

The ABC's of College Life
The ABC's of College Life

Author: Vicki Salemi

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-11

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0595205909

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Picture it. The typical high school graduate, varsity letter winner and student government guru, is finally going off to college. She will soon explore unchartered territory, a land where loads of homework and a happening social scene rule her world. It is exciting and indeed overwhelming, but this teen can handle it. Her anxiety is now history because she has read and thoroughly digested the inside scoop, the quintessential survival guide, The ABC’s of College Life. This street-smart guide vividly describes and ultimately captures four spectacular years of learning and interactive play. Defining over 500 college and common terms that take on new meaning, this collegespeak dictionary spills the beans on everything from cafeteria food to co-ed dorms, from midterms to mixers, from professors to power naps. Traditions, tales and pranks from countless schools are also dished out in heaping portions. Finally, the inside scoop wouldn’t be complete without a categorized workbook to document your own experiences such as your worst laundry mishap. Whether you’re a freshman with first-year jitters, a sophomore, junior or a super senior, you need to relearn your ABC’s for the best college experience ever!

The Dirty College Game
The Dirty College Game

Author: Al Figone

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-08-09

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1476671125

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Commercial aspects of college football and basketball during the mid- to late 20th century were dominated by a few "get rich quick" schools. Though the NCAA was responsible for controlling such facets of college sports, the organization was unwilling and unable to control the excesses of the few who opposed the majority opinion. The result was a period of corruption, rules violations, unnecessary injuries and overspending. These events led to the formation of larger conferences, richer bowl games and rules intended to preserve the "money-making" value of college football and basketball. This book explores gambling, academic fraud, illegal booster activity and the single-minded pursuit of television contracts in college sports, as well as the NCAA's involvement--or lack thereof--in such cases.

Life's Little College Admissions Insights
Life's Little College Admissions Insights

Author: Eric Yaverbaum

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1600377289

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Life's Little College Admissions Insights is meant to be the first book an overwhelmed college bound student and their parent can read easily and quickly. The top counselors and advisors selected and interviewed give you a chance to get many insightful opinions and perspectives (based on real experience) in quick one to three lines of their most practical advice. After hearing from the experts, a parent and student write from their own unique vantage perspective as they went through the process in real time to appeal to both student and parents alike. The resources at the conclusion of the book are intended to give families a complete set of tools combined with anecdotal advice from experts to ultimately provide a “springboard” to begin the experience with confidence and real world wisdom from those who advise for a living.

College Girl
College Girl

Author: Patricia Weitz

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-12-26

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1101015055

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“A raw and resonant debut novel” (Megan McCafferty) and a vivid portrait of life on a modern college campus. College senior Natalie Bloom is beautiful and ambitious, but also painfully insecure. At twenty, she’s still a virgin, never even having had a boyfriend. At school, Natalie hides out most weekends in the library—until she meets Patrick, her fantasy (she thinks) of a cultured, intellectual Prince Charming. But the more time they spend together, the more Patrick brings out her worst insecurities. And before Natalie’s ready, she winds up losing her virginity— and her sense of direction, as her emotional responses take a dangerously self-destructive turn. Soon it’ll take only the most extreme measures to reclaim her sense of self, her confidence, and her ambition. Insightful, moving, and achingly self-aware, College Girl is an intensely real portrait of a character whose insecurities are recognizable to us all, and of a time of life that changes everything.

The Wire in the College Classroom
The Wire in the College Classroom

Author: Karen Dillon

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-03-07

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1476619670

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The Wire's provocative subject matter, layered narrative and explicit critiques of American socio-economic institutions make it one of the most teachable television series in recent years. This collection of new essays offers practical examples for implementing The Wire in the college classroom as a cultural text to engage students in critical and creative inquiry. The essays provide a disciplinary framework for using the series in media studies, writing and narrative, ethics and rhetoric, and education and literacy. Each essay details the pedagogical goals of teaching the series or specific episodes, how it was employed in class and student responses to the material. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

A College for All Californians
A College for All Californians

Author: George R. Boggs

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0807765953

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This is the first comprehensive and contemporary history of the largest and most diverse public system of higher education in the United States. Serving over 2 million students annually--approximately one-quarter of the nation's community college undergraduates--California's 116 community colleges play an indispensable role in career and transfer education in North America and have maintained an outsized influence on the evolution of postsecondary education nationally. A College for All Californians chronicles the sector's emergence from K-12 institutions, its evolving mission and growth following World War II and the G.I. Bill For Education, the expansion of its ever-broadening mission, and its essential role in the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education. Chapters cover California's junior and community colleges' development, mission, governance, faculty, finances, athletics, student support services, and more. It also examines the successes and ongoing political, financial, and educational challenges confronting this uniquely American educational experiment. Book Features: Encapsulates the evolution and contemporary status of our nation's largest and most diverse undergraduate education system. Examines how the colleges were influenced by the political, economic, and social issues of the day. Includes new historical information affecting postsecondary education in California. Analyzes some of the most important current and emerging issues that will continue to influence California's community colleges.