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Over 50% of US undergraduates are at community colleges. By many measures, particularly college completion, America's undergraduate education is underperforming. This is nationally important since America's future goes to college in these institutions. This book offers a successful and scalable solution to the current crisis by zeroing in on teaching and its corollary - learning.

This book addresses religion and secularism as critical and contested elements of college student diversity. It both examines why and how this topic has become an integral aspect of the field of student affairs, and considers how scholars and practitioners should engage in the discussion, as well as the extent to which they should be involved in students' crises of faith, spiritual struggles, and questions of life purpose.Part history of the field, part prognostication for the future, the contributing authors discuss how student affairs has reached this critical juncture in its relationship with religious and secular diversity and why this development is poised to create lasting change on college campuses. Section I of this book focuses on the research on spirituality, faith, religion, and life purpose; considers the evolution of faith development theories from not only Christian perspectives but Muslim, Jewish, atheist and other secular worldviews; examines the influence of faith frames in students' daily lives; and addresses the impact of campus climate for religion/spirituality, as well as the relationship between religious minority/majority status, on student outcomes. It concludes by tracing the pendulum swing from higher education's historical foundation in religion to the science-focused, religion-averse 20th century, and now to a fragile middle position, in which religious and secular diversity are being seriously considered and embraced.Section II analyzes the role professional associations play in advancing the student affairs field's commitment to spirituality, faith and life purpose; the degree of support they offer to practitioners as they examine their own religious and secular identities, and envisages potential new programming, resources, and networks.Section III describes a number of programs and services developed by practitioners and faculty members working in this area on their campuses; synthesizes these developments for an examination of where best practices stand today; and imagines the future of institutionalizing higher education's support for students' explorations of spirituality, faith, religion, and life purpose.Making Meaning provides a comprehensive resource for student affairs scholars and practitioners seeking to understand these topics and apply them in their own research and daily work.

In addressing the unique issues related to the delivery of student services in the community college setting, this book fills a longstanding need to provide practitioners with a contextual framework for their work. Starting by providing the historical context to the development of student affairs in community colleges, this handbook describes the organization of key functions and current practice, and looks at the specific constraints, opportunities, changes and future challenges that practitioners face.Community colleges are grappling with: the realities of shrinking resources; an increasingly diverse and disparate student body, with many attending part-time; demands for greater accountability; a generational change in leadership; and pressures to expand their missions as well as adopt educational technology - all of which have an impact on the role of student affairs.Among the topics covered are: Partnering with Academic Affairs; Financing Student Affairs; Legal and Policy Issues; Strategic Planning and Assessment; Accreditation and Accountability; Technology for Communication and Engagement; Academic Support Services; Student Life and Student Engagement Programs and Services; Enrollment Management; and Services for Special Populations.This handbook is intended for student affairs administrators and professionals at all stages of their careers, as well as for students in graduate preparation programs.

This book prepares students for engineering degrees, diplomas, Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers (AMIE) examinations, or corresponding examinations in electrical power systems. Complete with case studies, worked examples, and circuit schematic diagrams, this comprehensive text provides a solid understanding of the theoretical aspects of power system engineering, instills a practical knowledge of large-scale power system analysis techniques, and covers load characteristics, tariffs, power system stability, and more. Designed as an undergraduate-level textbook, the book also makes a handy reference for practicing power engineers.

This book promotes the proper management and utilization of industrial waste, delivering in-depth, state-of-the-art information on the physicochemical properties, chemical composition, and environmental risks associated with industrial waste from the sugar, pulp and paper, tanning, distilling, textile, petroleum hydrocarbon, and agrochemical sectors. Featuring contributions from environmental microbiology and biotechnology experts from various universities, national research laboratories, and industries, the text provides students, scientists, and researchers of biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology with a specialized collection of cutting-edge industrial waste management and pollutant monitoring techniques.

This book provides extensive coverage of variable speed generators in distributed generation and renewable energy applications around the world. Numerous design and control examples illustrate the exposition. Fully revised and updated to reflect the last decade¿s worth of progress in the field, the second edition adds material on doubly fed induction generator control under unbalanced voltage sags and nonlinear loads, interior permanent magnet claw-pole-alternator systems, high power factor Vernier permanent magnet (PM) generators, PM-assisted reluctance synchronous motors/generators for electric hybrid vehicles, and more.

This book explores large- and medium-power synchronous generator topologies, steady state, modeling, transients, control, design, and testing. Numerous case studies, worked-out examples, sample results, and illustrations highlight the concepts. Fully revised and updated to reflect the last decade¿s worth of progress in the field, the second edition adds coverage of high-power wind generators with fewer or no permanent magnets (PMs), PM-assisted DC-excited salient pole synchronous generators, autonomous synchronous generators¿ control, line switching parameter identification for isolated grids, synthetic back-to-back load testing with inverter supply, and more.

Written by the authors who pioneered studies of Sarcocystosis of domestic animals, this new edition provides a current and comprehensive review of Sarcocystis and the infections it causes in animals and humans.

This book delivers timely coverage of component- and system-level electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. Illustrated with tables, figures, and case studies, the text brings together contributions from internationally respected researchers and engineers with expertise in ESD design, optimization, modeling, simulation, and characterization. It provides readers with a deeper understanding of ESD events, ESD protection design principles, important aspects of the modeling and simulation of ESD protection solutions, and vital processes including Si CMOS, Si BCD, Si SOI, and GaN technologies.

This text discusses soundscape in the built environment. It begins with a presentation of theory and basic background. It then sets out tools for implementing a soundscape approach, and delivers a series of examples of the application of the soundscape approach in planning, design, and assessment. The book presents a consensus on the current state of the art and is not merely a collection of different views. It is written for acoustic consultants, urban planners, designers and policy makers, graduate students, and researchers.

This book compiles the latest science and technology in the processing and preservation of vegetables and vegetable products. Vegetables are an important article of commerce for economies and are important to our diet. The objective of this edition is to provide a professional reference book on vegetable preservation and processing including the latest developments and advances in this field. Though the basic theme and objective of the second edition are the same as the first, coverage in the second edition is more comprehensive in terms of depth and breadth.

This book covers factors affecting meat quality from the growth of animals to the final product. It discusses specific aspects of meat quality for beef, pork, and sheep. This comprehensive book covers key topics such as animal welfare, nutrition, pre-slaughter handling, slaughter technology, breeding strategies, and the influence of common genetic factors on meat quality. It also discusses the latest meat production systems designed to ensure high-quality meat and the role of transgenic animal technology in meat quality.

This volume focuses on the black family in the United States and the social forces and issues that affect it, including education, healthcare, racism, poverty, and politics

This new edition surveys various aspects of geomicrobiology, including the microbial role in elemental cycling and in the formation and degradation of minerals and fossil fuels. Unlike the previous edition, many expert contributors besides the editors have been included, providing added depth to topics and broadening the overall insights. The new breadth of scope and possible applications in agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, marine science, the metals industry, and more that this book presents make it a must-have source in geomicrobiology.

This book focuses on recent developments in understanding human genome interactions with various natural products. It includes studies on the interaction of natural products with genes involved in diseases such as breast and prostate cancer, as well as the effects of natural products on microbial growth. It also presents a unique real-time approach by providing hyperlinks to websites with updated literature on natural products and interactions with genes involved in metabolic pathways.

This book provides a detailed description of the thermodynamic and transport theories for wax deposition modeling as well as a comprehensive review of laboratory testing for the establishment of appropriate field control strategies. Offering valuable insight from academic research and the flow assurance industry, this text aids engineers in identifying the severity and in providing guidance to control the problem of wax deposition. The book also shows students and researchers how thermodynamics, heat, and mass transfer principles can be applied to solve a problem common to the petroleum industry.

How does the basic sense of fairness, or selfishness versus selflessness, arise? How is it exhibited behaviourally, and how is it maintained? This book brings together current research perspectives on altruism, narcissism, and comity, by distinguished behavioural scientists from around the world.

Schizophrenic Women is a fascinating report on the lives of seventeen families that suffered the experiences associated with the hospitalization of the wife and mother for mental illness

"Vicki Hoefle's Straight Talk on Parenting makes the bold claim that parenting is not about perfection. Her book teaches parents to trust their intuition and develop an intentional strategy for meeting each child's unique needs."--

Aims to stimulate campuses to frame and address questions that yield usable data about the degree to which diversity enriches the educational experience. This book sets out the challenges and considerations that must be addressed by administrative leaders, by faculty, by trustees, and others who shape the vision and direction of the institution.

This book introduces sustainable development practices and provides insight into the requirements for designing and constructing sustainable structures for all segments of the industry. It addresses sustainability from the perspective of buildings, but it also covers sustainability practices during engineering design and construction for all types of projects, such as heavy and highway construction, industrial construction, the mining and minerals industry, the power industry, and the manufacturing industry, with a focus on addressing sustainability issues during engineering design and construction operations.

Field Methods in Marine Science: From Measurements to Models is an authoritative guide of the methods most appropriate for field research within the marine sciences, from experimental design to data analysis. Written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as early-career researchers, this textbook also serves as an accessible introduction to the concepts and practice of modeling marine system dynamics. This textbook trains the next generation of field scientists to move beyond the classic methods of data collection and statistical analysis to contemporary methods of numerical modeling; to pursue the assimilation and synthesis of information, not the mere recording of data. Boxes and side bars highlight important questions, interesting facts, relevant examples, and research techniques that supplement the text. Students and researchers alike will find the thorough appendices useful as a way of expanding comprehension of fundamental concepts.

Provides an in-depth look at successful mentorships between senior white and under-represented scholars and emerging women scholars and scholars of colour. Following a comprehensive review of the literature, this book presents chapters written by scholars who share in-depth descriptions of their cross-gender and/or cross-race/ethnicity mentoring relationships.

For many White women teachers and teachers in training - who represent the majority of our teaching force today - the issue of race is fraught with discomfort. It may challenge assumptions, evoke a sense of guilt, or give rise to a fear of making mistakes or saying the wrong thing.This book presents the first-person stories of White women teachers who tell us not only how they have grappled with race in diverse classrooms, but how they continue to this day to be challenged by issues of color and privilege. These are no stories of heroic feats or achievement of perfection, but stories of self-disclosure that lay bare their authors' emotions, ideas, curiosity, vulnerability, and reflections as they engaged with race, and challenged practices of color blindness and empathetic distance. Avoiding abstract educational lingo, these teachers come clean about the emotional cost of dealing with racism, White privilege, and fear of being racist in our rapidly diversifying schools. Admitting their cultural mistakes, they hope their readers can find a safe place to use theirs for honest dialogue and positive learning.In approaching chapter authors for this book, the editors asked the writers to ask themselves, "Will my well-being and sense of self be at risk if I tell this story?" Recognizing what's at stake, they wanted writers who would be real with themselves.The women in this book hope that their stories will resonate with readers, help them feel less alone, and give them courage to begin a dialogue with colleagues, friends, staff and administrators around race concerns. Each chapter concludes with a few questions to prompt self-reflection at home, or for use as exercises to use in small groups or staff development training.

Offers a methodological primer on how historians gather evidence, presume reliability of witnesses, and develop forms of verification in the conduct of analysis and research. It is an introduction to the study of history and an examination of specific instances in which ideology has distorted the study of American history.

An accessible exploration of the fundamental connections between social science and philosophy.