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Essential accounting advice for the nonprofit sphere Public and nonprofit organizations face as number of unique issues in areas related to financial management. From special accounting rules to...

Academic administrators occupy a position that is highly complex and entails unrelenting demands such as managing heightened workloads, stretching ever-tightening budgets, and promoting collegiality...

A superb, substantive book and one that should cause us to thinkabout the learning society and how we are going to plan for it nowand in the future. --Adult LearningAuthor: K. Patricia...

Technology is continually changing the world. In higher education in particular, new technologies can be applied to great advantage by campus communities seeking to offer better services for students...

Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy?s life. It?s even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues boys face from a trusted source. The American...

Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every girl?s life. It?s even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues girls face from a trusted source. The American...

Praise for Amish Grace "A story our polarized country needs to hear: It is still grace that saves." ?BILL MOYERS, Public Affairs Television "In a world where repaying evil with evil is almost second...

Higher education professionals have moved from teaching- to learning-centered models for designing and assessing courses and curricula. Faculty work collaboratively to identify learning objectives...

Many resources on implementing general education are available, but few are written to help those faculty and administrators responsible for general education with its evaluation. This book is a...

Examines the shifting demographic, economic, and social forces--the changing gender roles, harsher economic realities, and dual career families--that pull managers and executives out of balance...

The number of part-time faculty members is increasing steadily, to the point that most colleges and universities could not function efficiently without them. The evening and weekend availability of...

Beyond Rational Management: Mastering the Paradoxes and Competing Demands of High PerformanceAuthor: Robert E. QuinnPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Apr 16, 1992Number of Pages: 224...

Breaking the Barriers shows how increased career awareness and exposure to mentors and role models can help students see science and math-related careers as desirable and viable options. It explains...

Provides step-by-step guidance for setting up career academies. Offers advice on staffing, budgeting, student selection, parent involvement, and how to build effective school-business...

A much-needed approach to career counseling that integrates traditional techniques with psychological methods of assessment and intervention. The step-by-step methodology applies to all types of...

Changing College Classrooms provides useful ideas on the four hottest issues in higher education today: active learning, diversity, technology, and assessment. Every faculty member will find at least...

Changing the Essence: The Art of Creating and Leading Environmental Change in OrganizationsAuthor: Richard BeckhardPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Apr 16, 1992Number of Pages: 128...

Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge is a faith-based companion to the best-selling leadership book of all time--The Leadership Challenge. Grounded in Jim and Barry?s time-tested...

Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty ProblemsAuthor: Barbara GrayPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Jan 16, 1991Number of Pages: 358 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Collaborative Management in Health Care: Implementing the Integrative OrganizationAuthor: Martin P. CharnsPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Nov 11, 1992Number of Pages: 320 pagesBinding:...

What is the appropriate role of technology in teaching and learning environments? In this collection of essays, technology is described as an enabler. The contributing authors explain and analyze the...

Shows how to create a comprehensive, community-wide prevention program to effectively confront the serious drug and alcohol problems threatening our youth. Shows how to employ community mobilization,...

A book in the Psychoeducational Intervention Series Provides a wide range of coping skills interventions for helpingchildren learn to handle everyday stress and deal better withacademic,...

In recent years, new expectations of higher education from parents, employers, trustees, and government leaders have contributed to broad institutional changes. Recognizing that the quality of a...

Transforming the American Hospital Provides an exciting, values-centered approach to leadingorganizational change that produces rapid and lastingresults. --Coyla Anderson, executive vice president,...

Provides a comprehensive analysis of cynicism in the workforce and tells how to identify and successfully combat it in organizations. Offers case studies of companies ranging from Ben and Jerry's Ice...

Sponsored by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education Drawing on theoretical models, case studies, and comparative analyses of other sectors and countries, the authors argue that governance...

Evaluation in departments is widespread but often fails to spark positive change. Based on his extensive work with academic departments across the country, Wergin explains that successful department...

Designing Performance Appraisal Systems: Aligning Appraisals and Organizational RealitiesAuthor: Allan M. MohrmanPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Jan 16, 1991Number of Pages: 256 pagesBinding:...

This handbook provides a systematic, proven approach for developing a fair and consistent faculty evaluation system that can be adapted to the unique values, needs, missions, traditions, and overall...