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The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard work. Why then, do high schools that supposedly subscribe to this view send students to college at such dramatically different rates? Why do students from one school succeed while students from another struggle? To the usual answer-an imbalance in resources-this book adds a far more subtle and complicated explanation. Defining Student Success shows how different schools foster dissimilar and sometimes conflicting ideas about what it takes to succeed-ideas that do more to preserve the status quo than to promote upward mobility. Lisa Nunn's study of three public high schools reveals how students' beliefs about their own success are shaped by their particular school environment and reinforced by curriculum and teaching practices. While American culture broadly defines success as a product of hard work or talent (at school, intelligence is the talent that matters most), Nunn shows that each school refines and adapts this American cultural wisdom in its own distinct way-reflecting the sensibilities and concerns of the people who inhabit each school. While one school fosters the belief that effort is all it takes to succeed, another fosters the belief that hard work will only get you so far because you have to be smart enough to master course concepts. Ultimately, Nunn argues that these school-level adaptations of cultural ideas about success become invisible advantages and disadvantages for students' college-going futures. Some schools' definitions of success match seamlessly with elite college admissions' definition of the ideal college applicant, while others more closely align with the expectations of middle or low-tier institutions of higher education. With its insights into the transmission of ideas of success from society to school to student, this provocative work should prompt a reevaluation of the culture of secondary education. Only with a thorough understanding of this process will we ever find more consistent means of inculcating success, by any measure.

High school environment --- High school students --- Prediction of scholastic success --- Student success in high school.

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When faculty climb the ranks into leadership positions, they come with years of knowledge and experience, yet they are often blindsided by the delicate interpersonal situations and political minefields they must now navigate as university administrators. What are the specific skills that faculty need to acquire when they move into administrative positions, and how can they build upon their existing abilities to excel in these roles? What skills can other mid-level leaders learn to help in their positions? Using an engaging case study approach, Leading for Tomorrow provides readers with real-world examples that will help them reflect on their own management and communication styles. It also shows newly minted administrators how they can follow best practices while still developing a style of leadership that is authentic and uniquely their own. The book’s case studies offer practical solutions for how to deal with emerging trends and persistent problems in the field of higher education, from decreasing state funding to political controversies on campus. Leading for Tomorrow gives readers the tools they need to get the best out of their team, manage conflicts, support student success, and instill a campus culture of innovation that will meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Universities and colleges --- Administration. --- Management, leadership, Economics, Administration, Learning, Leadership general interest, Communication, Strategic Thinking, Planning, Decision-Making, Education, Business, networked leadership, Knowledge, political controversies, manage conflicts, support student, Success, Higher Education, Primer, Abilities, Skills, Styles, Authentic, Unique, Pamela L. Eddy, Elizabeth Kirby, Adrianna Kezar, K-12. --- College administrators --- Educational leadership --- Professional relationships --- Administration

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The book provides a rich, informative picture of the current state of student engagement evaluation, while also highlighting challenges and opportunities for future advances. A particular strength of this publication is its emphasis on the importance of taking evidence-based decisions, and showing how the South African Survey of Student Engagement (SASSE) can provide the evidence for well-informed changes in policy and practice in order to enhance student success." - Prof Magda Fourie-Malherbe, Stellenbosch University

Higher & further education, tertiary education --- Academics --- Academic achievement --- Academic advising --- Academic advisors --- Academic challenge --- Academic development --- Academic literacy --- Academic performance --- Academic support --- Access --- Academic staff (also see academics/Lecturers) --- Actionable --- Active learning --- Agency --- Aggregated --- Analyse --- Apply --- Ask questions --- Assessment --- Attitude --- Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) --- Beginning University Survey of Student Engagement (BUSSE) --- Benchmarking --- Bloom’s taxonomy --- Business --- economics and management --- Campus environment --- Capacity --- Career advisors --- Challenges --- Classroom activities --- Classroom Survey of Student Engagement (CLASSE) --- Co-curricular (also see extra-curricular) --- Cognitive --- Cognitive development --- Cognitive educational activities --- Cognitive functions --- Cognitive skills --- Collaborative learning --- Colleges --- Community college --- Comprehensive universities --- Conditional formatting --- Contextual --- Contextual challenges --- Contextualised --- Council on Higher Education (CHE) --- Course (module/subject) --- Critical thinking --- Culture --- Curriculum --- Data --- Data-informed --- Decision-making --- Decolonisation --- Deep learning --- Department chairs (heads of departments) --- Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) --- Development --- Developmental outcomes --- Diagnostic --- Disaggregating --- Discussions --- Discussion with diverse others --- Dropout --- Education outcomes --- Effective educational behaviours --- Effective educational practices --- Effective leadership --- Effective teaching practices --- Empirical --- Engagement – also see Student Engagement --- Engineering --- Equity --- Equitable outcomes --- Evaluate --- Evidence --- Evidence-based --- Expectations --- Expected academic difficulty --- Expected academic perseverance --- Experiential learning --- Experience with staff --- Extended degree --- Extended curricula --- Extra-curricular (also see co-curricular) --- Financial Stress Scale --- First-generation --- First-year --- Food --- Food insecurity --- Frequency --- Freshman myth --- Gender --- Graduate attributes (Learning outcomes) --- Group work --- Heads of departments --- High-Impact practices --- Higher education outcomes --- Higher-Order Learning --- Holistic --- Humanities --- Incentive --- Indicators --- Innovation --- Innovative --- Instructional paradigm --- Interactions --- Interventions --- Institutional culture --- Institutional performance --- Institutional research --- Institutional researchers --- Institution-wide approaches --- Interpersonal relationships --- Interpersonal skills --- Intersectional --- Intersectionality --- Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE) --- Knowledge --- Knowledge society --- Language --- Law --- Leaders --- Leadership (management/university leadership) --- Learning --- Learning environments --- Learning facilitator --- Learning outcomes --- Learning paradigm --- Learning strategies --- Learning with peers --- Lecturer Survey of Student Engagement (LSSE) --- Lecturers (also see academics/academic staff) --- Librarians --- Management (University leaders and Leadership) --- Mathematics --- Memorisation --- Mentor --- Mentoring --- Mentorship --- Mission --- Module (course/subject) --- Motivation --- National Benchmark Tests (NBT) --- National Benchmark Test Project (NBTP) --- National Development Plan --- National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) --- Natural and Agricultural Sciences --- Next Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) --- Numeracy development --- Off-campus --- On-campus --- Online resources --- Pathways --- Peer learning (also see Tutor) --- Pedagogical approaches --- Pedagogical contexts --- Pedagogical environments --- Pedagogical experiences --- Pedagogical innovation --- Pedagogical practices --- Pedagogical relationship --- Pedagogical responsiveness --- Pedagogies --- Perceived academic preparation --- Perceived preparedness --- Persistence --- Policies --- Policy --- Policy makers --- Practical significance --- Practical work --- Preparing for class --- Professional development --- Professionals --- Professional staff --- Quadrant --- Quality --- Quality assurance --- Quality of interactions --- Quantitative reasoning --- Reflection --- Reflective and integrative learning --- Relationships --- Research --- Responsiveness --- Resources --- Retention --- Science --- engineering and technology --- Self-reflection --- Senior students --- Service learning --- Social sciences --- Socio-economic --- South African Survey(s) of Student Engagement (SASSE) --- Staff development (also academic development and lecturer development) --- Stakeholder --- Strategies --- Statistical --- Student affairs --- Student behaviour --- Student bodies --- Student data --- Student development --- Student engagement --- Student evaluation --- Student financial aid --- Student involvement --- Student learning --- Student life --- Student needs --- Student outcomes --- Student organisations --- Student perspective --- Student participation --- Student performance --- Student persistence --- Student retention --- Student responses --- Student societies --- Student-staff interaction --- Student success --- Student views --- Student voice --- Success rates --- Subject (course/module) --- Support services --- Support staff --- Supportive campus --- Supportive environment --- Synthesise --- Systemic perspective --- Systemic understanding --- Teaching --- Teaching and learning --- Techniques --- Time --- Time management --- Traditional universities --- Transformation --- Transformative --- Transition --- Tutor --- Tutorials --- Undergraduate research --- Underprepared --- United States --- University Capacity Development Grant (University Capacity Development Programme) --- Universities --- Universities of Technology --- University leaders --- Unrealistic --- Well-being