Category: Education
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New & Noteworthy for Fall 2013
Fall 2013
Luna Sea
by Kim Roberts ’82
2012Aloha Jones, harbormaster at Lahaina, Maui, investigates the
murder of a local troublemaker in this mystery set in Hawaii and filled
with sharks and funky characters on the dark side of paradise.
The Boys Fr...
Categories: Education, Materials engineering, Fiction
Tags: Ecology, Mystery novels, Ireland
Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family
Spring 2013
Kelly Ward, a Washington State University professor and co-author of Academic Motherhood, contends that a “don’t ask, don’t tell” culture still prevails in academia when it comes to pregnancy.
Sometimes that keeps women from reaching...
Categories: Education
Tags: Parenting, Academic life, Mothers
Beyond Outcomes
Winter 2001
For the first time in the 126-year history of college-level writing programs, a single scholarly book focuses on one university's writing program. Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing Program tells the story ...
Categories: Education
Tags: Writing
Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning
Winter 2007
If you're a parent seeking a quality model for secondary education for your child, you will be intrigued and encouraged in reading Robert Littlejohn '83 and Charles T. Evans's Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning. If you'...
Categories: Education
Tags: Christian education
The Renaissance of American Indian Higher Education: Capturing the Dream
Fall 2004
Much of the effort of American Indian education in recent years has been to reverse the effects of the deadly programs of the past, when the schools most Indians had access to were procrustean institutions, to which they were required to adjust, or f...
Categories: Education
Tags: Native Americans
Dancing to the Concertina's Tune
Summer 2005
Educating the incarcerated is not an undertaking for the faint of heart. In Dancing to the Concertina's Tune: A Prison Teacher's Memoir, Jan Walker '60 explores her unusual career in correctional education and seeks to give the reader an understandin...
Categories: Education, Memoirs
Tags: Prisons