[PDF] Academic Excellence eBook

Author : Ugo Njoku
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780578447544

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Secrets of Academic Excellence lays out a step by step process to becoming an academic high flyer. The material is effectively presented in a manner that is relevant to today's youth, using language and stories that they will consider goofy and entertaining. In 5 concise chapters, this book unveils the essential process of attaining academic excellence which includes, a discussion on why anybody should bother about attaining it, goal setting, how to predict your grades, how to study, and a colorful discussion on where to go to know more than your teachers! Brilliant and entertaining, Secrets of Academic Excellence will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Author : Christopher Emdin
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807089516

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A revolutionary new educational model that encourages educators to provide spaces for students to display their academic brilliance without sacrificing their identities Building on the ideas introduced in his New York Times best-selling book, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Christopher Emdin introduces an alternative educational model that will help students (and teachers) celebrate ratchet identity in the classroom. Ratchetdemic advocates for a new kind of student identity—one that bridges the seemingly disparate worlds of the ivory tower and the urban classroom. Because modern schooling often centers whiteness, Emdin argues, it dismisses ratchet identity (the embodying of “negative” characteristics associated with lowbrow culture, often thought to be possessed by people of a particular ethnic, racial, or socioeconomic status) as anti-intellectual and punishes young people for straying from these alleged “academic norms,” leaving young people in classrooms frustrated and uninspired. These deviations, Emdin explains, include so-called “disruptive behavior” and a celebration of hip-hop music and culture. Emdin argues that being “ratchetdemic,” or both ratchet and academic (like having rap battles about science, for example), can empower students to embrace themselves, their backgrounds, and their education as parts of a whole, not disparate identities. This means celebrating protest, disrupting the status quo, and reclaiming the genius of youth in the classroom.

Author : Philip G. Altbach
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0821388061

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This book examines the experience of 11 universities in nine countries around the world that have grappled with the challenge of building successful research institutions in difficult circumstances and outlines key lessons of from this experience.

Author : Mary Blair-Loy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226820149

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An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair and unequal outcomes. In Misconceiving Merit, sociologists Mary Blair-Loy and Erin A. Cech uncover the cultural foundations of a paradox. On one hand, academic science, engineering, and math revere meritocracy, a system that recognizes and rewards those with the greatest talent and dedication. At the same time, women and some racial and sexual minorities remain underrepresented and often feel unwelcome and devalued in STEM. How can academic science, which so highly values meritocracy and objectivity, produce these unequal outcomes? Blair-Loy and Cech studied more than five hundred STEM professors at a top research university to reveal how unequal and unfair outcomes can emerge alongside commitments to objectivity and excellence. The authors find that academic STEM harbors dominant cultural beliefs that not only perpetuate the mistreatment of scientists from underrepresented groups but hinder innovation. Underrepresented groups are often seen as less fully embodying merit compared to equally productive white and Asian heterosexual men, and the negative consequences of this misjudgment persist regardless of professors’ actual academic productivity. Misconceiving Merit is filled with insights for higher education administrators working toward greater equity as well as for scientists and engineers striving to change entrenched patterns of inequality in STEM.

Author : Godstime IRABOR
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2020-09-02
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ISBN :

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This book is for those who are about to embark on an academic journey or want to get better with their grades in school. If you are willing to do better in your next academic program, this book is for you. The guide and advice in this book have been the guide of many students for a long time. This invaluable knowledge has helped in sailing their "academic boat" in the direction of excellence. The book would enable you to acquire top-notch skills that would transform your grades from poor ones to excellent ones. I am incredibly pleased to present to you this book - 'Achieve academic excellence.'

Author : Arthur M. Feldman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439816603

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Much as it is with the nation‘s overall healthcare system, the survival of academic medical centers (AMC‘s) is threatened by a combination of economic, cultural, and demographic factors. If AMC‘s are to survive to fill their societal responsibilities, they must adopt a new philosophy. Challenging assumptions and providing the shift in perspective t

Author : Sam O Salau
Publisher : Sam O Salau
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2018-04-01
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ISBN :

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Contrary to popular belief, spirituality is no excuse for mediocrity. Dedication and commitment to the things of God does not enhance academic failure, it promotes academic excellence. Success for a Christian Student is defined as spiritual buoyancy and academic progression. You must be able to affect lives on campus and at the same time maintain a splendid academic performance. The problem of academic excellence that exasperates Christian Students is the cause of their deeper problem of abstinence from fellowship activities on campus. Academic success has become the major reason for most Christian Students’ estrangement from God. Those who get it are not in faith while those in faith seem not near it, no matter how hard they tried. It is pathetic to see students who are fervent in the Spirit and burning for the Lord fail in their academics. They make great impacts in the ministry but fail to extend the impact into their academics. They teach others about the rules, guidelines and secrets of success but they are not successful themselves. They are victims of academic failure. This is pitiable and should be given immediate attention since it has given so many people a wrong impression about the Christian Faith and student-hood. This book will help you balance both your academics and your spiritual life, and also give you principles that will make you excel in both with ease.

Author : Richard Münch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135036063

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This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by the intensified struggle for funds with the shrinking of block grants and the growing significance of competitive funding, as well as the increasing impact of international and national rankings on academic research and teaching. The increased allocation of funds on the basis of performance leads to overinvestment of resources at the small top and underinvestment for the broad mass of universities in the middle and lower ranks. There is a curvilinear inverted u-shaped relationship of investments and returns in terms of knowledge production. Paradoxically, the intrusion of the economic logic and measures of managerial controlling into the academic field imply increasing inefficiency in the allocation of resources to universities. The top institutions suffer from overinvestment, the rank-and-file institutions from underinvestment. The economic inefficiency is accompanied by a shrinking potential for renewal and open knowledge evolution.