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By Degrees

Author : Betsy Wackernagel Bach
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781793506788
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book By Degrees written by Betsy Wackernagel Bach and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Degrees: Resilience, Relationships, and Success in Communication Graduate Studies provides readers with an indispensable guide to navigating the graduate school experience in Communication Studies programs. The book helps current and future graduate students consider their options, make wise choices, and thrive within their master''s or doctoral programs and beyond. The text''s 15 contributed chapters discuss such topics as how to select the right program, build strong advisor-advisee relationships, navigate roadblocks, find community, share work, develop into competent scholars and teachers, and pursue careers inside and outside the academy. The diverse and global nature of communication research and pedagogy and finding and pursuing your passion within the discipline is evident throughout the book. Designed to resonate with today''s learners, each chapter is co-authored by leading scholars and current or recent graduate students and features unique perspectives from students'' experiences. This approach provides readers with an enlightening window into graduate students'' insights, challenges, and lived experiences. The text also features a distinct emphasis on diversity, inclusion, equity, and access, and reflects upon the international character of communication research and pedagogy. Readers will engage in robust discussions related to justice and equity and learn how the Communication discipline has developed and continues to develop around the globe. By Degrees is an exemplary resource for introduction to graduate studies courses and for individuals considering master''s or doctoral programs. Chapters and contributors include: Introduction for Students: "Completely Altered the Way I Viewed the World"- Betsy Wackernagel Bach, Dawn O. Braithwaite, and Shiv Ganesh Chapter 1: "Providing the Intellectual Tools": Getting to Know the Discipline of Communication - Dawn O. Braithwaite, Tina M. Harris, Jessy Ohl, and Trevor Kauer Chapter 2: "How Do I Find a Good Fit?": Applying to Master''s and PhD Programs - Betsy Wackernagel Bach, Kendyl Barney, and Mackensie Minniear Chapter 3: "I Have to Re-choose to Do This Every Single Day": Beyond Narratives of Success in the Pursuit of Graduate School - Shiv Ganesh and Andrea Zorn Chapter 4: "Spanning the Abyss": Graduate Student Steps and Tasks - Randall A. Lake, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Beth L. Boser, Allegra Hardin, and Barbara A. Pickering Chapter 5: "Work with Someone Who Seems Excited About Your Success": Building Advisor/Advisee Relationships - C. Kay Weaver and Bridget Reynolds Sheffer Chapter 6: "Do Something You''re Passionate About": Planning and Carrying Out Research - Sarah J. Tracy, Cris J. Tietsort, and Laura Martinez Chapter 7: "A Process of Discovery": Finding Your Groove as a Writer - Lisa Keränen and Andrew Gilmore Chapter 8: "Yikes! What Do I Do Now?": Advice for Graduate Students Sharing Their Work - Ronald Jackson II and Celnisha Dangerfield Chapter 9: "From Sitting in the Classroom to Facing It": Becoming and Growing as a Teacher - Kirstie McAllum, Simon Mallette, Tyler Rife, and Uttaran Dutta Chapter 10: "Without People in My Corner, I Will Fail": Personal Resources for Graduate Students - Vincent R. Waldron, Brianna Avalos, Dayna N. Klober, and Jameien Taylor Chapter 11: "One Mountain, Many Paths": Navigating Roadblocks and Succeeding in Graduate School - Jordan Soliz and Megan E. Cardwell Chapter 12: "Graduate School is a Human Experience of Struggling, Celebrating, and Striving Together": Graduate Life as a Collective Endeavor - Jenna N. Hanchey, Samantha Gillespie, and Ana-Luisa Ortiz-Martinez Chapter 13: "It Was Within My Control to Max My Possibilities": Academic Life After Graduate School - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Zhenyu Tian, and Timothy Betts Chapter 14: "A Roadmap to Career Success": Pursuing Careers Outside of the Academy for MA Graduates - Stephen K. Hunt, Aimee E. Miller-Ott, and Viraj Patel Chapter 15: "Translate Your Talents": Pursuing Careers Outside of the Academy for PhD Graduates - Katlyn Gangi and James Stiff

Polarized by Degrees

Author : Matt Grossmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009063464
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Polarized by Degrees written by Matt Grossmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes – from shifting relations between social groups and evolving language and behavior norms to the increasing value of a college degree. These transformations have polarized the nation's political climate and ignited a perpetual culture war. In a sequel to their award-winning collaboration Asymmetric Politics, Grossmann and Hopkins draw on an extensive variety of evidence to explore how these changes have affected both major parties. They show that the Democrats have become the home of highly-educated citizens with progressive social views who prefer credentialed experts to make policy decisions, while Republicans have become the populist champions of white voters without college degrees who increasingly distrust teachers, scientists, journalists, universities, non-profit organizations, and even corporations. The result of this new “diploma divide” between the parties is an increasingly complex world in which everything is about politics – and politics is about everything.

Mothering by Degrees

Author : Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813588456
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Mothering by Degrees written by Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Mothering by Degrees, I show how single mothers who pursue college degrees in early 21st century America must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single mothers, college students, and, in many cases, employees. As they combine these multiple and often competing roles and responsibilities, they must also negotiate a balance between cultural ideals of motherhood and their own definitions of what it means to be a "good" mother, particularly as those ideals and definitions are shaped within context of post-welfare reform America and the post-secondary institutions they attend. By comparing the experiences of nearly 100 single mother college students attending three postsecondary education institutions in the United States, I illustrate how these women navigate the various obstacles they encounter, especially obstacles related to financial concerns, child care, time constraints, and the "chilly" climate of higher education. In addition, I demonstrate that the women regard postsecondary education not only as a means of escaping poverty but also as an extension of their mothering work, something they do to help ensure the long-term health and well-being of their children. Thus, this project provides a situated, comparative account of the experiences of single mothers who are college students in order to foster a better understanding of the complex ideologies and social structures that influence the life choices and education experiences of members of this important but understudied student population. Finally, the project discusses policies and programs that can help provide better support to single mother and may diminish the challenges they face as they endeavor to complete their education"--

Declining by Degrees

Author : Richard H. Hersh
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466893389
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Declining by Degrees written by Richard H. Hersh and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation? Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives. When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landmark report provided a convenient "cover" for higher education, inadvertently implying that all was well on America's campuses. Declining by Degrees blows higher education's cover. It asks tough--and long overdue--questions about our colleges and universities. In candid, coherent, and ultimately provocative ways, Declining by Degrees reveals: - how students are being short-changed by lowered academic expectations and standards; -why many universities focus on research instead of teaching and spend more on recruiting and athletics than on salaries for professors; -why students are disillusioned; -how administrations are obsessed with rankings in news magazines rather than the quality of learning; -why the media ignore the often catastrophic results; and -how many professors and students have an unspoken "non-aggression pact" when it comes to academic effort. Declining by Degrees argues persuasively that the multi-billion dollar enterprise of higher education has gone astray. At the same time, these essays offer specific prescriptions for change, warning that our nation is in fact at greater risk if we do nothing.

Morality by Degrees

Author : Alastair Norcross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019258359X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Morality by Degrees written by Alastair Norcross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Morality by Degrees, Alastair Norcross articulates and defends a radical new approach to ethical theory. Consequentialist theories of the right connect the rightness and wrongness (and related notions) of actions with the intrinsic goodness and badness of states of affairs consequential on those actions. The most popular such theory is maximization, which is said to demand of agents that they maximize the good, that they do the best they can, at all times. Thus it may seem that consequentialist theories are overly demanding, and, relatedly, that they cannot accommodate the phenomenon of going above and beyond the demands of duty. However, a clear understanding of consequentialism leaves no room for a theory of the right, at least not at the fundamental level of the theory. A consequentialist theory, such as utilitarianism, is a theory of how to rank outcomes, and derivatively actions, which provides reasons for choosing some actions over others. It is thus a purely scalar theory, with no demands that certain actions be performed, and no fundamental classification of actions as right or wrong. However, such notions may have pragmatic benefits at the level of application, since many people find it easier to guide their conduct by simple commands, rather than to think in terms of reasons of varying strength to do one thing rather than another. A contextualist semantics for various terms, such as ", ", ", when combined with the scalar approach to consequentialism, allows for the expression of truth-apt propositions with sentences containing such terms.

Dying by Degrees

Author : Judith Cutler
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144830377X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Dying by Degrees written by Judith Cutler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Rivers finds that her struggles with her course take a back seat when she's caught up in a deadly web of corruption and murder. Sophie Rivers is struggling with her course at the University of the West Midlands, her fellow student Jago Calvin is harassing her and she's missing the love-of-her-life, Mike Lowden. Sophie confides in the excellent lecturer Carla Pentowski about her problems. But there's something strange about Carla's past – or lack of it. Sophie soon has a number of questions. Why are some of the South-East Asian students she is helping behaving oddly? Why are Malay girls dying on her old friend, Superintendent Chris Groom's patch? What's behind Carla disappearance, and who has hacked into the university's records? Sophie's determined to find answers, but finds herself risking her life in her search for the truth.

Changing by Degrees

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Publisher : Office of Technology Assessment
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Changing by Degrees written by and published by Office of Technology Assessment. This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dispossession by Degrees

Author : Jean M. O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521561723
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Dispossession by Degrees written by Jean M. O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Brien examines the centrality of land in both the transformation and persistence of Indian identity in New England.

A Matter of Degrees

Author : Gino Segre
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101640170
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Degrees written by Gino Segre and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segrè, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of how the fundamental scientific concept of temperature is bound up with the very essence of both life and matter. Why is the internal temperature of most mammals fixed near 98.6°? How do geologists use temperature to track the history of our planet? Why is the quest for absolute zero and its quantum mechanical significance the key to understanding superconductivity? And what can we learn from neutrinos, the subatomic "messages from the sun" that may hold the key to understanding the birth-and death-of our solar system? In answering these and hundreds of other temperature-sensitive questions, Segrè presents an uncanny view of the world around us.

Degrees of Difficulty

Author : Georgia Cervin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052676
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Difficulty written by Georgia Cervin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women's gymnastics Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world. Georgia Cervin offers a unique history of women's gymnastics, examining how the high-stakes diplomatic rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for exploitation. Yet, a surprising spirit of international collaboration arose to decide the social values and image of femininity demonstrated by the sport. Cervin also charts the changes in style, equipment, training, and participants that transformed the sport, as explosive athleticism replaced balletic grace and gymnastics dominance shifted from East to West. Sweeping and revelatory, Degrees of Difficulty tells a story of international friction, unexpected cooperation, and the legacy of abuse and betrayal created by the win-at-all-cost attitudes of the Cold War.

Degrees of Equality

Author : John Frederick Bell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807177849
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Equality written by John Frederick Bell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the New Scholar’s Book Award from the American Educational Research Association The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of African Americans to the country’s colleges and universities. Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in 1835 when it began enrolling students irrespective of race and sex. Camaraderie among races flourished at the Ohio institution and at two other leading abolitionist colleges, Berea in Kentucky and New York Central, where Black and white students allied in the fight for emancipation and civil rights. After Reconstruction, however, color lines emerged on even the most progressive campuses. For new generations of white students and faculty, ideas of fairness toward African Americans rarely extended beyond tolerating their presence in the classroom, and overt acts of racial discrimination grew increasingly common by the 1880s. John Frederick Bell’s Degrees of Equality analyzes the trajectory of interracial reform at Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea, noting its implications for the progress of racial justice in both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on student and alumni writings, institutional records, and promotional materials, Bell interrogates how abolitionists and their successors put their principles into practice. The ultimate failure of these social experiments illustrates a tragic irony of abolitionism, as the achievement of African American freedom and citizenship led whites to divest from the project of racial pluralism.

Six Degrees

Author : Mark Lynas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426202131
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Six Degrees written by Mark Lynas and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In astonishing and unflinching detail, a noted science journalist explains how Earth's climate will be impacted with every degree of increase in global warming--and what can be done about it now.

Morality by Degrees

Author : Alastair Norcross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198844999
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Morality by Degrees written by Alastair Norcross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Morality by Degrees, Alastair Norcross articulates and defends a radical new approach to ethical theory. Consequentialist theories of the right connect the rightness and wrongness (and related notions) of actions with the intrinsic goodness and badness of states of affairs consequential on those actions. The most popular such theory is maximization, which is said to demand of agents that they maximize the good, that they do the best they can, at all times. Thus it may seem that consequentialist theories are overly demanding, and, relatedly, that they cannot accommodate the phenomenon of going above and beyond the demands of duty. However, a clear understanding of consequentialism leaves no room for a theory of the right, at least not at the fundamental level of the theory. A consequentialist theory, such as utilitarianism, is a theory of how to rank outcomes, and derivatively actions, which provides reasons for choosing some actions over others. It is thus a purely scalar theory, with no demands that certain actions be performed, and no fundamental classification of actions as right or wrong. However, such notions may have pragmatic benefits at the level of application, since many people find it easier to guide their conduct by simple commands, rather than to think in terms of reasons of varying strength to do one thing rather than another. A contextualist semantics for various terms, such as "right", "permissible", "harm", when combined with the scalar approach to consequentialism, allows for the expression of truth-apt propositions with sentences containing such terms.

Degrees of Inequality

Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465044964
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Inequality written by Suzanne Mettler and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United States had a proud history of promoting higher education for its citizens. The Morrill Act, the G.I. Bill and Pell Grants enabled Americans from across the income spectrum to attend college and the nation led the world in the percentage of young adults with baccalaureate degrees. Yet since 1980, progress has stalled. Young adults from low to middle income families are not much more likely to graduate from college than four decades ago. When less advantaged students do attend, they are largely sequestered into inferior and often profit-driven institutions, from which many emerge without degrees—and shouldering crushing levels of debt. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account, she illuminates how political partisanship has overshadowed America’s commitment to equal access to higher education. As politicians capitulate to corporate interests, owners of for-profit colleges benefit, but for far too many students, higher education leaves them with little besides crippling student loan debt. Meanwhile, the nation’s public universities have shifted the burden of rising costs onto students. In an era when a college degree is more linked than ever before to individual—and societal—well-being, these pressures conspire to make it increasingly difficult for students to stay in school long enough to graduate. By abandoning their commitment to students, politicians are imperiling our highest ideals as a nation. Degrees of Inequality offers an impassioned call to reform a higher education system that has come to exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequality in America.

212: The Extra Degree

Author : Sam Parker
Publisher : The Walk The Talk Company
ISBN 13 : 9781885228673
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book 212: The Extra Degree written by Sam Parker and published by The Walk The Talk Company. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 212° the extra degree captures the essence of excellence in an unforgettable way... At 211° water is hot. At 212°, it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And with steam, you can power a train. The one extra degree, that one small step, makes the difference. In the original 212° the extra degree softcover, the simple 212° concept is illustrated through a clear introduction and then supported by a series of thoughts, examples, and facts that will help you absorb the 212° mindset. Its purpose is to inspire the extra level of effort that produces exponential results. Let 212° become a part of everyone's vocabulary. This book will encourage anyone who reads it to give that extra degree of effort...the extra degree that will produce extraordinary results.

Freedom by Degrees

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019802147X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Freedom by Degrees written by Gary B. Nash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and anti-slavery appeals, Nash and Soderlund penetrate beneath such broad generalizations and find a more complicated process at work. Defiant runaway slaves joined Quaker abolitionists like Anthony Benezet and members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery and slave owners shrewdly calculated how to remove themselves from a morally bankrupt institution without suffering financial loss by freeing slaves as indentured servants, laborers, and cottagers.

Dispossession by Degrees

Author : Jean M. O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803286191
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Dispossession by Degrees written by Jean M. O'Brien and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite popular belief, Native peoples did not simply disappear from colonial New England as the English extended their domination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rather, the Native peoples in such places as Natick, Massachusetts, creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. So why did New England settlers believe that the Native peoples had vanished? In this thoroughly researched and astutely argued study, historian Jean M. O?Brien reveals that, in the late eighteenth century, the Natick tribe experienced a process of ?dispossession by degrees,? which rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, thus enabling the construction of the myth of Indian extinction.