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Scotty Dunlap; Brian Dudak – Prufrock Press, 2023
This book is your one-stop shop for the academic tools and habits needed to make your transition from high school to college a resounding success! The shift from high school to college can be a challenge, with many students finding the skills that had previously worked so well no longer seem to be enough. "How to Become a Successful College…
Descriptors: College Students, Success, College Readiness, Financial Literacy
Brennan, Jason; Magness, Phillip – Oxford University Press, 2019
Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives. But as Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness show in "Cracks in the Ivory…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, Universities, Incentives
Hickson, Mark, III; Roebuck, Julian B. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2009
This book provides potential answers to reduce deviant behavior and crime in colleges and universities. Claiming that the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings were aberrations, the authors have nevertheless uncovered offenses that presage major criminal incidents, such as students' engaging in cheating, plagiarism, binge drinking, date…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Plagiarism, Rape, Crime
McKenzie, Richard B. – 1979
This book on the economics of education is concerned primarily with how and why the student goes about acquiring whatever human capital he or she wishes and how the institutional setting of the university influences the amount of human capital that the student acquires. The learning process is dealt with, and an economic theory of learning, which…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability