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Practical Leadership in Community Colleges

Navigating Today's Challenges

Anticipate, manage, and overcome the complex issues facing community colleges Practical Leadership in Community Colleges offers a path forward through the challenges community colleges face every day. Through field observations, reports, news coverage, and interviews with leaders and policy makers, this book digs deep into the issues confronting college leaders and provides clear direction for managing through the storm. With close examination of both emerging trends and perennial problems, the discussion delves into issues brought about by changing demographics, federal and state mandates, public demand, economic cycles, student unrest, employee groups, trustees, college supporters, and more to provide practical guidance toward optimal outcomes for all stakeholders. Written by former presidents, including a past president of the American Association of Community Colleges, this book provides expert guidance on anticipating and managing the critical issues that affect the entire institution. Both authors serve as consultants, executive coaches, and advisors to top leaders, higher education institutions, and leadership development programs throughout the United States. Community colleges are facing increasingly complex issues from both without and within. Some can be avoided, others only mitigated—but all must be managed, and college leaders must be fully prepared or risk failing the students and the community. This book provides real-world guidance for current and emerging leaders and trustees seeking more effective management methods, with practical insight and expert perspective. Tackle the college completion challenge and performance-based funding initiatives Manage through economic cycles, declining support, and calls for accountability Delve into the issues of privatization and employee unionization Execute strategies to align institutional goals and mission Manage organizational change and new ways of thinking that are essential in today's competitive environment Manage issues involving diversity, inclusiveness, and equity Prepare adequately for campus emergencies Community colleges are the heartbeat of the nation's higher education system, and bear the tremendous responsibility of serving the needs of a vast and varied student body. Every day may bring new issues, but effective management allows institutions to rise to the challenge rather than falter under pressure. Practical Leadership in Community Colleges goes beyond theory to provide the practical guidance leadership needs to more effectively lead institutions to achieve results and serve the students and the community.

This book provides real-world guidance for current and emerging leaders and trustees seeking more effective management methods, with practical insight and expert perspective.

Catastrophe & Spectacle

Variations of a Conceptual Relation from the 17th to the 21st Century

Risk Appraisal and Venture Capital in High Technology New Ventures

This book is a 'crossover' treatment of quantitative and qualitative risk analysis within the setting of new high technology ventures in the UK. Reid and Smith have based their research on extensive fieldwork in patent-intensive, high-technology firms. This has included face-to-face interviews with leading investors, and is illustrated by two chapters of case studies. Their aim is to advance the understanding of methods of risk assessment and to illuminate current policy concerns about stimulating innovative output and securing intellectual property. This book is unique in being academic in intent and purpose, yet strongly grounded in practice, without becoming merely a practitioner volume. Reid and Smith find a considerable consensus in the venture capital industry on the spectrum of investments by risk, and on key commercial factors affecting risk. This book offers a useful and interdisciplinary approach to an increasingly popular field of study.

This book examines how risk is handled in new high-technology ventures in the
UK. Both investors (those allocating funds to ventures), typically venture
capitalists, and investees or entrepreneurs (those receiving equity funding
support for ...

The Life Cycle of New Ventures

Emergence, Newness and Growth

The contributors to this book provide a cross-national comparison of venture emergence, newness and growth. Their chapters examine the influences of cultural, social and economic factors on venture development, compare the approaches of entrepreneurs who move from idea to emerging organization, and investigate acquisition and development of resources in growth and performance. The authors consider important issues in new ventures research such as technology commercialization, management team development, and influence of equity funding. While its particular focus is on Norway and the US, the book offers broad and intriguing contributions with regard to the emergence and growth of knowledge based firms in developed economies, and has implications for both direct and indirect government policy with regard to stimulating the formation and development of knowledge based firms. Scholars and students of entrepreneurship, international studies and economics, policymakers, international business experts and economic development specialists will find this rigorous analysis of the utmost importance.

Emergence, Newness and Growth Candida G. Brush, Lars Kolvereid, L. Oystein
Widding, Roger Sorheim. PART III Newness 7. A process model of venture
creation by immigrant entrepreneurs Part III: Newness.

Snowball Earth

Up-and-coming rock star, Joan Devintia, has come to realize that some shadows aren't benign, some stares aren't innocent, and she is no longer safe. Tired of fearing her stalker, she goes to her manager for a solution. He hires Carmen Savedra - celebrity bodyguard and inactive duty Marine - to protect the singer from harm. In the midst of recording her pioneer album, Joan finds temptation in the form of illicit drugs and danger taking the shape of a man in a red tie. Safety comes with the sound of jingling dog tags that Carmen never takes off. Carmen's shadow is bigger and more imposing than Joan's stalker. Her stare is more meaningful. Unless Joan can face her fears off the stage - her career, her growing relationship with Carmen - her very life could end....

Up-and-coming rock star, Joan Devintia, has come to realize that some shadows aren't benign, some stares aren't innocent, and she is no longer safe.

Annie and Snowball Collector's Set!

Annie and Snowball and the Dress-up Birthday; Annie and Snowball and the Prettiest House; Annie and Snowball and the Teacup Club; Annie and Snowball and the Pink Surprise; Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest; Annie and Snowball and the Shining Star

Learn to read with Annie and Snowball, from the award-winning creators of Henry and Mudge! This carry-along boxed set includes six classic Annie and Snowball Level 2 Ready-to-Read books. Annie and her pet bunny, Snowball, love living next door to Annie’s favorite cousin, Henry, and his big dog, Mudge. They also love frilly things, playing dress-up, and going on adventures together! Annie also loves to read, especially when her fluffy bunny, Snowball, is curled up beside her. A must-have for any young reader, this carry-along boxed set has a plastic handle and Velcro closure and includes six Level 2 Ready-to-Read Books: Annie and Snowball and the Dress-Up Birthday, Annie and Snowball and the Prettiest House, Annie and Snowball and the Teacup Club, Annie and Snowball and the Pink Surprise, Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest, and Annie and Snowball and the Shining Star.

Learn to read with Annie and Snowball, from the award-winning creators of Henry and Mudge!

Misteri Hidup selepas Mati

Kematian adalah nasihat yang paling agung. Apabila ajal menjemput, segala nikmat dunia tidak menjadi kepentingan. Pada ketika itu, hanya amalan di dunia menjadi bekalan bagi menentukan di mana destinasi abadi kita, syurga ataupun neraka. Kata-kata Ad-Diqaq, “Seseorang yang banyak mengingati mati akan mendapat tiga kemuliaan, iaitu bersegera dalam bertaubat, hati yang menerima kecukupan (qana'ah), dan tekun dalam beribadah.” Antara topik menarik dalam buku ini adalah: • Hakikat Kematian dan Kesengsaraannya • Alam Barzarh, Alam Kubur, dan Alam Roh • Hari Kiamat dan Hari Kebangkitan • Hisab Amalan dan Pembalasan Dosa • Timbangan Mizan dan Titian Sirat • Golongan Ahli Syurga dan Ahli Neraka

Kematian adalah nasihat yang paling agung.

Professional Android Wearables

The fast and easy way to get up and running on Android wearables Written by an expert author team with years of hands-on experience in designing and building wearables, Professional Android Wearables covers how to use the Android Wear platform and other techniques to build real-world apps for a variety of wearables including smartbands, smartwatches, and smart glasses. In no time, you'll grasp how wearables can connect us to the Internet in more pervasive ways than with PCs, tablets, or mobile devices; how to build code using Google's Wear SDK for Android-enabled hardware devices; how Android Wear and other Android development techniques are capable of building several presented example projects; and much more. Wearables are the next generation of smart mobile devices, it's no wonder you will want to master Android Wear SDK to build smart wearable apps for a multitude of form factors and applications. Shows you how to navigate Android Wear SDK Clearly explains how to use the Android Wear platform to build real-world apps The companion website includes source code for all of the projects described in the book If you're an experienced Android developer looking to master Android Wear SDK to build wearable apps, you've come to the right place.

Professional Android Wearables Provides experienced and novice Android developers with hands-on instruction in creating apps using Google’s new Android Wear SDK Explores the future of wearable devices and pervasive Internet connectivity, ...

Questioning Sequences in the Classroom

Ask targeted questions to enhance students’ reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms. Use a four-phase questioning sequence to help students make claims, build sound arguments, and provide evidence to support their points. You’ll discover how to coordinate sequences to elicit students’ prior knowledge, prompt the discovery of new information, and deepen and extend students’ learning in all content areas.

Ask targeted questions to enhance students’ reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms.

Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging

Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging, by Mark Trombley, is a short (250-page) supplement for Advanced Accounting and other upper level accounting courses. While many books used for these courses contain some coverage of Derivatives, professors must spend valuable time preparing their own materials in order to thoroughly cover this complex subject. Trombley's text provides the desired information and detail, allowing faculty to cover derivatives in class without a lot of prep work. Using simple but realistic examples, Trombley explains options, forwards, futures, swaps, and other types of derivatives, and helps students understand applications of derivative financial instruments.

Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging, by Mark Trombley, is a short (250-page) supplement for Advanced Accounting and other upper level accounting courses.