Faculty Development Programs

Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their capacity to affect economic growth, regional integration, and international cooperation in Africa. It also assesses Africa's ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union's Agenda 2063. As the continent's most ambitious development initiative since independence, the African Union Development Agency (or AUDA, previously known as the New Partnership for Africa's Development or NEPAD) provides an excellent case study for examining how an African-based, continent-wide development institution emerged. Inspired by the ideas of Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance, NEPAD was created to bring Africa into the globalizing world, to close the gap between developing and developed countries, to enhance economic growth, and to eradicate poverty. Almost two decades after NEPAD's creation and given its transformation into A

This book provides a brief history of the notion of development and related policies. Readers will find an overview of the main development notions and debates from 1950 to the 2015 Sustainable

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development seeks to engage with comprehensive, contemporary, and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. The volume draws on contributions

Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT as an enabler for all spheres of development can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster

Advances in Accounting Education is a refereed, academic research publication whose purpose is to help meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve accounting classroom instruction

The aim of this volume is to share a collection of best practices currently employed by faculty and administrators to support and expand undergraduate research in chemistry at their colleges or univer

A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successesCrushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech cont

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American

Postcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of Postcolonialism and Development (2009) that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial a

Postcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of Postcolonialism and Development (2009) that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial a

This book provides valuable insights into the millennial generation and how college students, faculty, and staff can effectively communicate and understand one another.

As the modern university is increasingly run like a business, students and faculty are losing the time and space to wonder and think under the hypercompetitive demands to produce. The goals of critica

Working With the Human Trafficking Survivor fills a void in existing literature by providing students, faculty and professionals in applied, helping disciplines, with a comprehensive text about human

Working With the Human Trafficking Survivor fills a void in existing literature by providing students, faculty and professionals in applied, helping disciplines, with a comprehensive text about human

This book focuses on the lived experiences of underserved student and faculty populations at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and the implications these experiences have for higher

This important book answers the growing call for US institutions to internationalize, create global citizens, and better serve diverse populations. Faculty are increasingly tasked with simultaneously

Traditional understandings of economic development in low and middle-income countries have largely been influenced by Official Development Assistance (ODA). Under this measurement compliance with macr

Laurie Kocher is a Faculty member in the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, Capilano University, Canada.Catherine Patterson is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Early Childhood, Depar

Laurie Kocher is a Faculty member in the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, Capilano University, Canada.Catherine Patterson is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Early Childhood, Depar

This important book answers the growing call for US institutions to internationalize, create global citizens, and better serve diverse populations. Faculty are increasingly tasked with simultaneously

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development. This integration cements understand

Nurse preceptors have the power and opportunity to inspire nurses to achieve greatness. Effective precepting programs depend on two critical groups: nurses who organize and manage the programs and nur

Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update is being released to ensure consistency in reporting on key human development indices and statistics.

The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development. Addressing important questions such as:What does devel

This book consists of full research papers submitted by scientists/faculty/research scholars who attended the conference on "Earth and Environment: Pollution and Prevention" held at Amity Univers

The goal of this book is to demystify Computer Algebra Systems for a wide audience including students, faculty, and professionals in scientific fields such as computer science, mathematics, engineerin

This book invites faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs), and international institutions using western curricula, to consider the opportunities and challenges of implementing America

Development of Volcanic Gas Reservoirs: The Theory, Key Technologies and Practice of Hydrocarbon Development introduces the geological and dynamic characteristics of development in volcanic gas reserv

To provide users with the only comprehensive guide containing contact information, information about the programs, staffing, publications and activities of 9,258 research centers, laboratories, instit

The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development. The book addresses important questions such as:What do

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

In 2017, Bret Eynon and Laura M. Gambino released High-Impact ePortfolio Practice, whichdrew broad acclaim from faculty and educational leaders. “An instant classic,” wrote one reviewer. “The book I’v

This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations of development initiatives and transnational organizing on behalf of alternative approaches. Themes include the relationship between empire and development, the role of international institutions, the influence of the Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial development strategies, reform and resistance to development, development and global health, and the ecological effects of development. The Development Century examines how ideas and discourses about development have shaped its practices on the ground; explores the ways in which policymakers and experts attempted to implement development through specific institutions and policies; and analyzes development initiatives and their effect of

The high tuition cost at universities is hurting students and only benefiting the tenured faculty and professors.

The high tuition cost at universities is hurting students and only benefiting the tenured faculty and professors.

In 2017, Bret Eynon and Laura M. Gambino released High-Impact ePortfolio Practice, whichdrew broad acclaim from faculty and educational leaders. “An instant classic,” wrote one reviewer. “The book I’v

This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations of development initiatives and transnational organizing on behalf of alternative approaches. Themes include the relationship between empire and development, the role of international institutions, the influence of the Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial development strategies, reform and resistance to development, development and global health, and the ecological effects of development. The Development Century examines how ideas and discourses about development have shaped its practices on the ground; explores the ways in which policymakers and experts attempted to implement development through specific institutions and policies; and analyzes development initiatives and their effect of

Elaine Biech, a legendary leader in training and development, has partnered with the Association for Talent Development to present ATD's Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and L

The Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation is required to perform a broad set of cost analysis duties related to major defense acquisition programs but does not always have the resources to