Making It At Uni

This book is written for students who are thinking about going to university and for those who have just begun their journey at university. You may be deciding whether university is for you or you might be nervous about taking the first few steps into higher education. We wrote this book to help you navigate your way through the challenges of the first year of your degree. It will give you an insight into the realities of studying as a student, share tips and advice, and entertain you by sharing the stories of other students. It aims to be a relationship counsellor, academic skills tutor, motivator, and agony aunt - a hand to hold, a shoulder to cry on - and it promises to make you laugh through any university-related tears.

A comprehensive history of one of the nation's most prominent universities

Are you thinking of going to university? Or have you just started your degree? Are you wondering what university is really like? Then this book is for you. Starting your degree is possibly one of the most exciting periods of your life. However, the glossy prospectuses and flashy university websites only give you a partial picture of what you can expect when you actually arrive at uni. Yes, you might meet lots of attractive people, party for three years, or break new scientific ground, but who gives you the lowdown on how to make friends if you are shy, what lecturers are really like, or how you can avoid annoying your new flatmates (tip: always do your washing up)? Making it at Uni helps you to navigate your way through the challenges of the first year of your degree. It will give you an insight into the realities of studying as a student, share tips and advice about many aspects of university life, and entertain you by sharing the stories of other students.

In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. The Making of Princeton University tells, for the first time, the story of how the University adapted and updated Wilson's vision to transform itself into the prestigious institution it is today. James Axtell brings the methods and insights from his extensive work in ethnohistory to the collegiate realm, focusing especially on one of Princeton's most distinguished features: its unrivaled reputation for undergraduate education. Addressing admissions, the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and the changing landscape of student culture, the book devotes four full chapters to undergraduate life inside and outside the classroom. The book is a lively warts-and-all rendering of Princeton's rise, addressing such themes as discriminatory admission policies, the academic underperformance of many varsity athletes, and the controversial "bicker" system through which students have been selected for the University's private eating clubs. Written in a delightful and elegant style, The Making of Princeton University offers a detailed picture of how the University has dealt with these issues to secure a distinguished position in both higher education and American society. For anyone interested in or associated with Princeton, past or present, this is a book to savor.

Based on extensive research at eight universities - Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and California at Berkeley - Reuben examines the aims of university reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth. She argues that these educators tried to apply new scientific standards to moral education, but that their modernization efforts ultimately failed.

This book documents strategies for universities engaging sustainability challenges through the education of global citizens on topics such as climate change, habitat alteration, species loss, resource depletion and contamination, food access and sovereignty, economic equity, and energy use. Different disciplines and operational units often have disparate ideas in mind when they work toward advancing sustainability. For example, some disciplines focus on environmental challenges (identifying impacts to ecosystems, mitigation and remediation strategies), some on greening of industrial and commercial practices while others address social equity—often there is little effort to connect these pieces especially while considering economic impacts. This book examines how Florida Gulf Coast University has attempted to infuse sustainability across curricula and operations as an integrated concept and our successes and shortcomings are instructional for sustainability practitioners on college campuses and other industries in a wide audience.

Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting. The university stands at the intersection of two sets of interests, needing to be at one with the world while aspiring to stand apart from it. In an era that promises intensified political instability, growing administrative pressures, dwindling economic returns and questions about economic viability, lower enrolments and shrinking programs, can the university continue to matter into the future? And if so, in which way? What will help it survive as an honest broker? What are the mechanisms for ensuring its independent voice? Barbie Zelizer brings together some of the leading names in the field of media and communication studies from around the globe to consider a multiplicity of answers from across the curriculum on making the university matter, including critical scholarship, interdisciplinarity, curricular blends of the humanities and social sciences, practical training and policy work. The collection is introduced with an essay by the editor and each section has a brief introduction to contextualise the essays and highlight the issues they raise.

This history of the University of Rochester at Rochester, New York, has been prepared by Jesse Leonard Rosenberger primarily for those who are in one way or another interested in the university and who wish to know somewhat in detail concerning its peculiar origin; the sound, liberal principles on which it was founded and has been conducted and its development physically and educationally through the first seventy-seven years of its existence. Other persons for whom the volume may have a value are historians and students of higher educational history in America. The index will make the contents readily available for reference purposes.