Books

Partnering for Success: How to Build Strong Internal Collaborations in Higher Education

Written by Alicia B. Harvey-Smith, Ph.D, Partnering for Success offers step-by-step strategies for building strong collaborations among academic and nonacademic units, including how to generate buy-in for partnering efforts from everyone in the campus community. With details on several models and diagrams, you can develop your own framework for a healthy, sustainable collaboration, allowing your department to better:

Leverage resources
Increase efficiency
Yield concrete benefits
Forge successful partnerships
Boost clout on campus
And more!
Plus, this new pamphlet provides research-backed data including the author's 7th Learning College Principle, which gives you insight into how to ready your campus for internal partnerships — so you can ensure that collaborations will produce successful results.

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Collaboration Between Instruction and Student Services: A Necessary Connection  http://www.ijournal.us/issue_12/ij_12_03_articleframe_Harvey-Smith.html

An Examination of the Retention Literature and Application in Student Success  http://www.ccsse.org/publications/harvey-smith.pdf

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The Seventh Learning College Principle
A Framework for Transformational Change

Release date: Spring 2005
Pre-Sale $24.95

How can student affairs divisions and other organizations transform to become more learning-centered?

The learning college concept has been the most popular reform model for post-secondary-education since Terry O'Banion authored The Learning College for the 21st Century (AACC 1997).   The Seventh Learning College Principle is a unique resource for institutions wanting to acquire additional knowledge on the adoption of the learning college concept and on transforming into a more learner-centered organization.

This groundbreaking text is one of the first national efforts to examine the learning college concept, its six principles, and the change process as it applies to institutions and student affairs divisions.  Further, lead editor and author Harvey-Smith drew on her recent research at community colleges to add a seventh principle to the learning college concept as the foundation for all other principles.

The Seventh Learning College Principle is a valuable resource for all institutional types and sizes, especially community colleges.

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Getting Real Proven Strategies for Student Survival and Academic Success

"This handbook is full of practical advice and sensible observations that will prove useful to many students, counselors, and parents alike.  Having read the book once, the reader will not discard it but rather keep it as a handy reference to be used over and over again.   [Alicia] leaves the reader with the subtle, but ever present reminder that much of our destiny lies in our own hands!"

-- Dr. Rufus Sylvester Lynch -- President, Center for Studying Social Welfare and Community Development. current President of the PA Chapter, National Association of Social Workers.

"Alicia's book is informative, interesting, and easy to read.  [It] is infused with positive energy and is practical and straightforward in tone.  I spervise paraprofessionals at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and found her tips to be invaluable in helping them improve their study skills, get motivated, and battle test anxiety.  I definitely recommend this book to any college student or person who works with college students.  You will not be disappointed."

-- Kayj Nash, UMBC Resident Director

"What a wonderful gift for students.  It covers everything necessary to achieve academic success.  It is our job to get it into student's hands so that they can learn these worthwhile strategies.  The author is divinely inspired and has shared her wisdom and wealth of knowledge with us through this guide."

-- Johnny McCloud, College Administrator

"Alicia Harvey-Smith explodes many commonly held myths.  Her tip filled, educational guidebook teaches how to achieve Super-Success!  College athletes can benefit in a major way by applying these strategies."

-- Vince Mumford, Executive Board Member, National Alliance of Two-Year College Athletics Administrators

"Not boring, easy to read, understand and use. [Getting Real] is helpful and straightforward.  More students need to get and use materials like this.  They really work!"

-- Danita Williams, Community College Student

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The Seventh Learning College Principle, A framework for Transformational Change 
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