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You don't need a classroom anymore. All you need are these strategies to master self-learning in the digital age. Based on modern research, self-learning is your ticket to continuous growth and a successful future. This book is full of instructional tips on how to make the most of digital learning. You can find courses on anything from coding to design, and the best part? Many of them are free!

The Complete Guide to College Transfer is a practical how-to for current and former college students who are considering transferring to a different college. Even though over a million students embark on the journey of transferring colleges every year, and over 40 million Americans have some college credits but no degree, few resources exist to guide them through the complex process of transferring institutions.

Power up your prep with the GMAT Official Guide, the only study guide that features real exam questions. You'll get exclusive tips and tricks directly from the exam creators and gain access to more than 975 practice questions to set you up for success on test day.

Whether you are already a student in America or you are planning to make the journey to the Land of Opportunity, this book is your big-picture guide to navigating the complexities of immigration law. Learn how to prepare information for the necessary forms from an expert immigration attorney so you experience a stress-free education in the USA.

This audiobook will help new administrators (department chairs, directors, deans) understand and become more proficient in their financial management role within the institution. Highly accessible, practitioners will be able to put the book's guidance to immediate use in their work. It is also grounded in the latest knowledge base and filled with examples from across all types of institutions, so that it makes an ideal text for a courses in graduate programs in higher education leadership and administration.

A book written specifically for company founders and executives… and everyone else with so little time that they will never listen to it. Through sharp insights, real-world case studies, and a healthy dose of irreverent humor, this book shows why success today isn't about following someone else's playbook—it's about writing your own. And then, when the world changes again (because it will), rewriting it. The Unwritten Playbook is definitely NOT a five-step formula for greatness. Even though it is packed with timeless truths, it is surely already obsolete.

You enrolled in Medicare Parts A & B… now what? For millions of Americans, that’s where the confusion really begins. Medicare 2 picks up where the first step ends—guiding you through the next decisions that follow initial enrollment. Should you stay on Original Medicare or switch to Advantage? Does Medigap give you more freedom—or more cost? Should you keep employer coverage or drop it? Are you a veteran with VA, TRICARE, or CHAMPVA and unsure what to do next? What happens if you choose wrong—will you be stuck?

This book provides a detailed look at citizen boards, how one might serve on one, how the citizen board might be managed and how to handle problems that arise.

Reform and revitalization in higher education are essential elements for the Ummah’s awakening and for the realization of its civilizational aspirations and the success of its global mission. This paper calls for reforming our approach to education particularly through the Islamization of Knowledge so that both divine and human sources are integrated into a powerful whole with Revealed knowledge providing a comprehensive, spiritual and moral guidance in the sphere of human action, universal laws, and scientific and technological knowledge as tools for that action.

Unlock your full potential and conquer the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) with this comprehensive audiobook study guide by the Davidson’s. Designed for busy students and professionals who need a flexible, engaging, and effective way to prepare. Whether you’re commuting, exercising, or tackling daily chores, this on-the-go study solution allows you to absorb critical concepts effortlessly, turning passive moments into powerful learning experiences.

¿Estás a punto de empezar a estudiar y ya sientes una buena dosis de agobio a la vez que anticipación al pensar en ello? ¿Acabas de empezar y necesitas una guía sobre cómo equilibrar tus estudios y tu tiempo libre lo mejor posible? ¿Llevas mucho tiempo deseando empezar de nuevo porque el ciclo recurrente de motivación, procrastinación y aprendizaje estresante te está agotando? ¿Ya no sabes cuál es tu verdadero problema y cómo puedes abordarlo? No desesperes todavía, porque los conocimientos que se te imparten en este libro pueden dar un vuelco a todos tus estudios.

In Developing Scholars, Domingo Morel explores the history and political factors that led to the creation of college access programs for students of color in the 1960s. Through a case study of an existing community-centered affirmative action program, Talent Development, Morel shows how protest, including violent protest, has been instrumental in the maintenance of college access programs.

If you want to learn about the signs, symptoms, and effects of sexual addiction, then you need to listen to this book. This book will not only teach you how to distinguish a healthy sex drive from addiction, but also help you gain the confidence to talk about sex without feeling guilt or shame.

In Hope and Healing, former Morehouse College president John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. looks to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to examine what it takes not only to survive as a relevant institution of higher education, but to thrive. Wilson draws on pivotal moments in the timelines of HBCUs and the work of past visionaries to yield important perspectives on the future of higher education and the role of HBCUs within it.

As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich.

Some of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school—like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article—won't be covered in any class. They are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to know or somehow learn on your own—or else.

After devoting half of his lifetime transforming his start-up business into a multi-million dollar industry leader, author John McLaughlin set out in a new direction: to teach what he had learned to others. Due to a lack of teaching experience, his only job offer was to teach entrepreneurship to prisoners at a minimum-security camp in North Carolina. John gradually builds an effective program until a scandal involving prison officials blindsides his progress and threatens to bring his teaching career to an unceremonious end.

This qualitative research study is the culmination of three years of research centered around the question, “What are the struggles of Black Male Educational leaders on their journey to becoming an Educational Leader?” The purpose of this research is to understand the journey for Black males, the environment of education, and how both have intertwined for generations.

This question-and-answer ambulatory care nursing certification resource reinforces and highlights information you need to know in order to be successful on the examination.

Your Ivy competitive edge. The most effective college application strategies ever published. Transform your college applications into Bam! Pow! Wow!—without high-priced consultants, tutors, or prep courses. Using actual common application personal essays, activities and honors sections, supplemental essays, and letters of continued interest from accepted applications to University of Virginia, Duke, and Princeton, Coach Mom Top College Admission Playbook shows you how to stand tall above thousands in one quick listen.