This book offers a roadmap for developing, growing, and sustaining living-learning communities (LLCs) that promote student success and enhance the undergraduate experience.Drawing on the Best Practices Model presented in Living-Learning Communities That Work, as well as updated research and rich, real-life examples from LLC administrators, the authors offer a revised and improved model for effective LLC practice. Nuanced typologies guide stakeholders in developing and grow...

Co-published with In 2007, the American Association of Colleges and Universities named learning communities a high-impact practice because of the potential of these communities to provide coherence to and ultimately improve undergraduate education. Institutional leaders have demonstrated a commitment to providing LLCs, but they currently do so primarily with anecdotal information to guide their work. As a result, there is substantial variation in organizational structure, collaboration, ac...

The Spring 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2023 Issue, guest-edited by Alice Hoffman, features poetry and prose by Danusha Lameris, Jennifer Haigh, Victor...

Maybe I Should: Case Studies on Ethics for Student Affairs Professionals offers graduate students and new student affairs professionals the opportunity to hone their knowledge of and sensitivities to everyday professional ethics. The second edition includes all new cases addressing contemporary topics across multiple functional areas, including: admissions and orientation, advocacy and inclusion, career and academic support, residence life and housing, student involvement and student condu...

Die Tochter des örtlichen Uhrenmachers wird entführt. Über ein dubioses Zeitungsinserat offenbaren die Entführer ihre Forderungen: 20.000 Pfund innerhalb von 24 Stunden. Doch wer hat etwas gegen den bescheidenen Uhrenmacher und seine sympathische Tochter? Mimi Rutherfurt und Sergeant Cooper kommen einem dunklen Geheimnis auf die Spur - und schon bald treibt eine Leiche im Fluss.

Der Maskenball auf Norbury Park ist das gesellschaftliche Highlight im beschaulichen Örtchen Gutt's Hill. Auch Mimi Rutherfurt ist eingeladen und freut sich auf einen schönen Abend mit ihrem alten Freund William Headington. Die ausgelassene Feier nimmt allerdings ein jähes Ende, als die Leiche der Millionärswitwe Patricia Malone entdeckt wird. Am Tatort hat der Mörder eine Art Visitenkarte hinterlassen: einen goldenen Stielkamm. Und ehe sich Mimi versieht, steckt sie wieder bis über beide ...