Alice W. Brown's Books

Staying the Course

How Unflinching Dedication and Persistance Have Built a Successful Private College in a Regioin of Isolation and Poverty

By: Alice W. Brown

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Staying the Course

How Unflinching Dedication and Persistance Have Built a Successful Private College in a Regioin of Isolation and Poverty

By: Alice W. Brown

Staying the Course is about a college that many describe as being the way colleges used to be: beautiful, well-maintained buildings and grounds; caring, capable faculty; administrators who manage frugally and compassionately; a bright, energetic president willing to dedicate his life to assuring a solid future for the institution; and students who study hard and work hard to serve those in need. Still the college struggles to maintain what it has built and to increase its endowment, small by comparison to many private institutions, at the same time it continues to hold tuition low and provide funding to students who, even with Pell grants, need extra help to go to and stay in college. How the college is managing to build a sustainable financial base is described in chapters focusing on the kinds of students who attend, the faculty who teach, the administrators who oversee the multiple programs that support the students as well as design new courses and new ways of teaching, the trustees who guide the college, and the president who has stayed long enough to see many of his dreams for the college realized, to shape new dreams and to raise the funding that makes those dreams realities. The college still struggles in many ways but its struggles are far less than they would be without the lessons the institution has learned and is offering to other small, private colleges facing similar difficult circumstances. With the many stories about the sad state of higher education today, this book contradicts those stories with its description of how merging the values of the past with the information and strategies available today can enable a small college in a region of poverty and with a population of students with limited financial resources to rise above those threats and limitations to become a model for the future of such institutions.

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149182106X

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Cautionary Tales

Strategy Lessons From Struggling Colleges

By: Alice W. Brown

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Cautionary Tales

Strategy Lessons From Struggling Colleges

By: Alice W. Brown

Scarcely a week goes by without a headline about the unsustainability of higher education as we know it, under threat from new models, for-profits, or online education. Most threatened are small liberal arts colleges – with commentators predicting the demise of colleges with fewer than 1,000, or even 1,500 students. Are these trends inevitable, or can they be overcome?Through a unique case study approach to examining and analyzing colleges that have struggled, Alice Brown reveals the steps that can lead to a sustainable operation and, when closure is inevitable, the steps to do so with orderliness and dignity. Rather than expounding on trends, or management theory and prescriptions, Brown focuses on narrative examples of survival and closure, recounted by real people in actual colleges, and reports the lessons they learned. Here are examples of strategies involving mergers, partnerships, or “going it alone”, and their outcomes, that illustrate principles that can serve as guides for fragile colleges struggling to address their social and economic challenges.Added to Brown’s six carefully researched and extended case studies, her own insights and analyses of decisions made and actions taken, this book offers guidance by seasoned scholars and administrators on issues as varied as leadership, the roles of the president, governing boards, faculty and staff, in articulating and implementing mission and strategies for survival, and on the changing landscape of higher education. The references to the literature on college survival strategies constitute an education in themselves.While this book is of immediate practical value for trustees and leaders of small colleges as they look toward and plan for the future and for anyone aspiring to an administrative positions in higher education, the examples constitute a microcosm of the interplay between the external constituencies, governance structures and internal forces that sustain or undermine institutional health, and which are hard to observe clearly in larger, more decentralized environments.

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162

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Taylor & Francis

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100097877X

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9781000978773

Status Update

Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

By: Alice E. Marwick

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Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

By: Alice E. Marwick

Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the means of invading privacy in search of profits.

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369

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Yale University Press

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0300176724

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9780300176728

First Kill All the Lawyers

By: Alice Storey,Sarah Shankman

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First Kill All the Lawyers

By: Alice Storey,Sarah Shankman

When successful journalist Samantha Adams comes home to Atlanta, life isn't all mint juleps and shady verandahs. Instead, there is a corrupt sheriff practicing a nasty kind of politics. Soon Samantha begins investigating a scandal of corruption, dirty money and adultery that could cost her her life.

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228

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0671645293

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9780671645298

The History of Wisconsin, Volume I

From Exploration to Statehood

By: Alice E. Smith

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume I

From Exploration to Statehood

By: Alice E. Smith

Published in 1973, this first volume in the History of Wisconsin series remains the definitive work on Wisconsin's beginnings, from the arrival of the French explorer Jean Nicolet in 1634, to the attainment of statehood in 1848. This volume explores how Wisconsin's Native American inhabitants, early trappers, traders, explorers, and many immigrant groups paved the way for the territory to become a more permanent society. Including nearly two dozen maps as well as illustrations of territorial Wisconsin and portraits of early residents, this volume provides an in-depth history of the beginnings of the state.

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Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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0870201220

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9780870201226

The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alice Clark

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The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alice Clark

Working life of Women in the Seventeenth Century, originally published in 1919, was the first comprehensive analysis of the daily lives of ordinary women in early modern England. It remains the most wide ranging introduction to the subject. Clark uses a variety of documentary sources to illuminate the experience of women in the past. Gentlewomen left memoirs, letters, and household accounts detailing administration of their family estates; craftsmen's wives and widows figure in the apprenticeship and licensing records of guilds and towns; the wives of yeomen, husbandmen and labourers are glimpsed in court evidence, petitions and the registers of parish poor relief. Alice Clark's evidence dates from the later sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, and her analysis addresses a broad transition, from a medieval subsistence economy to the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Clark's conclusions about the effects of industrial capitalism on women's working conditions and contribution to the economy were controversial in her own time and remain so today. Her vivid portrayal of the everyday lives of working women - and all women who worked - in seventeenth-century England remains unsurpassed. This book was first published in 1919.

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400

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McGraw Hill Professional

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041538253X

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9780415382533

Book's by Alice W. Brown

Staying the Course

Staying the Course

Cautionary Tales

Cautionary Tales

Status Update

Status Update

First Kill All the Lawyers

First Kill All the Lawyers

The History of Wisconsin, Volume I

The History of Wisconsin, Volume I

The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

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