America is being held back by the quality and quantity of learning in college. Many graduates cannot think critically, write effectively, solve problems, understand complex issues, or meet employers' expectations. The only solution - making learning the highest priority in college - demands fundamental change throughout higher education.
The "sobbing" vocal quality in many traditional songs of northwestern California Indian tribes inspired the title of Richard Keeling's comprehensive study. Little has been known about the music of aboriginal Californians, and Cry for Luck will be welcomed by those who see the interpretation of music as a key to understanding other aspects of Native American religion and culture. Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok peoples, medicine songs and spoken formulas were applied to a range of activities from hunting deer to curing an upset stomach or gaining power over an uninterested member of the opposite sex. Keeling inventories 216 specific forms of "medicine" and explains the cosmological beliefs on which they were founded. This music is a living tradition, and many of the public dances he describes are still performed today. Keeling's comparative, historical perspective shows how individual elements in the musical tradition can relate to the development of local cultures and the broader sphere of North American prehistory. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
First Published in 1997. The present volume contains references and descriptive annotations for 1,497 sources on North American Indian and Eskimo music. As conceived here, the subject encompasses works on dance, ritual, and other aspects of religion or culture related to music, and selected "classic" recordings have also been included. The coverage is equally broad in other respects, including writings in several different languages and spanning a chronological period from 1535 to 1995. The book is intended as a reference tool for researchers, teachers, and college students. With their needs in mind, the sources are arranged in ten sections by culture area, and the introduction includes a general history of research. Finally, there are also indices by author, tribe, and subject.
This book promotes the shared ownership of assessment planning among faculty, student affairs educators, administrators, and students. As a project of the International Center for Student Success and Institutional Accountability (ICSSIA), Assessment Reconsidered focuses on the collaborative use of all campus resources in promoting student success. Written by an ensemble of educators with broad experience in assessment theory and practice in higher education, this illuminating work helps both student affairs professionals and faculty members address internal and public questions about the functioning of postsecondary institutions by reconsidering assessment policies, patterns, and practices in colleges and universities. While the book acknowledges and responds to greater expectations for institutional accountability, its focus is on building capacity to engage in evidence-based, reflective practice and supporting educators in doing their best work.
00 This book is a useful guide to songs and spoken narratives that were collected from Native American tribal groups all over the California region as part of an ethnological survey conducted by University of California researchers between 1900 and 1940. The collection is illuminated by a large body of published sources and manuscripts containing translations and other information on the cultural significance of the recordings. This volume provides a comprehensive inventory of the cylinder recordings and cites available documentation for each item. A summary of more recent recordings collected on disc, wire, or tape is also included. This book is a useful guide to songs and spoken narratives that were collected from Native American tribal groups all over the California region as part of an ethnological survey conducted by University of California researchers between 1900 and 1940. The collection is illuminated by a large body of published sources and manuscripts containing translations and other information on the cultural significance of the recordings. This volume provides a comprehensive inventory of the cylinder recordings and cites available documentation for each item. A summary of more recent recordings collected on disc, wire, or tape is also included.
This is a book of enhancements. In its chapters, the authors offer analysis, rationale, justification, and guidelines for focusing, evaluating, and improving HIV education and sexual health-promotion programs on college and university campuses. Our purposes are to demonstrate and model the value of thinking carefully, repeatedly, and deeply about audiences, needs, formats, content, and impact in health-promotion programs; to combine theoretical constructs and research data with practical implications; to raise some important questions for future study; and most of all, to prompt and support educators and clinicians to take the next significant steps in building health for campus communities. This is the 57th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Student Services.
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