Thriving in the Community College & Beyond covers the full range of topics and issues that impact student success. Content is delivered through multiple formats and learning modalities, including snapshot summary boxes, concept maps, content-relevant cartoons, inspiring quotes from successful students and famous people, and poignant personal stories from the authors.

The book is:

1. Substantive

• Research-based material builds on scholarship from different academic disciplines and student development theories.
• Models…

Responsible Citizenship:  Restoring Civic Community Action addresses the issues surrounding civic education and political involvement in the United States.  The text provides a guide for looking at how we can learn political knowledge, increase political tolerance, and work on political participation.

Responsible Citizenship:  Restoring Civic Community Action:

• Uses historical and current examples to show how political knowledge has changed and what can be done to increase practical knowledge of politics.…

The arts are personal and collective and reflect our culture and society. Arts in the School and Community: Visual Art, Music, Dance, and Drama will stimulate growth in the reader’s understanding of the arts and the value they have for their community.

Arts in the School and Community: Visual Art, Music, Dance, and Drama is an interactive textbook with learning experiences in four of the art disciplines: dance, drama, music, and the visual arts. It is designed to facilitate undergraduate students meeting the learning objectives of…

Set to be released in a new fourth edition through Kendall Hunt Publishing, Robert Sherfield and Patricia Moody’s Cornerstones for Community and Technical College Success addresses the needs and challenges students in two-year programs will encounter during their studies. Suitable for first year success, introduction to college, and other orientation courses, Cornerstones for Community and Technical College Success provides students with practical strategies that can be applied to all college courses, their professional careers, and life overall. In addition it…

Community Relations: Concepts, Challenges, and Implementation examine the complex intricacies in relationships between law enforcement and the community. In the 21st century policing approach, the relationships built between law enforcement and the community are vital to public safety. 

This book examines the concepts of community relations and what it means from a community and a law enforcement perspective. The better we all understand the concept of community relations, it will provide a roadmap on how to build stronger bonds between law enforcement…

The reality of our times is instant global connectivity in all areas of human endeavor. We are truly a global village within which humanity, in all its diversities, lives much closer together and share much more in common than ever before.  The quantum advances in technology has revolutionized all aspects of life and created a ‘next-door neighbor’ quality characterizing different cultures.

Never was this made more true than in the winter of 2020 when the virus struck!  Officially named SARS-COV-2, the coronavirus spread around the world and literally shut down every nation…

In an era defined by complexity, uncertainty, and change, The Commitment-Based Leader offers a transformative framework for educational leadership centered on fostering community and culture in schools. This book explores six foundational commitments essential for navigating the challenges of today’s educational landscape. Through a focus on cultivating core commitments, this book challenges leaders to rethink traditional approaches to school culture, emphasizing meaningful relationships, ethical leadership, and creating lasting change within their educational…

This guide offers filmmakers, journalists, digital storytellers, and educators practical and proven strategies for non-extractive, community-engaged video production.

Drawing from years of community partnerships and experiential learning projects, Best Practices for Non-Extractive and Non-Intrusive Community-Engaged Video Production equips filmmakers, journalists, digital storytellers, and educators to create non-extractive meaningful, and lasting collaborations. The book emphasizes approaches that prioritize transparency, reciprocity, and community ownership of narratives. Unlike…

Visual supports are a best practice and well used strategy for all individuals but especially in the field of Intellectual and Developmental Disability. Knowing what supports to use and when to use them is critical to success and skill development. 

Effective Visual and Communication Supports: Creating for Classroom and Community gives readers the background on the most popular visuals supports, clarify what they are comprised of and why we use each support. This text provides the foundation of visual supports and an introduction and examples from…

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth becomes useless, and reason is powerless.
- Herphilus, 300 B.C

Essentials in Community and Public Health, First Edition is an introduction to community and public health. The text provides students with an accessible, easy to read overview of the most important concepts of community and public health and the roles they play in our nation’s health care system. Part I (Chapters 1-6) focuses on community…

Since beginning almost 50 years ago in Green Haven Prison, New York, the alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) has spread to over 80 countries throughout the world. AVP’s workshops on community building, communication, and transforming conflict, have been offered in prisons, schools, regions that have experienced extreme conflict, refugee camps, and the general community. Through its dynamic approach to experiential learning that appeals to both adult learners and young people, AVP has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

In …

As healthcare organizations transition from provider-centric care to patient-centric care to support patient care journey, they needed to develop community strategies to support population health by collaborating with patients and multiple clinical and nonclinical partners. The interconnected ecosystem of patients, providers, and partners becomes complex, especially when environmental factors influencing the patient care journey, besides their patient health challenges, must be factored in to address the evolving goals of providers and patients using technologies.…

Thriving in the Community and Technical College covers the full range of topics and issues that impact student success. Content is delivered through multiple formats and learning modalities, including snapshot summary boxes, concept maps, content-relevant cartoons, inspiring quotes from successful students and famous people, and poignant personal stories from the authors.

The book is: 

1. Substantive

• Research-based material builds upon scholarship from different academic disciplines and student development theories.…

We invite you to partake on an exciting learning journey related to public health theory, practice, policy making and research in Canada and abroad that ranges from Alzheimer’s disease trends to the Zika virus pandemic (A-Z).  You will discover on your learning adventure that public health care professionals and workers provide essential health care services for the prevention, promotion and restoration of health for diverse populations across the lifespan; which include public health nurses, physicians, epidemiologists, health promoters and infection control specialists to name but a…

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A Historical Community Overview is rooted in the tenets and methodologies of Ethnic Studies and its commitment to community-based research and activism. It is a great introductory resource for Asian American Studies (AAS) and provides an overview of the history of Asian Americans in the U.S. as well as a history of empire to consider the experiences of Pacific Islanders. Exploring ethnic groups often marginalized within Asian American Studies, this textbook provides insight into Samoan, Fijian, and Hmong communities for…

Dollar Enterprise, an award winning program using $1 seed money per person, was the first and the most comprehensive entrepreneurship curriculum in the U.S. that integrates experiential learning and service-learning concepts into 3-month learning environment. This book describes step-by-step guidance for educators, program leaders, or other service providers to stimulate entrepreneurial learning for aspiring and nascent entrepreneurs across cultural, ethnicity, and learning ability. It develops three aspects of entrepreneurship that are often omitted in…

COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH, Second Edition, introduces readers to the fields of community health and public health. Chapters explore historical perspectives, foundational concepts, and significant advances that changed the course these two fields. Videos, examples, and interactions bring the material to life, and students will come away with a comprehensive picture of the fields’ priorities and challenges.
 

Personal + Community Health by Dr. Joni Boyd and Dr. Shelley Hamill is a complete guide to health for college students. It concentrates on all areas of wellness and focuses equally on physical, mental, emotional, and relational health. Personal + Community Health also includes numerous opportunities for self-assessment and details of how to build healthy habits and maintain them with intentionality. With examples tailored specifically to the college experience, students will discover helpful, applicable information again and again.

Community Health covers the topics of community health and public health; community health, which refers to the overall health status of a community, is related to a society’s ability to achieve its goals.

Mental Health and Community Concepts 2e examines nursing care for individuals with specific mental health and substance-use disorders, while also introducing the nurse’s role in community health assessments and caring for vulnerable populations. With an emphasis on holistic, client-centered care, this resource equips nursing students with the knowledge and skills to address…

Become the Higher Learner: Your Guide to Success at Salt Lake Community College was written for college success, or first year experience (FYE), courses with college-level learning outcome objectives. This text was conceived and developed by a practicing educator credentialed in higher education and with decades of experience both teaching and writing for publication.

Learners are given an orientation to the college and to college culture, followed by theoretical foundations of higher education and strategies for success. The text emphasizes the…

CURATE addresses strategies for implementing church processes and programs for broad church and community participation, reaching across current and extending to future generations of the church. 

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Health campaign pedagogy can serve students and their communities as communication practice and advocacy. This chapter highlights the case of the Motorcycle Safety at Purdue (MS@P) campaign to build on and extend communication pedagogy as communication praxis (Mattson, Haas, & Kosmoski, 2013; Barge & Shockley-Zalabak, 2008; Morreale & Pearson, 2008; Query, Wright, Bylund, & Mattson, 2007) by forwarding a health campaign pedagogy model for engaging students in community advocacy. Although the model is based on the social marketing framework…

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Risk communication is as old as human society. It, along with its partner, risk management, is qualitatively fundamental to the human condition. By that reasoning, society can be defined as the collective management of risk. Societies, communities, small groups, and even individuals that manage and communicate best about risks seem to be safer, healthier, and have a better quality of life. The successful ones are more efficacious, and more effective in assessing and responding to risks, than those who are less adept.

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We are in intercultural relationships with each other. These relationships are essential to and formative of our identities, which emerge at the complex intersections of cultural, national, ideological, linguistic, and historical politics. We celebrate the complexity with which our relationships develop and from which we attempt to meaningfully theorize intercultural relational dialogue.

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The notion of post-conflict peacebuilding has grown increasingly contentious and problematic in recent years. Various scholars have raised concerns about the appropriate levels (global, national, regional, or local) at which post-conflict resolution and reconstruction plans should be conceived and determined (Betts 2005; Donais 2009; Nhema & Zeleza 2008). This chapter contributes to this debate by discussing the limitations of dominant peacebuilding discourses and agendas and calling attention to community driven approaches. It contends that community…

The relationship between the community and the criminal justice system is an essential foundation for the protection of the community and the rights of each individual. This relationship has been challenging through history and remains so. The intricacies of the criminal justice system and community relationship are explored in this textbook. The significance of the historical treatment of marginalized groups is a foundation for understanding the challenges and tensions that remain. The perspectives of various community groups and criminal justice professionals are shared within the text…

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Childbirth is a life-altering experience that often, and fundamentally, changes the way women navigate their social worlds. New moms may find their new role to be challenging and may experience further difficulty in relating to family and friends the same way they did pre-childbirth (Glade, Bean, & Vira, 2005). Many women also experience postpartum depression (PPD) in the days and weeks following the birth of their child (Pearlstein, Howard, Salisbury, & Ziotnick, 2014). Although not all women experience PPD, many postpartum women report feeling…

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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (also referred as adult-onset or non-insulin-dependent; hereafter, T2DM) is a serious population health concern among increasingly urbanized First Nations and Métis Canadians (Public Health Agency of Canada [PHAC], 2005), whereas the incidence of T2DM among Canadians in general is much lower than the Aboriginal peoples in Canada (PHAC, 2011). Furthermore, the onset of T2DM in this population occurs at a younger age than in most other populations. The combination of early disease onset, increased urbanization of this population, and…

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Our understanding of health-related online communities can be aided by the use of theories that have been developed by scholars who study social media, computer-mediated communication, online relationships, and the like. Social Information Processing Theory has emerged as an important theory for understanding the new media environment, including the study of online support communities. Specifically, Social Information Processing Theory has been helpful in terms of shedding light on online communication processes and our perceptions of others who we…

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Developing a serious or chronic health condition can be a life-changing event (Bury, 1982). Along with physical and psychological symptoms, illness often creates a range of challenges involving one’s relationships, occupation, finances, and several other domains. Sharing one’s experiences with others can be a helpful coping mechanism. Although family and friends tend to be a valuable audience for such self-disclosures (Cutrona, 1996), communication technologies have created novel opportunities for making connections and talking about one’s health-related experiences (Rains,…

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As individuals become more immersed in online discourse, the rhetorical ways in which face-to-face humor emerges as an important part of the written lexicon remain an important facet of effective communication. Social media, listservs, blogs, email, and collaborative virtual environments all require sophisticated forms of communication; the rhetoric of humor and laughter is no small part of this written discourse (Hubler & Bell, 2003). Interestingly, in electronic spaces, linguistic forms of humor, joking, and laughter disconnect from verbal and…

Leadership Cases in Community Non-Profit Organizations is the result of six years of data collection. Included are six case studies used to help students understand the more academic information presented in textbooks and articles.

Leadership Cases in Community Non-Profit Organizations features the opportunity for students to:
 

• apply the academic information they have learned
• analyze and critique the decisions made
• offer alternatives that might have been considered
• think…

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In the practice of medicine, effective communication can be the difference between life and death. Nonetheless, practitioners and patients often face cultural and social barriers that challenge successful communication. Health care professionals who are typically trained to conduct rapid assessments and order treatments for patients within a matter of minutes may struggle to understand the practices of a cultural group who communicates primarily via storytelling or narrative. However, research shows that an awareness of culturally competent communication…

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In recent years, a number of communication scholars have found that online support communities can enhance, or extend, individuals’ social support networks by providing greater access to the increased social capital available in a larger, easier to maintain, network of individuals who are often geographically separated (Rains & Keating, 2011;Walther & Boyd, 2002; Wright & Bell, 2003; Wright & Miller, 2010). More and more individuals with health concerns have begun to seek social support online, with an estimated 7.5 million adults using…

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This workbook is designed to accompany a co-requisite mathematics course in statistical principles and basic probability theory. As a companion resource, it offers students a solid foundation and understanding of mathematical concepts for success in a college-level, first-year statistics course.

The exercises in this workbook will build mathematical competency in applying number sense, operating with real numbers, solving linear equations and inequalities, evaluating algebraic expressions, analyzing graphs, and…

Among developed nations, the United States ranks near the bottom on most standard measures of health status!

In order to understand and solve this health enigma, we need to start by examining personal health practices of Americans.The single greatest opportunity to improve health and reduce premature deaths lies in personal behavior. Health Promotion & Disease Prevention defines mental, social, physical & spiritual health and wellness and presents solutions for optimizing personal health.  In addition, it explores population…

Dancing in Today’s World: Effects of Socialization on the Child, Family, and Community leads readers on a journey that examines the effects of socialization.  Each chapter is filled with opportunities to write reflective thoughts to better understand the material and apply it to the reader’s own life and profession.

In addition, it encourages readers to look at their world from a variety of vantage points. The use of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model permeates this text. Readers will have the opportunity to look at the myriad influences on a…

This book is designed to help students make a smooth transition to college and equip them with strategies for success that can be used throughout the college experience and in life beyond college. Its goal is to promote academic excellence and personal development among all students—whether they be students (a) transitioning to college directly from high school or from full-time employment, (b) living on or off campus, or (c) attending college on a full-time or part-time basis. One of the book’s major goals is to help readers put into practice one of the most powerful principles…

In the new 4th edition of Citizenship in the Local Community readers will gain insight on the difference between the rights and obligations of local governments versus the national and state level. With this understanding, readers will be able to see what their own personal role is, as a citizen of a community. This innovative textbook offers a more comprehensive and encompassing look at the subject of local citizenship that will assist the readers to reach their full civic potential.

Citizenship in the Local Community includes:…

If you have ever attended a wedding, sporting event, graduation, birthday party etc., you have undoubtedly seen a professional photographer taking multiple pictures while quickly changing the lens on their camera from shot to shot. Some lenses permit a wide angle in which the photographer is able to capture an expansive view to include a large area in the photo. The wide angle is important as it shows the whole picture. This view frames the background for viewers to understand the where, how, and when of the photo.

Other lenses give the photographer the ability to zoom in and focus…

Bringing experiential and environmental education together for group development, ecological literacy and sense of place.

The Ropes of Ecology: Connecting People to Nature, Community, and Place features:

• Sense of Place activities.
• Full instructions and variations of activities that teach Ecological Literacy.
• Suggestions for using this model for students and staff development.
• Directions for making each activity.
• Environmental and Sense of Place resource guide.
•  Ropes course and…

Writing is a strength - or weakness - for students in all their classes. Becoming a successful writer gives students an advantage. The West Guide to Writing: Success from Community College to University gives the reader the keys to succeed!

Written by three full-time English professors with a combined thirty years of teaching at both the community college and university levels, The West Guide to Writing is an affordable, compact, comprehensive, timely, and accurate textbook.

 The West Guide…

Community Engagement and High Impact Practices in Higher Education provides students with valuable skills and experiences that contribute to their academic and professional success; these experiences are heightened when paired with  meaningful community engagement. 

This book is a compilation of elaborate examples of community engagement by faculty, students, community members and professionals that have integrated various methods in their courses to achieve higher levels of impact. In each scenario, faculty, students and community partners…

This lab manual is designed for first semester biology students that are studying cellular processes. The labs were designed to help introduce students to many of the major ideas while also giving them practice with both the scientific method and laboratory tools. With these labs we have attempted to give students enough guidance that they can maneuver through the labs without too much frustration but still have to do some designing of experiments so that the labs aren’t all “cookie cutter”. We also tried to add in some review exercises within the lab to “test” the student’s ability to go…

How do we learn about criminal justice? From what sources do we get this information? How do we filter the massive amount of information available to us on a given subject—especially one as controversial as criminal justice?

Introduction to Criminal Justice Customized recognizes controversies faced by the criminal justice system. “Real world” examples are offered throughout the text, in each case highlighting difficult choices faced by our society, the justice system, and those attempting to develop a clear and unbiased policy. Ideally, these examples will…

Occupational & Community Noise: A Guide for Environmental Health & Safety Students is the first of its kind to address noise in a way that meets the educational needs of today’s Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) students. Most noise textbooks that are available have been written by engineers for engineers. And while engineering is certainly important in the evaluation and control of hazardous noise, there’s one big problem: most of the students training to become EH&S professionals in the United States do not have an engineering background!…

Thriving in the Community College & Beyond delivers content through modalities that are both visual and emotional. Snapshot summary boxes, concept maps, humorous illustrations, authors’ experiences, content-relevant quotes from successful people in multiple fields, and first-hand perspectives of current college students appear throughout.

Thriving in the Community College & Beyond provides a research-driven curriculum for improving the retention and success of students enrolled in community and technical colleges. It…

Chemistry 110 Lab Manual is designed for a beginning chemistry course. All major topics that are found in an introductory chemistry course are covered with labs that are both interesting and work. Each lab has an Important Facts to Know, Procedure, Report Sheet, and Question sections. An Introduction to the Chemistry Lab is included and emphasizes how to use typical laboratory equipment in a safe manner. Properties of Household Chemicals links lab work to everyday substances. Students find this lab particularly interesting and fun. Formation and Naming of Ionic…

A product of the authors 44 years of consistent community activity and government service, The Limits of Social Change: The Case of a Mexican American Community is intended for college students in Chicano Studies and related areas, political science, urban studies, and history classes.

This is a case study of the Mexican American community of San Fernando, a small city that has been the heart of Southern California’s progressive forces changing the city’s political landscape into a political base of Mexican Americans.

Social change is the central…