Service-learning is a popular pedagogical option in many disciplines, but doing it right requires extensive preparation. You want your service-learning program to offer a rigorous academic experience for your students while also genuinely benefiting your community partner. This 40-page white paper explores ten essential elements that will contribute to the success of your service-learning program.

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10 Ways to Improve Retention Rates of First-Generation Students: A Magna Publications White Paper is based on a Magna Online Seminar delivered by Jeff Davis, Ph.D. You will discover effective ways to support, assist, and validate this important segment of your school population and the challenges faced by first-generation students are surmountable with understanding and knowledgeable intervention.

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As a new college instructor, you have many questions. For the new college teacher, it is best to learn from those who have been there. In this White Paper you will discoverteaching strategies including the tips and techniques that have proven successful for experienced faculty and explore how to use these in your own classes. You'll get a wealth of ideas to improve your teaching.

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Basic Guidelines for Handling Complaints is a White Paper based on a Magna seminar by C. K. (Tina) Gunsalus.  Ms. Gunsalus is well-known as a columnist for Inside Higher Ed, and the author of The College Administrator’s Survival Guide. As an administrator, how effectively do you handle complaints?

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At their best, blended learning courses combine the advantages of face-to-face instruction with effective online modules to increase learning while reducing instructor workload. At its worst, blended learning can become an administrative nightmare for professors and a frustrating disappointment to students in the classes. In this Magna White Paper, you will learn 10 key strategies for improving blended learning course design from Ike Shibley, Ph.D., a leader in the field.

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You can learn how to lead an integrity movement on your campus in Building a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Magna Publications White Paper. This report provides a step-by-step guide to building a culture of integrity and offers strategies to more fully incorporate values and ethics education into curriculum.

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College Students and Civic Engagement: Key Steps and Best Practices, shows you how to turn student attitudes into action, and increase the success of your campus civic engagement programs.

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As an educator, you can take comfort in the fact that knowledge is power.  You have the opportunity to discover solutions to the cheating epidemic in the Magna White Paper Confronting Cheating: A Legal Primer and Tool Kit.

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If you’re struggling with difficult students at your institution, Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom,  a Magna White Paper, details the most common styles of student disruption and then spells out precisely how to respond to even the most menacing situations. It provides you with the practical and effective solutions that will prepare you to handle the full range of student misbehavior.

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Returning adults, particularly those looking to complete degree work, demand online options, distance education programming, and a campus culture fitting their learning style. Ensure your institution is ready to serve adults effectively, with programs in the areas that matter to them most.  Effective Strategies for the Adult Degree Completion Market is a 28-page white paper based on a popular online seminar by Bruce N. Chaloux, Ph.D., past president of the Sloan Consortium, current Director of Student Access Programs and Services for the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and a highly-respected authority in adult degree completion.

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The eQuality Model is a highly adaptable program designed to continuously improve the quality and integrity of online and distance education learning. You can learn how to adapt this model and develop your own comprehensive quality program in Ensuring Online Program Quality with the eQuality Model: A Magna Publications White Paper.

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Many familiar forms of assessment don’t work well—or at all—in a web-based format. Assessing students online requires fresh thinking, new ideas, and a willingness to embrace the latest technologies and methods for measuring learning in an online course. This 48-page White Paper delivers updated assessment techniques tailored to the strengths of internet-based learning.

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Unproductive meetings can be painful to endure, and a costly waste of time. With better preparation and the implementation of a few key principles, leaders can avoid the most common problems and dramatically improve higher education gatherings. You will discover the most effective strategies for preparing for and conducting effective meetings that involve faculty members. This 47-page Magna White Paper outlines the strategies needed to take full control of meeting management.

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This 44-page White Paper Involuntary Medical Withdrawals: Legal Considerations and Alternatives approaches the subject of involuntary medical withdrawals from a perspective of care for the student involved while offering a range of alternatives to the extreme last resort: an involuntary, forced withdrawal.

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By understanding the concepts of authority, duty to care, negligence, and torts—and by using legal common sense—you can help organizations run an exciting calendar of events without exposing yourself or your school to liability. This white paper concludes with a summary review sheet of relevant risk management concepts, for easy reference. It also includes a case study with processing questions, along with a sample pre-event planning form.

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Many faculty members would like to design and teach a service-learning course. But you are often puzzled about how to go about successfully running a course. There’s plenty of information out there–but that’s the problem. Where do you go to find an effective resource that will answer your questions? This White Paper explains the rationale and provides the “how-to” details of designing and teaching a service-learning course, presented by Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D., a nationally recognized expert in service-learning and author of three books on the topic.

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Most student leaders manage their many duties without a hitch, amazing us with their abilities to multitask and balance competing priorities. Sometimes, however, student leaders become overwhelmed by their many responsibilities and things begin to fall apart. Student Leaders Struggling: When the Best and Brightest Need Help, prepares student advisors and mentors to recognize and respond to the warning signs that indicate when a student leader is nearing a crisis point and how to help before, during, and after a crisis.

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These are tough questions, but now there are good answers – research-based answers – that you can put to use in your campus programs, to create a richer, more fulfilling experience for your current and future student leaders. You’ll get those answers in Student Leadership Development Programs: 16 Best Practices - whitepaper. The white paper encapsulates findings from an extensive survey of students, faculty, student affairs professionals, and student advisors.

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One of the best tools in crisis-response planning is scenario-based training – using hypothetical situations to inform real-world responses.

We’ve partnered with a leading authority on student behavioral health to create a new situation-based training program … one that includes insight and commentary from 20 industry experts. The result is an exceptionally rich training experience we hope you’ll want to share with your campus crisis team.

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To get every course off to its best possible start, Ten Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class: A Magna Publications White Paper is the place to begin. This report will give you the simple tools and strategies that create and maintain an optimal classroom environment.

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The Best of The Teaching Professor paperback book includes a collection of the top articles from The Teaching Professor Newsletter. This 130 page book, edited by Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., provides a discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in today's college classroom.

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In this white paper, you will learn how to develop quantitative and qualitative feedback mechanisms that can provide an accurate picture of the quality of your campus tour experience. Through proper assessment, you will learn what message your guides are sending, how your campus is perceived, and whether your guests are getting the information and service they expect.

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Distance education is one of the best ways to create an additional income stream for your college or university. Unfortunately, it can also be a way to drain your school’s coffers if you inadvertently open your school to a costly legal action. Knowledge is your best defense. In this White Paper discover the proactive steps you need to take now to prevent expensive and embarrassing litigation from striking your online offerings later.

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Professors and instructors are critical to battling rising dropout rates. What happens in the college classroom is central to a student’s decision-making process and desires to persist in college. The good news is that faculty members do not have to lower their standards in order to retain more students. By implementing the right strategies, they can dramatically improve retention rates without sacrificing academic quality or rigor. This White Paper details key methods professors can employ to prevent dropouts and increase student success in college.

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In the White Paper What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security, you will learn methods for fostering essential safety-enhancing relationships between professors and students.

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To prepare for the unfortunate possibility of a student suicide attempt, consult When a Student Attempts Suicide: The Next Seven Steps: A Magna Publications White Paper. This report guides you through creating an attempted suicide response plan that addresses and balances student wellbeing and legal risk exposures. You will learn what to do—and what not to do—in the minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months that follow an attempted suicide.

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Working with Difficult Students: Four Case Studies—offers the best of both worlds.  It shows how to apply four widely-respected theories to four different types of classroom challenges.  In each case, the theory is explained and then demonstrated. This way, you can see for yourself how different conversations play out when research-based principles are applied. This white paper is recommended for new faculty members, experienced faculty members seeking fresh ideas for classroom management, faculty concerned about at-risk students, and academic deans and faculty development personnel instructors.

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