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White papers provide a detailed examination of some of the most critical issues in higher education today while providing practical strategies you can implement in your classroom or on your campus.
Basic Guidelines for Handling Complaints
Basic Guidelines for Handling Complaints

Handling complaints is a part of every administrator’s job, yet few are fully prepared to meet the challenge with calm authority and consistent approach. Learn how to handle complaints effectively.

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New Fair Use Guidance for Online Educators
New Fair Use Guidance for Online Educators

Potential legal risks need not deter instructors from incorporating relevant and compelling resources into their online distance courses. Awareness of current copyright and fair use law enables instructors to teach confidently and effectively. This white paper interprets recent court cases and offers institutions a framework to use in making their own copyright determinations.

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Building a Culture of Academic Integrity
Building a Culture of Academic Integrity

Learn how to lead an integrity movement on your campus. This white paper gives you a step-by-step to follow as well as strategies to incorporate ethics into your curriculum.

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Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom
Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom

There are seven common styles of student disruption, and each requires a different strategy for prevention and response. This 40-page white paper provides the guidelines instructors need to overcome the behavioral challenges of the college classroom and get back to the important work of teaching.

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Ten Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class
Ten Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class

This white paper gives you the simple tools and strategies that create and maintain an optimal classroom environment. Become equipped with the classroom management tools you probably did not learn in graduate school but that have a measurable impact on instructional success.

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State Authorization: Strategies for Online Providers
State Authorization: Strategies for Online Providers

What your institution needs to do to remain compliant depends on where your students are and how their home states authorize institutions to educate their citizens. And the onus is on your institution to figure out what, if anything, you need to do—all on a state-by-state basis. It sounds daunting, but this white paper can simplify things for you.

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Ensuring Online Program Quality with the eQuality Model
Ensuring Online Program Quality with the eQuality Model

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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Risk Management for Student Organization Advisors
Risk Management for Student Organization Advisors

All sorts of things can go wrong when you’re running a student organization. Your students could be injured at an event or transportation accidents may occur en route to an off-site event. Facilities or property may be damaged. This white paper explains risk management for these situations in plain English (not Legal-ese) so that you can take the steps necessary to safeguard organizational activities and reduce potential problems

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10 Steps to a Successful Service Learning Program
10 Steps to a Successful Service Learning Program

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
10 Ways to Improve Retention Rates of First-Generation Students

A white paper on retention strategies for first-generation students that effectively support, assist, and validate this population to increase graduation rates.

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How to Effectively Assess Online Learning
How to Effectively Assess Online Learning

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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Service-Learning Course Design: What Faculty Need to Know
Service-Learning Course Design: What Faculty Need to Know

A white paper that discusses service-learning course design and how to explore the connections between your discipline and questions facing society.

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23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive
23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive

New instructors need to know many things immediately. This white paper offers strategies on writing a syllabus, setting learning goals, managing a classroom, grading, and creating assignments, quizzes, and tests.

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Student Leadership Development Programs: 16 Best Practices
Student Leadership Development Programs: 16 Best Practices

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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How to Plan and Lead Productive Academic Meetings
How to Plan and Lead Productive Academic Meetings

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.

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