Apathetic students, illiterate graduates, incompetent teaching, impersonal campuses-- so rolls the drumfire of criticism of higher education. More than two years of reports have spelled out the problems. States have been quick to respond by holding out carrots and beating with sticks

multi-input, multi-output feed-back control design for linear systems using the paradigms, theory, and tools of robust con-trol that have arisen during the past two decades. The book is aimed at graduate students and practicing engineers who have a basic knowledge of classical con-trol design

T he following passage from the back cover description of Noguera, Hurtado, and Fergus’s (2012) book Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys, succinctly captures what social scientists, education researchers, journalists, and others typi-cally report about this population: Latino men and boys in the United States are confronted with a wide variety of hardships that are not easily explained or understood. They PDF p. 1 12/17/12 66 Readings on Equal Education are populating prisons, dropping out of high school, and becoming overrepresented in the service industry at alarming degrees. Young Latino men, especially, have among the lowest wages earned in the country, a rapidly growing rate of HIV/AIDS, and one of the highest mortality rates due to homicide. A similar narrative of hopelessness and horror about young Black men has been constructed and is cyclically reinforced in research, media, and society (Brown, 2011; Harper, 2009; Jackson & Moore, 2008; Strayhorn,

solution, where students are sent to industry to gain real soft skill experiences. This paper presented UTP's Industrial Internship Programme as a strategic partnership with industry to produce well-rounded graduate students in anticipating the ever-changing technology.

book is dedicated to Daniel and Ellie. Preface This book should be of interest to anyone who would like to understand computa-tion from the point of view of logic. The book is designed for graduate students or advanced undergraduates in computer science or mathematics and is suitable as a textbook

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to as both undergraduates and as graduate school students. It is not surprising, therefore, that lecturing continues to be our most prevalent mode of instruction. A host of national reports in the 1980’s, however, challenged college and university faculty to develop instructional approaches that transform

AutoSlog, we constructed a dictionary for the domain of terrorist event descriptions in only 5 person-hours. We then compared the AutoSlog dictionary with a hand-crafted dictionary that was built by two highly skilled graduate students and required approximately 1500 person-hours of effort. We

the costs of long-duration professional education for women and raising the age at first marriage. The careers of college graduate women and their age at first marriage both changed significantly in the United States with cohorts born around 1950. Women were 10 percent of first-year law students in 1970 We

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