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1) Evaluating Your College's Commitment to the Recruitment & Retention of Students of color: Self-Evalu
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Use this self-evaluation booklet to determine if your campus fully supports racial diversity This booklet allows you to perform a self-evaluation of 17 program areas ranging from pre-collegiate activities to alumni activities to determine if they are meeting the needs of your students of color. Two of the greatest challenges campuses face is the recruitment and retention of students of color. After over 30 years of research, the picture is clearing...
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Dreaming of a wearing a college jersey? Stop. Your data-driven guide to turning those dreams into a reality is right here. Regardless of your sport, gender, or desired competitive level, you'll learn to do exactly what the title says - Nail The Recruiting Process. Gleaned from personal insights, information from over 50 college coaches, and interviews with current and former players like you, veteran college coach Jared Zeidman reveals what-and...
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Taylor and Francis
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2023
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English
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This book explores how the recruitment and retention of Asian international students in Canadian universities intersects with other institutional priorities. Responding to the growing need for new insights and perspectives on the institutional mechanisms adopted by Canadian universities to support Asian international students in their academic and social integration to university life, it crucially examines the challenges at the intersection of
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Ireland,1941, Irish Republicans have made a bond with Nazi Germany to help the on going struggle with Great Britain. A small group of IRA soldiers is recruited in a village, suffering leadership of the lame Don McGinnis (Dan O'Herlihy). One of the recruits is Dermot O'Neill (Robert Mitchum), who wants to free Ireland, but is not as convinced of the means as are the other soldiers.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern recruitment, where algorithms and automation have taken center stage, one fundamental truth remains:
Hiring is a deeply human endeavor.
Step into the world of talent acquisition advocate Craig Fisher, as he navigates the delicate balance between the cutting edge and the classic-Fisher unveils the art and science of attracting, converting, and retaining top talent.
From the groovy days of 1970s Tulsa,...
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For the Glory: College Football Dreams and Realities Inside Paterno's Program presents the college football experience as seen through the eyes of the young men who play the game.
Sportswriter Ken Denlinger takes the reader on a five-year odyssey into the lives of one scholarship class and reveals their experiences at Penn State and in Coach Joe Paterno's program.
Ken was given extraordinary access to the Penn State programs--starting with the...
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The key to magic is the first chapter of the fantasy series "The Kingdom of Wizards - The Seals of the Altior". Is a book that embodies the simplicity of descriptions and the vivacity of action. This story takes the reader in a fantastic medieval enviroment in which battles, magic and spells are protagonists. Baltdeon is a young boy who finds himself enlisted at the behest of his father, among the recruits of the great order of the Paladins of Hombros....
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On patrol in the Persian Gulf testing new surveillance gear, a secret team aboard the destroyer USS John Young uncovers an al Qaeda plot to snatch Kashmiri youth and train them as highly skilled techno-bombers to attack security, financial and air traffic computer systems around the world.The saga begins in 1989 with the first meeting of the al Qaeda Shura Council in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden and other key members of al Qaeda discuss and launch...
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Tired of sending resumes in vain?Whether you're an experienced professional willing to take your career to the next level or a student looking for your first job … this book can give you an extra boost to succeed!Why?Throughout 10+ years experience in coaching and employment counseling, the author noticed several common themes that act like blind spots on the job hunting process. The most important one? Misunderstanding the factors that influence...
10) Double tap
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"As an elite assassin for the CIA, Helen Warwick was trained to keep a low profile. To blend into the crowd. To eliminate her targets swiftly, silently, and efficiently. But now that she's retired, Helen is forced to take on a very different, and very public, role-as the proud mother of a rising young politician. At a DC press conference for her son's campaign, she sees the ominous green light of a gun laser fixed on her son's head-and her CIA training...
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Universal
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[2024]
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The American Society of Magical Negroes is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier.
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Princeton University Press
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2024.
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Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Religions in many traditions have honed their competitive strategies over thousands of years. Today, they are big business; like businesses, they must recruit, raise funds, disburse budgets, manage...
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The University of Chicago
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2024.
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"A college education-especially an elite one-is often a gateway to prestigious careers and wealth accumulation. But that gate is hard to pass through for those with few resources. High tuition and admissions barriers including standardized tests that require expensive preparation have historically kept many low-income students out of elite colleges and universities. Some of these institutions have taken measures to break down barriers that prevent...
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Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
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[2024]
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Dying for Chocolate: A Colorado caterer and single mom, Goldy Berry teams with detective Tom Schultz to identify the ingredients that led to the mysterious death of her friend - and ends up discovering a hidden recipe for murder. Grilling Season: Caterer Goldy Berry reunites with Detective Tom Schultz when a realtor is murdered. As they uncover personal and professional rivalries, they realize the culprit is closer than expected. Fatal Vows: In the...
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University Press of Kansas
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[2024]
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"In Saying No to the Vietnam War, Eli Greenbaum presents personal accounts from individuals who were driven to resist or dodge the Vietnam War draft. These vivid and candid oral histories detail encounters with the Selective Service System, events that were often controversial, sometimes volatile, and almost always emotionally charged. The narrative of the author's own experience blended with the interviewees' stories brings together a chorus of protest...
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
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[2024]
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"Decades ago, Steve Rogers changed the world forever. Now, powerful and insidious forces are assembling to ensure he never does it again. Past, present and future collide as the Sentinel of Liberty reckons with an existential threat determined to set the world on a darker path--at any cost! So the last thing Steve needs is for Spider-Man to crash date night seeking help foiling the Sinister Six's latest plot! Meanwhile, more and more of Captain America's...
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Smithsonian Books
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[2024]
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English
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In 1924, the twelve men of the British Mount Everest expedition arrived in Tibet, intending to be the first to summit the world's highest peak. They recruited indigenous Himalayans as porters and guides, setting up base camps along the mountain. During the final ascent attempt, climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared, and were last spotted only 800 feet from the summit. While Mallory's body was discovered in 1999--without the camera...
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IT Revolution Press, LLC
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[2023]
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English
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"We are in the midst of a crisis of commitment in the workplace-organizations are searching for engaged employees ("talent") and employees are looking for a place to thrive. Both are struggling. If we fit, we hum, we connect, we create momentum and produce high-value work with grace and ease. But the wrong fit has serious consequences, including frustration, disengagement, and disruption, which undermines every aspect of daily work and the production...
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Order of the Seven Stars volume 2
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47North
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Petra Kurkov--a witch who wields magic worth its weight in gold--is tasked with combating the undead on World War I's eastern front. The battlefield has yielded a newfound closeness for her spellbound team, especially for Josef Svoboda, a recruiter for the Order of the Seven Stars. But Josef was bitten at the start of the war, leaving his blood tainted by a strain of the vlkodlak curse, which makes him a target of the Order's latest mission: slay...
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Shout! Studios
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[2023]
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English
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When the mayor decides that the doors of the police academy will be open to any and all, the applicants swarm forth like hordes of losers in a colorful assortment of nonregulation sizes, shapes, and eccentricities.
Mahoney and friends have graduated from the academy and are issued their first assignments. Their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti daubing terrorists?
The...
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