Your Life, After high school:

 Advice on getting into college from those who already got their T-Shirts.

-brought to you by The Next Stop magazine

Covers anything and everything about the  college advice you will need. This book covers subjects from surviving horrible roommates to financial aid all the way to what kind of college to select. This book is an essential tool in making decisions about college related material.

FISH!

By: Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen

-foreword by Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., co-author of “The One Minute Manager”

FISH! Shows you how changing your attitude lets you enjoy your work and your life. This book can serve as a way to re-energize an organization and create memorable experience for custumers. FISH! is an easy to read story and serves as a practical guide for creating interactions instead of transactions.

The Leadership Challenge:

 3^rd edition

By: Kouzes Posner

The leadership challenge is the most trusted source to becoming a better leader. The first edition was original and became a classic overnight. This new edition encases more cases, concepts and actions that are even more important. This book is an unusual collaboration and is essential reading for everyone concerned with leading.

Getting together:

Ice breakers and group energizers

By: Lorraine L. Ukens

This book takes team work to the next level with a healthy dose of competition. This book covers stimulating hands-on activities that are designed to be lessons in determination, teamwork and planning which are all important in achieving quality performance. Helps you understand the importance of doing your best and taking the initiative.

Team Work and Team Play:

Games and activities for building and training teams

By: Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan and Glenn Parker

A team resource is for everyone. The world’s two best-known authors bring you multiple ways to bring hassle-free, sure-fire games, exercises and simulations. This book gives you a variety of all kinds of games from icebreakers to closures. These authors share with us their proven insights on effective teamwork and facilitation.

Advising Student Groups and Organizations

By: Norbert W. Dunkel and John H. Schuh

This guide, designed for both seasoned and first-time advisers, provides the skills and knowledge basis necessary to develop an understanding o the various kinds of student groups and how they function. You will gain theoretical and practical applications from this comprehensive overview.

Service-Learning in Higher Education:

Concepts and Practices

By: Barbara Jacoby and Associates

-foreword by Thomas Ehrlich

This book can “breathe new life into colleges and universities that want to reinforce their public service mission” –Dolores E. Cross, president of Chicago State University. Useful for experienced practitioners and newcomers alike. This book has a solid combination of conceptual underpinnings and specific institutional examples.

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice:

2^nd edition

Edited by: Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell and Pat Grifith

This second edition offers coverage of current issues and controversies vhile keeping the hands-on format and originality. Provides thoroughly updated resources, references and examples. Offers practical curriculum designs for integrating social justice issues into both standard and condensed formats. Also provides relevant commentary and trouble-shooting to address typical participant fears and challenges.

What matters in college? :

Four critical years revisited

By: Alexander W. Astin

This book cuts through the many myths in higher education with data-driven observations and conclusions. Covers a completely new and expanded study of how students change and develop in college, and reveals how colleges can enhance that development

Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs

By: Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds and John A. Mueller

This book offers student affairs and faculty a model of core competencies for developing the skills needed to work effectively with a diverse student body. Includes guidelines and helpful examples such as assessment and evaluation and a wide variety of case studies.

Creating Inclusive Campus Environments:

For cross-cultural learning and student engagement

By: Shaun R. Harper, editor

-foreword by Sylvia Hurtado

College students can acquire the skills and competencies that will enable them to survive and thrive in the 21^st century. This book helps unveil the importance of key players in helping students turn everyday life lessons into powerful outcomes.

The Center for Creative Leadership: Handbook of Leadership Development 2^nd edition

By: Cynthia D. McCauley and Ellen Van Velsor, editors

Shows how leaders learn and change, helping to develop practical ideas and perspectives. Gives rich and practical insight and tools, offering wisdom from a group of individuals with an extraordinary dedication to revealing the mysteries of developing leadership.

Taking Student Expectations Seriously:

A guide for campus applications

By: Thomas Miller, George D. Kuh, Dorie Paine and associates

This book helps you to apply the principles necessary to illuminate how to reduce discrepancies between what student and institutions want from one another. You will find solid research and analyses for improving the quality of undergraduate education by examining expectations for college.

Promoting Reasonable Expectations: Aligning Students and Institutional views of the College Experience

By: Thomas E. Miller, Barbara E. Bender, John H. Schuh and Associates

This book is rich in research on the large gap between what students expect from college and what they get. Also offers many strategies to assist in higher education across all types of institutions and is an excellent teaching and learning resource.

  Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change

By: W.K.Kellog Foundation

This book covers all the topics you could ever want to know, from the role of the College President to group roles and how they work, to implementing leadership principals to goals and aims of transformative leadership.

Handbook for Student Leadership Programs

By: Susan R. Komives, John P. Dugan, Julie E. Owens, Craig Slack and Wendy Wagner, editors

This book gives you the break down of Comprehensive Leadership not just one way, but provides you with many, many options that speak to you as a person. This book also gives an extensive break down to college Fraternities and Sororities as well as Intercollegiate Athletics and Club Sports.