Professional Wisdom
A Guide for College Students Navigating Their Career Journey
Professional Wisdom provides essential guidance for college students as they navigate their career journey. This practical resource combines real-world insights with actionable advice to help students make informed decisions about their professional futures. From internships to networking, job searching to career pivots, this book offers the wisdom students need to succeed in today's competitive landscape.
What Readers Are Saying
"An invaluable resource that bridges the gap between academic learning and professional success. Essential reading for any college student serious about their career."
University Career Services
"Practical, actionable advice that every student needs. This book transformed how I approach my career planning and networking."
Business Administration Major
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Diversity at College
Real Stories of Students Conquering Bias and Making Higher Education more Inclusive
In 2020, eight lab members and recent college graduates produced this groundbreaking book that applies lessons from experiential education and social neuroscience to five key student-centered stories. Named as a finalist for the 2021 Indie Book Awards in the social change category.
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What Critics Are Saying
"In this education policy book, Stellar and some former students at Queens College and the University of Albany present narratives of their personal experiences on campus. The book is strongest in the specific details the contributors share in their stories..."
"The informative book succeeds in its presentation of realistic and attainable tactics schools can implement based on the contributors' experiences, such as peer and faculty mentoring, ensuring all students are familiar with the norms of academia, and providing opportunities for experiential learning."
"An illuminating exploration of how colleges can support diversity."
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Education that Works
The Neuroscience of Building a More Effective Higher Education
Experiential Education complements the classical academic nature of the classroom-based college experience by bringing in direct experience with industry, non-profits, and governments. This groundbreaking book argues that due to how the brain works, students develop insight, maturity, and passion for their career growth.
What People Are Saying
"James Stellar draws on his deep knowledge of neuroscience and his years of experience as an academic officer at major universities to make the case for adding experiential education to traditional, class-based undergraduate programs. The book's title—Education That Works—tells it all."
Past President of Northeastern University
"At a time when states across the nation are mandating experiential learning in higher education, neuroscientist and academic leader James Stellar has written a beautiful book that educates and inspires us about the unique power of experiential learning to transform students' visions and decisions about their best futures."
Current Provost and Vice Chancellor of the CUNY system
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