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There is a need for a book that fully examines the specific and unique awareness, knowledge, and skills that are necessary for student affairs and other practitioners to be effective and ethical in their helping, counseling, and advising roles. This book addresses the core assumptions and underlying beliefs that impact the helping, counseling, and advising roles and skills that are central to higher education. It synthesizes and integrates information from traditional counseling therapy texts and offers examples of how to utilize such skills within student affairs. Written for faculty members and professionals..
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One of the challenges in higher education is helping students to achieve academic success while ensuring their personal and vocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more than thirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the most comprehensive, classic reference on academic advising. They explore the critical aspects of academic advising and provide insights for full-time advisors, counselors, and those who oversee student advising or have daily contact with advisors and students.

• New chapters on advising administration and collaboration with other campus services
• A new section on perspectives on advising including those of CEOs, CAOs (chief academic officers), and CSAOs (chief student affairs officers)
• More emphasis on two-year colleges and the importance of research to the future of academic advising
• New case studies demonstrate how advising practices have been put to use.

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The authors have successfully combined a thorough analysis of the essential elements of student organization advising with practical tools to apply the concepts. This book is essential reading for those who aspire to be effective organizational advisors.

--Sara A. Boatman, vice president for student affairs, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Student organization advisors play an increasingly important role on campus. Advising Student Groups and Organizations provides the knowledge base and skills advisers need to improve their effectiveness. From the rewards and challenges of advising student groups to the specific knowledge, skills and qualities advisers need on a daily basis, this comprehensive overview offers advisers both theoretical and practical guidelines. Readers will learn to motivate leaders, provide academic and career assistance, tackle budget and accounting issues and more..
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In today's highly competitive workplace, students must be prepared to respond to the challenges of a knowledge-based economy While pursuing their academic careers, students need specific information about career possibilities in their prospective field, ideas for mounting a successful job search, an awareness of the dramatic changes occurring in the workplace, and knowledge of the skills needed to be marketable.

From Virginia N. Gordon--the co-editor of the acclaimed book Academic Advising--comes Career Advising, a resource for academic advisors to assist college students with the educational choices that will lead them to career-related decisions. This important book shows how academic advisors, as well as non-teaching advisors, are in ideal positions to help students understand the relationships between their academic and career choices, and the effect these decisions have on students' future personal and work lives.

Career Advising identifies and describes the knowledge and skills that are required to be an effective career advisor for students. Gordon describes the 3-I Process, which clarifies the three interactive phases--Inquire, Inform, and Integrate--that can help students identify and explore academic- and career-related possibilities and make critical decisions.

This handy resource leads advisors through the maze of career information sources as well as other important career-related resources and methods..
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Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices begins by defining what the author, Michael Pompian, believes to be the "ultra affluent": those who have $100 million or more. He then divides the book into three sections: 1. An introduction to who the ultra-affluent are; 2. A discussion of traditional asset class investment choices for the ultra-affluent; 3. A discussion of alternative asset class investment choices; 4. An overview of what types of advisors (investment consultants, private banks, brokers, and independent planners) are available; and 5. A collection of case studies related to advising the ultra-affluent. Throughout the book, Pompian details the importance of structuring a strong relationship between the ultra-affluent client and advisor, while also offering advice on unique issues facing this sector, such as taxes and multi-generational asset allocations..
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"The successful entrepreneur must confront and overcome legal, financial, and business obstacles. Marc J. Lane has done a wonderful job of addressing all of these in one very readable and sensible book."—Thomas Morsch, Director, Small Business Opportunity Center, Northwestern University School of Law

Advising Entrepreneurs helps you address the special needs of your entrepreneurial clients. With the growing interest in starting small businesses, entrepreneurs are looking for expert advice and guidance to help them overcome the legal, tax, and financial challenges they face.

This book outlines solutions and ideas that you can use to steer your entrepreneurial clients through the rough waters of starting a new business. From getting a business on its feet to preparing for an IPO, you will learn the different strategies and options available to your clients.

The role of a financial advisor has expanded in scope and importance with the growth of new businesses. Take this opportunity to broaden your financial planning skills and learn how to advise your entrepreneurial clients in the best way possible..
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In 1939, physicist Leo Szilard worked desperately to convince the U.S. government to build an atomic bomb. It was Szilard who drafted the famous letter to President Roosevelt, signed by Albert Einstein, on the need to beat Germany in the race for nuclear weapons. But by 1942, with the Manhattan project underway, he already feared that the bomb had taken on a life of its own. Those "who originated the work on this terrible weapon," he argued, had the responsibility to see that it was used "at the proper time and in the proper way." Szilard was ignored--those who built the bomb had little impact on the decision to drop it. But the struggle by scientists to influence weapons policy has continued, down to today's X-ray lasers and SDI.
In Cardinal Choices, Smithsonian historian Gregg Herken provides a fascinating history of the tangled relations between the scientific community and the White House in the nuclear age. Ever since the first nuclear detonation at Trinity Site in New Mexico, 1945, the White House has depended on the technical expertise of scientists as it makes decisions that could affect the survival of the planet. Herken begins with a gripping account of the origins of the Manhattan project, following its growth into a permanent nuclear weapons establishment. He paints precise portraits of the complex personalities at the heart of the ongoing drama, from Robert Oppenheimer's remorse over the bomb he had aggressively pushed forward, to Edward Teller's relentless pursuit of the "Super" (the hydrogen bomb), to President Eisenhower's ambivalence about the mushrooming arms race. And Herken goes behind the scenes in the White House to explore the impact of new and proposed technologies, including the U-2 spy plane, the electronic gadgets poured into Vietnam, and the nuclear explosion-powered X-ray lasers planned for SDI. At the heart of the story is the tension between the experts and the politicians in the making of the "cardinal choices." Herken traces the rise and fall of advisory bodies, from Truman's Science Advisory Committee to Reagan's Office of Science and Technology Policy, as scientists have sought to influence policy, and as presidents have alternated between seeking out their advice and resisting or ignoring it. The record, he writes, "suggests that the question 'Who advises?' is hardly less important than that of 'Who governs?'"
Now, no less than at the height of the Cold War, it is critically important that the president gets sound advice on scientific issues. Cardinal Choices offers a brilliant history of how the White House has been advised over the last fifty years, providing new insight into the role scientists should play in the future..
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