1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707149503321

Autore

Mapel W. J (William Jameson), <1922->

Titolo

Bituminous coal resources of Texas : a review of the occurrence of bituminous and cannel coal in Texas and a new estimate of the original coal resources / / by W. J. Mapel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1967

Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 28 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Geological Survey bulletin ; ; 1242-D

Contributions to economic geology

Soggetti

Coal - Texas

Coal

Texas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed September 15, 2014).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-28).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795763303321

Autore

Gavazzi Stephen M.

Titolo

What's public about public higher ed? : halting higher education's decline in the court of public opinion / / Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4214-4252-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

378.050973

Soggetti

Public universities and colleges - United States - Administration

Public universities and colleges - Ratings and rankings - United States

Public universities and colleges - United States

Public opinion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Opportunities and Threats to Higher Education -- 2. What Citizens Think about Their State's Public Universities: Steps toward Ground Truthing -- 3. Public Funding for Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement -- 4. Focusing Attention on Rural and Urban Communities -- 5. Global Footprint versus Closer to Home -- 6. Merit-Based Aid and Needs-Based Aid for Students -- 7. National Rankings: The Scourge of Higher Education -- 8. Jobs and Politics and Sports, Oh My! -- 9. Disdain the Beaten Path: The Year 2020 as a Turning Point for the American Public University -- Appendixes -- 1. Study Survey -- 2. Multivariate Tests -- 3. Tests of Between-Subjects Effects -- 4. Multiple Comparisons -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

An unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities, What's Public about Public Higher Ed? places special emphasis on the events of 2020--including the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst racial unrest seen in half a century--as major inflection points for understanding the implications



of the survey's findings.