Professional Resources
The resources page of the higher education leadership program website provides you with a variety of helpful links and information on both ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ facilities (below) and also higher education web resources (links at left).
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Campus Facilities
Library Resources: As a graduate student, you will have access to the extensive facility and online resources of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's Murray Library. In our current electronic holdings, we have access to several databases that support graduate level work: ERIC, Education Research Complete, PsycInfo, PsycArticles, JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, Business Source Premier, Religion Index (ATLA), and SPORTDiscus. In addition, we have agreements with ACLCP (Association of College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania), EZ-Borrow (interlibrary loan with PA libraries) and access to WorldCat, a database of library materials owned by libraries all over the world. Sarah Myers, the library liaison for the higher education leadership program, has many helpful links on her .
Higher Education Leadership Student Handbook: The Graduate Program in Higher Education Leadership Student Handbook serves as a guide for students in the Graduate Program in Higher Education Leadership at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. It contains helpful information about the program, academics, online education, governance and other university policies.
Professional Publications
Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.
Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. Whether you're an adjunct or a vice president, a grad student or an eminence grise, we've got what you need to thrive in your job or find a better one: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees.
The Chronicle provides news and information for executives of tax-exempt organizations in health, education, religion, the arts, social services, and other fields, as well as fund raisers, professional employees of foundations, institutional investors, corporate grant makers, and charity donors. Along with news, it offers such service features as lists of grants, fundraising ideas and techniques, statistics, reports on tax and court rulings, summaries of books, and a calendar of events.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is a professional association serving educational institutions and the advancement professionals who work on their behalf in alumni relations, communications, development, marketing and allied areas. CASE helps its members build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education.
Outcomes is the national magazine of Christian Leadership Alliance, and it is published and distributed quarterly to CLA members. The purpose of Outcomes is to fulfill CLAs mission to exhort, equip and empower Christian leaders to think biblically and lead effectively as faithful stewards in the service of Jesus Christ. Outcomes equips Christian leaders for excellence in governance, leadership, management and resource development.
The Nonprofit Quarterly’s overarching editorial goal is to strengthen the role of nonprofit organizations to activate democracy. Nonprofit Quarterly believes that open societies require venues for individuals to undertake public projects together that are larger than friends and family but smaller than the state and that range from community arts and group homes to environmental advocacy.