Mary Lou Santovec

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Wisconsin Gardens & Landscapes
2008 - 248 pages - Trails Books - with Rick Santovec

Tour Wisconsin's Magnificent Garden Treasures! Let author Mary Lou Santovec take you on a trip to more than 100 public gardens, landscapes, nature preserves and nurseries in this exciting and colorful new guide. Along with complete directions, descriptions, and breathtaking color photos, the book contains directories of garden and plant clubs, master gardeners, specialty gardens, and more.

Visit the great indoor gardens like the Bolz Conservatory at Olbrich Gardens in Madison and the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee.
See magnificent mansion gardens at Fairlawn and Villa Marie.
Discover experimental and research gardens where new species are cultivated for Wisconsin's challenging climate.
Enjoy international gardens that celebrate the heritage of England, Italy, Japan, and Thailand.

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Americana in 1/12 Scale: 50 Authentic Projects
2002 - 149 pages - The Guild of Master Craftsman Publications - with JoAnn Orgreenc

Celebrate the spirit of America in miniature! Whether you discovered them as a child with your first dolls' house or came to appreciate this art form as an adult, you'll be delighted by this diverse collection of 50 exquisite 1/12-scale projects. From pre-colonial to contemporary, traditional to funky, sublime to outrageous-there is a project for every palate. Where else would you find a beanbag chair and a rural rug beater, a Pueblo storyteller and a bowling bag, or an Old West bedroll and an aluminum Christmas tree all in one volume? Each section includes historical and cultural background, detailed diagrams and guidelines on materials, equipment and techniques. An assortment of petite projects as exciting and eclectic as the nation that inspired it!

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1001 Commonly Misspelled Words: What Your Spell Checker Won't Tell You
2000 - 293 pages - McGraw-Hill - with Robert Magnan

English can be a language full of spellings that look right but are dead wrong. Toss in those infuriating sound-alikes (they're/their/there, its/it's, except/accept), which computer spell checkers usually don't catch, and it's no wonder that 99% of us are often embarrassed and undermined by our unwitting typos. . . .

"But how do I look it up in the dictionary if I can't spell it?"

If you've ever searched for a word in a dictionary and haven't been able to find it, or if you're just plain at a loss about a word, good news: you've just picked up the book that promises to be the single most invaluable resource on your desk.

This handy book is organized phonetically, enabling readers to look up words without having to know how to spell them (look up, for example, illusive, and find the correct spelling: elusive). Also packed with excellent memory shortcuts ("there's a rat in separate"), 1001 Commonly Misspelled Words is a wonderfully painless solution to spelling maladies. Because when it comes down to it, the art of correct spelling is a crucial ingredient for getting ahead in today's knowledgable--er, knowledgeable--world.

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Making More Changes: Editor's Choice
1996 - 162 pages - Magna Publications - Editor

Never before have effective strategies been more important for recruiting and retaining students. Learn how other colleges and universities maximize the financial and human resources available to them as they develop creative programs to address the ever-changing issues on today's campuses.

Selected from articles featured in Recruitment & Retention, the stories in Making More Changes: Editor's Choice, highlight exemplary programs and feature follow-ups, progress reports, and analysis. An extensive matrix cross-references programs and issues.

The editor, Mary Lou Santovec, selected stories using criteria such as positive impact of programs, cost effectiveness, and general applicability to varied settings.

Much like its predecessor, Making Changes, the new Making More Changes focuses on current issues of importance in recruiting and retaining students. Issues addressed in Making More Changes include diversity, partnership programs, non-traditional students, the changing nature of campus populations, and the challenges and innovations of technology.

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The Bottom Line: Beating the Budget Cut Blues in Higher Education
1992 - 70 pages - Magna Publications - Editor

As shallow financial waters leave many colleges and universities scraping rock-bottom, others are finding creative ways to lighten their load and push onward.

Administrator has chronicled this struggle and served as a compass to help administrators keep their campuses on course. The following news pieces, compiled over the past two years, tell how colleges and universities have navigated around potentially dangerous obstacles to stay afloat and even discover new territories.

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Building Diversity: Recruitment and Retention in the '90s
1992 - 170 pages (2nd edition) - 1990 - 124 pages (1st edition) - Magna Publications - Editor

The conclusion is unavoidable: as the United States moves towards the next millennium, the face of its society is inexorably changing toward a more pluralistic, ethnically diverse, mix. Higher education has always provided a crucial avenue of integration into the traditional American dream, and the coming decades show no sign that its role is diminishing in importance.

At the same time, however, the challenge of bringing new groups into higher education cannot remain simply integration. The new pluralistic environment, with its corollaries of empowerment and group identity, means that campuses will need to find ways to integrate and, at the same time, respect differences between new groups, their members, and society at large.

In this newly expanded second edition of Building Diversity: Recruitment and Retention in the '90s, editor Mary Lou Santovec brings together all the crucial strategies and players that campuses need to consider in forging a diversified campus. Seven chapters take you on a guided tour of new student groups you need to consider. From ethnic minorities to learning-disabled students, Building Diversity presents program ideas and crucial concepts you'll need to consider in the '90s.

Some of what you'll find inside:

Charles Bryan reports on a student exchange program between a historically black southern campus and a historically white northern campus.
Nancy O'Malley details one campus' approach to advising its non-traditional students.
Dennis Black summarizes recent legislation that affects how campuses work with learning-disabled and physically challenged students.
Doris Green explains how many campuses have opened their arms to a recent flood of international students from the former Communist block.
The National Effective Transfer Consortium offers a 10-step self-assessment guide for policies affecting transfer students.
Lee Noel discusses an important, emerging group: urban students.

Diversity is more than a word: it's an attitude, an approach, to campus life and one that will receive great attention in the coming years. Building Diversity will make understanding the challenges and rewards of the diverse campus an opportunity to take your campus into the future.

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