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Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author's experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist...

Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society. In Anxious Intellects John Michael discusses how critics from the right and...

This open access edited collection brings together reflections on the fast-changing and crisis-ridden global context and develops new ways of conceptualising academic mobilities, and immobilities, against a backdrop of a conflicted and precarious future...

Advocacy for Educators: A Roadmap to Action argues that advocacy within teacher education is more critical now than ever due to increasing attacks on public education. The book, created by the ATE's Commission on Advocacy, emphasizes the urgent need for...

This book is a comprehensive, practical guide to successful academic research. Drawing on lived experiences across a variety of academic disciplines and commercial practice, Jim Macnamara illustrates the many successes, challenges and failures involved...

The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of student success in postsecondary education.This handbook addresses critical issues in student success, such as student engagement, mental...

Explains the ENACT model of student civic engagement, empowers instructors to implement it, and shows them how to assess its impact. ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation aims to teach college students about democracy through...

Explains the ENACT model of student civic engagement, empowers instructors to implement it, and shows them how to assess its impact. ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation aims to teach college students about democracy through...

To mark its 60th anniversary, Alliance Manchester Business School is publishing a collection of thought-provoking essays co-authored by eminent AMBS academics and business leaders outlining how business schools can play a significant role in confronting...

The commitment to accessibility serves as a catalyst for developing and implementing practices that prevent barriers and can better allow for inclusive participation with the world around us. Unfortunately, the importance of accessibility does not always...

This thoroughly updated edition of a classic career guide closes the research-practitioner gap and carefully considers the obstacles faced by researchers pursuing an academic career. From applying for grants to supervising Ph.D. students, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798369354544Author Elsa M. NunezFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint IGI GlobalPublisher IGI GlobalWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 22mm

Academic labour has never been more vulnerable to exploitation, or more galvanized to action. Shrinking budgets, threats to tenure, job shortages for new PhDs, and an increasing reliance on graduate students and adjunct professors for teaching are the...

Each passing year sees the steady rise of tuition costs for American higher education. Issues of student loans, direct lending to institutions, and federally subsidized grants are a staple of news reporting. As colleges and universities across America...

Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart...

In The Responsive University, William G. Tierney brings together a distinguished group of practitioners and scholars to describe how colleges and universities might respond effectively to changing social, demographic, and political forces. In each...

The lawsuit against "Kinko's Copies" for copyright infringement has exposed the confusion and heightened the fear of liability surrounding copyright issues in colleges and universities. This volume offers an explanation of copyright and the ambiguous...

This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126114917Author M. HusainFormat HardbackPage Count 1146Imprint Anmol Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Anmol Publications Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 221mm * 150mm...

This is a history in microcosm of the American small college. It is a story of the power of persistence of the educational ideal, of the communal will to survive, and of the idea of the promise of a better day to come.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881469677Author Marcellus Chandler BarksdaleFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University PressWeight(grams)...

History of Universities is a periodical devoted to the study of every aspect of university history development, structure, teaching, and research from the Middle Ages to the modern period, as well as to the history of scholarship more generally. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788176295871Author Aruna GoelFormat HardbackPage Count 1800Imprint Deep & Deep PublicationsPublisher Deep & Deep Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589660588Author President's Institute on the Catholic Character of Loyola Marymount UnFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Scranton...

This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about ...

Many contemporary commentators present a damning account of the current state of higher education, to the extent that our universities may be considered to be broken. This book offers an alternative perspective to the dominant neoliberal discourse and...

This important book will equip you with evidence-based tools you can use immediately to create a step change in your impact. Helping you recognise and demonstrate the wider benefits of your work, it will give you the practical knowledge and confidence to...

Critical Futures explores the evolving landscape of community-engaged research (CER) in a time of unprecedented social, political, and environmental crises. This collection brings together leading scholars, community researchers, and activists to examine...

This open access book provides critical perspectives on educational technology (EdTech) platforms and platformisation in higher education. It focuses on three analytical dimensions: higher education actors' struggles with the tension between autonomy...

This open access book thematically reflects on and analyses the nature of change and transformation with respect to gender equality, inclusion and diversity across higher education in Ireland, from the perspectives of those who are pioneering change. The...

How to transform higher education workplaces into environments where all employees can thrive.Colleges and universities rarely establish working conditions and cultures that prioritize employee well-being. During the pandemic, many staff and faculty...

Amidst unprecedented levels of union organizing in higher education, Gary Rhoades combines the perspectives of a scholar and labor movement activist and leader to provide a comprehensive analysis of organizing campaigns and collective bargaining...

New possibilities for graduate study and careers in the humanities.While the humanities remain as necessary as ever, the shrinking academic job market has led scholars to rethink the nature and purpose of graduate school in these fields. Highlighting...

In celebration of the sesquicentennial of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this volume assesses the mission of the large university, which educates students, advances research, and also serves the community.Book InformationISBN 9780965883429Format...

This open access book examines the structural and cultural factors that explain the persistence of an attainment gap between white and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in UK universities. So-called 'deficit' approaches have long...

Food Stories: Navigating the Academy with Cultural Lessons from the Kitchen is the first volume in the series Culinary Canvas: A Series on Integrating the Arts and Food into Higher Education. The purpose of the series is to explore the innovative...

Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University offers a sweeping overview of the Black experience at America's first agricultural college from the 1890s through the late twentieth century. In exploring the personalities, important...

Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, particularly the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of the students'...

In recent years, student feedback has appeared at the forefront of higher education quality. In particular, the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas...

The Music Professor Online is a practical volume that provides a window into online music instruction in higher education. Author Judith Bowman highlights commonalities between online and face-to-face teaching, presents a theoretical framework for online...