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An Academic Life: A Memoir by Hanna Holborn Gray 9780691179186
$25.79A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating... -
Global Perspectives on Higher Education by Philip G. Altbach
$28.42Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled... -
Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student by Miriam Grossman 9781595230454
RRP: $30.96$21.38Our campuses are steeped in political correctness-that's hardly news to anyone. But no one realizes that radical social agendas have also taken over campus health and counseling centers, with dire consequences. Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman knows this... -
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs 9780874219227
$59.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219227Author Gabriella Gutierrez y MuhsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University... -
The Branding of the American Mind: How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why It Matters by Jacob H. Rooksby 9781421420806
$30.04Universities generate an enormous amount of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, Internet domain names, and even trade secrets. Until recently, universities often ceded ownership of this property to the faculty member or... -
Research with International Students: Critical Conceptual and Methodological Considerations by Jenna Mittelmeier 9781032269832
RRP: $50.30$44.14This must-read book combines carefully selected contributions to form a collective scholarly critique of existing research with international students, focusing on key critical and conceptual considerations for research where international students are... -
The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future by Arthur Levine 9781421442570
RRP: $38.64$26.23How will America's colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic, and demographic change?The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when... -
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors 9780060977726
RRP: $24.50$18.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060977726Author Alan Charles KorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education by David J. Staley 9781421449029
$26.25Imagining the universities of the future.How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today-MOOCs especially-focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J... -
Women Practicing Resilience, Self-care and Wellbeing in Academia: International Stories from Lived Experience by Ida Fatimawati Adi Badiozaman
RRP: $38.69$34.37Through a lens of self-care and wellbeing, this book shares stories of struggle and success from a diverse range of women in academia. Each story highlights how these women mitigated and overcame various barriers as part of their academic trajectory and... -
Researching Learning and Teaching with Adults: An Introduction by Ralf St. Clair
RRP: $42.56$37.62Designed to help the reader move through an empirical research project, this book describes how they can think like a researcher. Methods and methodologies are presented as pragmatic tools to address research questions. Research into adult learning is... -
The Textbook and the Lecture: Education in the Age of New Media by Norm Friesen 9781421424330
RRP: $45.15$41.99Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or obsolescence? Such questions can best be answered not by imagining an uncertain high-tech... -
Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook by Daniel Fischer
RRP: $38.69$34.37This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives, and theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an... -
The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education by Leonard Cassuto
$34.16This book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD.For too many students, today's PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current... -
Teaching Well: Understanding Key Dynamics of Learning-Centered Classrooms by Stephen D. Brookfield 9781642674736
RRP: $41.27$36.55What does it mean to teach well? In short, it means a willingness to do anything that helps students learn. Teaching Well investigates the fundamental principle of what teaching effectively entails by exploring the key dynamics of a learning-centered... -
SoTL Research Methodologies: A Guide to Conceptualizing and Conducting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Michelle Yeo 9781642672411
RRP: $41.27$36.55Combining real examples with a roadmap of how to construct studies, analyze results, and share work, this book serves as a primary research methodology text for the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).The volume seeks to explore key... -
Preventing Crises at Your University: The Playbook for Protecting Your Institution's Reputation by Simon Barker
$28.42A new playbook for effective crisis management in higher education.Unlike other industries, in higher education an institution's most important asset is its reputation. Yet as fundamental as it is, many leaders continue to view managing reputation as... -
Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education: Equitable Career Learning, Development, and Preparation in the New World of Work by Melanie V. Buford
RRP: $50.30$44.14This timely book explores current trends and future possibilities for undergraduate career education, the nature of the changing workplace, and its impact on students in colleges and universities. Built on decades of experience in career development and... -
Higher Expectations: Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century? by Derek Bok
$30.04How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and... -
Learning Partnerships: Theory and Models of Practice to Educate for Self-authorship by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda 9781579220853
RRP: $32.24$28.13While a common goal of higher education is to improve student learning to prepare young adults for the professional, civic and personal challenges of their lives, few institutions have a model to facilitate these outcomes. Learning Partnerships offers a... -
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens 9780674034945
$22.73In real life, Mitchell Stevens is a professor in bustling New York. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college that is known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience... -
The Unruly PhD: Doubts, Detours, Departures, and Other Success Stories by R. Peabody 9781137373106
RRP: $49.01$29.90This collection features former graduate students who speak frankly about the challenges and decisions they faced along the way to their doctorates. Peabody leaves no doubt that there are as many right ways to get through a PhD, and as many right career... -
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines by Scott Frickel 9780813585888
RRP: $47.73$43.18Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions... -
Anchoring Innovation Districts: The Entrepreneurial University and Urban Change by Costas Spirou
$49.17As universities transform cities with their innovation districts, what works in these new public-private partnerships?In recent years, the successful revitalization of urban areas has turned them into magnets for those looking for opportunities in a... -
Higher Expectations: Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century? by Derek Bok 9780691206615
$17.61How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and... -
The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donoghue 9780823228607
$34.19"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is more and more reason to think: less and less," he answered. In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue... -
Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education: A Strategy to Transform Universities and Communities by Erica K. Yamamura 9781620366776
RRP: $42.56$37.62While an increasing number of universities have or are committed to engaging their campuses in their surrounding communities, many recognize they lack the strategic focus and resources to maximize and sustain their impact on those communities... -
Higher Education, Public Good and Markets by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
RRP: $51.59$45.74This book critically examines some of the major trends in the development of higher education. It demonstrates how in the context of liberalisation, globalisation and marketisation, the crisis in higher education has assumed different dimensions in all... -
Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework: Diversity Deficits in Higher Education Evaluations by Amanda French
RRP: $59.33$49.56The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)'s aims, implementation and effect on the English higher education sector remains a controversial and often contested subject. This text offers a stimulating and wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of the... -
How College Works by Daniel F. Chambliss
$21.78A Chronicle of Higher Education "Top 10 Books on Teaching" SelectionWinner of the Virginia and Warren Stone PrizeConstrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college... -
Leading for Tomorrow: A Primer for Succeeding in Higher Education Leadership by Pamela L. Eddy
RRP: $47.67$30.46When faculty climb the ranks into leadership positions, they come with years of knowledge and experience, yet they are often blindsided by the delicate interpersonal situations and political minefields they must now navigate as university administrators... -
Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education by Bradford Vivian
RRP: $32.88$27.84An incisive examination of how pundits and politicians manufactured the campus free speech crisis--and created a genuine challenge to academic freedom in the process. If we listen to the politicians and pundits, college campuses have become fiercely... -
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies by Fabio Lanza
$26.88In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping... -
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream by Sara Goldrick-Rab
RRP: $24.51$20.90If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite... -
"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College by Susan D. Blum 9781501700217
RRP: $28.37$22.86Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experience at a top-tier... -
The New Advisor Guidebook: Mastering the Art of Academic Advising by Pat Folsom 9781118823415
RRP: $58.05$51.20This is an exciting time to be an academic advisor-a time in which global recognition of the importance of advising is growing, research affirms the critical role advising plays in student success, and institutions of higher education increasingly view... -
Independence, Social, and Study Strategies for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Basics College Curriculum by Amy Rutherford
$38.04The BASICS College Curriculum presents a hands-on approach to learning essential life and study skills for college students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This book focuses on the transition to college, developing key academic skills, navigating... -
Writing Centers and Learning Commons: Staying Centered While Sharing Common Ground by Steven J Corbett
$36.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423538Author Steven J CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 295g -
Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff by Jessie L. Moore 9781642671179
RRP: $34.82$30.26This book emerges from the author's ongoing work as director of Elon University's Center for Engaged Learning, where for the past decade, more than 200 scholars from over 120 post-secondary institutions across more than a dozen countries have... -
The Impact of a Sense of Belonging in College: Implications for Student Persistence, Retention, and Success by Bentrim, Erin 9781642672619
RRP: $42.56$37.62Sense of belonging refers to the extent a student feels included, accepted, valued, and supported on their campus. The developmental process of belonging is interwoven with the social identity development of diverse college students. Moreover, belonging...