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The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.S. higher education. At the heart of the volume is the realisation that higher education must evolve in fundamental ways if it is to respond to changing...

Including much specially commissioned photography, FIDES NOSTRA VICTORIA: A Portrait of St John's College, Durham offers a fresh look at every aspect of St John's through its first one hundred years - its history, its buildings and gardens, its special...

Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into...

American Higher Education in a Global Context: Historical Perspectives describes the current state of universities on each continent, providing a comprehensive analysis of the numerous factors that have affected higher education systems around the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448183Author Marybeth GasmanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)...

Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into...

Historically, women of color have experienced discrimination based on the double jeopardy of race and/or ethnicity, and gender in their quest for access and advancement in higher education. Today's women of color in higher education however are the...

For Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading scholars in contemporary Indigenous education from North America, New Zealand, and Hawaii disentangle aspects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613242872Author James O'MearaFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600213434Author James E CruthersFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600211911Author George DonokovFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 610g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600211133Author Linda W CokeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 928g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594548413Author Michael F BeaudoinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 896g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589660601Author President's Institute on the Catholic Character of Loyola Marymount UnFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Scranton Press,U...

The university, as a core institution of democratic society, is increasingly threatened by the intrusion of big business. Corporations are working their way into academe in both subtle and obvious ways: granting of exclusive concessions rights on campus...

As is obvious to the casual newspaper reader, the debt-saddled student, the increasingly precarious university teaching force, the reactionary politician, and the budget-constrained administrator, the entire system of higher education is in crisis. This...

Despite the best intentions of teacher educators, diversity awareness in teacher education typically reproduces a racial hierarchy privileging Whiteness while also educating preservice teachers against this very hierarchy. The phenomenon, which is...

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has launched a nation-wide ethnic identification project to recognize ethnic minorities, which are widely considered as "peripheral," "barbarian," "inferior,"...

In Chile during the last forty years, there have been important initiatives aimed at increasing equity in higher education, including the private provision of tertiary education starting in 1980, the growing support provided by the state to low-income...

Success in Graduate School and Beyond is designed to empower graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in STEM with practical tools, tips, and skill development strategies to plan and create their dream career pathway. Intended as a professional...

Teaching about Sex and Sexualities in Higher Education argues that much more can be done in teaching about sex and sexuality in higher education. This edited collection provides key information on professional training and support, and acts as a crucial...

Universities across North America and beyond are experiencing growing demand for off-campus, experiential learning. Exploring the foundations of what it means to learn "out there," Out There Learning is an informed, critical investigation of the...

Many times, poster presentations are the first steps in a budding academic and research career. Many potential presenters, however, feel lost in this elementary process. There is little education that students and researchers receive during their...

This book offers real-life depictions of how colleges and universities are remaking their Teaching & Learning practices by confronting complacency and building new kinds of futuristic and humanistic programs and practices. Chapter authors present dynamic...

Exploring Campus Diversity: Case Studies and Exercises explores the realistic chain of events that happens on college and university campuses across the United States that involve issues of diversity and campus climate. Many of the real-life scenarios...

Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the research of Vanessa Siddle Walker, Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School, describes a sustainable and authentic partnership between a university...

"In crystalline text steeped in cold rage, Sayer takes aim at the REF's central claim, that it is a legitimate process of expert peer review. He critiques university and national-level REF processes against actual practices of scholarly review as found...

Why do decisions in universities take so long and involve so many people? Why isn't growth a priority for colleges? Why can't faculty be managed like any other employees? How can alumni work more effectively with campus leaders? As leaders in higher...

The definitive history of American higher education-now up to date.Colleges and universities are among the most cherished-and controversial-institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R...

Pedagogy, not Policing is born out of a shared belief in the twin values of quality teaching and community effort. Bringing together the voices of graduate and undergraduate students, teaching assistants, faculty, and other members of university...

Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond...

Winner of the 2018 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award In Mothering by Degrees, Jillian Duquaine-Watson shows how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single...

A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor's story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of...

Starting from Newman`s concept of the university as a place of liberal education, Professor Cameron examines how today`s university functions, what its aims should be and what its strengths and deficiencies are, and presents some proposals for reform. He...

How does one become a professional? This interdisciplinary collection offers new insights into that fundamental question. Employing a wide variety of approaches and methodologies, the original and thematically linked essays discuss such problematic...

More international students are enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States than in any other country. As a response to the higher number of international students, an increasing amount of intervention techniques are needed to address the...

Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure concerns the complexity of higher education as an academic field-the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China...

Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class...

This is a collection of excerpts from the public addresses of Robert F. Goheen during his twelve years as President of Princeton University. The emphasis is on the people whose responsibility it is to promote and defend the principles underlying the...

Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors...