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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771242379Author Soren S.E. BengtsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

A comprehensive, wide ranging and detailed account of the unfolding of higher education and higher education policy in Portugal from 1974 to 2009 by leading policy-makers and scholars, with the explicit purpose of showing how different disciplinary...

Offers novel frameworks and models for understanding college access and choice among communities of Color.This much-needed volume brings together academics, practitioners, students, and community members of Color to thoroughly reframe college access and...

This book offers a treatment of social justice and higher education within small island developing states like the Caribbean. This is a timely exploration of some of the global-local, structure-actor, policy-practice debates that connect directly to the...

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Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.Bronze Winner, 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education Category...

Nearly sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in spite of progress on some fronts, we are in many cases as far away as ever from achieving an inclusive citizenship and human rights for all. While human rights violations continue to...

Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Division B of the American Educational Research...

“Reinvention is the playbook on redesigning a large urban college system.” — From the forewordReinvention chronicles an unprecedentedly comprehensive approach to community college reform and the leadership challenges encountered along the way. The book...

This second edition of the classic Universal Design in Higher Education is a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide for creating fully accessible college and university programs. The second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded, and it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927335024Author Sekile Nzinga-JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter Press

A strengths-based guide for teaching ADHD college students that promotes inclusive, supportive, and high-structure learning environments for all.The college learning environment is a place of both challenge and opportunity for students with ADHD. In An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826520395Author Colman McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826520388Author Colman McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826520357Author Harry C. BoyteFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826518989Author Kristin G. EsterbergFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826515438Author Leslie Miller-BernalFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

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Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of...

How do children from undereducated and improverished backgrounds get to college? What are the influences that lead them to overcome their socioeconomic disadvantages and sometimes the disapproval of families and friends to succeed in college? These are...

How do children from undereducated and improverished backgrounds get to college? What are the influences that lead them to overcome their socioeconomic disadvantages and sometimes the disapproval of families and friends to succeed in college? These are...

The fact that women and people of color tend to underperform at professional schools is a source of controversy. Conservatives blame affirmative action, while liberals blame intentional discrimination. The extensive research reported in ""Professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826515421Author Leslie Miller-BernalFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826515049Author Carrie Yang CostelloFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year. This phenomenon is known as the ""departure puzzle,"" and for years, the most important body of work...

Mapping out the strategic future of higher education.Over the past decade, American colleges and universities have seen enrollment decline, campuses close , programs cut, faculty and staff laid off, and public confidence erode. In Peak Higher Ed,...

A deadly confrontation at Kent State University between Vietnam War protesters and members of the Ohio National Guard occurred in the afternoon on May 4, 1970. What remained, along with the tragic injuries and lives lost, was a remarkable array of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337332376Author Moyagabo Kate MalahlelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher IGI Global

What if compassion were not an optional extra in higher education, but the organising principle of how we teach, learn, and lead? Compassionate Pedagogy in Higher Education — International Perspectives offers a bold and timely response. Bringing together...

In this book, Carrie B. Kisker illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and experiment with the internal changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders. Kisker...

In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence. Sternberg presents, for the first time, his concept of...

In E-Crit, Marcel O'Gorman takes an ambitious and provocative look at how university scholarship, pedagogy, and curricula might be transformed to suit a digital culture. Arguing that universities were founded on the logic of print culture, O'Gorman sets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942719410Author Sandra RinconFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint NAFSA - Association of International EducatorsPublisher NAFSA - Association of...

Brings together scholars and higher education system leaders to highlight concrete examples of system change and realignment to advance student success.Long an afterthought of the American higher education ecosystem, multi-campus systems have become more...

A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting...

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. In...

He explores the motives, goals, and social and religious ideas that were behind the creation of this important institution of higher education, explaining the reasons Trinity was founded, the role it played in Canadian society, and the way its founding...