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China's Rising Research Universities: A New Era of Global Ambition by Robert A. Rhoads 9781421414539
€43.86This timely study charts the intentional and accelerated rise of China's research universities by analyzing how state policy has transformed key institutions. Specifically, it addresses how state initiatives have influenced faculty life and academic... -
Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education by John R. Thelin 9781421414218
€52.99John R. Thelin's A History of American Higher Education has become a standard in higher education studies. Designed to be used alongside this groundbreaking book or on its own, Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education presents... -
The Attainment Agenda: State Policy Leadership in Higher Education by Laura W. Perna 9781421414065
€54.66Although the federal government invests substantial resources into student financial aid, states have the primary responsibility for policies that raise overall higher educational attainment and improve equity across groups. The importance of... -
The Athletic Trap: How College Sports Corrupted the Academy by Howard L. Nixon 9781421411958
RRP: €31.54€27.72The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence... -
The Organization of Higher Education: Managing Colleges for a New Era by Michael N. Bastedo 9781421404486
RRP: €34.51€31.04Colleges and universities are best understood as networks of departments working together to fulfill a mission of education, innovation, and community partnership. To better understand how these large and complex institutions function, scholars can apply... -
A History of American Higher Education by John R. Thelin 9781421402673
RRP: €27.37€24.69Colleges 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. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this... -
Black Scholarship in a White Academy: Perseverance in the Face of Injustice by Robert T. Palmer 9781421447469
RRP: €32.73€28.70Examines the experience of Black scholarship and faculty in predominantly White academic spaces.While research has emphasized the importance of a diverse faculty, higher education has done little to bring this goal to fruition. The hidden politics at... -
What's Public about Public Higher Ed?: Halting Higher Education's Decline in the Court of Public Opinion by Stephen M. Gavazzi 9781421442525
RRP: €36.30€32.57Exploring the current state of relationships between public universities, government leaders, and the citizens who elect them, this book offers insight into how to repair the growing rift between higher education and its public. Higher education gets a... -
Leadership Matters: Confronting the Hard Choices Facing Higher Education by W. Joseph King 9781421442440
RRP: €34.51€31.04Leadership matters more than ever in this turbulent moment in American higher education. During these unprecedented times, glaring internal inefficiencies, communication breakdowns, and an overriding sense of cultural inertia on many campuses are too... -
Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education by Harold S. Wechsler 9781421441313
RRP: €59.50€52.51A comprehensive history of the barriers faced by students from marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups to gain access to predominantly white colleges and universities-and how these students responded to these barriers. Affirmative action in... -
The College Stress Test: Tracking Institutional Futures across a Crowded Market by Robert Zemsky 9781421437033
RRP: €41.65€37.18In The College Stress Test, Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman, and Susan Campbell Baldridge present readers with a full, frank, and informed discussion about college and university closures. Drawing on the massive institutional data set available from IPEDS... -
The New Student Activists: The Rise of Neoactivism on College Campuses by Jerusha O. Conner 9781421436678
RRP: €41.65€37.18Activism is once again back on college campuses as students protest issues such as sexual assault, climate change, racial injustice, and student debt. It's perhaps unsurprising that the current political moment has triggered the rise of a new breed of... -
Pocket Guide to APA Style, Spiral bound Version by Robert Perrin 9781305969698
€43.46The POCKET GUIDE TO APA STYLE, 6th Edition is your essential tool for writing research papers in every course you take. Concise and thorough, the POCKET GUIDE offers straightforward explanations, annotated examples, and margin notes designed to help you... -
Service-Learning and Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: A Pedagogy of Social Change by Sandra L. Enos 9781137554437
€55.63Service-learning and social entrepreneurship connect students to communities through courses and campus-based opportunities. Each offers students active learning opportunities tied to community engagement and problem solving. Enos presents strategies for... -
International Education at Community Colleges: Themes, Practices, and Case Studies by Rosalind Latiner Raby 9781137533357
RRP: €107.09€102.08This book brings together distinguished scholars, community college practitioners, and emerging leaders to expand upon existing theories, provide reflection on practice, and demonstrate the dynamic nature of community college internationalization. There... -
Transforming Academic Culture and Curriculum: Integrating and Scaffolding Research Throughout Undergraduate Education by Mitchell R. Malachowski 9781032581675
RRP: €47.59€41.72Institutions across the higher education landscape vary, and each navigates change in its own way. This volume describes how institutions and departments influence the success of structural and cultural transformations to advance curricular reform.A... -
Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together by Annie Buckley 9781032495620
RRP: €160.65€140.04Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational... -
English-Medium Instruction in Turkish Universities: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions by Kari Sahan 9781032065311
RRP: €59.49€51.77In response to the growing use of English as an international language, the number of English-medium instruction (EMI) programs in higher education has increased. However, decisions to implement EMI programs are often made through top-down policymaking... -
Journeys in Community-Based Research by Bonnie Jeffery 9780889773394
RRP: €29.75€28.30The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to discover new opportunities for improving quality of life. The nine case studies in this diverse collection provide real life examples of community-based... -
The Art of Hiring in America's Colleges and Universities by Ronald H. Stein 9780879757861
RRP: €41.65€36.02Edited by two respected university administrators, this book is indispensable for professional administrators, job seekers, and the general public. This ground-breaking work identifies all parties in the hiring process and clearly defines their roles... -
Affirmed Action: Essays on the Academic and Social Lives of White Faculty Members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Lenoar Foster 9780847694617
€56.20The issue of diversity on college campuses automatically conjures up the familiar scenario of the individual scholar of ethnic descent struggling to overcome the obstacles of predominantly white universities. While this certainly remains a reality on... -
Post-secondary Education in Qatar: Employer Demand, Student Choice, and Options for Policy by Cathleen Stasz 9780833041739
€25.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833041739Author Cathleen StaszFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 254g -
The Two Cultures of English: Literature, Composition, and the Moment of Rhetoric by Jason Maxwell 9780823282463
RRP: €94.01€81.76The Two Cultures of English examines the academic discipline of English in the final decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium. During this period, longstanding organizational patterns within the discipline were disrupted... -
The Muses on Their Lunch Hour by Marjorie Garber 9780823273720
RRP: €78.54€67.75As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice... -
Class Degrees: Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education by Evan Watkins 9780823229826
RRP: €88.06€76.70A current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves in the historical mirror of high-school vocational... -
Teaching to Learn/Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom by Anne French Dalke 9780820457536
RRP: €28.68€23.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820457536Author Anne French DalkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 330g -
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education by Heather J. Shotton 9780813588704
RRP: €147.56€127.38Indigenous 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... -
A Professor at the End of Time: The Work and Future of the Professoriate by John Best 9780813585925
RRP: €38.08€33.57A 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... -
College for the Commonwealth: A Case for Higher Education in American Democracy by Michael T. Benson 9780813176598
RRP: €45.16€37.34In the past decade, states across the nation have cut higher education spending per student by more than 15 percent. Kentucky has experienced some of the largest cuts in the country, leading many to claim that higher education is in a state of crisis. In... -
Puzzling Moments, Teachable Moments: Practicing Teacher Research in Urban Classroom by Cynthia Ballenger 9780807749937
RRP: €34.45€29.63In her new book, bestselling author Cynthia Ballenger explores the intellectual strengths of 'puzzling children' - poor, urban, immigrant, or bilingual children who do not traditionally excel in school. Ballenger challenges the assumption that these... -
Public Universities and Regional Growth: Insights from the University of California by Martin Kenney 9780804790673
RRP: €147.56€127.38Public Universities and Regional Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University of California campuses. Each chapter presents a deep, historical analysis that traces the dynamic interaction between particular campuses and... -
The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges by Joseph A. Soares 9780804756372
RRP: €103.53€89.88It is widely assumed that admission to elite U.S. universities is based solely on academic merit-the best and brightest are admitted to Harvard, Yale, and their peer institutions as determined by test scores and GPA, and not by lineage or family income. ... -
From Campus to Capitol: The Role of Government Relations in Higher Education by William McMillen 9780801894596
RRP: €44.63€39.73From Campus to Capitol takes a comprehensive look at how governments affect institutions of higher learning, in the process illuminating the role of the government relations officer. All institutions of higher learning, from large state universities to... -
Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass to Universal by Martin Trow 9780801894411
€91.86Distinguished by their sharp insights, eloquence, even humor, the writings of Martin Trow on the development of higher education have helped define the field. Collected here are his most influential essays, tracing the arc and evolution of his prolific... -
Unfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education by Judith Glazer-Raymo 9780801888632
RRP: €30.35€26.70This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education-and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and administrators assess the progress of women in academe using three... -
The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II by David A. Hollinger 9780801883903
€56.28The role played by the humanities in reconciling American diversity-a diversity of both ideas and peoples-is not always appreciated. This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, examines that role in the half century... -
Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year by James M. Lang 9780801881039
€25.83In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks-and mostly answers-the questions that confront every new faculty member as well as those who dream of becoming new faculty members: Will my students like me? Will my teaching schedule allow me time to... -
The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture by Adrienne S. Chan 9780774815703
RRP: €35.69€31.54The Exchange University critically examines the commercialization of today's academy. Universities are under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology in support of the need for economic restructuring and... -
The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture by Adrienne S. Chan 9780774815697
RRP: €103.53€89.88The Exchange University addresses crucial questions facing today’s university, including the commercialization of research and teaching; intensifying government-university relationships; marketization and commodification; and policy and functional... -
No Place to Learn: Why Universities Aren't Working by Thomas C. Pocklington 9780774808781
RRP: €103.53€89.88The Red Cross is studied and criticized. The Royal Family is studied and criticized. Churches and hospitals are studied and criticized. Canadian universities are seldom studied and criticized and are worse off for this neglect. This book seeks to repair...