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Enhancing Employability in Higher Education through Work Based Learning by Dawn A. Morley 9783319751658
RRP: £109.99£99.18This book focuses on a renewed interest in work based learning in higher education. Due to an increased emphasis on employability in the graduate population, supported by wider policy changes, work based learning is becoming an increasingly pressing... -
Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health by Donald A. Rakow 9781501715280
RRP: £16.99£15.07The Nature Rx movement is changing campus life. Offering alternative ways to deal with the stress that students are under, these programs are redefining how to provide students with the best possible environment in which to be healthy, productive members... -
Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate by Karen Cardozo 9781612498966
£29.56Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate is one of the first collections to explore PhD career versatility within higher education. The twenty-three contributors represent diverse disciplines, institution types, professional roles, and... -
Struggle for a Free South Africa: Campus Anti-Apartheid Movements in Africa and the United States, 1960–1994 by Derek Charles Catsam 9781032684086
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores anti-apartheid movements on university and college campuses across Africa and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.In the wake of the March 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa, the country’s apartheid policies drew increasing... -
Creating Space for Ourselves as Minoritized and Marginalized Faculty: Narratives that Humanize the Academy by Claudia García-Louis 9781032496146
RRP: £38.99£34.22• Topics go beyond institutional metrics utilized to assess faculty performance, exploring issues seldom discussed in books dedicated to faculty but that are instrumental to faculty success. • Authors and contributors are all underrepresented and... -
Action Research for Change and Development by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt 9781032164236
RRP: £27.99£24.28First Published in 1991, Action Research for Change and Development presents a collection of papers evolved from an international symposium on Action Research in Higher Education, Government and Industry held in Brisbane in 1989. The book is structured... -
Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth, Migration, and the Internationalizing University by Susan Thomas 9780226830704
RRP: £22.00£21.22An ethnographic rendering of overseas students' fraught encounters studying at an American public university. As states have reduced funding to public universities, many of those institutions have turned to overseas students as a vital, alternative... -
Creating Space for Ourselves as Minoritized and Marginalized Faculty: Narratives that Humanize the Academy by Claudia García-Louis 9781032504995
RRP: £135.00£117.28• Topics go beyond institutional metrics utilized to assess faculty performance, exploring issues seldom discussed in books dedicated to faculty but that are instrumental to faculty success. • Authors and contributors are all underrepresented and... -
General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty by Paul Hanstedt 9781642674842
RRP: £135.00£117.28Explores the demands for enhancing the general education curriculum by means of tweaking course content, syllabi, and student assignments.The second book in a series that gives insight into the essentials of general education for college-level faculty... -
Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Teamwork in Higher Education: Setting Priorities, Using Evidence-Informed Practices, and Avoiding Pitfalls by Cynthia G. Campbell 9781032581347
RRP: £135.00£117.68• offers a persuasive argument for the importance of teamwork in college courses.• presents innovative techniques grounded in the science of teamwork, along with multifaceted contemporary teamwork assessment methods for advancing and assessing teamwork... -
Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments: A Practical Resource for Higher Education Faculty by Christine Harrington 9781032581309
RRP: £135.00£117.28Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments offers principles, strategies, and examples to aid in the development of inclusive college coursework in which all students feel seen and valued.This resource prepares instructors to proactively... -
The Black Professional Guide to College Student Affairs by Tim Hussey 9781642674019
RRP: £31.99£28.33As higher education turns a critical eye inward toward policies and practices related to professionals and students of color, this resource aims to fill a void in the literature by exploring the experience of new Black professionals in the field of... -
The Design of Digital Learning Environments: Online and Blended Applications of the Community of Inquiry by Martha F. Cleveland-Innes 9781032159010
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Design of Digital Learning Environments provides comprehensive guidelines for creating and delivering high-quality online and blended learning experiences in higher education. With increasing numbers of students engaged in partially or fully digital... -
Digitalization of Higher Education: Opportunities and Threats by Tanusree Chakraborty 9781774914144
RRP: £131.00£112.96Digital transformation of education is happening at a rapid pace, especially with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet the transformation is not yet complete because it was implemented in a willy-nilly way. This volume examines the current status of... -
Theory and Method in Higher Education Research by Jeroen Huisman 9781837975211
RRP: £80.00£66.61Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide... -
Higher Education for the Sustainable Development Goals: Bridging the Global North and South by Leonardo Caporarello 9781803825267
RRP: £80.00£66.61The Global North and Global South are in different stages of the journeys towards a sustainable future. The Global North is focusing on cutting carbon emissions and discussing “de-growth”, whilst large parts of the Global South are still struggling to... -
The Path to Equity: Inclusion in the Kingdom of Liberal Arts by Bill Coplin 9781475871326
RRP: £58.00£50.59Coplin has been saving students from the damage done by the bait and switch business model of the liberal arts programs for fifty years. The bait promises career preparation and the switch is to teach undergraduates how to be scholars. He demonstrates... -
The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions: A Conversation about Education, Parenting, and Race by Sr Associate Dean Timothy L Fields 9781421448961
RRP: £19.00£14.71Named one of the Top 2023 College Admissions Resources by Forbes and featured on NPR as "Book of the Day." "Groundbreaking."-Angel B. Perez, CEO of the National Association for College Admission CounselingFinding the right college is a challenge for all... -
International Perspectives on Supporting and Engaging Online Learners by Jaimie Hoffman 9781800434851
RRP: £78.99£47.33The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated growth in online education across the world. While the online classroom experience has been written about extensively, the outside of class experience and student services for those learning remotely has received... -
Publish or Perish: Perceived Benefits versus Unintended Consequences, Second Edition by Imad A. Moosa 9781035307791
£101.61In this thoroughly revised second edition of Publish or Perish, Imad A. Moosa extends and develops his analysis of the continual pressure to publish research which plagues the academic sphere. Perceptive and provocative, the book identifies the duress... -
Becoming An African University: Makerere 1922-2000 by Carol Sicherman
RRP: £34.95£22.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592212880Author Carol SichermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 677g -
The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions by Angelika Bammer 9781137520463
£48.70This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide range of distinguished scholars from fields including law, literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can... -
The Academic Corporation: Justice, Freedom and the University by Allen Fenichel 9780920057971
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920057971Author Allen FenichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
Handbook II: Advanced Teaching Strategies for Adjunct and Part-Time Faculty by Donald Greive 9780940017399
£18.25The new fourth edition, an expanded collection of over two dozen instructional essays, gathers together the professional know-how of award-winning teaching faculty, as well as research faculty, staff and administrators whose work focuses on faculty... -
All True Things: A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008 by Roderick Macleod 9780888644442
RRP: £42.99£36.03All True Things is a critical history of the genesis and evolution of the University of Alberta and a splendid way to mark the University's centennial. Professor Emeritus of History and alumnus, Rod Macleod, relates the University's coming of age against... -
Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of the Literatures of Canada by Paul Martin 9780888645456
RRP: £42.99£35.03"There is no such thing as 'the ivory tower.' Rather, there sit side by side numerous windowless towers of knowledge, each seeming to have only a small entrance and no discernable exit." -Paul Martin Multilingual, multicultural, and vast,... -
The Two Cultures of English: Literature, Composition, and the Moment of Rhetoric by Jason Maxwell 9780823282456
RRP: £23.99£20.84The 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... -
Class Degrees: Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education by Evan Watkins 9780823229833
RRP: £25.99£12.86A 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... -
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies by Fabio Lanza 9780822369325
RRP: £85.00£73.81In 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... -
Alternative Models of Sports Development in America: Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health by B. David Ridpath 9780821422915
RRP: £22.99£20.01In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions' presidents, psychological and... -
The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities by Doris Sommer 9780822355724
RRP: £85.00£73.81Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, Doris Sommer steers the humanities back to engagement with the world. The reformist projects that focus her attention develop momentum and meaning as they circulate through society to... -
Unequal Higher Education: Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity by Barrett J. Taylor 9780813593500
RRP: £124.00£107.04American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely from one another. Some enjoy tremendous endowment savings and/or collect resources via research, which... -
Living When Everything Changed: My Life in Academia by Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault 9780813594903
RRP: £28.99£24.96Entering the academy at the dawn of the women's rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first generation of feminist academics had a difficult journey. With few female role models, they had to forge their own path and prove that feminist... -
Using Servant Leadership: How to Reframe the Core Functions of Higher Education by Angelo J. Letizia 9780813587356
RRP: £124.00£107.04Using Servant Leadership provides an instructive guide for how faculty members can engage in servant leadership with administrators, students, and community members. By utilizing a wide range of research and through a series of case studies, Angelo J... -
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines by Scott Frickel 9780813585895
RRP: £124.00£107.04Interdisciplinarity 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... -
Raised at Rutgers: A President's Story by Richard L. McCormick 9780813564746
RRP: £33.00£29.45In Raised at Rutgers, Richard L. McCormick tells what it is like to run a major state university and vividly portrays the often contentious environment in which a university president operates today. He unsparingly recounts his decade of leadership,... -
Creating New Knowledge in Management: Appropriating the Field's Lost Foundations by Ellen S. O'Connor 9780804770750
RRP: £62.00£53.56Creating New Knowledge in Management rediscovers lost sources in the work of Mary Parker Follett and Chester Barnard, providing a foundation for management as a unique and coherent discipline. This book begins by explaining that research universities,... -
No Place to Learn: Why Universities Aren't Working by Thomas C. Pocklington 9780774808798
RRP: £27.99£24.14The 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... -
Research Studies in Higher Education: Educating Multicultural College Students by Terence Hicks 9780761858133
RRP: £88.00£77.49This groundbreaking book edited by Terence Hicks, a quantitative research professor, and Abul Pitre, a qualitative research professor, builds upon the usefulness of each research method and integrates them by providing valuable findings on a diverse... -
Integrating Technology in Higher Education by M. O. Thirunarayanan 9780761831273
RRP: £55.00£48.03Integrating Technology in Higher Education contains 20 chapters that provide technology integration experiences of authors from four continents and a diversity of disciplines in higher education settings. The utilization of various hardware and software...