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From Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine and the leading expert on sororities and fraternities, Blackballed exposes the white fraternity and sorority system, with traditions of racist parties, songs, and assaults on black students, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811817Author Jeremiah ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 256g

Narratives of Becoming Leaders in Disciplinary and Institutional Contexts provides theoretically informed personal narratives of nine emerging and established leaders in learning and teaching in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and...

Rooted in the work of community - school collaborations, this text focuses on connecting the rigors of the classroom with the ambiguity of lived community experience. Community-Based Transformational Learning (CBTL) draws on the increasing evidence that...

The evolution of student activism in sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to understanding the process of democratic struggle and change in Africa. Focusing on the recent period of 'democratic transitions' in the 1990s, Leo Zeilig discusses the widespread...

While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere...

(Sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education)This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series...

Podcasting for Teachers is the first volume of a new series from Dr. Kathleen P. King and Mark Gura- Emerging Technologies for Evolving Learners and is based on their successful educational technology podcast, Podcast for Teachers, Techpod (sm). Their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887304519Author Kristin N. RainvilleFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age Publishing

University has changed dramatically over the last decades. From the spirit of Humboldt, that science in itself is the greatest motivator to study and do research, we experience a shift towards neoliberalism. Studying became part of something one needs to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887308517Author Benjamin KutsyurubaFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 717g

Colleges and universities across the country continue to struggle supporting students with marginalized identities, including (but not limited to) gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, ability level, socio-economic status, religious identity, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887302201Author René O. GuillaumeFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887302379Author Antione D. TomlinFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 177g

Just as the first edited volume of this book, Working While Black: The Untold Stories of Student Affairs Practitioners, examined student affairs professionals' narratives and how they navigate their professional experiences, this one has a similar aim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887302591Author Lorenzo DuBois BaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age Publishing

Don't Forget About the Adjuncts! is a work that creates space for adjuncts to share their experiences navigating workspaces within higher education and their experiences as part-time faculty. The primary goal of this book is to allow adjuncts to share...

Building on the work of Guillaume (2021), the collection of autoethnographies and testimonios in this book highlight positive coping mechanisms, strategies, and healthy boundaries that early, middle, and late-career Faculty of Color at comprehensive...

By relying on the educational models of Wilberforce University and Morehouse College, this study gathered historical artifacts that provide critical responses to the following research questions: What were the similarities and differences between the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887307015Author Abraham GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887308753Author Michael CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 404g

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As the transfer disparity persists among Latina/o/x community college students and continues to widen for those seeking to complete their baccalaureate degree, we asked ourselves three questions: (1) How do Latina/o/x community college students navigate...

Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry-Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal...

It is not surprising that in order to meet the job demands of the future, we need to ensure that students have the knowledge and opportunity to choose from an array of postsecondary options before graduating from high school. Particularly as our society...

The book explores the academic characteristics, career development, and impacts of "foreignness" of Chinese overseas returnees in research universities. It provides valuable insights into the international mobility of academics and the challenges and...

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Based on a case study of engineering teaching in China’s higher education sector, this book unravels the interlocking influencing factors that condition the experience of engineering faculty members along with multiple stakeholders’ expectations of...

Challenges of work-life balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they...

This edited volume, authored by scholars, students, and activists, focuses on how peace educators at the collegiate level can more effectively address gender and sexuality. Chapters focus on the classroom and the campus at large, and emphasize the...

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC). An important historical event in the development of organizations dealing with the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum was the founding...

Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from the introduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the...

Zambia, the butterfly-shaped, central African country has a population of about 11 million people, and as other Sub-Saharan African countries, has been trying to democratize since the early 1990s. Clearly, though, the promise of political reform did not...

In March 2010, the Obama administration released A Blueprint for Reform, setting forth its proposed revisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. If enacted, the Blueprint will shape the curriculum, standards, assessments, and accountability...

This book is intended for four intersecting groups of readers. If you are a philosopher, closet or sanctioned, then you cannot ponder the nature of being without due consideration for vision, and cannot contemplate the role of seeing in our lives without...

The essential guide to the AAUP's recommended policies and best practices for higher education, now in its twelfth edition.For the past century, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), long viewed as the authoritative voice of the...

The most important thing you can do in college is grow into your future self-and feel strong and supported while doing so.For many college students, their first year on their own means their first experience truly taking care of themselves. Navigating...

A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.In a book written directly for graduate students that includes graduate student voices and experiences, Aeron Haynie and Stephanie Spong establish why good teaching...

This book is designed for higher education instructors. The focus of the book is to assist all faculty instructors in higher education to better meet the needs of their student populations. It addresses the major issue of higher education teaching today:...

The essays in this volume are a collection of reflective narratives, rather than traditional scholarly treatises. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes our individual journeys as each of us found our way to civically engaged...