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Teaching as the Art of Staging: A Scenario-Based College Pedagogy in Action by Anthony Weston
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £33.19College teachers all too often still play Sage on the Stage - lecturing to rooms full of passive and supposedly absorbed students. The cutting-edge opposite is still supposed to be the Guide on the... -
The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life Rena Seltzer 9781579228965
Booksplease Price: £26.09If you find yourself thinking or saying any of the following, this is a book you need to pick up.I know or suspect that I am underpaid, but I hate negotiating. I do everything else first and then... -
The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning James E. Zull 9781579220549
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.09Neuroscience tells us that the products of the mind--thought, emotions, artistic creation--are the result of the interactions of the biological brain with our senses and the physical world: in short,... -
Seasons Of A Dean's Life: Understanding the Role and Building Leadership Capacity by Walter H. Gmelch 9781579223199
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34What are the demands of being a dean? What leadership development do deans need as they progress through their academic careers? How are their responsibilities changing? What are institutions looking... -
Going Public Reconsidered: Engaging With the World Beyond Academe Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Nancy L. Chick 9781642671896
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34Through its impact on students in their lives in and beyond college, and recognizing the porous boundary between the classroom and the "real world," SoTL can offer insights into broader societal... -
Guide to Digital Accessibility: Policies, Practices, and Professional Development Rae Mancilla 9781642674538
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89The collective depth and tenure of experience of the authors in advancing accessibility practice is truly exceptional. In practical terms, the organization of the book makes clear the work to be done... -
Professors Are from Mars (R), Students Are from Snickers (R): How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations Ronald A. Berk 9781579220709
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income and cholesterol level.Humor can break down... -
The Prudent Professor: Saving and Planning for a Worry-free Retirement by Edwin M. Bridges 9781579224684
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This is a guide for anyone in the academy - faculty member, administrator or professional staff - at whatever point she or he may be along the career path. Whether you are a newly-minted Ph.D... -
Fundraising Strategies For Community Colleges: The Definitive Guide for Emerging Institutions by Steve Klingaman 9781579227319
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This book is a co-publication with CASE.Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to building a million-dollar-a-year development office.Community colleges... -
The Student Companion to Community Engaged Learning: What You Need to Know for Transformative Learning and Real Social Change by David M. Donahue 9781620366493
Booksplease Price: £27.58This compact, accessibly written text prepares students for their experience of community-based learning. It is designed for students to read and reflect on independently or to foster discussion in... -
Taking Flight: Making Your Center for Teaching and Learning Soar by Laura Cruz 9781642670219
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Taking Flight synthesizes research on best practices for running centers of teaching and learning, providing practical guidance and resources for educational developers who are looking to open new... -
Beyond the Tower: Concepts and Models for Service-learning in Philosophy by C.David Lisman 9781563770166
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This practical guide is intended for faculty and service-learning directors, combining the how-to information and rigorous intellectual framework that teachers seek. What distinguishes this volume is... -
Social Class On Campus: Theories and Manifestations by Will Barratt 9781579225728
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class. It will appeal to students, and indeed anyone... -
Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Group Work that Works to Generate Critical Thinking and Engagement Michael Sweet 9781579226107
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £34.03Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a unique, powerful, and proven form of small-group learning that is being increasingly adopted in higher education. Teachers who use TBL report high levels of engagement,... -
The New Talent Acquisition Frontier: Integrating HR and Diversity Strategy in the Private and Public Sectors and Higher Education Edna Chun 9781620360835
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Awarded a Silver Medal in the category Human Resources and Employee Training from the 2014 Axiom Business Book Awards * Create the inclusive, high performance workforce needed to succeed in an... -
The Neuroscience of Learning and Development: Enhancing Creativity, Compassion, Critical Thinking, and Peace in Higher Education Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik 9781620362846
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Is higher education preparing our students for a world that is increasingly complex and volatile, and in which they will have to contend with uncertainty and ambiguity? Are we addressing the concerns... -
ePortfolio as Curriculum: Models and Practices for Developing Students' ePortfolio Literacy by Kathleen Blake Yancy
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89At a moment when the ePortfolio has been recognized as a high impact practice - as a unique site for hosting student integrative learning and as a powerful genre for assessment - this book provides... -
The Search Committee Handbook: A Guide to Recruiting Administrators by Theodore J. Marchese
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38* Reviews of the first edition:"Finally, higher education has an intelligent guide for recruiting administrators--an activity often taken for granted and not always thoughtfully carried out." -- Paul... -
Write More, Publish More, Stress Less!: Five Key Principles for a Creative and Sustainable Scholarly Practice Dannelle D. Stevens 9781620365175
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.892021 Textbook Excellence Award Winner (College: Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences)In this book Dr. Dannelle D. Stevens offers five key principles that will bolster your knowledge of academic... -
Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion Z Nicolazzo 9781620364567
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49WINNER of 2017 AERA DIVISION J OUTSTANDING PUBLICATION AWARDCHOICE 2017 Outstanding Academic TitleThis is both a personal book that offers an account of the author's own trans* identity and a deeply... -
Exploring More Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind Nancy L. Chick 9781579224769
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73What is distinctive about the ways specific disciplines are traditionally taught, and what kinds of learning do they promote? Do they inspire the habits of the discipline itself, or do they... -
SoTL in Action: Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice Nancy L. Chick 9781620366936
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73What are the foundational moments of meaningful scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects? How do teacher-scholars collect, develop, and share useful insights about student learning? How... -
Higher Education Accreditation: How It's Changing, Why It Must Paul L. Gaston 9781579227623
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Is the accreditation system "broken" as claimed by successive Secretaries of Education and some recent reports? This book addresses this question head-on, asking whether accreditation is indeed in... -
The Diversity Consultant Cookbook: Preparing for the Challenge by Eddie Moore, Jr.
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Written to advise how to get started in, and develop a career as, diversity consultants. This succinct cookbook provides the guidance to get you going and succeed.The cookbook metaphor reflects the... -
Rethinking Teaching in Higher Education: From a Course Design Workshop to a Faculty Development Framework Alenoush Saroyan 9781579220471
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This book is intended for faculty and faculty developers, as well as for deans, chairs, and directors responsible for promoting teaching and learning in higher education. Intentionally non-technical,... -
What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education: Academic Leaders Present Successful Policies and Strategies by Hale, Frank W. 9781579220679
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34* A unique reference describing successful diversity initiatives in higher educationHigher education, like the nation, is facing major demographic changes. Our colleges and universities recognize... -
Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences: A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence by Barbara E Lovitts 9781579222611
Booksplease Price: £20.99This is one of three short booklets designed to be given to graduate students as they begin their studies. They explain the purposes of the dissertation and the criteria by which it will be assessed... -
Pitch Perfect: Communicating with Traditional and Social Media for Scholars, Researchers, and Academic Leaders by 9781579223335
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93This book is intended for scholars, researchers, and academic leaders who have a passion to share their knowledge outside their classroom, laboratory, or institution; who want to make a difference;... -
Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning Dannelle D. Stevens 9781579225889
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.64This new edition retains the appeal, clarity and practicality that made the first so successful, and continues to provide a fundamental introduction to the principles and purposes of rubrics, with... -
Becoming a White Antiracist: A Practical Guide for Educators, Leaders, and Activists Stephen D. Brookfield 9781620368596
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.79As this book was being written, the United States exploded in outrage against the murder by police of people of color across the country. Corporations, branches of state and local government, and... -
Driving Change Through Diversity and Globalization: Transformative Leadership in the Academy by James A. Anderson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This book significantly advances discussion of the mission of higher education in today's multicultural environment and global economy. It sets out the challenges and considerations that must be... -
The Chief Diversity Officer: Strategy Structure, and Change Management Damon A. Williams 9781579222352
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.79This volume addresses the role of chief diversity officers as coordinating and integrating diversity leaders in higher education and other sectors.Having established in a companion volume the... -
Learning by Doing: Concepts and Models for Service-learning in Accounting by D V Rama
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89The fifth volume in a AAHE and Campus Compact's series on service-learning in the disciplines, this volume focuses on curriculum reform in accounting programs based on goals identified by accounting... -
Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice Amanda Tachine 9781642673333
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34Who (and what) are you bearing witness to (and for) through your research? When you witness, what claims are you making about who and what matters? What does your research forget, and does it do it... -
Teachers as Mentors: Models for Promoting Achievement with Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Students by Creating Community by Aram Ayalon 9781579223113
Booksplease Price: £42.52The book describes two similar and successful models of youth mentoring used by two acclaimed urban high schools that have consistently achieved exceptional graduation rates. Providing a detailed... -
Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide by Torie Weiston-Serdan 9781620365526
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79This book introduces the concept of critical mentoring, presenting its theoretical and empirical foundations, and providing telling examples of what it looks like in practice, and what it can achieve... -
The Analytics Revolution in Higher Education: Big Data, Organizational Learning, and Student Success by Jonathan S. Gagliardi 9781620365779
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Co-published with and In this era of "Big Data," institutions of higher education are challenged to make the most of the information they have to improve student learning outcomes, close equity gaps,... -
Trans* Policies and Experience in Housing and Residence Life by Jason C. Garvey 9781620367681
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Co-published with What are the institutional politics associated with fostering trans* inclusive policies? When formalizing a policy, what unanticipated challenges may emerge? How are students,... -
Developing Intercultural Competence and Transformation: Theory, Research, and Application in International Education Victor Savicki 9781579222666
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34Enrollments in international education programs are projected to grow exponentially as students, parents, and university personnel seek to prepare future leaders who can live and work effectively in... -
Working Side by Side: Creating Alternative Breaks as Catalysts for Global Learning, Student Leadership, and Social Change by Shoshanna Sumka
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73This book constitutes a guide for student and staff leaders in alternative break (and other community engagement, both domestic and international) programs, offering practical advice, outlining...