Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Torcuato Di Tella
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation...
The History of American Higher Education
Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped...
International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education
Alternative Frameworks for Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Essential reading for policy makers, institutional leaders, managers, advisors, and scholars in the field of higher education, International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education analyzes how the governance of higher education systems has evolved in recent years. This volume is an authoritative...
Continuing Higher Education and Lifelong Learning
An international comparative study on structures, organisation and provisions
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
Anke Hanft and Michaela Knust The present study examines and compares the structure and organisation of c- tinuing higher education in six countries: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the UK and the USA. The focus is not just on current continuing education provisions at higher education institutions...
Researching Learning in Higher Education
An Introduction to Contemporary Methods and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Across the world, universities are transforming their teaching and learning practices to meet the challenges facing Higher Education in the 21st century. Research into teaching and learning in Higher Education has never been a more important issue. Growing numbers of academics across disciplines are...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade. The book is concurrent with significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher education, including...
Order of Learning
Essays on the Contemporary University
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The promise of this admission policy reader arises from the embodiment of research from 58 authors, six continents, 20 time zones, 20+ first languages, and a broad array of research methodologies. Four sections aggregate key themes within the text:
(1) National Perspectives on Higher Education Admission...
Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education
Feminist Poststructural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers, analysts, and practitioners. The research...
by Kendall Hunt, Ellis A. Joseph, Ronald J. Nuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The Handbook of Research of Catholic Higher Education provides an important and timely overview for scholars and students interested in understanding this important sector of private higher education. More importantly, it is an important resource for those faculty, staff, and administrators interested...
by Graham Leicester, Bill Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Don’t adapt to the future of higher education. TRANSFORM IT.
The rise of online courses, growing costs, declining completion rates, increasingly diverse student populations, disruptions from outside innovators—as the leader of a higher education institution, you’re facing unprecedented...
Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education
Putting Psychometrics to Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Co-published with AIR. Published in association with AAC&U Assessment and accountability are now inescapable features of the landscape of higher education, and ensuring that these assessments are psychometrically sound has become a high priority for accrediting agencies and therefore also for higher...
by Mahsood Shah, Quyen T.N. Do
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
The Rise of Quality Assurance in Asian Higher Education provides information on the well researched quality assurance frameworks, processes, standards, and internal and external monitoring that have taken place around the globe. However, in Asia, where higher education has witnessed rapid growth,...
Habits of Mind
Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Habits of Mind maintains that the fact that almost everyone now goes to college need not be seen as an obstacle to excellence in education. Some critics have insisted that college is not for everyone, but William B. Allen and Carol Allen assert that the college diploma has rightly become as much the...