Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition
A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblen’s classic, thoroughly edited, annotated,...
How University Boards Work
A Guide for Trustees, Officers, and Leaders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
We expect college and university trustees to hire the president, advise senior staff, manage investments and financial decisions, and oversee major strategic initiatives. Unfortunately, they sometimes come into this powerful role with little or no understanding of what they are meant to do or how...
Organizing Enlightenment
Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university emerged in the early...
Presidencies Derailed
Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Presidencies Derailed is the first book to explore in depth why university presidencies fail and how university and college leadership can forestall, if not prevent, future leadership failures. Former university president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, along with professor Gerald B. Kauvar and former...
Reengineering the University
How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education’s...
University Reform
The Founding of the American Association of University Professors
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of America’s faculty. University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organization’s initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom....
by Doris Iarovici, MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Young adults enter college with many challenges—complicated family dynamics, identity issues, and extreme pressure to succeed, among others. Students may also have mental health difficulties, ranging from adjustment disorders to mood disorders, and growing numbers of them are seeking help on campus.
But...
Transforming Students
Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The recent trend of trying to measure higher education’s return on investment misses a fundamental point, argue Charity Johansson and Peter Felten. The central purpose of a college or university is to transform the lives of students—not to merely change them or help them mature. This transformation...
Teaching Teachers
Changing Paths and Enduring Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
As recently as 1990, if a person wanted to become a public school teacher in the United States, he or she needed to attend an accredited university education program. Less than three decades later, the variety of routes into teaching is staggering. In Teaching Teachers, education historians James...
The Great Mistake
How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt...
Transforming a College
The Story of a Little-Known College's Strategic Climb to National Distinction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Ten years after the publication of Transforming a College, Elon University continues to thrive as a school that reinvented itself and its community around the idea of inspiring and guiding students. George Keller’s now-classic account has been used as an inspiration and playbook for many other institutions.
Available...
Protesting Affirmative Action
The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation’s race- and gender-sensitive hiring and promotion...
Universities and Their Cities
Urban Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities,...
The Faculty Factor
Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession...