Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations. And they demonstrate...
by John R. Thelin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
John R. Thelin’s A History of American Higher Education has become a standard in higher education studies. Designed to be used alongside this groundbreaking book or on its own, Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education presents primary sources that chart the social, intellectual,...
Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free
How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been developed, most schools refuse to publish the results. Instead, they allow such publications as U.S. News...
by Kathleen Manning
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The second edition of Organizational Theory in Higher Education is a comprehensive and accessible treatment of organizational theory and higher education administration. Noted scholar Kathleen Manning offers a fresh take on the models and lenses through which higher education can be viewed by presenting...
Accreditation on the Edge
Challenging Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Accreditation is essential to colleges and universities. Without it, they are unable to participate in federal student aid programs or confer legitimate degrees. In Accreditation on the Edge, Susan D. Phillips and Kevin Kinser bring together the expertise of different stakeholders to illustrate the...
Education Development and Leadership in Higher Education
Implementing an Institutional Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
In today's highly competitive and globalized higher education market, leaders and managers find themselves considering the same issues of quality assurance, increased participation, the potential of new technologies and improving standards of teaching, learning and leadership. Education development...
How to Recruit and Retain Higher Education Students
A Handbook of Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
How to Recruit and Retain Higher Education Students is an invaluable resource for academic staff, administrators and policy makers involved in student recruitment and improving student retention. It offers practical advice on how universities can influence the expectations of prospective students,...
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...
American Higher Education
Issues and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Higher education in the United States is a complex, diverse, and important enterprise. The latest book in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series brings to life issues of governance, organization, teaching and learning, student life, faculty, finances, college sports, public policy, fundraising,...
Understanding Branding in Higher Education
Marketing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This book provides a critical theory of branding in higher education. The author argues for a higher education for all and positions higher education as a human right necessary for the well-being of citizens and democracy. Firstly, the book introduces the concept of desire as an underpinning for brand...
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Published under the Sponsorship of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected...
by Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
The CAS Professional Standards for Higher Education (9th edition) book contains 44 sets of functional area standards and guidelines. This text provides an introduction to the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS), its mission, initiatives, and the principles upon which...
Catholic Higher Education
A Culture in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Catholic higher education in the United States is undergoing dramatic changes, driven largely by the virtual disappearance of nuns, brothers, and priests from Catholic university campuses. Today Catholic colleges and universities are dealing with critical questions about what constitutes Catholic...
Assessment for Social Justice
Perspectives and Practices within Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Assessment for Learning (AfL) has become an established idea within higher education, based on the evidence that assessment is one of the most powerful drivers of student learning and thus can be harnessed as a means to improve learning. Assessment for Social Justice looks at assessment in higher...