Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Suman Gupta, Richard Allen, Subarno Chattarji
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level. It presents analytical background discussions of the history and policy environment,...
Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education
Connecting Parallel Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Both sacred and secular worldviews have long held a place in U.S. higher education, although non-religious perspectives have been privileged in most institutions in the modern era. Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education illustrates the importance of cultivating multiple worldviews at public,...
Higher Education in Transition
History of American Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
At a time when our colleges and universities face momentous questions of new growth and direction, the republication of Higher Education in Transition is more timely than ever. Beginning with colonial times, the authors trace the development of our college and university system chronologically, in...
Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education
Building Capacity in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book discusses the role that integrated science and higher education policies may play in further democratizing and promoting social-economic development in Latin America. It suggests that such democratizing and development may be achieved in two complementary ways: i) broadening the access to...
by Professor Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dr Peter Rands, Dr Stephen Scoffham
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Sustainability is a complex concept, and the challenge of understanding it and applying it to a diverse, multi-agent, organisational setting with its potentially conflicting priorities cannot be underestimated. Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education provides key learning from the authors'...
Argumentation in Higher Education
Improving Practice Through Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Argumentation in Higher Education offers professors, lecturers and researchers informative guidance for teaching effective argumentation skills to their undergraduate and graduate students. This professional guide aims to make the complex topic of argumentation open and transparent. Grounded in empirical...
by Ye Liu
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
This book investigates the changing opportunities in higher education for different social groups during China’s transition from the socialist regime to a market economy. The first part of the book provides a historical and comparative analysis of the development of the idea of meritocracy, since...
No University Is an Island
Saving Academic Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education’s independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited...
by Nathan D. Grawe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest—traditional higher education strongholds—expect to lose 5 percent of their college-aged...
Globalization and Change in Higher Education
The Political Economy of Policy Reform in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century. With a sustained focus on the national level of policy implementation, institutional change is considered in relationship to broader trends in economic development...
Fundamentalist U
Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical Protestant network of higher education has been no different. In the twentieth century, when higher...
Women Leaders in Higher Education
Shattering the myths
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Leadership in universities is physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding work. It involves multiple and complex tasks and responsibilities such as staff management, strategic management, operational planning, financial and resources management, policy development, quality assurance processes,...
College for the Commonwealth
A Case for Higher Education in American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
In the past decade, states across the nation have cut higher education spending per student by more than 15 percent. Kentucky has experienced some of the largest cuts in the country, leading many to claim that higher education is in a state of crisis. In spite of this turmoil, however, Kentucky's...
by Alain Touraine
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us. Higher degrees have become less and less valuable on the labor market and the demand for academic reform has become...