Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Catherine McGlynn, Shaun McDaid
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Higher education institutions have increasingly been identified as potentially radicalising locations. The 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act consolidated this belief in the form of a legal duty of "due regard to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism". This duty made engagement...
Diversity's Promise for Higher Education
Making It Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Daryl G. Smith has devoted her career to studying and fostering diversity in higher education. She has witnessed and encouraged the evolution of diversity from an issue addressed sporadically on college campuses to a reality of the modern university experience. In Diversity’s Promise for Higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Gender studies in the professional realm has long been a heavily researched field, with many feminist texts studying topics including the wage gap and family life. However, female administration in higher education remains largely understudied, particularly on the influence of personal, professional,...
Strategies for Fostering Inclusive Classrooms in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Higher education institutions continue to address an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion. Many institutions face mounting pressure to find innovative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that impede retention...
Strategies for Facilitating Inclusive Campuses in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Higher education institutions continue to encounter an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion on university campuses. Many institutions are striving to find creative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that...
Perspectives on Access to Higher Education
Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education.
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by Sayed Hadi Sadeghi
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book investigates e-learning practices at American and Australian institutes of higher learning, their status quo, best-practice examples, and remaining issues. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, it combines three studies – two using quantitative methods and a third using qualitative methods...
Higher Education at Risk
Strategies to Improve Outcomes, Reduce Tuition, and Stay Competitive in a Disruptive Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Sandra Featherman believes that colleges are in denial about the severity of the threats to the current model of higher education.Based on her own experience as a president, as a trustee, and as a board member who has worked in private and public universities – and on interviews with the presidents...
Visionary Leadership
A Proven Pathway to Visionary Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
What will higher education look like in 20 years? Will a bachelors degree still be viableor even valuable? How will we assess learning? Will it be competency based? Determined by the sum experience of individual achievement? Or measured by student peers? How will learning be delivered? In the classroom?...
Knowledge for Sale
The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.
A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit...
Strategic Transformation of Higher Education
Challenges and Solutions in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Strategic Transformation of Higher Education examines the broken revenue-driven business model characteristic of higher education in an environment that demands greater access, more affordable tuition, accountable leaders, and faculty who deliver a consistently high quality of relevant education....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Developing students’ creative problem-solving skills is paramount to today’s teachers, due to the exponentially growing demand for cognitive plasticity and critical thinking in the workforce. In today’s knowledge economy, workers must be able to participate in creative dialogue and complex problem-solving....
Transforming Campus Culture
Frank Aydelotte's Honors Experiment at Swarthmore College
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is,...
The Aims of Higher Education
Problems of Morality and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In this book, philosopher Harry Brighouse and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson bring together leading philosophers to think about some of the most fundamental questions that higher education faces. Looking beyond the din of arguments over how universities should be financed, how they...