Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunities for, accountability in higher education in America. Providing analysis that can be used to engage institutions of higher education in the difficult but necessary conversation of accountability.
Reparation and Reconciliation
The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education...
Education Is Not an App
The future of university teaching in the Internet age
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Whilst much has been written about the doors that technology can open for students, less has been said about its impact on teachers and professors. Although technology undoubtedly brings with it huge opportunities within higher education, there is also the fear that it will have a negative effect...
Higher Education, Fiscal Administration, and Budgeting
An Applied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book takes an applied approach to budgeting and fiscal administration in higher education. It presents new and aspiring leaders in higher education and student affairs with the fundamental knowledge and skills to supervise, analyze, and implement budgets that make the best and most effective...
Challenges in Higher Education Leadership
Practical and Scholarly Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
In this important resource, experienced higher education presidents and senior leaders come together with respected scholars to tackle the most important and timely issues facing leaders in colleges and universities today. Challenges in Higher Education Leadership advances critical leadership and...
Higher Education Assessments
Leadership Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape...
Empowering Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs
Theory, Research, Narratives, and Practice From Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
"The authors and editors have done a remarkable job conveying the miltivocal, multilayered, and complex nature of feminist inquiry... Overall, the theory, practice and research contributions were most impressive…The narratives, in turn, were extraordinary."?Journal of College Student Development"Pasque...
Exploring Consensual Leadership in Higher Education
Co-operation, Collaboration and Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Exploring Consensual Leadership in Higher Education explores the idea that the nature of academic work is both creative and consensual. Higher education relationships, whether between managers, staff, learners or the public sphere, are at their most effective when rooted in partnership, teamwork,...
Access to Inequality
Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization,...
Transformative Conversations
A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Praise for Transformative Conversations
"In the 'superstorm' of writings about the crisis in higher education this little gem of a book stands out like a mindfulness bell. It calls us back to the only thing that truly matters—the energy and wisdom buried in the minds and hearts of dedicated...
ReEnvisioning Higher Education
Embodied Pathways to Wisdom and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book will expand the horizon of higher education, helping students, faculty and administrators to return to their roots and be in touch with their whole being. This book stresses that learning is much more than just accumulating knowledge and skills. Learning includes knowing ourselves—mind,...
A Handbook for Leaders in Higher Education
Transforming teaching and learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Written to assist those seeking to understand the key global drivers, and an overview of key challenges facing senior leaders and managers today, this book focuses on the complex and highly politicised area of teaching and learning in higher education. Providing tried and tested tips and techniques...
by Jon Yorke, Lesley Vidovich
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book analyses accountability and quality policies relating to learning standards and examines their implications for assessment in higher education. Whilst primarily focusing on the Australian setting, this analysis is located within a broader frame of reference that includes the United Kingdom...
by Pedro Uetela
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book critically addresses concepts and analyses related to the higher education and development nexus in Africa. The study explores the expansion of higher education in Africa and its impact on development, modernization and the economy to situate Africa within global debates on higher education...