Higher Education category: 3664 books
China's Rising Research Universities
A New Era of Global Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This timely study charts the intentional and accelerated rise of China’s research universities by analyzing how state policy has transformed key institutions. Specifically, it addresses how state initiatives have influenced faculty life and academic culture at these campuses. Based on empirical...
The Challenge of Independent Colleges
Moving Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book began as a collaboration among top higher education researchers, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) scholars, and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Documenting the challenges and opportunities facing independent colleges in several integral areas, including...
Higher Education and Regional Development
Tales from Northern and Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
This book analyses the role of universities as critical actors in the socio-economic development of peripheral regions in Norway and the Czech Republic. Examining the ambiguities of the traditional mission of a university in comparison to contemporary demands, the editors and contributors move past...
Killing Public Higher Education
The Arms Race for Research Prestige
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
This is an opinion piece from a highly qualified professor of science who has served in administration highlights the need for reform in our public higher education research institutions. In this well-researched reference, Dr. Stocum illustrates how the competition among the public flagship universities...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
As the world becomes more globalized, student populations in university settings will continue to grow in diversity. To ensure students develop the cultural competence to adapt to new environments, universities and colleges must develop policies and programs to aid in the progression of cultural acceptance...
Systemic Structural Constellations and Sustainability in Academia
A New Method for Sustainable Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently. This book uses a systemic structural constellations...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Both educators and their students are involved in the process of assessment – all parties are expected to meet and exceed expectations in the face of competing conditions. New practices are being developed to enhance students’ participation, especially in their own assessment, be it though peer-review,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What are the experiences of faculty of color at traditionally white institutions (TWIs)
of higher education (IHE)? In what ways do faculty of color at TWIs of IHE cope with/handle struggles/defeats and successes in the workplace? In what ways can college/university administrators and colleagues support...
Disrupting the Culture of Silence
Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
What do women academics classify as challenging, inequitable, or “hostile” work environments and experiences? How do these vary by women’s race/ethnicity, rank, sexual orientation, or other social locations?How do academic cultures and organizational structures work independently and in tandem...
Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society
Convergence or Divergence in National Approaches?
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
This book explores and compares the systems of doctoral education in twelve higher education systems, consisting of four systems in East Asia, four in Europe and four Anglo-American systems.
The emphasis placed on doctoral education and training has increased dramatically in many higher education...
Global Inequalities and Higher Education
Whose interests are you serving?
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.
Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education
Can Equity be Bought?
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book examines how Performance or Outcomes Based Funding (POBF) policies impact racial equity in higher education. Over the last decade, higher education has become entrenched in a movement that holds colleges and universities more accountable to its supporters. There are pressures to answer...
by Michelle Gander, Heather Moyes, Emma Sabzalieva
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Career guide aimed specifically at the large number of people working in non-academic higher education roles, such as higher education administrators or professional services staff. Based on the authors' real-life experience and first-hand research, the book features case studies which enrich the material and bring it to life.
Is College a Lousy Investment?
Negotiating the Hidden Costs of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher education professionals...