Higher Education category: 3664 books
Studying Transfer in Higher Education: New Approaches to Enduring and Emerging Topics
New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 170
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Gain fresh perspectives and approaches to the topic of students transferring among institutions of higher education. Despite the copious research on transfer patterns and students who transfer, this line of research is thronged with conceptual, methodological, and data challenges that warrant continued...
by A. S. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book is a collection of thoughts expressed by the authors from time to time in the past. on our higher education's system and related matters. The articles bring out the various problems that mire our educational system. The problems are of long standing nature and attempt to correct and bring...
Measuring Glass Ceiling Effects in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges
New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 159
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This volume offers readers a comprehensive means to understanding glass ceiling effects in higher education. Each chapter approaches the glass ceiling from a different perspective, providing compelling
arguments that truly highlight the importance and usefulness of collecting data on this topic.
Institutional...
Higher Education in a Globalising World
International Trends and Mutual Observation A Festschrift in Honour of Ulrich Teichler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains research-based essays by established scholars from four continents. It analyzes the development of international policies in higher education and the impact of mutual observation and policy borrowing on national policies, and offers insights into recent changes and challenges for...
by John R. Thelin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life.
Thelin’s...
One Hundred Semesters
My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a traditionally...
Palace of Ashes
China and the Decline of American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In addition to possessing the world’s largest economies, China and the United States have extensive higher education systems comparable in size. By juxtaposing their long and distinctive educational traditions, Palace of Ashes offers compelling evidence that American colleges and universities are...
Work Integrated Learning
A Guide to Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
The demand for work-ready graduates, who are familiar with organizational practices in the workplace is increasing, and so the need for greater work integrated learning (WIL) is a growing concern for the education sector. With the globalization of higher education and the cultural and linguistic challenges...
Real-Time Student Assessment
Meeting the Imperative for Improved Time to Degree, Closing the Opportunity Gap, and Assuring Student Competencies for 21st-Century Needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book challenges institutions and their programs to prioritize the use of chronological assessment results to benefit enrolled students in comparison with the more common practice of prolonged assessment cycles that generally benefit future students.
Peggy Maki advocates for real-time assessment...
Making Teaching and Learning Matter
Transformative Spaces in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
This volume captures the spirit of collaboration and innovation that its authors bring into the classroom, as well as to groundbreaking undergraduate programs and initiatives. Coming from diverse points of view and twenty different disciplines, the contributors illuminate the often perplexing debates...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term...
A History of Higher Education Exchange
China and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China’s imperial leaders made a historic decision—to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland’s borders. In time, an acquisition of science and technology from the rapidly-industrializing...
Research Studies in Higher Education
Educating Multicultural College Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This groundbreaking book edited by Terence Hicks, a quantitative research professor, and Abul Pitre, a qualitative research professor, builds upon the usefulness of each research method and integrates them by providing valuable findings on a diverse group of college students. This book provides the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The rapid expansion of higher education provision, particularly in Europe and North America during the 1960s opened up for the first time the question whether everyone should have the opportunity to experience the benefits of higher university and other institutions. The contributors are economists, sociologists and politicians and all have different assumptions, commitments and postures.