Higher Education category: 3664 books
by S. Deeley
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Through innovative analysis of theory and practice, this book offers refreshing critical perspectives on service-learning in higher education. It constructs a theoretical paradigm for service-learning which extends to critical pedagogy, and investigates critical reflection and academic reflective writing, supported throughout by empirical evidence.
Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance
Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national attributes have been evaluated under international...
For-profit Higher Education
Developing a World Class Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Today a college degree is needed to ensure an avenue to a decent standard of living. The workplace demands lifelong learning, since most workers will change careers several times before retiring. Meanwhile, attaining a degree is becoming more difficult both in terms of the time required and money....
Within These Gates
Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Within These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that impact higher education, federal and state government...
Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa
Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
How do we understand academic freedom today? Does it still have relevance in a global
reconfiguring of higher education in the interests of the economy, rather than the public
good? And locally, is academic freedom no more than an inconvenient ideal, paid lip service
to South Africa’s Constitution...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book provides context about the experiences of Black graduate and professional students attending HBCUs. Indeed, such research is important, particularly since HBCUs play a significant role in the number of Blacks who receive doctorates and professional degrees (i.e. M.D., D.D.S., J.D. etc.),...
The Qualified Student
A History of Selective College Admission in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In The Qualified Student Harold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically, he discusses the way that college and university reformers employed those methods to introduce higher education into a broader cross-section...
Overseas Students in Higher Education
Issues in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Higher education institutions are increasingly concerned with the quality of their teaching and learning experiences they provide for students, including the increasing number from overseas. In this text, some of the leading authorities in the field bring together current research and sound practical...
Women on the Role of Public Higher Education
Personal Reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban university.
Pathways to Reform
Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest university
Change is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic...
The Research Mission of Higher Education Institutions outside the University Sector
Striving for Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Even if in most countries non-university higher education institutions did not have originally a research mandate, it is well known that in most cases these institutions have progressively developed research activities and, at least in some countries, the State now has recognized the research role...
by Michelle Stack
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Higher Education Institutions simultaneously critique and participate in national and international rankings of universities. However, this creates a difficult situation since if universities do participate in rankings they acquiesce to a system based in media logics that has little to do with academic...
Degrees of Deception
America's For-Profit Higher Education Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Degrees of Deception explains the development and widespread abuses of the for-profit higher education sector in America. To illustrate the scope and degree of wrongdoing in forprofit higher education, readers are exposed to the industry in the same sequential order that students experience it in...
Strategic Management of Universities in the Ibero-America Region
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book provides the readers with a map of the higher education systems and strategic management trends in the higher education institutions within countries of the Ibero-America region. The key feature of this volume is the presentation of a conceptual framework as a point of reference for the...