Higher Education category: 3664 books
Success on the Tenure Track
Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Landing a tenure-track position is no easy task. Achieving tenure is even more difficult. Under what policies and practices do faculty find greater clarity about tenure and experience higher levels of job satisfaction? And what makes an institution a great place to work?
In 2005–2006, the...
R.A.C.E. Mentoring Through Social Media
Black and Hispanic Scholars Share Their Journey in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Ivory Tower is and can often be a lonely place for faculty of color. Social injustices run deep and are entrenched within academia. Faculty of color (FOC), more specifically Black and Hispanic, often lament about the ‘Black/Brown’ tax that frequently takes its toll both personally and professionally,...
Engaging Higher Education
Purpose, Platforms, and Programs for Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
For directors of campus centers that have received the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, this book offers research and models to further advance their work. For directors starting out, or preparing for application for the Carnegie Classification, it provides guidance on setting up...
Mentoring Magic
Pick The Card For Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A Guidebook for Students in Higher Education who are American, International, or Studying Abroad. A wizard waves his wand, a magician produces a rabbit, a fairy godmother casts her spells; the magic of mentoring comes from connections! Ask a person you respect, “How did you get to where you are...
by D. Neubauer, K. Kuroda
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Through case studies in eight Asian countries, Europe, and the United States, this volume explores the range and consequences of increased mobility within Asia-Pacific higher education and the patterns of migration emerging for persons, ideas, institutions, and practices.
Personal, Academic and Career Development in Higher Education
SOARing to Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
This book is the first to show how to integrate Personal Development Planning (PDP) activities into teaching in higher education. It is packed with activities, exercises, lesson plans, resources, reflective questionnaires, skills audits and case studies, and with suggestions for how these may be customized...
by Robin Harris, Hugh Smith, Marcel de Grandpre
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
The 1981 Supplement adds more than 3000 entries to the approximately 10,500 listed in the original volume and in the 1965 and 1971 Supplements. Like its predecessors, this volume provides a full list of the secondary sources related to Canadian higher education – books, articles, theses ,dissertations,...
Private Higher Education Across Asia
Expanding Access, Searching for Quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Private higher education (HE) growth in Asia has been much more rapid than in other parts of the world. This has led to a reduction in the burden on governments to finance HE with public funds; and diversification of the mission, scope, and role of private HE institutions in offering an alternative...
Echoes of Insight
Past Perspectives and the Future of Christian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Christian higher education needs something richer and deeper.
Faith-based institutions yearn for more than business as usual, and Echoes of Insight invites you to listen again to older, forgotten, and perhaps even ignored voices. Designed to stimulate conversation among colleagues, Echoes of...
The Value and Limits of Academic Speech
Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Free speech has been a historically volatile issue in higher education. In recent years, however, there has been a surge of progressive censorship on campus. This wave of censorship has been characterized by the explosive growth of such policies as "trigger warnings" for course materials;...
by Tricia Coverdale-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This book offers new insights and perspectives on internationalization and trans-national higher education (TNHE) with contributions from three continents. These include the student experience in Malaysia, China, Japan and India as well as institutional perspectives and pedagogical implications of new research.
International Faculty in Higher Education
Comparative Perspectives on Recruitment, Integration, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
In an interconnected and globally competitive environment, faculty mobility across countries has become widespread, yet is little understood. Grounded in qualitative methodology, this volume offers a cutting-edge examination of internationally mobile academics today and explores the approaches and...
Juggling Flaming Chain Saws
Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Challenges of worklife balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many...
Higher Education Regionalization in Asia Pacific
Implications for Governance, Citizenship and University Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Asia is rapidly developing a wide variety of regional organizations and interactive patterns, reflecting in large part its increasing role in the global economic and political engagements. Higher Education constitutes a distinct sphere of activity within this overall pattern of regionalization.