Higher Education category: 3664 books
Beer and Circus
How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject
Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money...
From Diplomas to Doctorates
The Success of Black Women in Higher Education and its Implications for Equal Educational Opportunities for All
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This volume is designed to illuminate the educational experiences of Black women, from the time they earn their high school diplomas through graduate study, with a particular focus on their doctoral studies, by exploring the commonalities and the uniqueness of their individual paths and challenges. The...
Reengineering the University
How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education’s...
Advancing Social Justice
Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies to Transform Your Campus
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Tools and strategies to foster transformative change for social justice
Many believe that social justice education is simply the new politically correct term for diversity-focused intervention or multiculturalism. The true definition, however, is more complex, nuanced, and important to understand....
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching...
Confronting Equity Issues on Campus
Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"This volume examines how colleges and universities are using the Center for Urban Education's Equity Scorecard to create racial equity on campus. With in-depth examinations of the Equity Scorecard process as well as reflections from practitioner teams and researchers, the book is a testament to the...
Learning for Economic SelfSufficiency
Constructing Pedagogies of Hope Among LowIncome, LowLiterate Adults
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic SelfSufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that lowliterate adults encounter in various environments. Moreover, this book presents strategies...
by D. Lazere
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Presenting a thoughtful justification for the left in American education, Donald Lazere argues that to teach students rhetoric and critical thinking, key components of a humanist education, educators must discuss and teach students to grapple with the conservative bias in academia, the media, and politics that is considered to be the status quo.
Univer-Cities: Strategic Implications for Asia
Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Univer-cities: Strategic Implications for Asia aims to redefine the multi-faceted symbiotic relationship between universities and host cities. The four readings in this reader will invite readers to challenge the traditional view of what a university is as a place, and re-define the university as...
by Andrew Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This text challenges binary perceptions of space and explores the possibilities afforded by a hybrid learning space at the intersection of physical, virtual, formal and informal spaces. It examines how new technologies and modes of delivery, including media-enhanced learning and open education, present...
Unnormalizing Education
Addressing Homophobia in Higher Education and K12 Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Recently, with the number of students from higher education and K12 settings committing suicide, it is apparent that homophobia and homophobic bullying are tremendous problems in our schools and universities. However, educators are unclear about an appropriate process for addressing these challenges....
Educational Ecologies
Toward a Symbolic-Material Understanding of Discourse, Technology, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This book elucidates how technology has impacted the discourse and practices of higher education. Dowd situates current educational movements centered on new technologies, such as the Do It Yourself (DIY) movement, within broader ideological concepts concerned with education, progress, technology,...
Social Justice Education
Inviting Faculty to Transform Their Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"This collection of essays on social justice in higher education is at once practical and inspiring. Editors Skubikowski, Wright, and Graf have selected essays that explore how faculty can work to infuse social justice goals at multiple levels in higher education, including the theoretical, intra- and...
by Duke Maskell
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Something has gone deeply wrong with the university - too deeply wrong to be put right by any merely bureaucratic means. What’s wrong is, simply, that our official idea of education, the idea that inspires all government policies and ‘initiatives’, is itself uneducated. With the growing emphasis...