Higher Education category: 3664 books
Crossing the Finish Line
Completing College at America's Public Universities
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line...
Graduate Careers in Context
Research, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career trajectories, it is not surprising that there is a significant body of literature examining graduate careers in post-industrial societies. However, it has become increasingly evident in recent years that...
The Quest for Excellence
Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Core Texts. Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Liberal education aspires to excellence through the cultivation of free human beings who excel in thought, word, and deed. But what exactly is excellence, and why do we admire it? How do we conceive of what is excellent? What constitutes excellence—either for human beings, or in the realms of philosophy,...
Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening doors, closing wounds)
Latinas/os Finding WorkLife Balance in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding WorkLife Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy from Information Age Publishing. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and...
The Garden of Leaders
Revolutionizing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on cultivating leadership in students....
Differently Academic?
Developing Lifelong Learning for Women in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Lifelong learning is a key feature of society today, and is apparently embraced by a wide range of educators and trainers, as well as by governments and employers. In this wide-ranging book, Sue Jackson shows that universities have been slow to embrace a lifelong learning agenda, and argues that the...
Professors in the Gig Economy
Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
One of the most significant trends in American higher education over the last decade has been the shift in faculty employment from tenured to contingent. Now upwards of 75% of faculty jobs are non-tenure track; two decades ago that figure was 25%. One of the results of this shift—along with the...
Serving the New Majority Student
Working from Within to Transform the Institution
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Much of higher education was originally designed to meet the needs of full time 18-22 year-old students who enter directly from high school. However, the New Majority of our students are older, likely to swirl among institutions, and have significant adult responsibilities outside of the classroom....
Reflection in Action
A Guidebook for Student Affairs Professionals and Teaching Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This guidebook will stimulate student affairs professionals and higher education faculty alike to adopt new approaches when discussing sensitive or controversial topics with their students. It provides teachers and professionals with a critical social understanding of social justice, social agency, reflection,...
Fostering Success of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in STEM
The Role of Minority Serving Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
To maintain competitiveness in the global economy, United States policymakers and national leaders are increasing their attention to producing workers skilled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Given the growing minority population in the country, it is critical that higher...
Scholars in the Changing American Academy
New Contexts, New Rules and New Roles
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
As the nature of education generally, and higher education in particular, changes irrevocably, it is crucial to understand the informed opinions of those closest to the institutions of learning. This book, based on a survey of academics in 19 nations and conducted by leading global scholars, is a...
by George M. Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1997
At the end of his 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, George Marsden advanced a modest proposal for an enhanced role for religious faith in today's scholarship. This "unscientific postscript" helped spark a heated debate that spilled out of the pages of academic journals and The Chronicle...
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal...
The Flipped Approach to Higher Education
Designing Universities for Today’s Knowledge Economies and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
From the world’s first completely flipped institution, the authors address the socio-economic and socio-technical nature of today's world and how this impacts what is needed from the education sector, outlining how and why they adopted Flipped Learning as the transformative approach required to...