Higher Education category: 3664 books
The Community College and the Good Society
How the Liberal Arts Were Undermined and What We Can Do to Bring Them Back
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College...
Winnebagos on Wednesdays
How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Why a strong mission and inspired leadership are vital to the success of America’s colleges and universities
In 1998, soon after assuming the presidency of Tulane University, Scott Cowen was confronted with a setback. Despite an undefeated football season and putting the best financial deal...
The University and the New World
York University Invitation Lecture Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This is the first volume in the Invitation Lecture Series of York University and it is an auspicious beginning. Three leaders in higher education in the United States here present their thoughts on challenging questions of enrolment, curriculum, and standards which today confront the ever expanding...
Research and Relevant Knowledge
American Research Universities Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first...
Universities and Globalization
To Market, To Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Universities and Globalization: To Market, To Market examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. An interdisciplinary...
Critical University
Moving Higher Education Forward
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Critical University: Moving Higher Education Forward traverses fields in critical theory (Marcuse, Althusser), psychoanalysis (Kristeva, Freud), phenomenology (Husserl), and the philosophy of education (predominantly Freire and hooks) to analyze the direction forward for the contemporary university....
Learning Places
The Afterlives of Area Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous reexamination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies...
American Community Colleges:
The International Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
American community colleges are a great choice for international students seeking higher education in the United States. This book will guide you through the process of becoming a community college student, help you to achieve your academic and career goals, and save a lot of money! Topics covered...
The Christian College (RenewedMinds)
A History of Protestant Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
When it first appeared in 1984 The Christian College was the first modern comprehensive history of Protestant higher education in America. Now this second edition updates the history, featuring a new chapter on the developments of the past two decades, a major introduction by Mark Noll, a new preface and epilogue, and a series of instructive appendixes.
The Toxic University
Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an...
Globalization and Women in Academia
North/west-south/east
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
In this cross-cultural exploration of the comparative experiences of Asian and Western women in higher education management, leading feminist theorist Carmen Luke constructs a provocative framework that situates her own standpoint and experiences alongside those of Asian women she studied over a three-year...
by Ronald Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
There is no single idea of the university. Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. But what, then, might lie...
Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning
Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Research has identified the importance of helping students develop the ability to monitor their own comprehension and to make their thinking processes explicit, and indeed demonstrates that metacognitive teaching strategies greatly improve student engagement with course material.This book ? by presenting...
Financial Sustainability in US Higher Education
Transformational Strategy in Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book is a practical approach to insuring financial sustainability of US colleges, presented through the lens of organizational strategic thinking. The book does not simply offer models of how colleges can become financially sustainable in cost cutting, online education, international student...