Higher Education category: 3664 books
The Lives of Campus Custodians
Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This unique study uncovers the lives and working conditions of a group of individuals who are usually rendered invisible on college campuses--the custodians who daily clean the offices, residence halls, bathrooms and public spaces. In doing so it also reveals universities’ equally invisible practices...
Engaging Dissonance
Developing Mindful Global Citizenship in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This volume explores the internationalization of higher education in the context of global citizenry and intercultural competencies. It focuses on presenting dissonance as a means to facilitating students’ openness to complexity and development of intercultural skills or their experiences in the...
The Prudent Professor
Planning and Saving for a Worry-Free Retirement from Academe
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
“Strengths of this book include its readability and accessibility to further information. Retirement is approached from the ‘what you put in is what you will get out’ philosophy, encouraging the reader to learn what options are best suited for themselves. TIAA-CREF traditionally has been the retirement...
Going to College with Autism
Tips and Strategies from Successful Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Many college campuses are diligently working to improve programming for students with Autism on their campuses. Increasing enrollment and demands often leave college professionals with questions about the best ways to support these students. Having a clear understanding of Autism and ways to assist...
Understanding the Latinx Experience
Developmental and Contextual Influences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The Latino presence continues to grow in traditional population enclaves and has tripled in areas that are not traditionally associated with this pan-ethnic group.
The dramatic growth of this population in the U.S. requires a considerably deeper understanding of individuals that share this...
Quality Assurance and Institutional Transformation
The Chinese Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book illustrates the higher education quality assurance system and its impact on institutional transformation in China. It starts by describing the higher education system in China and its quality assessment schemes. It discusses in detail the Quality Assessment of Undergraduate Education (QAUE)...
by Roberta Espinoza
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural capital...
by Frances A. Maher, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very different universities, Privilege and Diversity in the Academy explores how this diversification has...
Faculty Work and the Public Good
Philanthropy Engagement and Academic Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At a time when faculty roles are under great scrutiny and faculty work itself has an uncertain future, this book offers a new approach to examining academic professionalism. This collection of essays applies a philanthropic lens to contemporary debates and considers academic work completed out of...
by Yasmin Y. Ortiga
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book investigates the dilemma of educating students for future work in the context of the Philippines, one of the top sources of migrant labor in the world. Here, colleges and universities are expected to not only educate students for jobs within the country, but for potential employers beyond...
Towards Fairer University Assessment
Recognizing the Concerns of Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
After all the hours of studying, reading and preparation, the nights spent revising and the writing and re-writing of assignments, ‘success’ for university students can often be represented with a single grade or digit, summing up a wide range of activities. The authors of this timely book ask...
Conceptualising the Digital University
The Intersection of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Despite the increasing ubiquity of the term, the concept of the digital university remains diffuse and indeterminate. This book examines what the term 'digital university' should encapsulate and the resulting challenges, possibilities and implications that digital technology and practice brings to...
The Coercive Community College
Bullying and its Costly Impact on the Mission to Serve Underrepresented Populations
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Few studies address workplace bullying in American higher education. Leah P.Hollis, EdD, author of Bully in the Ivory Tower addressed the issue of workplace bullying in four-year institutions. This volume replicates the study to reveal that 64% of community college respondents are affected by workplace...
Fundraising and Institutional Advancement
Theory, Practice, and New Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In this timely textbook, authors Drezner and Huehls take the interdisciplinary, complex nature of the study of philanthropy and fundraising and apply it to the field of higher education. Covering issues of increasing importance to institutions—including donor cultivation, growth of fundraising at...