Higher Education category: 3664 books
Lower Ed
The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**“The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.”
—The New York Times Book Review
As featured on The Daily Show, NPR’s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the “powerful, chilling tale” (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine...
Increasing Persistence
Research-based Strategies for College Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Praise for Increasing Persistence
"What a gem! This is a requisite text for enrollment practitioners, higher education scholars, and progressive public policy makers dedicated to understanding the processes involved in increasing student retention and success rates. The authors' data-focused...
Running Against the Wind
A Handbook for Presidents and Chancellors
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Leading an institution of higher education requires an understanding of the responsibilities of the position, the diversity of its constituencies, and the complexity of the environment. This volume describes the structure and function of campus leadership and the interests of constituent groups as...
The Transition from Graduation to Work
Challenges and Strategies in the Twenty-First Century Asia Pacific and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2018
This book reports on the findings from a research study of vocational and higher education graduates’ employability challenges. The nature and extent of these challenges, their underlying causes, and effective strategies to address the problems in this area are all analysed from a multiple-stakeholder...
Working With Students in Community Colleges
Contemporary Strategies for Bridging Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This timely volume addresses the urgent need for new strategies and better ways to serve community colleges’ present and future students at a time of rapid diversification, not just racially and ethnically, but including such groups as the undocumented, international students, older adult learners...
Strategic Leadership
Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change. Each of these themes is at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to new expectations, market...
by Susan Manning, Kevin E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Instructors are under pressure to integrate technology into their traditional or online instruction, but often they aren't sure what to do or why they should do it. The Technology Toolbelt for Teaching offers instructors a down-to-earth guide to common technologies, explains the pedagogical purposes...
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance
Professionalization and the Modern American University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in...
The Still Divided Academy
How Competing Visions of Power, Politics, and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The Still Divided Academy is a wonderful examination of the academic community that shows their inner workings by addressing a broad range of issues including: academic politics, tenure, perceived and real political imbalance, academic freedom, and diversity. Administrators, professors, and students...
The View from the Helm
Leading the American University during an Era of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia, Duderstadt— who led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996— presided over a period of enormous change, not only for his institution, but for universities across the country. His presidency...
When For-Profit Meets Nonprofit
Educating Through the Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This study addresses the increasing tumult over the commercialization of higher education - a battle over profit and principle, money and mission. While many issues in higher education encompass the mission and values of the university, the operation of for-profit subsidiaries by nonprofit universities...
Academic Leadership in Higher Education
From the Top Down and the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
“Now what should I do?” This is a question academic leaders ask themselves with great regularity. As ironic as it may seem, very few academic leaders have had any formal training in academic administration, or in any kind of administration at all. For the most part, academic administrators learn...
by I. Mitroff, C. Alpaslan, E. S. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O'Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge and the tools they need to deal with today's complex, messy problems and systems.
The Winds of Freedom
Addressing Challenges to the University
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit, and courage, confront head-on the most pressing concerns facing our nation’s universities. From...