Higher Education category: 3664 books
The Game of Life
College Sports and Educational Values
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the...
The Global Academic Rankings Game
Changing Institutional Policy, Practice, and Academic Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings. Based on a unified case methodology of eleven key countries and academic institutions, this comprehensive volume provides expert analysis on this emerging phenomenon at...
Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally. This book is the first comparative analysis of the phenomenon - the causes, implications, and future of inbreeding.
Paying the Professoriate
A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key...
Achieving Success through Academic Assertiveness
Real life strategies for today's higher education students
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Academic assertiveness is an essential capability that is required of students who wish to achieve academic and professional success. Written for students who are aiming to achieve college success, Achieving Success through Academic Assertiveness: Real life strategies for today's higher education...
Developing Learning Professionals
Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings. This interest is the result of an increased emphasis on courses that prepare students for specific occupations in the hopes that upon graduation students...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
In this volume in the IAP series on Advances in ServiceLearning Research, top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of servicelearning and community engagement. These chapters, selected through...
Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching
A Guide for Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
A guide to developing productive student-faculty partnerships in higher education
Student-faculty partnerships is an innovation that is gaining traction on campuses across the country. There are few established models in this new endeavor, however. Engaging Students as Partners in Learning...
Research in the College Context
Approaches and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Research in the College Context, 2nd Edition provides faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers in the college environment with a manual of diverse approaches and methods for researching higher education and college students. The text offers the reader a variety of qualitative and quantitative...
Faculty Mentoring
The Power of Students in Developing Technology Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The purpose of this book is to describe the approach and process involved in a program designed to assist faculty in acquiring technology skills and to apply these skills in constructing meaningful learningcentered applications. Most educators will agree that the challenge of developing faculty technology...
Diversity Myth
Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This is a powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically correct “multiculturalism” has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. In the name of diversity, many leading academic and cultural institutions are working to silence dissent and stifle intellectual...
The Two-Body Problem
Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Approximately eight of every ten academics have spouses or partners who are working professionals, and almost half of these partners are academics as well. In fact, dual-career academic couples are so prevalent that "the two-body problem" has become a common way of referring to the situation....
by Rick D. Saucier, Michael J. Messina, Lori L. Lohman
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.
How to Run a College
A Practical Guide for Trustees, Faculty, Administrators, and Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Residential colleges are the foundation on which US higher education is based. These institutions possess storied traditions fondly cherished by students, alumni, and faculty. There is no denying, however, that all colleges today struggle with changing consumer preferences, high sticker prices, and...