Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Checklist for Change
Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and intrusive policies....
Indian Spectacle
College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels....
Do Babies Matter?
Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience both the benefits...
In the Godfather Garden
The Long Life and Times of Richie "the Boot" Boiardo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In the Godfather Garden is the true story of the life of Richie “the Boot” Boiardo, one of the most powerful and feared men in the New Jersey underworld. The Boot cut his teeth battling the Jewish gang lord Abner Longy Zwillman on the streets of Newark during Prohibition and endured to become...
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s...
by Gabriel A. Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Standard narratives of early twentieth-century African American history credit the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern metropolises for the emergence of the New Negro, an educated, upwardly mobile sophisticate very different from his forebears. Yet this conventional history overlooks the...
Race, Religion, and Civil Rights
Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students,...
by Robin Starr Minthorn, Heather J. Shotton, Charlotte Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Indigenous...
Battleground New Jersey
Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
New Jersey’s legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson chronicles reforms to the system through the dramatic stories of Arthur T. Vanderbilt—the...
Using Servant Leadership
How to Reframe the Core Functions of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Using Servant Leadership provides an instructive guide for how faculty members can engage in servant leadership with administrators, students, and community members. By utilizing a wide range of research and through a series of case studies, Angelo J. Letizia demonstrates how, with a bit of creative...
Warring over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers...
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities...
Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century
Moving to a Mission-Oriented and Learner-Centered Model
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The institution of tenure—once a cornerstone of American colleges and universities—is rapidly eroding. Today, the majority of faculty positions are part-time or limited-term appointments, a radical change that has resulted more from circumstance than from thoughtful planning. As colleges and universities...
33 Simple Strategies for Faculty
A Week-By-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Many students struggle with the transition from high school to university life. This is especially true of first-generation college students, who are often unfamiliar with the norms and expectations of academia. College professors usually want to help, but many feel overwhelmed by the prospect of...