Higher Education category: 3664 books
Beyond Access
Indigenizing Programs for Native American Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
This book argues that two principal factors are inhibiting Native students from transitioning from school to college and from succeeding in their post-secondary studies. It presents models and examples of pathways to success that align with Native American students’ aspirations and cultural values.
Many...
Universities, Disruptive Technologies, and Continuity in Higher Education
The Impact of Information Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book seeks to understand the effects of the current information revolution on universities by examining the effects of two previous information revolutions: Gutenberg’s invention and proof of printing in 1450 and the Scientific Revolution from the mid- fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth...
The Douglass Century
Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major public research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approaches...
Assessing the Viva in Higher Education
Chasing Moments of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book makes the case for a revival in interest in the viva. As an oral assessment of a treatise or dissertation or of a student’s performance in art or dance the viva has a long history dating back to the time of the Greeks. It can be found today in the form of professional, vocational and academic...
The Governance and Management of Universities in Asia
Global Influences and Local Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
This volume seeks to identify and explore the dynamics of global forces on the development of higher education in Asia, in particular, how neoliberalism has affected reforms on university governance and management in the region. It includes a set of country-specific studies on how various countries...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
What are the institutional politics associated with fostering trans* inclusive policies? When formalizing a policy, what unanticipated challenges may emerge? How are students, particularly trans* students, influenced by the implementation of gender-inclusive housing practices and policies? Also, what...
Lost in Transition
The Journey from High School to Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
The transition from high school to college can be difficult for many students. This book shares examples of situations that students might face during their transitions and ways in which teachers, parents, administrators, and mentors can help students prepare to handle similar occurrences. The book...
The Important Role of Institutional Data in the Development of Academic Programming in Higher Education
New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 168
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Institutional data is one of the important aspects that informs the development and sustainability of academic programming within the academy. Centrality of institutional data is key when making decisions related to a range of academic programs. This volume addresses with both depth and breadth:
various...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
In an effort to create a more educated workforce in the United States, many community colleges are implementing new practices and strategies to assist under-prepared students. These efforts will ultimately support a stronger and more resilient global workforce. Examining the Impact of Community Colleges...
The Community Engagement Professional's Guidebook
A Companion to The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
This book is a companion guide to Campus Compact’s successful publication The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education. In the first text, Campus Compact Research Fellows - led by award-winning scholar-practitioner Lina D. Dostilio - identified a core of set of competencies needed by...
by Thomas Docherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
"Docherty is not only is a brilliant critic of those forces that would like to transform higher education into an extension of the market-place... he is also a man of great moral and civic courage, who under intense pressure from the punishing neoliberal state has risked a great deal to remind...
Mindful Leadership
An Insight-Based Approach to College Administration
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
This book applies the concept of mindfulness to the challenges faced by academic leaders such as department chairs, deans, provosts, presidents or chancellors, and faculty leaders. In addition to instructing academic leaders how to become more mindful, the book also provides clear and practical explanations...
Contested Issues in Troubled Times
Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Contested Issues in Troubled Times provides student affairs educators with frameworks to constructively think about and navigate the contentious climate they are increasingly encountering on campus.
The 54 contributors address the book’s overarching question: How do we create an equitable...
Connected Teaching
Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
At a time when many aspects of the faculty role are in question, Harriet Schwartz, the author of Connected Teaching, argues that the role of teachers is as important as ever and is evolving profoundly. She believes the relationships faculty have with individual students and with classes and cohorts...