Higher Education category: 3664 books
Understanding College and University Organization
Theories for Effective Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Now available in paperback, this two-volume work is intended to help readers develop powerful new ways of thinking about organizational principles, and apply them to policy-making and management in colleges and universities.The book is written with two audiences in mind: administrative and faculty leaders...
Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives
Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
College campuses have become rich sites of hip-hop culture and knowledge production. Despite the attention that campus personnel and researchers have paid to student life, the field of higher education has often misunderstood the ways that hip-hop culture exists in college students’ lives. Based...
Poison Ivy
A Social Psychological Typology of Deviant Professors and Administrators in American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
This thoroughly researched comprehensive work is a must read for everyone engaged in higher educationlest they be researchers, teachers, practitioners, staff, or administrators.
CLIFTON D. BRYANT, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic
This book challenges the popular stereotype...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The purpose of this work is to advance understanding of intersectional theory and its application to research in education. The scholars whose work appear in this volume utilize intersectional theory and research methods to work in fields and disciplines such as Education, Sociology, Women’s Studies,...
Disciplining Feminism
From Social Activism to Academic Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and...
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students “irrespective of color.” Yet the visionary college’s implementation of this admissions policy was uneven. In Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College:...
Closing the Opportunity Gap
Identity-Conscious Strategies for Retention and Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book offers a novel and proven approach to the retention and success of underrepresented students. It advocates a strategic approach through which an institution sets clear goals and metrics and integrates the identity support work of cultural / diversity centers with skill building through cohort...
Online, Blended and Distance Education in Schools
Building Successful Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The tremendous growth in K-12 online and blended learning programs in recent years is creating new needs for policy development, infrastructure building, teacher and administrator training, and for program development in areas such as curriculum, instruction, technology and management. As blended learning...
The Best Dang Job in the World
A Leadership Guide for College and University Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
In The Best Dang Job in the World, Bill Rezak creates a fictional campus to highlight characteristics, attributes, and behaviors which are key to success in leading an institution of higher learning. The book centers on Rick Nedic, a dean who finds himself the victim of a faculty no-confidence vote....
Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia
Possibilities and Challenges in the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book discusses liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in the context of East Asia, specifically focusing on Japan, China and S. Korea where it has become an emerging issue in higher education in recent years. It first explores the development, concepts and challenges of liberal arts...
Academic Turnarounds
Restoring Vitality to Challenged American Colleges/Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
What are the hallmarks of a lasting institutional turnaround? It is too easy to mistake a single initiative_mounting a new marketing program, for example, or bringing in a million dollar donation_for a true turnaround. Successful turnarounds involve profound, often difficult, actions that affect the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Like many ideas that inform policy, practice and research, ‘transition’ has many meanings. Children make a transition to adulthood, pupils move from primary to secondary school, and there is then a movement from school to work, training or further education. Transitions can lead to profound and...
Peak Performance for Deans and Chairs
Reframing Higher Education's Middle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Deans and chairs, like other leaders everywhere, often rely on narrow views of their organizations that capture only part of the real picture. As a result, they miss out on a rich array of options available to them. Peak Performance for Deans and Chairs molds deans and chairs into better leaders by...
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Thinking Critically, Creatively, and Ethically
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Liberal Arts and Sciences ... should be read by those persons who wish to seek a higher level of critical, compassionate, and creative thinking, It is well-written, insightful, and is a fascinating examination of education...and significant traits such as honesty, creativity, ethical behavior, and...