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  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Diversity's Promise for Higher Education

    Making It Work

    Daryl G. Smith has devoted her career to studying and fostering diversity in higher education. She has witnessed and encouraged the evolution of diversity from an issue addressed sporadically on college campuses to a reality of the modern university experience. In Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education, Smith brings together scholarly and field research relevant to the next generation of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The PhDictionary

    A Glossary of Things You Don't Know (but Should) about Doctoral and Faculty Life

    Series series Chicago Guides to Academic Life
    Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral programs and doctoral students considering faculty life, The PhDictionary is a lighthearted companion that illuminates the often opaque customs of academic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bourdieu and Higher Education

    Life in the Modern University

    This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting. It builds upon research into higher education leadership and administration to examine how the university sector has changed over recent decades and how it has been reshaped into its current form.The book draws together various ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Professing Criticism

    Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

    by John Guillory ...
    A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession.As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • What Universities Owe Democracy

    Universities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that—at a moment when ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954

    An Intellectual History

    Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women's educational attainment mirrored unprecedented ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sustainable. Resilient. Free.

    The Future of Public Higher Education

    by John Warner ...
    In 1983, U.S. News and World Report started to rank colleges and universities, throwing them into competition with each other for students and precious resources. Over the course of the next thirty or so years, everything fell apart. A Reagan-era ethos of privatization and competition has turned students into consumers and colleges into businesses. Tuition is unaffordable. Student loan debt is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Privileged Poor

    How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

    An NPR Favorite Book of the Year“Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”—Washington Post“An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.”—Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed“Eye-opening…Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How Humans Learn

    The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching

    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    Even on good days, teaching is a challenging profession. One way to make the job of college instructors easier, however, is to know more about the ways students learn. How Humans Learn aims to do just that by peering behind the curtain and surveying research in fields as diverse as developmental psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience for insight into the science behind learning.The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Breakdown of Higher Education

    How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done

    by John M. Ellis ...
    A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis.Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past fifty years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Picture a Professor

    Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning

    Edited by Jessamyn Neuhaus ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    “Does a service to all who would prefer a different path, offering realistic strategies to engage students in undermining scholarly stereotypes.”—SciencePicture a Professor is a collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies crafted by and for college instructors. It aims to inspire transformative student learning while challenging stereotypes about what a professor ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Paying for the Party

    In an era of skyrocketing tuition and concern over whether college is “worth it,” Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sport and the Neoliberal University

    Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

    Series series The American Campus
    College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Getting In: How to stand out from the crowd and ACE your residency interview

    The 2015 NRMP data shows that while the USMLE Step 1 is the single most important factor in granting an applicant an interview, interpersonal communication skills matter the most when choosing who to rank and ultimately hire.Why spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars preparing for the USMLE exams, only to “wing” the interview?In Getting In, Dr. Myers Hurt outlines the necessary steps to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Profession

    The Next Future of Theological Education

    Series series Theological Education between the Times (TEBT)
    What should theological education become?Theological education has long been successful in the United States because of its ability to engage with contemporary cultural realities. Likewise, despite the existential threats facing it today, theological education can continue to thrive if it is once again reinvented to fit with the needs of current times.Daniel Aleshire, the longtime executive ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Alternative Models of Sports Development in America

    Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health

    Series series Ohio University Sport Management Series
    In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions’ presidents, psychological and educational tolls on student-athletes, and high-profile academic scandals are just symptoms of a system that has come under increasing fire. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Ludic Pedagogy

    A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn

    Ludic Pedagogy: A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn outlines why and how having fun and positive experiences in college and university classes (and not just at social events or parties) leads to increased student success in face-to-face, hybrid, hyflex, or online environments. It provides readers with the Ludic Pedagogy model, together with how instructors can employ the elements of the model – ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Beyond Education

    Radical Studying for Another World

    by Eli Meyerhoff ...
    A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-makingHigher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • American Higher Education in Crisis?

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student debt has reached a startling record-high of one trillion dollars. Cost-minded students and their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Diversity Bargain

    And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

    We’ve heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Skim, Dive, Surface

    Teaching Digital Reading

    by Jenae Cohn ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    Students are reading on screens more than ever—how can we teach them to be better digital readers?Smartphones, laptops, tablets: college students are reading on-screen all the time, and digital devices shape students’ understanding of and experiences with reading. In higher education, however, teachers rarely consider how digital reading experiences may have an impact on learning abilities, unless ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Research Project Management: 25 Free Tools

    Evaluation Works’ Research Guides, #1

    by Ruth Belling ...
    Series Book 1 - Evaluation Works’ Research Guides
    Do you need to manage a research project?This guide lists 25 online tools and resources, available at zero cost, to help researchers, evaluators, doctoral students and supervisors, research managers and administrators, with a range of activities and skills involved in managing research successfully.Includes tools and resources for:Project planningGoal-settingTime managementDocument sharing and ... Read more

    Free