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Vendor:A. D. C. Peterson
Schools Across Frontiers: The Story of the International Baccalaureate and the United World Colleges
This is the story of two initiatives in international education, one originating in Switzerland, the other in Britain, but both now established in most countries of the world, including especially the United States and U.S. schools overseas. The International baccalaureate (IB) is a college...- $44.95
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Vendor:Ladale C. Winling
Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century
Today, universities serve as the economic engines and cultural centers of many U.S. cities, but how did this come to be? In Building the Ivory Tower, LaDale Winling traces the history of universities' relationship to the American city, illuminating how they embraced their role...- $44.95
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Vendor:Edward Potts Cheyney
History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940
Following his retirement from teaching in 1934, Edward Potts Cheyney was invited by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to write a history of the University in celebration of its bicentennial. Cheyney completed the project, published as the present work, in 1940. This,...- $69.95
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Vendor:Stuart J. Hillmon
Getting a PhD in Economics
Considering a graduate degree in economics? Good choice: the twenty-first-century financial crisis and recession have underscored the relevance of experts who know how the economy works, should work, and could work. However, Ph.D. programs in economics are extremely competitive, with a high rate of...- $29.95
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Vendor:Donna L. Ferullo
Managing Copyright in Higher Education: A Guidebook
As more and more colleges and universities establish copyright offices and/or assign the responsibilities of copyright education and advisory services to specific individuals within the institution, many times librarians, there is a paucity of resources available on how to manage that responsibility. Most works...- $34.00
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Vendor:Nicholas L. Syrett
The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research...- $42.50
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Vendor:Felicia Darling
Teachin' It!: Breakout Moves That Break Down Barriers for Community College Students
"How can I tailor instruction to redress the wide variety of gaps in student content knowledge and college skills while simultaneously holding all students to high academic standards?" "How can I create inclusive classrooms where the diverse perspectives and approaches of all students--especially those...- $99.00
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Vendor:Alicia C. Dowd
Engaging the Race Question: Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher Education
This book is for anyone who is challenged or troubled by the substantial disparities in college participation, persistence, and completion among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. As codirectors of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Southern California,...- $43.95
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Vendor:Melissa Kean
Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt
After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that...- $29.95
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Vendor:Juergen Habermas
Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics
Knowledge, communication, action - these are the concepts central to all of Habermas's thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connection of these concepts. As a sociologist, he is prepared to analyze with care the distortion of human interaction caused by...- $22.00
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Vendor:Lawrence W. Levine
The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History
Canons, Culture, and History. A brilliantly argued positive vision of American education and culture.Author: Lawrence W. LevineISBN-10: 0807031194ISBN-13: 9780807031193Publisher: Beacon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/1997Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.99h x 5.97w x 0.67d- $20.00
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Vendor:Randall Stross
A Practical Education: Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees
The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything--and nervous "fuzzy major" students,...- $25.00
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Vendor:David C. Mowery
Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole ACT
Since the early 1980s, universities in the United States have greatly expanded their patenting and licensing activities. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee, among other authorities, have argued that this surge contributed to the economic boom of the 1990s. And, many observers have attributed this...- $32.00
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Vendor:Mitchell Stevens
Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education
Between 1945 and 1990 the United States built the largest and most productive higher education system in world history. Over the last two decades, however, dramatic budget cuts to public academic services and skyrocketing tuition have made college completion more difficult for many. Nevertheless,...- $28.00
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Vendor:Robert Rhoads
Global Citizenship and the University: Advancing Social Life and Relations in an Interdependent World
This book examines faculty and students at four universities around the world to understand the diverse ways individuals experience and define citizenship in the age of globalization.Author: Robert Rhoads, Katalin Szel駭yiISBN-10: 0804775419ISBN-13: 9780804775410Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2011Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w...- $130.00
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Vendor:Wade Cole
Uncommon Schools: The Global Rise of Postsecondary Institutions for Indigenous Peoples
Postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples emerged in the late 1960s, just as other special purpose colleges based on gender or race began to close. What accounts for the emergence of these distinctive institutions? Though indigenous students are among the least populous, the poorest, and...- $70.00
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Vendor:Susan Searls Giroux
Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come
Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that...- $30.00
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Vendor:Richard W. Lyman
Stanford in Turmoil: Campus Unrest, 1966-1972
A rare insider's look at Stanford's experience of dramatic political unrest during the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which time the author served as the university's vice president, provost, and then president.Author: Richard W. LymanISBN-10: 0804760799ISBN-13: 9780804760799Publisher: Stanford General BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2009Pages: 248Format:...- $60.00
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Vendor:Bob Blauner
Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath
Examining the only successful resistance by a university faculty to a loyalty oath during the McCarthy Era, this stirring historical account follows the stories of the men and women who risked their livelihoods in defense of academic freedom.Author: Bob BlaunerISBN-10: 0804759227ISBN-13: 9780804759229Publisher: Stanford University...- $45.00
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Vendor:John Aubrey Douglass
The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan
Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were established across the United States at a dizzying pace, transforming the scope and purpose of American higher education. Leading the way was California, with its internationally renowned network of public colleges and universities. This book is the...- $32.00
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Vendor:Paula Harrell
Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, 1895-1905
A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Paula HarrellISBN-10: 0804719853ISBN-13: 9780804719858Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1992Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.44h x 6.30w x 0.92d- $80.00
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Vendor:Roger Lundin
Christ Across the Disciplines: Past, Present, Future
In Christ across the Disciplines a group of distinguished scholars from across the theological spectrum explores the dynamic relationship between the Christian faith and the life of the mind. Although the essays in this volume are rooted in a rich understanding of the past,...- $23.50
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Vendor:Robert Banks
Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models
A top leadership theorist offers a compelling proposal for renovating the way religious education is practiced today. Christian colleges and seminaries have not been immune from the cultural influences shaping contemporary education. Challenging the conventional wisdom advanced by the educational debate during the last...- $27.50
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Vendor:Barbara J. Bank
Gender and Higher Education
This comprehensive, encyclopedic review explores gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. Challenging recent claims that gender inequities in U.S. higher education no longer exist, the contributors--leading experts in the field--reveal the many ways in which gender is...- $50.00
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Vendor:Martin Trow
Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass to Universal
Distinguished by their sharp insights, eloquence, even humor, the writings of Martin Trow on the development of higher education have helped define the field. Collected here are his most influential essays, tracing the arc and evolution of his prolific scholarly career over more than...- $45.00
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Vendor:Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
The Unchosen Me: Race, Gender, and Identity Among Black Women in College
Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as they actively engage in the academic and social worlds of college life. The Unchosen Me examines the...- $62.00
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Vendor:Burton R. Clark
On Higher Education: Selected Writings, 1956-2006
Widely acknowledged as one of the great sociologists of higher education, Burton R. Clark has made substantial contributions to virtually every area in the field, thereby defining its study for generations. This collection of essays makes available a lifetime of research, scholarship, and insight...- $35.00
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Vendor:Edward P. St John
Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales
Much of the twentieth century saw broad political support for public funding of American higher education. Liberals supported public investment because it encouraged social equity, conservatives because it promoted economic development. Recently, however, the politics of higher education have become more contentious. Conservatives advocate...- $32.00
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Vendor:Hugh Hawkins
Pioneer; A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874-1889
Daniel Coit Gilman and the Rise of the Johns Hopkins University"Professor Hawkins' scholarship is beautiful, his style is clear, his ideas are exciting, and the work has perspective and breadth." -Maryland Historical Magazine"Dr. Hawkins . . . has brought real art to his work...- $32.00
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Vendor:Marilyn J. Boxer
When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America
In When Women Ask the Questions, Marilyn Boxer traces the successes and failures of women's studies, examines the field's enduring impact on the world of higher education, and concludes that the rise of women's studies has challenged the university in the same way that...- $29.00
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Vendor:Sheila Slaughter
Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University
A look at the current state of academic careers and institutions, with a particular focus on public research universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The globalization of the political economy at the end of the twentieth century is destabilizing...- $34.00
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Vendor:Rebekah Nathan
My Freshman Year: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
After more than fifteen years of teaching, Rebekah Nathan, a professor of anthropology at a large state university, realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students. Fewer and fewer participated in class discussion, tackled the assigned reading, or came...- $29.00
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Vendor:Donald Phillip Verene
The Art of Humane Education: A Passion for Resistance:
In The Art of Humane Education, Donald Phillip Verene presents a new statement of the classical and humanist ideals that he believes should guide education in the liberal arts and sciences. These ideals are lost, he contends, in the corporate atmosphere of the contemporary...- $32.95
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Vendor:Morris Bishop
A History of Cornell
Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university--reflected in its...- $73.95
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Vendor:Kerry S. Walters
Re-Thinking Reason: New Perspectives in Critical Thinking
For two decades, colleges and universities have regularly offered, and in some cases required, courses in thinking skills. Such courses generally have focused on training students in the basics of informal and formal logic, the assumption being that good thinking is logical thinking, and...- $34.95
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Vendor:Allison Hantschel
It Doesn't End with Us: The Story of the Daily Cardinal. How a College Newspaper's Fight for Freedom Changed Its University, Challenged Journa
It Doesn (TM)t End with Us is the history of the Daily Cardinal, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (TM)s 115-year-old student newspaper. It is the story of deadlines and datelines, dating and mating, rock and roll, indie films, and protest politics. It (TM)s the stAuthor:...- $25.00
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Vendor:Robert J. Nash
How to Talk about Hot Topics on Campus: From Polarization to Moral Conversation
How to Talk About Hot Topics on Campus fills a gap in the student services and teaching and learning literature by providing a resource that shows how to construct and carry out difficult conversations from various vantage points in the academy. It offers a...- $45.00
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Vendor:Rena M. Palloff
Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom
Building Online Learning Communities further explores the development of virtual classroom environments that foster a sense of community and empower students to take charge of their learning to successfully achieve learning outcomes. This is the second edition of the groundbreaking book by Rena Palloff...- $44.00
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Vendor:Joseph C. Burke
Achieving Accountability in Higher Education: Balancing Public, Academic, and Market Demands
With contributions from leading experts in the field, this comprehensive and timely book presents the principles and guidelines for effective accountability for states, colleges, and universities. Achieving Accountability in Higher Education clarifies the concept of accountability for both public and private colleges and universities...- $52.00
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Vendor:Frank Newman
The Future of Higher Education: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market
A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American...- $48.00
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Vendor:Barbara Gross Davis
Tools for Teaching
This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It...- $56.00
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Vendor:Jodi Levine Laufgraben
Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities
Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities is the long awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking book Creating Learning Communities. The authors continue their exploration of the concept of learning communities as an innovation in undergraduate curricular instruction that allow students to actively participate in their own...- $44.00
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Vendor:Sandra I. Cheldelin
Conflict Resolution
Dealing with conflict is an evitable part of any academic administrator's job. Often, however, new administrators lack the skills they need to successfully resolve campus conflicts. This important resource includes an array of strategies for identifying and managing conflict between individuals, within a department,...- $32.00
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Vendor:Ernest T. Pascarella
How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research
This is the long-awaited second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students. The authors review their earlier findings and then synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on students' learning....- $90.00
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Vendor:Roger B. Winston
Improving Staffing Practices in Student Affairs
Most of us are not born good supervisors. Winston and Creamer's book gives us a comprehensive framework for thinking about and reexamining our staffing practices. It is an excellent tool for the novice and the veteran. ?Elizabeth M. Nuss, vice president and dean of...- $46.00
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Vendor:Alexander W. Astin
What Matters in College?: Four Critical Years Revisited
From the author of Four Critical Years--a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature--What Matters in College? presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development....- $49.00
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Vendor:Daniel James Rowley
Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper
This detailed guide outlines a strategic planning approach uniquelysuited to the academic environment and proven effective in numerousinstitutions around the country. The authors address the complexnature of stakeholders and conflicting purposes in an academicsetting. Their approach leads to?rather than starts from?theinstitutional mission statement, and...- $57.00
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Vendor:Malte Kramer
Play for Something
Play For Something provides student athletes with the inspiration, strategies, and practical knowledge to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Written by a Division 1 basketball player who graduated as the valedictorian of his class with a 4.0 GPA, this book covers everything from...- $14.95
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Vendor:John Hupalo
Plan and Finance Your Family's College Dreams
Peterson's Plan and Finance Your Family's College Dreams 1st Edition Planning and paying for a college education is a challenging task for most parents. It can be a stressful and costly process that requires both a well-planned academic and financial strategy. This guide offers...- $16.95
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Vendor:Stephen R. Graubard
Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges
There is much change underway in American higher education. New technologies are challenging the teaching practices of yesterday, distance learning is lauded, and private firms offer to certify the educational credentials that businesses and others will deem satisfactory. In this new environment, America's liberal...- $52.95
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