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Vendor:Harold S. Wechsler
Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education
A comprehensive history of the barriers faced by students from marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups to gain access to predominantly white colleges and universities--and how these students responded to these barriers.Affirmative action in college admission is one of the most contested initiatives in...- $59.95
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Vendor:Colin Diver
Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It
Some colleges will do anything to improve their national ranking. That can be bad for their students--and for higher education.Since U.S. News & World Report first published a college ranking in 1983, the rankings industry has become a self-appointed judge, declaring winners and losers...- $27.95
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Vendor:Eugene T. III Parker
Becoming a Diversity Leader on Campus: Navigating Identity and Situational Pressures
Illuminating the emerging importance of the diversity leader on college campuses, this book offers perspectives and narratives from diversity leaders at institutions of higher education. Becoming a Diversity Leader on Campus unpacks the tension of how diversity leadership is shaped by external factors and...- $46.95
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Vendor:Tim Gregg
Breaking Away: How the Texas A&m University System Changed the Game
One of the largest higher education networks in the United States, the Texas A&M University System, with a budget of some $6.3 billion, educates more than 150,000 students annually through its flagship campus in College Station and across its ten other member universities. Since...- $35.00
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Vendor:Dennis Stemmle
Insider's Guide To College Success: The Underground Playbook For Making Great Grades, Having More Fun, and Studying Less
From The Best Selling Author that bought us the #14 Ranked "Best College Books Of All Time" - Book Authority 50 Best College Books of All Time. Featured on CNN, Forbes, and Inc., is his most comprehensive book on college success to date. Inside...- $19.95
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Vendor:J. M. Beach
Can We Measure What Matters Most?: Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers
This book examines the idea of educational accountability, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make schools better? Do business management theories and practices make organizations more effective? What if the most widely used management theories and assessment tools...- $32.00
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Vendor:Matthew C. Ehrlich
Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK
In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job.Matthew Ehrlich revisits...- $24.95
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Vendor:Wendy Steele
The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education: A Transformative Agenda?
This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the heart of "sustainable development" is the legacy of unsustainable development with its roots in modernity and colonialism. Critical engagement with the SDGs involves recognising these roots...- $37.99
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Vendor:Charlie Eaton
Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education
Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America. Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major stepping-stone to new economic opportunities. However, as Charlie...- $27.50
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Vendor:Rebecca A. Glazier
Connecting in the Online Classroom: Building Rapport Between Teachers and Students
Building rapport with students can revive the promise of online education, leading to greater success for students, more fulfilling teaching experiences for faculty, and improved enrollment for universities.More students than ever before are taking online classes, yet higher education is facing an online retention...- $32.00
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Vendor:Thomas W. Gross
Free Spirit: A Biography of Mason Welch Gross
The Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey, stands as a memorial to one of Rutgers University's most influential leaders. Gross started teaching at Rutgers as an assistant professor of philosophy in 1946, but quickly rose through the ranks to...- $34.95
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Vendor:Laurie Collier Hillstrom
The College Affordability Crisis
This volume provides a comprehensive and evenhanded overview of the escalating college affordability crisis in the United States. It explains how higher education became so expensive and explores the implications of high college loan debt for students and American society. The 21st Century Turning...- $44.00
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Vendor:Will Tyson
Teaching and Learning Employability Skills in Career and Technical Education: Industry, Educator, and Student Perspectives
This book examines how industry-desired employability skills-or "soft skills"-are taught and learned in high school career and technical education (CTE) engineering and engineering technology programs. Identifying, recruiting, and keeping workers with strong personal and interpersonal skills is a constant challenge for STEM employers who...- $159.99
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Vendor:Kyle Labriola
Carpe College!: Seize Your Whole College Experience
College just got easier with this great graduation gift You have spent the last year or two of your life trying to get in, and now you need to know what to do once you get there. To make the most of it, you'll...- $19.99
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Vendor:Larry K. Monteith
In Pursuit of Prosperity: Education in North Carolina as the United States Becomes a Wealthy Nation
During his tenure as Chancellor of North Carolina State University, Larry K. Monteith witnessed the state's transformation from a largely agrarian-based economy into one driven by major pharmaceutical, medical, and technological advances. In this sweeping survey from colonial times to the modern era, Monteith...- $20.00
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Vendor:Karen L. Webber
Big Data on Campus: Data Analytics and Decision Making in Higher Education
How data-informed decision making can make colleges and universities more effective institutions.The continuing importance of data analytics is not lost on higher education leaders, who face a multitude of challenges, including increasing operating costs, dwindling state support, limits to tuition increases, and increased competition...- $42.00
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Vendor:Isabel Baca
Bordered Writers: Latinx Identities and Literacy Practices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.Author: Isabel BacaISBN-10: 1438475047ISBN-13: 9781438475042Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2020Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d- $34.95
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Vendor:Kristin White
The Complete Guide to the Gap Year: The Best Things to Do Between High School and College
The newly updated second edition of The Complete Guide to the Gap Year is the go-to book for anyone considering a year to recharge, to follow a passion, to become immersed in another culture, or to find their love of learning again. It includes...- $13.95
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Vendor:Stephanie L. Burrell Storms
Teaching through Challenges for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)
Colleges and universities cannot ignore the increasingly diverse student population in their classrooms, and how a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion across disciplines trains students in the intercultural awareness they will need in competitive job markets. Yet while faculty may be aware of...- $29.00
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Vendor:Blake R. Silver
The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses
Young people are told that college is a place where they will "find themselves" by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential...- $30.00
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Vendor:Cyndi Kernahan
Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor
"Kernahan argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment that allows for mistakes and avoids shaming students. She also differentiates between how white students and students of color are likely to experience...- $24.99
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Vendor:Bram J. Jansen
Kakuma Refugee Camp: Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City
Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a 'temporary' camp, it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses, schools, a hospital...- $32.95
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Vendor:Paul L. Cobaugh
Introduction to Narrative Warfare: A Primer and Study Guide
This book is literally, a first of a kind and ground-breaking in its intent. The intent of this book is to give national security professionals and other interested parties a baseline understanding of narrative and its principles regarding the potential for predictably triggering behavior....- $25.99
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Vendor:Dustin Griffin
Williamstown and Williams College: Explorations in Local History
Nestled in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, Williamstown is home to one of the most prestigious liberal arts colleges in the country, Williams College. In this engrossing and entertaining book, Dustin Griffin offers fourteen vignettes that detail the local history of this ideal New...- $23.95
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Vendor:Gabbriel Simone
I Wish I Knew It Before Going to College
Are you going to college soon? Do you really know what you are getting yourself into? College isn't just going to class and partying-well maybe for some-but in reality it's way more than that.Want to be successful? Make a name for yourself? Create a...- $14.95
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Vendor:Tom Owen
University of Louisville: Belknap Campus
Belknap Campus, the historic heart of the University of Louisville (UofL), was laid out just before the Civil War as a city-owned reform school and orphanage. In 1925, the university acquired the site, relocating its undergraduate college and adding an engineering school. Eight structures...- $31.99
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Vendor:Eric J. Fretz
Climate Change across the Curriculum
Climate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university level. The content of this book...- $136.00
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Vendor:Bryan Alexander
Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education
From the renowned futurist, a look at how current trends will transform American higher education over the next twenty years.2020 Most Significant Futures Work Award Winner, Association of Professional FuturistsThe outlook for the future of colleges and universities is uncertain. Financial stresses, changing student...- $42.00
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Vendor:Michael M. Crow
Designing the New American University
A radical blueprint for reinventing American higher education.America's research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions represent the gold standard in...- $34.95
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Vendor:Maryellen Weimer
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice
Praise for Maryellen Weimer's Inspired College Teaching "The thoughtfulness, personalization, and consideration Maryellen Weimer demonstrates in discussing the experience of faculty members, her ability to identify issues that are shared and solvable, and her suggestions and solutions to commonly experienced stressors and difficulties in...- $42.00
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Vendor:Rick Ostrander
Reconsidering College: Christian Higher Education for Working Adults
A simple, clear introduction to higher education from a Christian perspective for the adult student.Author: Rick OstranderISBN-10: 0891123989ISBN-13: 9780891123989Publisher: Abilene Christian University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2014Pages: 85Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d- $9.99
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Vendor:Douglas A. Noverr
Michigan State University: The Rise of a Research University and the New Millennium, 1970-2005 Volume 3
In the 1960s and '70s, Michigan State College transformed into the major research institution known today as Michigan State University, a true "megaversity." Michigan State University, the final volume of this trilogy, explores the history of that transformation and the growing pains the school...- $39.95
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Vendor:William J. Shkurti
The Ohio State University in the Sixties: The Unraveling of the Old Order
At 5:30 p.m. on May 6, 1970, an embattled Ohio State University President Novice G. Fawcett took the unprecedented step of closing down the university. Despite the presence of more than 1,500 armed highway patrol officers, Ohio National Guardsmen, deputy sheriffs, and Columbus city...- $39.95
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Vendor:Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Free Speech on Campus
From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech. Repeatedly, students, faculty, administrators, and politically polarizing invited guests square off against one another, assuming contrary...- $19.95
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Vendor:Tom Continé
The Golden Band from Tigerland: A History of LSU's Marching Band
Well over a century has passed since two cadets of the Ole War Skule decided to create a brass band for their university, beginning a tradition that continues to the present day. World renowned for its commitment to excellence, LSU's Golden Band from Tigerland...- $39.95
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Vendor:George Steiner
Lessons of the Masters
When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely...- $32.00
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Vendor:Marvin R. O'Connell
Edward Sorin
This sweeping book offers the definitive account of the life and labors of Edward Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame. Born in the west of France in 1814, Sorin was ordained in 1838 and joined the newly founded Congregation of Holy Cross...- $45.00
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Vendor:Christopher Uhl
Teaching as If Life Matters: The Promise of a New Education Culture
What would it be like to teach as if life matters? To move beyond the typical regimen of classroom exercises, homework, and standardized tests and to guide students through life's most important lessons? Dissatisfied with traditional educational models, Christopher Uhl and Dana L. Stuchul...- $30.00
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Vendor:Adrianna Kezar
Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity: Critical Perspectives for Leadership
Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity empowers all administrators in higher education to engage in their work-to make decisions, hire, mentor, budget, create plans, and carry out other day-to-day operations-with a clear commitment to justice, sensitivity to power and privilege, and capacity...- $54.95
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Vendor:Susan R. Pierce
Governance Reconsidered
Revamp senior administration organization for more effective governance Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive takes an in-depth look at the current practice of governance in higher education and explores solutions for more effective functioning. Written by a...- $48.00
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Vendor:Donald Finkel
Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
Our traditional "Great Teacher" teaches by telling, inspiring students through eloquent, passionate oration. For Donald Finkel this view is destructively narrow: it takes for granted that teachers teach, fundamentally and centrally, by telling students what they are supposed to know. In Teaching with Your...- $49.47
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Vendor:Scott Pitoniak
Forever Orange: The Story of Syracuse University
Surveying the university's chronological history, with special focus on how Syracuse led the way in numerous important matters--gender, race, military veterans, and science--Forever Orange goes far beyond the parameters of a traditional institutional history. Authors Pitoniak and Burton have utilized exhaustive research, scores of...- $99.95
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Vendor:John L. Puckett
Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 195-2
The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities, Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar redevelopment...- $70.00
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Vendor:Fabio Rojas
From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential political force, this movement in turn spawned the academic discipline known as Black Studies. Today there are more than a hundred Black Studies...- $31.00
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Vendor:Mark J. Roy
University of Connecticut
In a 50-room building that housed Connecticut's Civil War orphans, the University of Connecticut began in the fall of 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. From this beginning comes a rich history of change that continues through the billion-dollar program known as UConn 2000....- $24.99
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Vendor:Martha C. Nussbaum
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in...- $37.00
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Vendor:Robert H. Miller
Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students
Med School Confidential from Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Bissell uses the same chronological format and mentor-based system that have made Law School Confidential and Business School Confidential such treasured and popular guides. It takes the reader step-by-step through the entire med school...- $21.99
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Vendor:Mitchell B. Mackinem
The Changing Faces of Higher Education: From Boomers to Millennials
In a time of rapid change and arising challenges, Millennials are the latest generation to enter high education institutions as junior faculty, administrators, researchers, and scholars. As with each generation they bring new values, perspectives, technological expertise, and expectations. Higher education is facing potentially...- $102.00
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Vendor:Laurens Bakker
Anthropologists Wanted: Why Organizations Need Anthropology
In Anthropologists Wanted. Why Organizations Need Anthropology the authors present a broad and inspiring survey of anthropologists in the job market. What in fact is anthropology? What skills do anthropologists have? Where do they work? How do they add value in the workplace, according...- $24.99
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Vendor:Sunera Thobani
Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing?
Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements. Situating the university at the heart of these momentous...- $38.95
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