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  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

    A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

    by Jeff Hobbs ...
    *Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, “nuanced and shattering” (People) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

    How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

    Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Weaving an Otherwise

    In-Relations Methodological Practice

    Edited by Amanda Tachine, Z Nicolazzo ...
    Who (and what) are you bearing witness to (and for) through your research? When you witness, what claims are you making about who and what matters? What does your research forget, and does it do it on purpose?This book reconceptualizes qualitative research as an in-relations process, one that is centered on, fully concerned with, and lifts up those who have been and continue to be dispossessed, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • After the Ivory Tower Falls

    How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It

    by Will Bunch ...
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American lifeWinner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | "This book is simply terrific." —Heather Cox Richardson | "Ambitious and engrossing." —New York Times Book Review |"A must-read." ... Read more

    $16.99 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

  • Adopting a UDL Attitude within Academia

    Understanding and Practicing Inclusion Across Higher Education

    Adopting a UDL Attitude within Academia bridges the gap between the theory and practice of UDL (Universal Design for Learning). It guides the reader through the origins of the development of UDL as an innovative way of thinking about inclusion and the evolution of this theory into practice, as it explores UDL and its relevance beyond the classroom.Including reader-friendly descriptions and case ... Read more

    $39.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Education and Exercise Science

    The eighth edition of Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Education and Exercise Science, now published in paperback and hardback, offers students a clear and practical guide to best practice for measurement and evaluation in school- and nonschool-based physical activity programs.Written by two academics with backgrounds in physical education teacher education (PETE), the book emphasizes the ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Teaching Online

    A Practical Guide

    Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section.New to this edition:entire new chapter on MOOCs ... Read more

    $56.99 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

  • Assessment Clear and Simple

    A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education

    The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Real World of College

    What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be

    Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission.For The Real World of College, Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,000 students, alumni, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, and others, which were conducted at ten institutions ranging from highly selective ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $18.99 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

  • Educating Physicians

    A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency

    Series Book 16 - Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    EDUCATING PHYSICIANSThe current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in place today. Yet with the past century's enormous societal changes, the practice of medicine and its scientific, pharmacological, and technological foundations have ... Read more

    $38.00 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

  • On Being Presidential

    A Guide for College and University Leaders

    Praise for On Being Presidential"This is the best book I've ever read on being a college president."—Arthur Levine, president, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and president emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University"A must-read for anyone involved in higher education. Susan Resneck Pierce's cautionary tales and commonsense approach to college management present, in a very ... Read more

    $40.00 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

  • MOOC U

    Who Is Getting the Most Out of Online Education and Why

    Contributing editor to The Chronicle of Higher Education and author of College (Un)Bound, Jeffrey J. Selingo follows in real time the stories of all the stake-holders in University of Virginia business professor Ed Hess's popular Grow to Greatness MOOC to distill for MOOC students (seven million and counting) what works, what doesn't, and what to expect next of the phenomenon that is massive open ... Read more

    $2.99 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