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  • Leadership for Social Justice

    Promoting Equity and Excellence Through Inquiry and Reflective Practice

    Edited by Anthony H. Normore ...
    Series series Educational Leadership for Social Justice
    The purpose of this book series is to promote research on educational leadership for social justice. Specifically, we seek edited volumes, textbooks, and full!length studies focused on research that explores the ways educational leadership preparation and practice can be a means of addressing equity concerns throughout P-20 education. Within this book Leadership for Social Justice: Promoting ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • University Women

    A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada

    Series Book 257 - Carleton Library Series
    Bessie Scott, nearing the end of her first year at university in the spring of 1890, recorded in her diary: “Wore my gown for first time! It didn’t seem at all strange to do so.” Often deemed a cumbersome tradition by men, the cap and gown were dearly prized by women as an outward sign of their hard-won admission to the rank of undergraduates. For the first generations of university women, higher ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • College Organization and Professional Development

    Integrating Moral Reasoning and Reflective Practice

    A thought-provoking textbook written for students enrolled in graduate Higher Education and Student Affairs Masters and PhD programs, College Organization and Professional Development focuses on the framing of critical issues in organization practice, the gaps between moral beliefs and actions, and improving equity within organizations. This breakthrough text seeks to revolutionize how we ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Mindful Leadership

    An Insight-Based Approach to College Administration

    This book applies the concept of mindfulness to the challenges faced by academic leaders such as department chairs, deans, provosts, presidents or chancellors, and faculty leaders. In addition to instructing academic leaders how to become more mindful, the book also provides clear and practical explanations about what mindful leadership means in the setting of higher education. Unlike other books ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Recognizing and Serving Low-Income Students in Higher Education

    An Examination of Institutional Policies, Practices, and Culture

    Edited by Adrianna Kezar ...
    Written for administrators, faculty, and staff in Higher Education who are working with low income and first-generation college students, Recognizing and Serving Low-Income Students in Higher Education uncovers organizational biases that prevent post-secondary institutions from adequately serving these students. This volume offers practical guidance for adopting new or revised policies and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Higher Education Leadership

    Challenging Tradition and Forging Possibilities

    Sharing the new and evolving approaches to higher education leadership that foster liberatory systemic change.Higher Education Leadership offers a groundbreaking exploration of leadership in higher education. Rozana Carducci, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar challenge traditional paradigms and ideologies that hinder progress—advocating instead for liberatory systemic change. The authors highlight ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Mindfulness in the Academy

    Practices and Perspectives from Scholars

    This book focuses on the way academics understand, embrace and enact the concepts of mindfulness in approaching their work in demanding and dynamic contemporary higher education environments. It examines how they implement formal and informal mindfulness practices that increase the capacity to transform mind and body states by drawing on concepts such as compassion, kindness, gratitude, curiosity, ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Becoming a White Antiracist

    A Practical Guide for Educators, Leaders, and Activists

    As this book was being written, the United States exploded in outrage against the murder by police of people of color across the country. Corporations, branches of state and local government, and educational institutions all pledged to work for racial justice and the Black Lives Matters movement moved into the mainstream as people from multiple racial and class identities pledged their support to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World

    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.Over past decades, scholars and practitioners around the world observed an emergence of professionals, research managers and administrators (RMAs) who play an essential role in the advancement of academic research. RMAs have extensive knowledge of the research ecosystem, including funding opportunities, proposals, ... Read more

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  • Doing the Public Good

    Latina/o Scholars Engage Civic Participation

    How can scholars reconnect themselves—and their students—to higher education’s historic but much diluted mission to work for the public good?Through the lenses of personal reflection and auto-ethnography—and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, the holistic Aztec concept of education, the Hispanic notion of bien educado, and the activist ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Permanent Crisis

    The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age

    Series series Studies in the History of the University
    Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world.The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments

    A Practical Resource for Higher Education Faculty

    Edited by Christine Harrington ...
    Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments offers principles, strategies, and examples to aid in the development of inclusive college coursework in which all students feel seen and valued.This resource prepares instructors to proactively consider ways to honor and engage with students’ varied identities and lived experiences through assignments. Chapters cover the course design ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Degrees of Success

    The Transitions from Vocational to Higher Education

    Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
    Policies to promote high participation in Higher Educations (HE) systems aim to deliver social justice and economic development through widening participation of under-represented groups. Degrees of Success provides a critical test of this through examination of participation and success of learners progressing to HE with a vocational background.Employing an original conceptual framework that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Community College and the Good Society

    How the Liberal Arts Were Undermined and What We Can Do to Bring Them Back

    by Chad Hanson ...
    The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze the internal changes and external forces that ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Idea of the Public University

    Discovering and Teaching Knowledge in a Confused World

    This book sheds light on the risk of losing the authoritative knowledge discovered and taught by public universities. It argues that public universities are as indispensable now, as never before, for providing governments and citizens with reliable knowledge crucial for confronting the looming environmental, cultural, economic, and political challenges now threatening humanity’s very existence.    ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Doing Research to Improve Teaching and Learning

    A Guide for College and University Faculty

    In this rapidly changing teaching and learning environment, one of the most promising ways for faculty at institutions of higher education to improve their teaching is to capitalize upon their skills as researchers. This book is a step-by-step guide for doing research to inform and improve teaching and learning.With background and instruction about how to engage in these methodologies—including ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Academic Fault Lines

    The Rise of Industry Logic in Public Higher Education

    How did public higher education become an industry? This unprecedented account reveals how campus leaders and faculty preserved the vitality and core values of public higher education despite changing resources and expectations.American public higher education is in crisis. After decades of public scrutiny over affordability, access, and quality, indictments of the institution as a whole abound. ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Learn from Looking

    How Observation Inspires Innovation

    See the world around you with fresh perspective. Learn about critical thinking and reaching a sustainable future more cost-effectively than ever imagined. “Great insights and incredible drawings!” Bill Slover - Real Estate Developer and Commissioner of the District of Columbia Housing Authority The two-decade combination of drawings and observations sheds new light on critical thinking for young ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Understanding Mass Higher Education

    Comparative Perspectives on Access

    Edited by David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper ...
    In recent years most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass higher education, with the United States leading the way. This text compares the experience of this very important social change within different nation states. Whilst recognising the critical global economic forces that appear to explain the international nature of the change, it sees the issues as rooted within ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Native Presence and Sovereignty in College

    Sustaining Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters

    Series series Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series
    What is at stake when our young people attempt to belong to a college environment that reflects a world that does not want them for who they are? In this compelling book, Navajo scholar Amanda Tachine takes a personal look at 10 Navajo teenagers, following their experiences during their last year in high school and into their first year in college. It is common to think of this life transition as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Conducting Research

    A Practical Approach to Solving Problems and Making Improvements

    Series series The Concordia University Leadership Series
    This book will be a practical, hands-on book for all undergraduate and graduate students who wish to learn how to conduct research. This book has several resources, examples, outlines, and case situations illustrating how to design a study and conduct research, especially educational research. This book is a no-nonsense approach that can be used by any educator – early childhood, elementary and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support

    Series series Opportunity and Performance
    (published in co-operation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement) As subsequent chapters point out, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to provide assistance to districts in improving the schools within their purview. Of course, the U.S. Constitution and federal laws leave the control of education largely to the states, and states have long provided support to school ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Crisis in Higher Education

    A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America

    Series series Transformations in Higher Education
    In 2005 Adrian College was home to 840 enrolled students and had a tuition income of $8.54 million. By fall of 2011, enrollment had soared to 1,688, and tuition income had increased to $20.45 million. For the first time in years, the small liberal arts college was financially viable. Adrian College experienced this remarkable growth during the worst American economy in seventy years and in a state ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Examples of Expressive Writing

    Further to How to Write Creative Non- fiction

    Examples of Expressive Wriitng will give you more writing to work with along with Donna Kakonge's hugely successful book How to Write Creative Non-fiction and How to Write Creative Non-fiction - New. All books can be bought at http://lulu.com/spotlight/kakonged. ... Read more

    $0.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus