Higher Education Institutions simultaneously critique and participate in national and international rankings of universities. However, this creates a difficult situation since if universities do participate in rankings they acquiesce to a system based in media logics that has little to do with academic norms of research. If they do not participate in the rankings they risk losing public funding, students and donors in an increasingly competitive and globalized environment. This book delves...

Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal.Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to create something out of the ordinary. A community of 62 writers combine their words in em...

This book addresses questions about the major impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human communication and the ways in which the communication discipline has been impacted by and has responded to the conditions of the pandemic. Contributors examine both the personal and the university administrative level to discuss how the pandemic and its lockdowns and transition to online learning, among other consequences, impacted specific areas of scholarship within the communication discipline. Contr...

The Ultimate #EuropeanSummer GuideThis is your guidebook to experiencing the ultimate European summer, through the lens of a nomadic tech entrepreneur based in San Francisco. It's a Telefoto view of Travel Tell-Alls, a guide for the sophisto-hip traveler. These Cityscapes showcase the best of some of the places visited recently, while living and working remotely. Let City Stories: The Ultimate #EuropeanSummer Guide be the inspiration for your next adventure, a lifestyle where you c...

Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education problematizes one of the least researched phenomena in teacher education, the design of course syllabi, using critical and decolonial approaches. This book looks at the struggles that scholars, policy makers, and educators from a diverse range of countries including Australia, Canada, India, Iran, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the USA, and Zambia face as they design course syllabi in higher education settings. The chapter authors argue th...

When Sydney and her fiancé break up, she has two choices: Stay in San Francisco as a single in the same-old routine, or try the experience of being a virtual nomad and working remotely. Since her ex was never very supportive of her startup or her learning to surf, she decides to go remote for a few months and do both.In Bali, Sydney attends surf camp, where she learns to face her fear. Ancient temples, wild waves and island life is a dream, until she's injured.In Barcelona,...

Is it possible to outrun the mistakes of your past? A new chapter opens for sophomore Emma Saffron at college in California. She's thriving in school, as a deejay for the campus station and a member of her sorority, and not giving up on true love.Just when she thinks her relationship drama is over, Emma falls for handsome hipster Spencer, who's gay. Emma's crushed, but they become best friends anyway. Spencer likes Guy, who's straight, and Guy likes Julia, but she's in love with Em...

When Blake Worthing asks Emma Saffron out, she can't believe it. A new student who's been awesomely labeled a 'prep-school-boy-gone-bad,' he's already infamous in their otherwise boring Midwestern suburb. Emma is warned, but she's not listening. She's been noticed by someone who doesn't know that up until now, all she's been famous for is studying, and it makes her want to give up everything for Blake.One thing Blake never talks about is why he left prep school. An aspiring journal...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Six weeks ago, the third floor of the Linden Grove Public Library was just a graveyard of dusty art books, rigid schedules, and a wall of absolute control.For head of reference services Rowan Ellis, that immaculate surface is a shield. Three years ago, letting someone see behind her carefully armored cardigans cost her everything. Now, she keeps her desires confined strictly to paper, writing explicit, anonymous confessions and ...

Contemporary Young Adult/Teen novel How Good It Can Be is the coming-of-age story of 17-year old Emma Saffron, just as her heart's been zipped open to romance and sexual experience, betrayal and duplicity, and eventually, victory. Emma is every girl — an everyday girl that extraordinary things happen to — and they can happen to you, too.When Blake Worthing asks Emma Saffron out, she can't believe it. A new student who's been awesomely labeled a 'prep-school-boy-gone-bad,' he's alre...

Skylar Saffron's saga continues.My name is Skylar. I'm a 23-year old digital librarian living in San Francisco. I thought I would be intellectually satisfied working at this cool, historic yet chic, jewel box of a library downtown, and going out with friends, but then something tragic happened, and now I'm learning ethical computer hacking skills and solving crimes.A note on how I'm telling this story: Along with reading the main action, told in 25 chapters in five parts, y...

For many institutions, to ignore your university’s ranking is to become invisible, a risky proposition in a competitive search for funding. But rankings tell us little if anything about the education, scholarship, or engagement with communities offered by a university. Drawing on a range of research and inquiry-based methods, Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge exposes how universities became servants to the education industry and its impact.Conceptual...