Books

16 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Knowledge matters Knowledge matters Craig J. Calhoun,Diana Rhoten Universities Are Changing Around The World. In China and Africa there is massive expansion, while many of America's greatest public universities are experiencing major budget cuts. In Latin America u… OL16139820W
Making the university matter Making the university matter Barbie Zelizer "Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting. The univer… OL16140160W
Higher education across the circumpolar north Higher education across the circumpolar north Geoffrey R. Weller,Douglas C. Nord x, 203 p. ; 23 cm OL16933832W
Excellent Sheep Excellent Sheep William Deresiewicz This book is a groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation's top schools should be -- but aren't -- providing: "The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless … OL17364755W
Creating knowledge, strengthening nations Creating knowledge, strengthening nations Michael L. Skolnik,Glen A. Jones xv, 298 p. : 24 cm OL18523315W
Campus confidential Campus confidential Jacques Berlinerblau "A tenured prof. breaks ranks to reveal what's wrong with American higher education and how it affects you. Professors can be underpaid. Marginalized. Over-reviewed. But one fact remains: The success… OL19714209W
Quality in higher education Quality in higher education Turner, David A. professor "The quality of higher education is a hot topic, especially as students around the world are asked to pay more towards their own education, and expect to get what they pay for. In addition, league t… OL19898065W
College (un)bound College (un)bound Jeffrey J. Selingo Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound expo… OL19963870W
Toward a more perfect university Toward a more perfect university Jonathan R. Cole "A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social … OL20020067W
The great mistake The great mistake Christopher Newfield Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented stu… OL20046446W
Designing state higher education systems for a new century Designing state higher education systems for a new century Richard C. Richardson "Based on a study by the California Higher Education Policy Center, now The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, this new work from the ACE/Oryx Series on Higher Education proposes… OL20140416W
Collaborative Learning Collaborative Learning Kenneth A. Bruffee Advocates a far-reaching change in the relations between college and university professors and their students, between the learned and the learning. OL2030323W
Academic identities in higher education Academic identities in higher education Evans, Linda,Jon Nixon "Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 e… OL22316540W
Higher education and the new society Higher education and the new society George Keller "While he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia's sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas … OL2573339W
The game of life The game of life James Lawrence Shulman "Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By exam… OL2710878W
The university in ruins The university in ruins Bill Readings "It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mea… OL2977642W