Educational administration and organization Books
Johns Hopkins University Press The Faculty Factor
Book SynopsisWritten for professors, adjuncts, graduate students, and academic, political, business, and not-for-profit leaders, this data-rich study offers a balanced assessment of the risks and opportunities posed for the American faculty by economic, market-driven forces beyond their control.Trade ReviewScholars active in the study of higher education may find this book very informative not only for the plentiful information and data provided, but also for the authors’ in-depth analysis of the evolution of the place of faculty in academia and beyond.—Giulio Marini, Higher EducationTable of ContentsContents PrefaceAcknowledgments Part I. Setting the Stage1. Establishing the Framework: The Emergence of a New Paradigm2. The American Faculty in Historical Perspective3. The Faculty in Profile Part II--Changing Trajectories of Academic Careers4. Changing Pathways to Career Entry5. Career Progression and Mobility6. Career Exit: Faculty Retirement Viewed Anew Part III--The Changing Complexion of Faculty Work and Professional Identity7. Faculty Work Under Pressure8. Academic Culture and Values in Transition9. Academic Compensation Trends In A New Era Part IV--American Academics in Global Perspectives10. The American Faculty in a Newly Globalized Higher Education Environment11. American Faculty in an International Perspective Part V--Prospects for the Academic Profession12. American Academic Life Restructured13. Where From Here? Interventions to Reinvigorate the Faculty Factor Afterword Appendixes A. Data Sources: An Overview and Status Report 00B. PhD Production and Distribution TrendsC. Race and Ethnicity Classifications: An UpdateD. Changing Academic Professions, 2007-08: MethodologyE. Appendix Tables Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities
Book SynopsisSince the economic recession of 2008, colleges and universities have looked for ways to lower costs while increasing incomes. Not all have succeeded. Threatened closures and recent institutional mergers point to what might be a coming trend in higher education. The long-term economic weakness of colleges and universities means schools need to become more strategic about how they consider previously unthinkable options. This provocative book will be their indispensable guide to managing the crisis. In Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities, James Martin and James E. Samels bring together higher education leaders to talk about something that few want to discuss: how institutions might cooperate with their competitors to survive in this economic climate. Barring that, Martin and Samels argue, some will shutter their campuses. But closing, they emphasize, is a complex process that involves more than just sending the students home and turning off the lights. The first one-volumTrade ReviewMartin, Samels, and associates explore multiple pathways toward increasing financial sustainability while promoting new forms of shared resource management, effective approaches to collaborative educational experiences across institutions and organizations, and perhaps provide a new form of responsiveness to the increasing public demand on the value of higher education.—HigherEdJobs.comTable of ContentsPreface -- James Martin and James E. Samels Part I. The New Necessities to Partner Chapter 1. The Consolidation of American Higher EducationJames Martin and James E. Samels Chapter 2. Reader's Guide: The New Typology of Collaboration and ClosureJames E. Samels and James Martin Part II. Strategic Alliance: A Model That Rarely Fails, and Why Chapter 3. When Does Large Become Too Large? -- A View of Higher Education Partnerships and the Implications of Institutional SizeR. Michael Tanner Chapter 4. "Systemness": A New Way to Lead and Manage Higher Education SystemsNancy L. Zimpher Chapter 5. Presidential Vision and Partnership Development: An Evolving ViewPamela Eibeck Chapter 6. "We Never Thought This Way Ten Years Ago": How Partnerships Are Reshaping Academic Leadership ExpectationsVita Rabinowitz and James Stellar Chapter 7. Why, and How, Elite Colleges and Universities are Joining ForcesJ. Matthew Hartley and Alan Ruby Chapter 8. The Community College Option: How Co-ventures Can Leverage Student and Academic ResourcesKenneth Ender and Charles Middleton Chapter 9. Technology as a Driver of Strategic AlliancesPhilip Regier and Lynsi Freitag Chapter 10. A Disruptive Opportunity: Competency-based Education as a Shaper of Successful PartnershipsPaul LeBlanc and Kristine Clerkin Chapter 11. International Objectives: The Benefits and Challenges in Developing Branch Campuses and Partnerships AbroadMichael Jackson and James Larimore Chapter 12. Public-Private Partnerships: Models That WorkJohn Ottenhoff Part III. Consortium: New Benefits, Changing Purposes Chapter 13. A New Way to Design and Deliver Higher Education ConsortiaPhillip DiChiara Chapter 14. Where Partnerships Began: A Fresh Look at the Purpose and Outcomes of Liberal Arts College ConsortiaR. Owen Williams Part IV. Merger: The Right Reasons to Consider One Chapter 15. Why Mergers are (Quietly) Increasing Among Colleges and Universities: A Review of the Pros and ConsSusan Resneck Pierce Part V. Closure: Hidden Costs and Complexities Chapter 16. If That Moment Arrives: The Blueprint to Close a CollegeMichael Hoyle Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Higher Education and Silicon Valley
Book SynopsisUniversities and colleges often operate between two worlds: higher education and economic systems. With a mission rooted in research, teaching, and public service, institutions of higher learning are also economic drivers in their regions, under increasing pressure to provide skilled workers to local companies. It is impossible to understand how current developments are affecting colleges without attending to the changes in both the higher education system and in the economic communities in which they exist. W. Richard Scott, Michael W. Kirst, and colleagues focus on the changing relations between colleges and companies in one vibrant economic region: the San Francisco Bay Area. Colleges and tech companies, they argue, share a common interest in knowledge generation and human capital, but they operate in social worlds that substantially differ, making them uneasy partners. Colleges are a part of a long tradition that stresses the importance of precedent, academic values, and liberal eTable of ContentsPreface Introduction , by W. Richard Scott, Michael W. Kirst, Manuelito Biag, and Laurel Sipes1. The Changing Ecology of Higher Education in the San Francisco Bay Area, by W. Richard Scott, Manuelito Biag, Ethan Ris, and Brian Holzman2. The Regional Economy of the San Francisco Bay Area, by W. Richard Scott, Bernardo Lara, Manuelito Biag, Ethan Ris, and Judy C. Liang3. Broader Forces Shaping the Fields of Higher Education and the Regional Economy, by W. Richard Scott, Manuelito Biag, Bernardo Lara, and Judy C. Liang4. Diverse Colleges in Varied Sub-Regions, by W. Richard Scott, Ethan Ris, Manuelito Biag, and Bernardo Lara5. Structures and Strategies for Adaptation, by W. Richard Scott, Ethan Ris, Judy C. Liang, and Manuelito Biag6. Policy Perspectives, by Michael W. Kirst, W. Richard Scott, Laurel Sipes, and Anne PodolskyAppendix AAppendix B, by Brian HolzmanReferences Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press College Athletes Rights and WellBeing
Book SynopsisCollege athletes are at the very center of emerging campus debates over their legal, financial, and academic role. Amid ongoing litigation and pressure from internal and external stakeholders, many policy makers and university leaders are scrambling to determine the nature of this role. This timely and comprehensive volume identifies and discusses bylaws and legal decisions that have impacted the college athlete's ability to pursue higher education. It also explains and critiques the formal policies of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and member institutions while examining critical issues relevant to the growing fields of sport management, athletic administration, and sports law. Aimed at anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of the intercollegiate athletics landscape, College Athletes' Rights and Well-Being is divided into four sections. The first lays out the historical foundations that have shaped the intercollegiate athletic experience. Subsequent sections desTrade ReviewWith ongoing legal action and mounting social activism challenging the current NCAA model of college sport in the US, the release of this volume could hardly be more timely. Comeaux brings together contributions from leading scholars and professionals to examine college sports policy and practice from historical, legal, financial, labor, and academic perspectives... an excellent resource for auxiliary reading in any course that studies the sociological or cultural impacts of college sport in the US.—R. D. Sheptak Jr., Baldwin Wallace University, ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction., by John R. ThelinPart One 1. The Muzzle and the Megaphone, by Valyncia C. Raphael and J.P. AbercrumbiePart Two 2. The National Letter of Intent, by Ellen J. Staurowsky3. Amateurism and the NCAA Cartel, by Robert Scott Lemons4. Title IX's Gender-Separate Allowance in the Context of College Athlete Rights andIntercollegiate Athletics Reform, by Jennifer Lee Hoffman5. The State of Concussion Protocols, by Whitney Griffin6. 4-4 Transfer Restrictions on College Football and Athlete Freedom, by Gerald Gurney7. Due Process in College Sports, by Steven J. Silver8. College Athletes and Collective Bargaining Laws, by Neal H. Hutchens and Kaitlin A. QuigleyPart Three9. Commercialism in College Sports Undermines Athletes' Educational Opportunitiesand Rights, by Angela Lumpkin10. Conference Realignment and the Evolution of New Organizational Forms, by Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery11. Competitive Equity, by Andy Schwarz and Daniel A. RascherPart Four12. Looking underneath the Helmet, by Jamel K. Donnor13. Athletic Scholarship Arrangement, by Kealii Troy Kukahiko and Mitchell J. Chang14. Intervention Strategies for Improving College Athletes' Academic and PersonalDevelopment Outcomes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, by Joseph N. Cooper and Eddie Comeaux15. Revisiting African American Males and Highlighting Pacific Islander/Polynesian Male Experiences, by C. Keith Harrison, Leticia Osequera, Jean Boyd, and Monica Morita16. Activism in College Athletics, by Emmett Gill, Jr.AfterwordRestoring Balance, by Scott N. BrooksContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Subcortical
Book SynopsisWith humor and verve, Subcortical's dynamic stories delve into the mysteries of the human mind as these haunted characters struggle with economic disparity, educational divides, and the often-contested spaces in which they live.Trade ReviewConell brings the characters in her rich debut collection to life in weird, wise, and often poignant ways.—Publishers WeeklySubcortical urges the reader to take fantasy and fiction seriously, to consider how belief in the supernatural or the unlikely is not only an emotional touch point, but also a potential form of salvation . . . Throughout the collection, Conell never loses touch with the reader; the passion and sense of loss in these stories, their beat and pulse, is never distant. Whether transported to New York or Nashville, the 1940s or the present day, she does not lose sight of what lures and hooks our hearts . . . Dreams, hopes, the unreal-made-real and vice versa, weave and tighten these stories together, rewarding the reader with perspectives that captivate and confound, whirl you around and yet fasten you to the solid reality of the human body.—Cara Dees, The Adroit JournalWith sixteen stories of various lengths, Subcortical is a substantial debut. The shorter pieces, four to five pages each, are elliptical and open-ended, leaving readers wanting more. The longer stories possess the heft of novels, with complex characters who grow in surprising directions. This collection promises a bright future for Conell in longer fictional forms, but here's hoping she returns on occasion to write stories like these, gems of quirky insight and the heartache of difficult lessons. As Conell clearly knows, learning the hard way is the only way we learn anything.—Sean Kinch, Chapter 16Conell invites us into our own world with new eyes that capture the extraordinary details of the everyday and experience the extraordinary as merely mundane . . . These stories ask the reader to look closely at our present moment, to uncover its wonders and marvels. These stories are a reflection rather than a solution. They'll do better than break your heart—they'll shake it up and set the pieces cascading like snow in a globe, settling eventually in a familiar but different arrangement.—Alicia Marie Brandewie, Nashville ReviewTable of Contents1. The Lock Factory2. A Suggestion3. Unit Cell4. What the Blob Said to Me5. My Four Stomachs6. The Rent-Controlled Ghost7. Subcortical8. A Guide to Sirens9. Hart Island10. Recuerdo11. The Afterlife of Turtles12. Guardian13. Ghost Train14. The Sextrology Woman15. A Magic Trick for the Recently Unemployed16. Mutant at the Pierre HotelAcknowledgments
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Johns Hopkins University Press Higher Education Accountability
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive overview charting the accountability of higher education. As the price tag of higher education continues to rise, colleges and universities across the country are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their value. Graded on numerous metrics, including cost and ability to prepare students for the job market, colleges must satisfy requirements from multiple stakeholders. State and federal governments demand greater accountability. Foundations and private donors, as well as today's parents and students, approach education with a consumer sensibility. How can colleges navigate these pressures while trying to stay true to their missions and values? In Higher Education Accountability, Robert Kelchen delivers the first comprehensive overview of how colleges in the United States came to face such overwhelming scrutiny. Beginning with the earliest efforts to regulate schools, Kelchen reveals the rationale behind accountability and outlines the historical developmentTrade ReviewKelchen takes a wide scope that tracks the history of efforts to prod colleges to do better, while also looking at the current environment and giving clues about what's to come.—Inside Higher EdTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Theoretical Underpinnings of Accountability2. The Historical Development of Higher Education Accountability3. Federal Accountability Policies4. State Accountability Policies5. Accreditation and Accountability6. Private-Sector Accountability7. Institutional Accountability Policies and Practices8. Ten Lessons Learned from Accountability Policies9. The Future of Higher Education AccountabilityNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press How to Run a College
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBreakthrough books on higher education will enable you to see your institution in the larger, and more ominous, context of higher education's challenges. About trusteeship itself, turn to How to Run a College by Mitchell and King.—Wall Street JournalMitchell and King argue for colleges and universities to evolve, modernizing practices and monetizing assets. They examine major elements of college operations: governance, finance, enrollment advancement, academic affairs, student life and athletics—Inside Higher EdTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Governance and Management2. Finance3. Enrollment4. Advancement5. Academic Affairs6. Student Life7. Athletics8. Collaboration and Technology9. The Path ForwardNotes and ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Leading Colleges and Universities
Book SynopsisHow experienced college and university leaders guide successful institutionsand why they sometimes lose their way. Today's college and university leaders face complex problems that test their political acumen as well as their judgment, intellect, empathy, and ability to plan and improvise. How do they thoughtfully and creatively rise to the challenge? In Leading Colleges and Universities, editors Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon Gee bring together a host of presidents and other leaders in higher education who describe how they dealt with the issues. Each contributor has been effective as a president or other significant leader in postsecondary education. In this book they share real-life examples and stories that illustrate how they have dealt with the challenges they encountered. Together they answer these and other core questions: How do you manage college athletics, faculty, a governing board, donors, and a local community? What do you need to know abouTrade ReviewThis volume of brief essays by three dozen experienced presidents and other leaders in higher education is intended to provide candid reflections and examples from successful practitioners, illustrative of how they faced the many challenges that confront college and university presidents today.—Independent (Council of Independent Colleges)Table of ContentsPreface, by Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Gordon Gee, and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg1. Becoming a President, by William Kirwan2. Transition to the Position, by James P. Clements and Michael Young3. Leadership team, by Mildred Garcia and Marvin Krislov4. Maintaining a good relations with the board, by Lawrence S. Bacow5. Developing relations with faculty and staff, by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III and A. Lee Fritschler6. Knowing how and when to delegate and the extent to which delegating absolves leaders, by Holden Thorp and Mark Yudof7. When and how to participate in curricular decisions, by Jane McAvliffe and Mark Ungar8. Complexity and chicanery in collegiate athletics, by Robert Donaldson, Gerald B. Kauvar, and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg9. Title IX, by Allen Sessoms10. The complex issues surrounding freedom of speech, by Ben Trachtenberg11. What you need to know about emergency management, by Scott Cowen and Charles Steger12. How tenuous is tenure, by Ann Weaver Hart and Ben Nelson13. Working with elected and community officials, by Christopher B. Howard and Robert Scott14. Institutional autonomy , by William R. Harvey and John Ebersole15. Managing donor relations, by Georgia Nugent and Angel Cabrera16. How to deal with changing forms of accreditation , by Judith Eaton17. Litigation or the threat of litigation as a constraint , by John M. McCardell18. Balancing system-wide needs with institutional autonomy , by Rebecca Blank, Nancy Zimpher, and R. Bowen Loftin19. When to take a stand on national policy, by Mary S. Coleman and Lee Bollinger20. Presidents and general counsels , by Eduardo Padron21. Exiting with grace and ahead of the sheriff, by Richard Joel and Richard LevinConcluding Thoughts, by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon GeeAptitude test for aspiring presidents, by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon GeeIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Investigating College Student Misconduct
Book SynopsisA clear and cogent guide to how colleges and universities can investigate student misconduct.All colleges and universities grapple with the complexities of student misconduct. How can these institutions conduct efficient fact-finding investigations and disciplinary proceedings? What best practices should administrators and legal counsel follow when student behavior interferes with a university's mission or poses a campus safety threat? Oren R. Griffin answers these questions and more in Investigating College Student Misconduct, an essential resource for student affairs professionals and university administrators. Misconduct investigations and disciplinary proceedings are as common in higher education as they are contested. Without the force of law, clear procedures, or even rules of evidence, these proceedings can leave both the accused and the accuser in danger of receiving unfair treatment, opening the university up to legal action. Emphasizing the impoTrade ReviewLooks at the investigation culture in academe, and explains the key concepts and processes involved in making sound and fair inquiries into student misconduct.—Ruth Hammond, Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsForeword, by Peter F. Lake Preface Introduction Part I. Student Misconduct and the LawChapter 1. Constitutional Considerations and Student Rights Chapter 2. Statutory Law and Avoiding Investigatory MishapsPart II. The Student Misconduct InvestigationChapter 3. FundamentalsChapter 4. TacticsChapter 5. Confidentiality and PrivilegeChapter 6. Results and OutcomesConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press LandGrant Universities for the Future
Book SynopsisLand-grant colleges and universities have a storied past. This book looks at their future. Land-grant colleges and universities occupy a special place in the landscape of American higher education. Publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions were first founded in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrill Act, which established land grants to support these schools. They include such prominent names as Cornell, Maryland, Michigan State, MIT, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Texas A&M, West Virginia University, Wisconsin, and the University of Californiain other words, four dozen of the largest and best public universities in America. Add to this a number of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal collegesin all, almost 300 institutions. Their mission is a democratic and pragmatic one: to bring science, technology, agriculture, and the arts to the American people. In this book, Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee discuss present challTrade ReviewStephen Gavazzi, a professor at the Ohio State University, has partnered with West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee to refocus the college debate. As the volume's title indicates, Gavazzi and Gee mainly discuss the state of land-grant universities, but their suggestions are more generally illuminating . . . a useful addition to a growing literature on how universities might best be made to serve the changing needs of American society.—Christian Gonzalez, National ReviewIn Land-Grant Universities for the Future, authors Gavazzi and Gee explore the role of the modern land-grant university and the perception of land-grant university leaders around the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of these institutions and also offer a vision for how these universities can better serve their communities based on the covenant established in 1862. Readers will appreciate the inclusion of several relevant constituents, such as faculty and students, and will gain a better understanding of the workings of complex land-grant universities that can provide practical insights about how to approach challenges in higher education.—Isaura J. Gallegos, Harvard Educational ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by C. Peter MagrathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Whither the Land-Grant? Chapter 1. The Land-Grant Study, Campus–Community Relationships, and the Servant University Chapter 2. The Land-Grant Institution and Mission in Service to Communities Chapter 3. Land-Grant Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and ThreatsChapter 4. The Impact of Governing Boards, Elected Officials, and Accrediting Bodies Chapter 5. The Critical Role of the Faculty Chapter 6. Our Students: Vanguard in the Community Chapter 7. Charting the Future of American Public EducationAppendix A. Syllabus Land-Grant Universities: Mission and Leadership Appendix B. National Institute of Food and Agriculture Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 1862, 1890, and 1994 Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Designing the New American University
Book SynopsisA 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 American higher education, but their evolution since the nineteenth century has been only incremental. The need for a new and complementary model that offers broader accessibility to an academic platform underpinned by knowledge production is critical to our well-being and economic competitiveness. Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University and an outspoken advocate for reinventing the public research university, conceived the New American University model when he moved from Columbia University to Arizona State in 2002. Following a comprehensive reconceptualization spanning more than a decade, ASU has emerged as an international academic and reseTrade ReviewWe must remember that the connection of excellence and access is not just a slogan but a necessity for all of us in higher education. That was the special genius of California's master plan: attempting to forge and maintain connections at every level between teaching and research. The plan requires updating, with more emphasis on serving diverse populations of students, and continued expansion and innovations. Crow and Dabars may not have reinvented the master plan, but they have made an important intervention in the debate about which models work best, for which purposes and constituencies, and how we can support those models at the scale they require, all while maintaining academic rigor and autonomy.—The Chronicle ReviewCrow and Dabars offer a close analysis of the history and values that spawned our world-renowned research facilities and present a fresh model characterized by a pragmatic research structure and transdisciplinary organization . . . The authors present a dense and extensively investigated explanation of the strengths and limitations of our contemporary higher education environment and the possibilities of a new model.—Library JournalAn engaging and readable justification for and account of the New American University project . . . Crow is unlikely to disappear from view for quite some time.—Times Higher EducationCrow and Dabars are right to want new public universities to replace the Harvard standard. Their book is worth reading just for that discussion.—Los Angeles Review of BooksCrow . . . continues to be at the cutting edge of these and other challenges, opportunities, and initiatives for public research universities in general and his own institution in particular . . . Well written and laden with notes and bibliography, this is a solid complement to William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin's Locus of Authority (2015) and Robert Lacroix and Louis Maheu's Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World (2015).—ChoiceIt is impeccably referenced and thoughtfully paced with detailed chapters building the model they support. Within the book is a trove of information on the trajectory for and challenges facing higher education. Whether one chooses to follow the prescription they suggest, or simply wants to better understand higher education, this book provides a most compelling read.—PsycCRITIQUESDabars’ rich historical contextualization and Crow’s policy and managerial experience provide design principles encouraging institutions to leverage their own place in a locally appropriate way.—NatureThe New American University is the latest bold and meticulously argued model to reclaim what is distinctively American in higher education.—Journal of College and University LawTable of ContentsPreface, by Michael M. CrowAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. American Research Universities at a Fork in the Road2. The Gold Standard in American Higher Education3. The Varieties of Academic Tradition4. Discovery, Creativity, and Innovation5. Designing Knowledge Enterprises6. A Pragmatic Approach to Innovation and Sustainability7. Designing a New American University at the FrontierConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Becoming HispanicServing Institutions
Book SynopsisHow can striving Hispanic-Serving Institutions serve their students while countering the dominant preconceptions of colleges and universities?Winner of the AAHHE Book of the Year Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher EducationHispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% or more Latinx studentsare among the fastest-growing higher education segments in the United States. As of fall 2016, they represented 15% of all postsecondary institutions in the United States and enrolled 65% of all Latinx college students. As they increase in number, these questions bear consideration: What does it mean to serve Latinx students? What special needs does this student demographic have? And what opportunities and challenges develop when a college or university becomes an HSI? In Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Gina Ann Garcia explores how institutions are serving Latinx students, both through traditional Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. What It Means to Serve StudentsChapter 1. Creating the Dominant Narrative: The Racialization of Postsecondary Institutions Chapter 2. White Institutions Becoming HSIs: The Case of ChicagoChapter 3. Enhancing the Cultural Experience of Latinx StudentsChapter 4. Serving the Latinx Community in the Third SpaceChapter 5. Pushing the Bar on Legitimized OutcomesChapter 6. Reframing the HSI NarrativeNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Alternative Universities
Book SynopsisImagining the universities of the future. How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation todayMOOCs especiallyfocus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like. What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university placTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Innovation in Higher EducationPart I. OrganizationChapter 1. Platform UniversityChapter 2. MicrocollegeChapter 3. The Humanities Think TankInterlude. The University of BeautyPart II. ApprenticeshipChapter 4. Nomad UniversityChapter 5. The Liberal Arts CollegeInterlude. Superager UniversityPart III. TechnologyChapter 6. Interface UniversityChapter 7. The University of the BodyInterlude. Technology UniversityPart IV. AttributesChapter 8. The Institute for Advanced PlayChapter 9. Polymath UniversityChapter 10. Future UniversityConclusion: Existential Crisis and Existential PossibilitiesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Professorial Pathways
Book SynopsisWhat makes a professor? The answer depends on where in the world you are. Winner of the CIHE Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education by the Association for the Study of Higher EducationIn the twenty-first century, universities worldwide have found themselves thrust into a great brain race as nations, both developed and developing, seek to enhance their place in the global knowledge economy. As the concept of the de-localized universityone that has radically expanded, perhaps even beyond national bordersgrows, competing nations have begun reshaping aspects of their national systems to accommodate global standards and metrics. In Professorial Pathways, Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones consider how academic careers vary in countries that are fundamentally different in their organization and dynamics. Building on 25 years of scholarship, the book confronts major questions: What can we learn from the experience of other nations as they seek to balance the sTrade ReviewWhat makes this well-written and very readable book unique is that it shows clearly how the crucial issues at stake are not only the subjective factors, such as where it is "better or worse" to work as an academic, but the ways in which structural imbalances increasingly shape the sector globally and reach well beyond the traditional boundaries of academia, thereby impacting on so many other aspects of the lives of individuals working in the field and beyond.—Aniko Horvath, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Academic Profession Enters a New Global EraMartin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. JonesChapter 2. Germany: Unpredictable Career Progression but Security at the TopBarbara M. KehmChapter 3. France: Marginal Formal Changes but Noticeable EvolutionsChristine MusselinChapter 4. United Kingdom: Institutional Autonomy and National Regulation, Academic Freedom and Managerial AuthorityPeter ScottChapter 5. Russia: Higher Education, between Survival and InnovationMaria YudkevichChapter 6. Brazil: An Emerging Academic Market in TransitionElizabeth BalbachevskyChapter 7. India: The Challenge of ChangeN. JayaramChapter 8. China: The Changing Relationship between Academics, Institutions, and the StateFengqiao Yan and Dan MaoChapter 9. Japan: Opening Up the Academic Labor MarketAkiyoshi YonezawaChapter 10. United States: A Story of Marketization, Professional Fragmentation (Stratification), and Declining OpportunityMartin J. FinkelsteinChapter 11. Canada: Decentralization, Unionization, and the Evolution of Academic Career PathwaysGlen A. JonesChapter 12. Looking across Systems: Implications for Comparative, International Studies of Academic WorkGlen A. Jones and Martin J. FinkelsteinList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Becoming an Academic
Book SynopsisYour survival guide for graduate school. Welcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life doesn't have to be so grim. A veteran of the university gig economy, Mewburnaka The Thesis Whispereris perfectly placed to reflect on her experience and offer a wealth of practical strategies to survive and thrive. In Becoming an Academic, Mewburn, who has spent over a decade helping PhD students succeed in graduate school, deftly navigates the world of the working academic. Offering tips and tricks for survival, she touches on everything from thesis and article writing and keeping motivation alive to time management, research strategies, mastering new technologies, applying for promotion, dealing with sexism in the workplace, polishing grant applications, and deciding what to wear to give a keynote aTrade ReviewMewburn's counsel is solid. This quick and entertaining primer will appeal to students considering a career in academia as well as their advisers and anyone who has been down the path themselves.—Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction. The Academic Hunger Games 11. Becoming the Thesis Whisperer 002. Being Academic?3. Being Productive4. Being a Writer5. Being Employed (or Not . . . )6. Being PoliticalReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Academic Fault Lines
Book SynopsisHow 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. Campus leaders and faculty report a loss of public respect resulting from their alleged unresponsiveness to demands for change. But is this loss of confidence warranted? And how did we get to this point? In Academic Fault Lines, Patricia J. Gumport offers a compelling account of the profound shift in societal expectations for what public colleges and universities should be and do. She attributes these new attitudes to the ascendance of industry logicthe notion that higher education must prioritize serving the economy. Arguing that industry logic has had far-reaching effects, Gumport shows hoTable of ContentsOnline Materials Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Points of Departure 1. Conceptual and Empirical Anchors: Studying Institutional Change Part I. The Ascendance of Industry Logic 2. Built to Serve 3. State-Level Expectations 4. Forces Converging to Advance Industry Logic Part II. Community Colleges 5. Beyond the Demand-Response Scenario 6. Harmonizing Educational Identities Part III. Comprehensive State Universities 7. Reconciling Competing Mandates 8. Persevering through Strategic Necessities Part IV. Research Universities 9. In Pursuit of Excellence 10. Pursuing Priorities and Striving for State of the Art Conclusion. Managing for Legitimacy: Moving beyond Academic Fault Lines Notes Works Cited Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Strategic Mergers in Higher Education
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAbout the Authors AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I. Why Mergers in Higher Ed?Chapter 1. Pursuing Sustainability, Breadth, and Excellence through ScaleChapter 2. Why Mergers Now? Chapter 3. Mergers as an Organizational Tactic Chapter 4. History and Global Experience Chapter 5. Drivers and Categories of Mergers in Higher Education Chapter 6. Success and Failure: Predictors and Metrics Part II. Increasing the Odds of Merger Success in Higher EdChapter 7. The Seven Essential Elements for Merger Success Chapter 8. Evaluating the Stakes When Considering Mergers Chapter 9. Finding, Evaluating, and Choosing Merger Partners Chapter 10. Negotiating the Merger Chapter 11. Communicating in a Merger Chapter 12. Leadership, Resources, and Managing Opposition Part III. Effectively Executing Mergers in Higher EdChapter 13. Merging Organizational Units in a Context-Sensitive Manner Chapter 14. Managing Institutional Legal, Corporate, and Regulatory Obligations in a Merger Chapter 15. Project Management in a Merger Chapter 16. Creating and Managing the Brand: Who Do You Want to Be? Chapter 17. Aftermath: As Much a Beginning as an EndPart IV. Looking to the FutureChapter 18. The Role of Mergers in Institutional StrategyAppendix A. Mergers Occurring from 2000 to 2016 and Included in Analysis Appendix B. Example Functional Areas for Integration Using Project Management during a Merger Appendix C. Example Standardized Forms Used for Project Management during a Merger Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Gig Academy
Book SynopsisWhy the Gig Academy is the dominant organizational form within the higher education economyand its troubling implications for faculty, students, and the future of college education. Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and graduate students becoming a larger share of the workforce. For example, the faculty has shifted from one composed mostly of tenure-track, full-time employees to one made up of contingent, part-time teachers. Non-tenure-track instructors now make up 70 percent of college faculty. Their pay for teaching eight courses averages $22,400 a yearless than the annual salary of most fast-food workers. In The Gig Academy, Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott assess the impact of this disturbing workforce development. Providing an overarching framework that takes the concept of the gig economy and applies it to the university workforce, tTrade ReviewThe Gig Academy is a wonderful précis on the dire state of the modern American university.—Daniel Bessner, The NationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Putting the Gig Academy in Context: Neoliberalism and Academic Capitalism Chapter 2. Employees in the Gig Academy: Insecure, Isolated, Exploited, and Devalued Chapter 3. Disintegrating Relationships and the Demise of Community Chapter 4. How Employment Practices Negatively Impact Student Learning and Outcomes Chapter 5. The Growth of Unions and New Broad-Based Organizing Strategies Chapter 6. Whither the Struggle: Future Trends, Policies, and Actions NotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New American College Town
Book SynopsisA new perspective on the relationships among colleges, universities, and the communities with which they are now partnering. Colleges and universities have always had interesting relationships with their external communities, whether they are cities, towns, or something in between. In many cases, they are the main economic driver for their regionsState College, Pennsylvania, or Raleigh, North Carolina, for exampleand in others, they exist side by side with thriving industries. In The New American College Town, James Martin, James E. Samels & Associates provide a practical guide for planning a new kind of American college townone that moves beyond the nostalgia-tinged stereotype to achieve collaborative objectives. What exactly is a college town in America today? Examining the broad range of partnerships transforming campuses and the communities around them, the book opens by detailing twenty characteristics of new American college towns. Subsequent chapters invite presidents, provoTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Developing a New Definition of College TownsChapter 1. The New American College Town: Twenty Characteristics James Martin and James E. SamelsChapter 2. Fostering an Effective Town-Gown Relationship: Eight Leading Practices from the International Town & Gown Association Michael Fox and Beth BagwellPart II. Effective Campus-Community Relationships Start with the PresidentChapter 3. Urban-Serving Universities: Rethinking the College Town for the Twenty-First Century Wim Wiewel and Erin Flynn Chapter 4. How College Towns Have Become Regional Economic Drivers John Simon, Fred McGrail, and Allison StarerChapter 5. The Public Purpose of Higher Education: Building Innovative College-Community Partnerships Katherine Bergeron, Tracee Reiser, and Jefferson A. Singer Chapter 6. Starting from Scratch: How Albion Reinvented Its Town—and Its College in the Process Mauri A. Ditzler and Lorin DitzlerChapter 7. A Plan for Brooklyn: Engaging Community in the First Year of a College Presidency Miguel Martinez-SaenzChapter 8. Right Place, Right Time: Presidential Vision and Political Realities Susan Henderson and Aaron AskaChapter 9. Community College Towns: Five Ways Presidents Can Leverage Their Resources Kevin E. DrummPart III. Beyond the President's Office: Expanding Missions and Leveraging ResourcesChapter 10. How Planners Work: Best Practices for Keene State College and Keene, New Hampshire, in Balancing Community Relations Jay KahnChapter 11. How Architects Envision College Towns Today and Tomorrow: Ten Best Practices for Integrated Design Stuart Rothenberger, Krisan Osterby, and Patrick Hyland Jr. Chapter 12. What Mayors Think: Local Politicians' Views of College Town Opportunities and Expectations Kate RousmaniereChapter 13. Money Matters: Creative Financing for Campuses and Their Communities Rick SeltzerChapter 14. Hidden Opportunities and Challenges in the College Town Job Market Andrew W. Hibel and Kelly A. CherwinChapter 15. Student Expectations and Student Needs: How Effective College Towns Are Designed with Students at the Center Eugene L. Zdziarski II Chapter 16. Las Vegas: Designing a College Town in the Shadow of Neon Lights Kim Nehls Chapter 17. Remote and Ready to Partner: A Blueprint for Sustainable Town-Gown Partnerships in Rural Areas Robert C. AndringaChapter 18. Collaboration Is Complex: Five Lessons from Higher Education Consortium Directors for College Town Planners Phillip DiChiaraChapter 19. A College Town Legal Primer: The Most Frequently Asked Questions, and Answers, about Campus-Community Partnerships James E. Samels and James MartinChapter 20. Get Ready: College Towns Two Generations from Today Joel GarreauNotes Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Empowered University
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn The Empowered University, [Hrabowski] describes a theory of shared leadership within a campus culture that is proudly aspirational, driven by clear mission and values: people first; shared governance; innovation and risk taking; and 'inclusive excellence,' the improvement of academic success for all students.—Carolyn Dever, Public BooksTable of ContentsPreface. It's about Us Part I1. And Then We Did It 2. Higher Education Matters 3. Culture Change Is Hard as Hell 4. Leadership and Empowerment 5. Grit and Greatness Part II6. At the Crossroads 7. Pillars of Success 8. An Honors University 9. A Challenge of Quality 10. The New American College 11. Difficult Conversations 12. Looking in the Mirror 13. Success Is Never Final Epilogue. A Great Challenge Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Academia Next
Book SynopsisFrom 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 populations, and rapidly developing technologies all pose significant challenges to the nation's colleges and universities. In Academia Next, futurist and higher education expert Bryan Alexander addresses these evolving trends to better understand higher education's next generation. Alexander first examines current economic, demographic, political, international, and policy developments as they relate to higher education. He also explores internal transformations within postsecondary institutions, including those related to enrollment, access, academic labor, alternative certification, sexual assault, and the changing library, paying particularly close attention to technTrade ReviewAn excellent resource for understanding trends in higher eduction and thinking about future scenarios related to these.—michaelpaulus.orgAcademia Next provides a wealth of resources about current challenges and opportunities, highlights two methods (trend analysis and scenario development) that can be used to prepare colleges and universities for the future, and identifies possible challenges and opportunities they might face in the future.—Higher Ed ConnectsThose who worry about the future of higher ed—and who among us is without worry?—would do well to put Academia Next on their reading list. The book provides academic readers with a set of tools from which to construct a set of scenarios, underpinned by trends, about the future of our schools and of our ecosystem. The book is certain to catalyze an informed and energetic conversation about the future of higher ed.—Inside Higher EdAcademia Next helps us know how we can intervene in the emerging nature of higher education.—Association of Professional FuturistsEvery day, I am involved in a discussion about one or more issues affecting higher education. Academia Next does a great job of capturing many of those discussions into one book. If you are an administrator in higher education, I would encourage you to read this well-researched book.—tubarksblog.comA must read for anyone involved in our educational system.—Technical CommunicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. TrendsChapter 1. Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They AppearChapter 2. Catching the University in Midtransformation Chapter 3. The New Age of Fewer Children and More Inequality Chapter 4. The Marriage of Carbon and Silicon Chapter 5. Beyond the Virtual Learning Environment Chapter 6. Connecting the Dots: MetatrendsPart II. ScenariosChapter 7. Peak Higher Education Chapter 8. Health Care Nation Chapter 9. Open Education Triumphant Chapter 10. Renaissance Chapter 11. Augmented Campus Chapter 12. Siri, Tutor Me Chapter 13. Retro Campus Part III. To the Future and the PresentChapter 14. Beyond 2035 Chapter 15. Back to the Present NotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher
Book SynopsisGiving higher education professionals the language and tools they need to seize new opportunities in digital learning. A quiet revolution is sweeping across US colleges and universities. As schools rethink how students learn - both inside and outside the classroom - technology is changing not only what should be taught but how best to teach it. From active learning and inclusive pedagogy to online and hybrid courses, traditional institutions are leveraging their fundamental strengths while challenging long-standing assumptions about how teaching and learning happen. At this intersection of learning, technology, design, and organizational change lies the foundation of a new academic discipline of digital learning. Coalescing around this new field of study is a common critical language, along with a set of theoretical frameworks, methodological practices, and shared challenges and goals. In Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education, Joshua Kim and Edward Maloney explore thTrade ReviewJoshua Kim and Edward Maloney think that a new infrastructure to better support new learning initiatives is already taking shape—not just within this or that college—but across higher education—through the emergence of new learning professionals, new learning organizations, and (possibly) a new scholarly field.Their writing is lively, and the reader can sense the authors' enthusiasm and desire to convey to a wider audience what they see taking shape.—Change: The Magazine of Higher LearningTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Turn to Learning1 Foundations of the Learning Revolution2 Institutional Change3 Reclaiming Innovation from Disruption4 The Scholarship of Learning5 Leading the RevolutionEpilogue: The Future of Learning Innovation NotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The College Stress Test
Book SynopsisProvides an insightful analysis of the market stresses that threaten the viability of some of America's colleges and universities while delivering a powerful predictive tool to measure an institution's risk of closure. In The College Stress Test, Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman, and Susan Campbell Baldridge present readers with a full, frank, and informed discussion about college and university closures. Drawing on the massive institutional data set available from IPEDS (the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System), they build a stress test for estimating the market viability of more than 2,800 undergraduate institutions. They examine four key variablesnew student enrollments, net cash price, student retention, and major external fundingto gauge whether an institution is potentially at risk of considering closure or merging with another school. They also assess student body demographics to see which students are commonly served by institutions experiencing market stress. The book'Trade ReviewThe timely volume, The College Stress Test, provides a framework for colleges to review their institutional health.—Aviva Legatt, ForbesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue. Is It Closing Time?Chapter 1. Threat, Reassurance, and Grief Chapter 2. A Winner's MarketChapter 3. A Calculus for RiskChapter 4. The Distribution of RiskChapter 5. Winners and LosersChapter 6. Those Who Are Bound to StruggleChapter 7. Changing the SlopeAppendixesA. Risk Index Workbook for Institutional AnalystsB. On Squaring the CircleC. A Note on VerificationReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Resource Management for Colleges and Universities
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue. Preview of ApplicationsPart One. Introduction to AR Modeling1. Changing the Conversation2. Getting into AR Models3. Building Trust in Your AR ModelPart Two. Full-Function AR Models4. Pilbara's Full-Function AR Model5. Historical Models and Operating Decisions6. Predictive Models and Scenario PlanningPart Three. Other AR Tools7. Comprehensive Program Review8. Universities as Mission-Driven Enterprises9. The Way ForwardAppendix A. Activity Analysis DetailAppendix B. Scoring Market Data with Fuzzy LogicNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Learning Online
Book SynopsisWhat's it really like to learn online?Learning Online: The Student ExperienceOnline learning is ubiquitous for millions of students worldwide, yet our understanding of student experiences in online learning settings is limited. The geographic distance that separates faculty from students in an online environment is its signature feature, but it is also one that risks widening the gulf between teachers and learners. In Learning Online, George Veletsianos argues that in order to critique, understand, and improve online learning, we must examine it through the lens of student experience. Approaching the topic with stories that elicit empathy, compassion, and care, Veletsianos relays the diverse day-to-day experiences of online learners. Each in-depth chapter follows a single learner's experience while focusing on an important or noteworthy aspect of online learning, tackling everything from demographics, attrition, motivation, and loneliness to cheating, openness, flexibility, social meTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Learner Who Compared Online Courses to Face-to-Face Courses2. The Learner Who Was "Nontraditional" 3. The Learner Whose Motive Was Sheer Interest4. The Learner Who Dropped Out5. The Learner Who Used the Family Computer6. The Learner Who Had the Necessary Literacies7. The Learner Who Watched Videos Alone8. The Learner Who Showed Emotion9. The Learner Who "Listened"10. The Learner Who Cheated11. The Learner Who Was Taught by a Bot12. The Learner Who Took Notes13. The Learner Who Used a Social Networking Site for Online Learning14. The Learner Who Was Self-Directed 15. The Learner Who Took Advantage of the Openness in MOOCs16. The Learner Who Took Advantage of Flexible Learning17. The Learner of the FutureConclusionIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Redesigning Liberal Education
Book SynopsisRedesigning liberal education requires both pragmatic approaches to discover what works and radical visions of what is possible. The future of liberal education in the United States, in its current form, is fraught but full of possibility. Today's institutions are struggling to maintain viability, sustain revenue, and assert value in the face of rising costs. But we should not abandon the model of pragmatic liberal learning that has made America's colleges and universities the envy of the world. Instead, Redesigning Liberal Education argues, we owe it to students to reform liberal education in ways that put broad and measurable student learning as the highest priority. Written by experts in higher education, the book is organized into two sections. The first section focuses on innovations at 13 institutions: Brown University, College of the Holy Cross, Connecticut College, Elon University, Florida International University, George Mason University, Georgetown University, Lasell CollegTable of ContentsForeword, by Michael S. RothAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Radical Vision for Redesigning Liberal EducationWilliam Moner, Phillip Motley, and Rebecca Pope-RuarkPart I. Case Studies Chapter 1. Problem-Focused Liberal Education in a First-Year Learning Community at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Denise S. Bartell, Alison K. Staudinger, and David J. VoelkerChapter 2. Attending to Local Context, Culture, and Language at Florida International UniversityIsis Artze-Vega, Phillip M. Carter, and Heather Russell Chapter 3. The Experiential Liberal Arts: An Integrative Model for Twenty-First-Century Education at Northeastern University Chris W. Gallagher and Uta G. PoigerChapter 4. Creating Connections: An Intentional, Integrated Liberal Education at Connecticut CollegeMichael Reder and Ann SchenkChapter 5. Building a Developmental, Interdisciplinary General Education Curriculum for the Future: Foundations in the Liberal Arts at Rollins CollegeEmily Russell, Susan Rundell Singer, and Toni Strollo HolbrookChapter 6. Exploring the Borderlands: Using Interdisciplinarity to Build Civic Literacy at the College of the Holy CrossLaurie Ann Britt-SmithChapter 7. Redesigning Learning through Multidisciplinary Teaching: Voices from a Sophomore Core Experience at Lasell UniversityMichael J. Daley, Dennis A. Frey Jr., and Catherine ZeekChapter 8. Intergenerational Partnerships to Support Liberal Learning Goals at Brown UniversityMary C. Wright, Maud S. Mandel, Jessica Metzler, and Christina SmithChapter 9. The Design Thinking Initiative at Smith CollegeBorjana MikicChapter 10. Immersive Learning in the Studio for Social Innovation at Elon UniversityRebecca Pope-Ruark, William Moner, and Phillip MotleyChapter 11. Failing Forward: Writing, Design, and Organic Curricular Change at Georgetown University Maggie Debelius, Sherry Lee Linkon, and Matthew PavesichChapter 12. Educating Business Leaders for a Better World at George Mason UniversityLisa Gring-Pemble, Anne M. Magro, and Jacquelyn Dively BrownChapter 13. Educating for Global Civic Participation and a Career: German Studies in the Twenty-First Century at Elon UniversityScott Windham, Andrea A. Sinn, Kristin Lange, Derek Lackaff, Anthony Hatcher, Evan A. Gatti, and Janelle Papay DecatoChapter 14. Pursuing Major Passions: Innovative Minors That Blend Professional Skills and Liberal Education Values for Civic Pursuits at Susquehanna UniversityJohn Bodinger de Uriarte and Betsy VerhoevenPart II. Visions for the Future of Liberal EducationChapter 15. The Future Has Gone Soft on Skills: Why Campuses Should Be Working Harder to Cement Personal and Social Development with LearningAshley FinleyChapter 16. Can We Liberate Liberal Education?Randy BassChapter 17. Aligning Liberal Education for an Age of InequalityWilliam M. SullivanChapter 18. Slow: Liberal Learning for and in a Fast-Paced WorldNancy L. Chick and Peter FeltenChapter 19. Shifting Paradigms: College Admissions as a Lever for Systemic Change in Liberal EducationKristína Moss Gudrún Gunnarsdóttir and Meredith TwomblyChapter 20. Scholartistry: Creativity and the Future of the Liberal ArtsMichael Shanks and Connie SvaboAfterword. The Age of ConnectednessLeo LambertAppendix 1Appendix 2ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Runaway College Costs
Book SynopsisWhat role have governing boards played in tuition and fee escalation at four-year public colleges and universities?In the United States, college costs, especially tuition and fees, have increased much more rapidly than either the overall Consumer Price Index or median household income. This cost inflation has effectively closed the doors of higher education to many qualified students and contributed to a staggering $1.5 trillion in student debt. Additionally, the number of college enrollments in the United States actually declined for eight straight years between 2011 and 2019, as college student bodies became increasingly stratified on the basis of family incomes. Virtually every public college cost increase, however, requires a positive vote from each university's governing boardand the record shows that these votes are nearly always unanimous. In Runaway College Costs, James V. Koch and Richard J. Cebula argue that many trustees have forgotten that they should act as fiduciaries whoTrade Review[Runaway College Costs] provides the best overview of higher-ed governance issues I have seen anywhere.—James A. Bacon, Bacon's RebellionTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Their Answer Is Always Yes: Higher Education Cost Inflation and Governing Boards Chapter 2. Governing Boards and Economic Mobility Chapter 3. Who's in Charge and Does It Make Any Difference? Chapter 4. Tuition and Fees, Governing Boards, and State Financial Support Chapter 5. We Can Do Better I: Governing Boards, Legislatures, and Governors Chapter 6. We Can Do Better II: Looking Inside Our Public Colleges and Universities Chapter 7. A Proposed Action Agenda for Governing Boards Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Big Data on Campus
Book SynopsisHow 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 from the for-profit sector. To navigate these challenges, savvy leaders must leverage data to make sound decisions. In Big Data on Campus, leading data analytics experts and higher ed leaders show the role that analytics can play in the better administration of colleges and universities. Aimed at senior administrative leaders, practitioners of institutional research, technology professionals, and graduate students in higher education, the book opens with a conceptual discussion of the roles that data analytics can play in higher education administration. Subsequent chapters address recent developments in technology, the rapid accumulation of data assetsTable of ContentsForeword, by Christine M. KellerAcknowledgments Part I. Technology, Digitization, Big Data, and Analytics Maturity as the Enabling Conditions for Data-Informed Decision MakingChapter 1. Data Analytics and the Imperatives for Data-Informed Decision Making in Higher Education Karen L. Webber and Henry Y. ZhengChapter 2. Big Data and the Transformation of Decision Making in Higher Education Braden J. HoschChapter 3. Predictive Analytics and Its Uses in Higher Education Henry Y. Zheng and Ying ZhouPart II. The Ethical, Cultural, and Managerial Imperatives of Data-Informed Decision Making in Higher EducationChapter 4. Limitations in Data Analytics: Potential Misuse and Misunderstanding in Data Reports and Visualizations Karen L. Webber and Jillian N. MornChapter 5. Guiding Your Organization's Data Strategy: The Roles of University Senior Leaders and Trustees in Strategic Analytics Gail B. Marsh and Rachit TharianiChapter 6. Data Governance, Data Stewardship, and the Building of an AnalyticsOrganizational Culture Rana Glasgal and Valentina NestorPart III. The Application of Analytics in Higher Education Decision Making: Case StudiesChapter 7. Data Analytics and Decision Making in Admissions and Enrollment Management Tom Gutman and Brian P. HinoteChapter 8. Predictive Analytics, Academic Advising, Early Alerts, and Student Success Timothy M. RenickChapter 9. Constituent Relationship Management and Student Engagement Lifecycle Cathy A. O'Bryan, Chris Tompkins, and Carrie Hancock MarcinkevageChapter 10. Learning Analytics for Learning Assessment: Complexities in Efficacy, Implementation, and Broad Use Carrie Klein, Jaime Lester, Huzefa Rangwala, and Aditya JohriChapter 11. Using Data Analytics to Support Institutional Financial and Operational Efficiency Lindsay K. Wayt, Susan M. Menditto, J. Michael Gower, and Charles TegenPart IV. Concluding CommentsChapter 12. Data-Informed Decision Making and the Pursuit of Analytics Maturity in Higher Education Karen L. Webber and Henry Y. ZhengContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Building Gender Equity in the Academy
Book SynopsisAn evidence-based, action-oriented response to the persistent, everyday inequity of academic workplaces. Despite decades of effort by federal science funders to increase the numbers of women holding advanced degrees and faculty jobs in science and engineering, they are persistently underrepresented in academic STEM disciplines, especially in positions of seniority, leadership, and prestige. Women filled 47% of all US jobs in 2015, but held only 24% of STEM jobs. Barriers to women are built into academic workplaces: biased selection and promotion systems, inadequate structures to support those with family and personal responsibilities, and old-boy networks that can exclude even very successful women from advancing into top leadership roles. But this situation canand mustchange. In Building Gender Equity in the Academy, Sandra Laursen and Ann E. Austin offer a concrete, data-driven approach to creating institutions that foster gender equity. Focusing on STEM fields, where gender equiTrade ReviewBuilding Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change is a timely addition to the conversation about gender equity in academic institutions, particularly STEM fields.—AcademeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Problem, the Solution, and the StudyChapter 1. What's the Problem?Underrepresented, Out of SightBarriers for Women on STEM FacultiesThe Importance of RepresentationChapter 2. Fix the System, Not the Women Studying Systemic Change to Advance Gender EquityThe Content and Structure of the BookAudiences for This BookLimitations of the BookPart II. Strategies for ChangeOverviewChapter 3. Interrupt Biased ProcessesStrategy 1. Inclusive Recruitment and HiringStrategy 2. Equitable Processes of Tenure and PromotionStrategy 3. Strengthened Accountability StructuresChapter 4. Reboot WorkplacesStrategy 4. Development of Institutional LeadersStrategy 5. Approaches to Improving Departmental ClimateStrategy 6. Enhanced Visibility for Women and Gender IssuesChapter 5. Support the Whole PersonStrategy 7. Support for Dual-Career CouplesStrategy 8. Flexible Work ArrangementsStrategy 9. Practical, Family-Friendly AccommodationsChapter 6. Foster Individual SuccessStrategy 10. Faculty Professional Development ProgramsStrategy 11. Grants to Individual FacultyStrategy 12. Mentoring and Networking ActivitiesChapter 7. New Frontiers of Research and PracticeAddressing Other Arenas of BiasApproaching Equity through Analysis of Power and PrivilegeEqualizing Workloads and Their Impact on AdvancementCombating Sexual and Gender-Based HarassmentHonoring Intersectional IdentitiesIncluding Contingent FacultySummaryPart III. Building and Enacting a Change PortfolioChapter 8. Put It All TogetherCase Study 1. Case Western Reserve UniversityCase Study 2. University of Texas at El PasoCase Study 3. University of Wisconsin–MadisonLessons from the Case StudiesChapter 9. Design a Change Portfolio to Advance EquityTaking a Systemic and Strategic Approach to TransformationImplementing the Strategic Change PlanReflections and Next StepsConcluding ThoughtsAppendix A. ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Awards by Cohort through 2019Appendix B. Research MethodsReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New PhD
Book SynopsisThis book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD. For too many students, today's PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current statistics, four of the eight50%!will not complete the degree. Of the other four, two will never secure full-time academic positions. The remaining pair will find full-time teaching jobs, likely at teaching-intensive institutions. And maybe, just maybe, one of them will garner a position at a research university like the one where those eight students began graduate school. But all eight members of that original group will be trained according to the needs of that single one of them who might snag a job at a research university. Graduate school has been preparing students for jobs that don't existand preparing them to want those jobs above all others. In The New PhD, Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch argue that universities need to ready Trade ReviewJust in time comes a new book that suggests a set of reforms and innovations meant to transform doctoral education into a more student-centered, career-diverse, socially engaged enterprise that enlarges the possibilities for students and expands the benefits for society.—ForbesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Why We Need a New PhD and How We Can Create One Chapter 1. Then and Now: Two Recent Eras of ReformChapter 2. Purpose, Then Path: A Practical Guide to Starting the ConversationChapter 3. Career Diversity: A Liberal Arts Approach to the PhDChapter 4. Admissions and AttritionChapter 5. Student Support and Time to DegreeChapter 6. Curing the Curriculum and Examining the ExamChapter 7. AdvisingChapter 8. Students as TeachersChapter 9. Degrees: What Should They Look Like? What Should They Do?Chapter 10. Public Scholarship: What It Is, Where It Came From, and What It RequiresConclusion. From Words to ActionsPostscriptAcknowledgments NotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ending Sexual Violence in College
Book SynopsisHow do we create a culture of zero tolerance for sexual violence on college campuses?In a world where one in five women on campus experience some form of sexual assault, what would it take to create a campus culture that was free of violence against women? From a public health perspective, sexual assault is an epidemic on campuses, but why? What is it about a campus community culture that permits or encourages this, at a time when a majority of students are now female? In this practical guide for colleges and universities, Joanne H. Gavin, James Campbell Quick, and David J. Gavin lay out a community-based model that is designed to eliminate sexual misconduct, spot it before it happens, punish its perpetrators, support its victims/survivors, and end this epidemic. Ending Sexual Violence in College is a prescriptive guide for creating a campus culture that is intolerant of sexual misconduct regardless of who is involved or the context in which it happens. A culture of intolerance, the auTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Evolution of Title IXChapter 3. Challenges to Protecting Women from Sexual Assault and Its AftermathChapter 4. Building a Strong, Secure Campus CultureChapter 5. Student Education and Training Programs Chapter 6. Faculty Education and TrainingChapter 7. Education and Training for Everyone on Campus Chapter 8. Responding to IncidentsChapter 9. Healing and Seeking JusticeChapter 10. Three Institutional Cases ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Agile College
Book SynopsisFollowing Grawe's seminal first book, this volume answers the question: How can a college or university prepare for forecasted demographic disruptions?Demographic changes promise to reshape the market for higher education in the next 15 years. Colleges are already grappling with the consequences of declining family size due to low birth rates brought on by the Great Recession, as well as the continuing shift toward minority student populations. Each institution faces a distinct market context with unique organizational strengths; no one-size-fits-all answer could suffice. In this essential follow-up to Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, Nathan D. Grawe explores how proactive institutions are preparing for the resulting challenges that lie ahead. While it isn't possible to reverse the demographic tide, most institutions, he argues persuasively, can mitigate the effects. Drawing on interviews with higher education leaders, Grawe explores successful avenues of response, iTrade ReviewGrawe's book is unapologetically empirical, focusing on specific programmes, policies and approaches already piloted with success . . . The Agile College convincingly shows that succumbing to despondency is a premature response to the impending demographic disruption.—Times Higher EducationThe Agile College debunks the idea that colleges and universities are helpless in the face of demographic trends.—Inside Higher EdTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Demographic PressuresChapter 1. Evolving Demographic TrendsChapter 2. Updated Projections of Higher Education DemandChapter 3. New Lenses for Higher Education DemandChapter 4. A Detailed Examination by RacePart II. The Response of Higher EducationChapter 5. Strategies and Tactics for Tackling Disruptive ChangeChapter 6. Recruitment and Financial Aid PoliciesChapter 7. Retention InitiativesChapter 8. Program ReformsChapter 9. Reorganization, Rightsizing, and Other Names for RetrenchmentChapter 10. Growth PlansChapter 11. Collaborative ActionChapter 12. Something between Chicken Little and PollyannaAppendix 1. MethodsAppendix 2. Comparison to WICHE ForecastsNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press When Colleges Close
Book SynopsisHow would you lead your college if you knew that you had to close it?Founded in 1888 as Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School, Wheelock College's mission was to prepare students to work in the helping professions, including teaching and social work. But in 2018, struggling with growing debt and declining admissions, the 130-year-old institution officially closed and merged with Boston University, creating the BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Written by the former president and vice president of academic affairs of Wheelock College, When Colleges Close presents the remarkable success story of Wheelock's merger with Boston University and its closure as a standalone institution. In an era when more and more institutions are at risk of closure, this book offers a detailed description of how the board and administration of one small college with an enrollment of under 1,100 students determined early that it needed to plan for a future in which it would no longeTable of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. What Led Wheelock to Seek a PartnerChapter 2. A New President Arrives on CampusChapter 3. Preparing to Make Decisions and Explore OptionsChapter 4. Creating CourtshipChapter 5. Assessing Viable ProposalsChapter 6. Successful Negotiation with Boston UniversityChapter 7. Merger IntegrationChapter 8. Closing the Wheelock WayConclusion: The First YearReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Communicate for a Change
Book SynopsisThis is a different kind of book: a call for courageous conversations focusing on nine taboo subjects that bedevil higher education. For nearly a decade, distinguished scholars Lori Carrell and Robert Zemsky have been having frank conversations with each otherand with colleagues and friendsabout the state of higher education. In Communicate for a Change, they bring together nine of their most insightful conversations to explore difficult questions that today's administrators, trustees, and faculty members too frequently avoid. Why, Carrell and Zemsky ask, is it so hard to talk about the mess that higher education is in? And how can we refocus the conversation on what really matters, grappling with taboo subjects in a way that helps to revitalize higher education from the inside out? Grounded in the real, as opposed to the rhetorical, importance of community in making change, these revealing conversations also explore why the public no longer sees faculty as heroes and experts how to Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Let's TalkConversation One: "Why Can't We Talk about the Mess We're In?" Conversation Two: Can a Commitment to Community Move us Forward?Conversation Three: The Slogans that Ensnare UsConversation Four: Why Can't We Connect with Each Other?Conversation Five: Why are we the Bad Guys? Conversation Six: Money Talks Conversation Seven: The Students We Hardly Know Conversation Eight: Is It Ever Safe to Talk about Changing the Curriculum? Conversation Nine: Why Can't We Have a Productive Conversation about Differences-Especially Conversations about Race and Gender? ReflectionsReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Breaking Ranks
Book SynopsisSome colleges will do anything to improve their national ranking. That can be bad for their studentsand 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 among America's colleges and universities. In this revealing account, Colin Diver shows how popular rankings have induced college applicants to focus solely on pedigree and prestige, while tempting educators to sacrifice academic integrity for short-term competitive advantage. By forcing colleges into standardized best-college hierarchies, he argues, rankings have threatened the institutional diversity, intellectual rigor, and social mobility that is the genius of American higher education. As a former university administrator who refused to play the game, Diver leads his readers on an engaging journey through the mysteries of college rankings, admissions, financial aid, spending policies, and academiTrade ReviewIf you are buying a car or a refrigerator, a Consumer Reports–style rankings system works just fine. But, as Diver points out, there is no right answer when it comes to choosing a college—for all the fancy formulas the rankings companies trot out, they offer faux science.—David Kirp, The NationOffers a harsh critique of the rankings industry and its impact on undergraduate colleges and law schools.—Inside Higher EdBreaking Ranks sweeps away whatever shreds of credibility the rankings business retains.—Michael Thaddeus, CNNA spirited, often witty critique of the college ranking industry.—ForbesBreaking Ranks is more than just an exposé: Diver also offers advice on how families can choose schools that are the best match for their aspiring student.17—Town & CountryA useful primer on the pros and cons of college rankings.—Washington MonthlyDiver likens 'the homogenizing effect of rankings' on diverse colleges and universities to a Procrustean bed: not a good way to find a fit.He is conversant with all the data, and teases apart superficial measures of, say, graduate indebtedness....If educators cannot ignore the rankings, he advises, at least they can junk worthless peer rankings, resist publicizing illegitimate ones, and make accessible the full range of data on their institutions.—Harvard MagazineA lucid and comprehensive critique of the 'rankings industry'.[Diver's] treatment of the topic is superb, and I recommend it to any readers who remain undecided about whether ranking colleges is a good idea.—Christopher L. Eisgruber, Elsevier ConnectThe book is well-structured, [Diver's] arguments are well-built, and his writing style is very accessible....What you might not expect is his honesty....Getting the opportunity to watch a university president think these matters through; to see the rationale that led to them taking a stand, and the impact that taking that stand had on their institution is gold-dust.—WonkHEIn Breaking Ranks, Diver walks readers through the basics of the ranking industry, its history, its growth, and the distortions that arise as institutions devise strategies to improve their positions, including the temptation to misrepresent their figures....Chapters are short and highly readable.—Change: The Magazine of Higher LearningThis book could hardly be timelier...This is a highly researched and fascinating book on the manipulative side of higher ed.—Bookmarked ReadersA well-written, well-referenced book...Diver has written an excellent analysis of how rankings became so powerful and has clearly identified why they are problematic and do not measure what they claim to. He describes why and how rankings have become so pervasive in the US and makes a strong argument for rejecting the rankings industry as it stands. He also proposes some ways of actually measuring the quality of education institutions provide.—Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface ProloguePart I. The College Ranking Industry: From Curiosity, to Scorekeeper, to RankocracyChapter 1. Apples, Oranges, and Refrigerators: Should Colleges Be Ranked?Chapter 2. Meet the Ranking Industry's 800-Pound Gorilla—and Its CousinsChapter 3. Making "Best-College Stew": A Recipe for Disaster?Chapter 4. Who Cares about Rankings? Applicants Do!Chapter 5. Resist or Embrace: Educators' Responses to RankingsChapter 6. Garbage In? The Misreporting of Rankings DataPart II. The Prestige Treadmill: Reputation, Wealth, and RankingsChapter 7. Conferring Pedigree: The Educational AristocracyChapter 8. Measuring Prestige by Popularity Poll: The Opinions of "Experts"Chapter 9. The Wealth of Institutions: What Is a College Worth?Chapter 10. The Spending Rat Race: Maximizing Per-Student SubsidyPart III. The Gatekeepers: Judging Colleges by Who Gets In and Who Doesn'tChapter 11. The Best and the Brightest: Student Selectivity and College RankingsChapter 12. SAT: The Elephant in the Admissions Office, and in the RankingsChapter 13. Chasing High SAT Scores: The Games Colleges PlayChapter 14. Intercollegiate Admissions Competition: Winners and LosersChapter 15. Affirmative Inaction: Race, Ethnicity, and RankingsPart IV. Higher Goals for Higher Education: Outcomes, Value Added, and the Public GoodChapter 16. Inside the Black Box: Can Learning Gains Be Measured?Chapter 17. Proxies for Learning Outcomes: Instructional Content and QualityChapter 18. Crossing the Finish Line: Ranking Schools by Graduation Rates Chapter 19. Making a Living: The Winding Road from College to CareerChapter 20. Social Immobility: College Rankings and the American DreamChapter 21. Making a Life: The Art of Being HumanConclusion. Breaking the Rankocracy's Grip Appendix. Eight Schools, a Thousand Flowers . . .AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Design for Change in Higher Education
Book SynopsisIt's time to design the next iteration of higher education. There is no question that higher education faces significant challenges. Most of today's universities aren't prepared to tackle issues like demographic change, the continued defunding of public education, cost pressures, and the opportunities and challenges of educational technologies. Then, of course, there is the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, which will reverberate for years and may very well usher higher education into an era of significant structural change. Some critics argue that a premium should be placed on change functionsthat is to say, on creativity, innovation, organizational learning, and change management. Yet few institutions of higher education have functions focused on thoughtful, iterative problem-solving and opportunity identification. The authors of Design for Change in Higher Education argue that we must imagine and actively make our way to new institutional forms. They assert that designa practical arTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Designing Change in Higher EducationChapter 1. Learning Experience Design in Higher EducationChapter 2. Operationalizing DesignChapter 3. Designing ConversationsChapter 4. Change Management as DesignChapter 5. Assessment and Research in a Higher Education Design OrganizationChapter 6. Designing Requires a Design OrganizationNotesIndex
£24.75
Johns Hopkins University Press Academia Next
Book SynopsisFrom 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 populations, and rapidly developing technologies all pose significant challenges to the nation's colleges and universities. In Academia Next, futurist and higher education expert Bryan Alexander addresses these evolving trends to better understand higher education's next generation. Alexander first examines current economic, demographic, political, international, and policy developments as they relate to higher education. He also explores internal transformations within postsecondary institutions, including those related to enrollment, access, academic labor, alternative certification, sexual assault, and the changing library, paying particularly close attention to technTrade ReviewAn excellent resource for understanding trends in higher eduction and thinking about future scenarios related to these.—michaelpaulus.orgAcademia Next provides a wealth of resources about current challenges and opportunities, highlights two methods (trend analysis and scenario development) that can be used to prepare colleges and universities for the future, and identifies possible challenges and opportunities they might face in the future.—Higher Ed ConnectsThose who worry about the future of higher ed—and who among us is without worry?—would do well to put Academia Next on their reading list. The book provides academic readers with a set of tools from which to construct a set of scenarios, underpinned by trends, about the future of our schools and of our ecosystem. The book is certain to catalyze an informed and energetic conversation about the future of higher ed.—Inside Higher EdAcademia Next helps us know how we can intervene in the emerging nature of higher education.—Association of Professional FuturistsEvery day, I am involved in a discussion about one or more issues affecting higher education. Academia Next does a great job of capturing many of those discussions into one book. If you are an administrator in higher education, I would encourage you to read this well-researched book.—tubarksblog.comA must read for anyone involved in our educational system.—Technical CommunicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. TrendsChapter 1. Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They AppearChapter 2. Catching the University in Midtransformation Chapter 3. The New Age of Fewer Children and More Inequality Chapter 4. The Marriage of Carbon and Silicon Chapter 5. Beyond the Virtual Learning Environment Chapter 6. Connecting the Dots: MetatrendsPart II. ScenariosChapter 7. Peak Higher Education Chapter 8. Health Care Nation Chapter 9. Open Education Triumphant Chapter 10. Renaissance Chapter 11. Augmented Campus Chapter 12. Siri, Tutor Me Chapter 13. Retro Campus Part III. To the Future and the PresentChapter 14. Beyond 2035 Chapter 15. Back to the Present NotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Black Familys Guide to College Admissions
Book SynopsisThe ultimate guide to help Black families navigate the college admissions process. Finding the right college is a challenge for all students. But Black families face additional challenges and questions while navigating the admissions process. In The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions, veteran admissions experts Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown share provocative insights and demystify this complex process to answer important questions from where to apply to how to get in.Fields and Herndon-Brown discuss specific concerns for Black families that are not often addressed by school counselors or other resources. They highlight how the current social justice movement amplifies the distinct dynamics that exist between Historically Black Colleges and Universities and predominantly white institutions and which college choices may be best for Black students. Fields and Herndon-Brown pull from decades of experience to offer the savvy advice that Black families need. Having woTrade ReviewFocusing on the what, the why, and the how of college selection for Black students and their families, the authors provide advice from both the high school and college admissions perspective of the process. This exceptional book addresses issues of race as they intersect with the choice of Historically Black Colleges and Universities or predominantly white institutions and explains the selective college admissions process for high-achieving students of color.—School Library JournalA resource shining a light on everything from the current social justice movement and the cultural and educational credibility of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to financial aid and athletic recruitment. This book is also for school counselors and educators who are seeking more insight with the goal of amplifying diversity, equity, and inclusivity.—Black EnterpriseThis book provides great insight to readers into the application process for Black families. Fields and Herndon-Brown strive to address concerns often neglected by school counselors and college application resources.—BestColleges.comAs students are applying to more colleges and universities than ever before, this book by Fieldsand Herndon-Brown is timely and needed.Highly recommended for any parent or student who is navigating the college admissions process, especially Black students and first-generation students.—Library Journal (starred review)Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Part I. Context1. Black Parents: The Choices We Make Now Matter Later2. Shift in Power: The Resurgence of HBCU Culture3. The Power 3 (The Black Ivies)4. What Is a Liberal Arts Education, and Is It Worth It?5. What's Best for Your Child? HBCUs versus PWIsPart II. X Factors6. What Questions Should You Be Asking in Your Family?7. Perception versus Reality8. Gender Wars: How Black Males and Black Females Are Assessed in College Admissions9. Sports, Arts, and Special Talents10. Show Me the MoneyPart III. Process11. Expectation for Success Timeline12. The Process: What Are Colleges Looking For?AcknowledgmentsIn Our OpinionAppendix A. Best Colleges for Black StudentsAppendix B. Frequently Asked Questions Appendix C. Notable Black College Graduates Mentioned in the BookSuggested ReadingGlossaryIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press How to Chair a Department
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHow to Chair a Department illuminates the human element in working with faculty, staff, and administration and offers insights into the rewards possible if collaboration is done right.—The Department ChairTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Hiring FacultyChapter 2. Mentoring FacultyChapter 3. Representing the Department to StudentsChapter 4. Working with Staff and Other Departmental AdministratorsChapter 5. Managing ResourcesChapter 6. Stewarding the Department's CurriculaChapter 7. Highlighting the Big Picture in PlanningChapter 8. Dealing with Stress and ConflictChapter 9. Connecting the Department to the School, College, and/or UniversityChapter 10. Maintaining a Scholarly or Creative ProfileChapter 11. Reinventing Yourself for Life after ChairingEpilogue: Department Chairing and the Gift of ServiceIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Black Scholarship in a White Academy
Book SynopsisExamines the experience of Black scholarship and faculty in predominantly White academic spaces. While research has emphasized the importance of a diverse faculty, higher education has done little to bring this goal to fruition. The hidden politics at play during the traditional tenure and promotion process represent a significant obstacle to the advancement of Black faculty. While research productivity is the cornerstone of a successful tenure and promotion case at most universities and colleges, Black faculty are more likely to be tasked with extra service activities, which constrains time for research. Many Black faculty are also community-conscious scholars dedicated to conducting research to help uplift their communities, which may not be seen as credible or as valuable in the tenure and promotion process. Edited by Robert T. Palmer, Alonzo M. Flowers III, and Sosanya Jones, Black Scholarship in a White Academy offers important perspectives on how Black faculty and their scholTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Framing the Context: Situating Black Tenure-Track Faculty in the Academy and Unpacking the Theoretical Anchor of Anti-Blackness, by Robert T. Palmer, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Sosanya M. Jones, Nicole Johnson, and Katrina StruloeffSection 1: An-depth examination of Anti-Blackness in the Evaluation of Higher Education Scholarship1. White Hegemonic Practices to Undervalue Black Scholarship within Higher Education Through the Lens of Anti-Blackness Theory, by Chad E. Kee2. Black Epistemologies Matter: Challenging Anti-Blackness in the Predominantly White Publishing World of the Academy, by Erik M. Hines, Donna Y. Ford, Jame L. Moore III, Edward C. Fletcher Jr., and Brian L. Wright3. What Black Social Scientists Want to Say to Reviewer #1: What Black Social Scientists Want to Say to Reviewer #1, by Terrell L. Strayhorn4. We Goin' Ultra Black? Real Rap About Hip-hop Pedagogy in Higher Education, by H. Bernard HallSection 2: Using Aspects of Anti-Blackness to Interrogate Racism on Campuses of Institutions of Higher Education5. Epistemic Exclusion: A Form of Scholarly Devaluation That is a Barrier to the Inclusion of Black Faculty, by Martinque K. Jones, Isis H. Settles, NiCole T. Buchanan, and Kristie Dotson6. Building Black Spaces for Black Epistemological Inclusion, by Blanca Vega7. Facing Racial Microaggressions in the Academy: Sustaining Oneself through a Womanist Consciousness, by Sheron Fraser-Burgess8. Let Me Tell You How to Teach: Students as Purveyors of Racial Violence against Black Faculty in Canadian Institutions of Higher Learning, by Beverly-Jean M. DanielSection 3: Anti-Blackness and Pathways to Success in the Academy for Black Faculty9. Exploring Black Faculty Narratives Through Three Theoretical Frameworks, by Fred Bonner, Stella L. Smith, and Aretha F. Marbley10. Navigating the Tenure Track, Anti-CRT Rhetoric, and Red State America, by Larry J. Walker11. A Double Minority in Higher Education: The Intersection of Blackness and a Stuttering Disability on the Tenure-Track, by Antonio L EllisConcluding: Recentering the Emergent Themes to the Framing of Anti-Blackness: Implications for Research and Practice, by Alonzo M. Flowers III, Sosanya M. Jones, Robert T. Palmer, Katrina Struloeff, and Nicole JohnsonBiography of EditorsBiography of AuthorsIndex
£24.75
Johns Hopkins University Press The Black Familys Guide to College Admissions
Book SynopsisNamed one of the Top 2023 College Admissions Resources by Forbes and featured on NPR as Book of the Day. Groundbreaking.Angel B. Pérez, CEO of the National Association for College Admission CounselingFinding the right college is a challenge for all students, but Black families face additional challenges and questions when navigating the admissions process. Veteran admissions experts Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown demystify this complexity by advising families on when to begin the process, where to apply, and how to be a competitive applicant. Fields and Herndon-Brown address specific concerns that are not often addressed by school counselors or other resources. They highlight how recent social justice movements and legal cases have amplified the necessity of considering both Historically Black Colleges and Universities and predominantly white institutions, while covering everything from athletic recruitment and artistic talents to financial aid and step-by-step instructio
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Johns Hopkins University Press Alternative Universities
Book SynopsisImagining the universities of the future. How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation todayMOOCs especiallyfocus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like. What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university placTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Innovation in Higher EducationPart I. OrganizationChapter 1. Platform UniversityChapter 2. MicrocollegeChapter 3. The Humanities Think TankInterlude. The University of BeautyPart II. ApprenticeshipChapter 4. Nomad UniversityChapter 5. The Liberal Arts CollegeInterlude. Superager UniversityPart III. TechnologyChapter 6. Interface UniversityChapter 7. The University of the BodyInterlude. Technology UniversityPart IV. AttributesChapter 8. The Institute for Advanced PlayChapter 9. Polymath UniversityChapter 10. Future UniversityConclusion: Existential Crisis and Existential PossibilitiesNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.85
Temple University Press,U.S. Under New Management
Book SynopsisA balanced review of the changing nature of the corporate universityTrade Review"Randy Martin’s Under New Management offers a very timely and highly impassioned exploration of the labor of administering the university. Through this discussion of the place of the university within broader political-economic trends, Under New Management makes an important contribution to theorizing the role of education in contemporary affairs. Martin’s book is filled with fascinating theoretical insights and interesting case studies, but it is the project’s investigation of the potential for working management against the grain that makes it a particularly important and innovative intervention."—Ashley Dawson, Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Ends of Education2. Getting There3. What Is A Student to Think?4. W(h)ither Academic Freedom? Revaluing Faculty Work5. The Work of Administration6. Conditions of Interdisciplinarity7. Registering Organization8. (Out) from Under New ManagementNotesIndex
£56.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Elements of Discipline
Book SynopsisHow teachers and parents can cultivate competent, happy children using a few simple principles as their guideTrade Review"Greenspan offers a guided discussion on an affective-aware approach to disciplinary practices for both school and home. Throughout the book, Greenspan diligently explains key principles critical to understanding the rationale for incorporating a positivistic approach to discipline and the inherent benefits to children, adolescents, and adults. A thorough discussion is meticulously crafted to offer an explanation of concepts, application, and theoretical connections to existing emotional/behavioral perspectives... A well-rounded index of theories, terminology, and common behavioral practices to assist readers in developing a more comprehensive understanding to successful discipline completes the book. Summing Up: Recommended."--Choice, May 2013Table of ContentsForeword, by Arnold J. Sameroff Preface Acknowledgments 1 In Search of Balance: Domains of Discipline and Long-Term Outcomes 2 The Affective Approach to Discipline: Underpinnings and Three Principles 3 The Behavioral Approach to Discipline: Underpinnings and Three Principles 4 The Cognitive Approach to Discipline: Underpinnings and Three Principles 5 Case Studies in Discipline: Using the Three Approaches to Address Behavioral Challenges 6 The ABC Model of Discipline: Linking Domains, Principles, and Outcomes 7 The ABC Tool Kit: Using the Nine Principles to Deal with Discipline Problems 8 Developing an Effective Discipline Style: Using the ABC Model to Refine the Caregiver's Approach to Discipline Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Using the ABC Model to Evaluate Discipline Advice References Index
£64.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Passing for Perfect
Book SynopsisIn her engaging study, Passing for Perfect,erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim—who pretended to be a Stanford freshman—and Jennifer Pan—who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma—to extreme lengths to appear successful. Why would someone make such an illogical choice? And how do they stage these lies so convincingly, and for so long?These outlier examples prompt Ninh to address the larger issue of the pressures and difficulties of striving to be model minority, where failure is too ruinous to admit. Passing for Perfect insists that being a “model minority” is not a “myth,” but coded into one’s programming as an identity—a set of convictions and aspirations, regardless of present socioeconomic status or future attainability—and that the true cost of turning children inTrade Review“As an Asian American daughter of immigrants, reading Passing for Perfect, I felt my life understood. erin Khuê Ninh has explained our plight—the mad scramble for refuge, the guilt over our parents’ sacrifices, and our trust that education will save us. This book will give us strength against the attackers who blame us for what’s wrong with America. We shall overcome violence with knowledge.”—Maxine Hong Kingston“Passing for Perfect is lively, timely, and smart. It engages intriguing case studies of Asian Americans who maintained the charade of being admitted to elite colleges in order to expose the tolls surrounding racial stereotyping. Ninh conveys the significance of these impersonations without giving in to their salacious details. Rather, she seeks systemic explanations for individual behaviors while providing keen insights into the ways that racialization works as a form of psychic conditioning.”—Leslie Bow, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison“In Passing for Perfect, Ninh has written an important and provocative book about Asian American college imposters that implicates the aspirational nature of the model minority identity within some Asian American communities. Writing against scholars who argue that the model minority is a myth, Ninh asserts, ‘That which is partially true is not a myth (problematic or inconvenient, yes; uncalibrated or misleading, quite possibly; roundly deniable, no).’ This book should be read by scholars in ethnic studies and education, Asian American parents, and Asian Americans who have struggled to achieve model minority success.”—Stacey J. Lee, Frederick Erickson Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison"In a publishing environment where scholars are encouraged to imagine an audience beyond their field of specialization, Ninh’s conceit of a specifically Asian American reader challenges the conventions of the scholarly monograph. Her study seeks neither to spurn a stereotype nor to offer a truer alternative but to solicit a readerly reckoning. Instead of assuming a solidarity predicated on the mutual rejection of the model minority’s inauthenticity and complicity, Ninh binds scholar and reader through a mutual recognition of the emotional yearnings, social expectations, and family dynamics that motivate seemingly preposterous acts of passing."—American Literary History"Ninh examines the pressures of perfection and addresses the more significant issue of the 'model minority' as an identity. This engaging text offers readers a passing view of life for Asian Americans and provides a glimpse into why this phenomenon occurs.... Passing for Perfect tells a remarkable story full of cultural complexities that examines case studies and concludes with introspection.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Ninh convincingly argues that it is not pathological tiger parenting at the root cause of such inward- and outward-directed model minoritarian violence but the ideology of neoliberalism, which developed concurrently with the contemporary model minority. Altogether, Ninh has given us astonishing particularities to illustrate an uncomfortable universal, theorizing the college impostor as a figure inseparable from contemporary Asian America, and challenging us to find the college impostors that lurk within us and to treat them with compassion rather than disavowal."—Journal of Asian American Studies
£73.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Passing for Perfect
Book SynopsisIn her engaging study, Passing for Perfect,erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim—who pretended to be a Stanford freshman—and Jennifer Pan—who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma—to extreme lengths to appear successful. Why would someone make such an illogical choice? And how do they stage these lies so convincingly, and for so long?These outlier examples prompt Ninh to address the larger issue of the pressures and difficulties of striving to be model minority, where failure is too ruinous to admit. Passing for Perfect insists that being a “model minority” is not a “myth,” but coded into one’s programming as an identity—a set of convictions and aspirations, regardless of present socioeconomic status or future attainability—and that the true cost of turning children inTrade Review“As an Asian American daughter of immigrants, reading Passing for Perfect, I felt my life understood. erin Khuê Ninh has explained our plight—the mad scramble for refuge, the guilt over our parents’ sacrifices, and our trust that education will save us. This book will give us strength against the attackers who blame us for what’s wrong with America. We shall overcome violence with knowledge.”—Maxine Hong Kingston“Passing for Perfect is lively, timely, and smart. It engages intriguing case studies of Asian Americans who maintained the charade of being admitted to elite colleges in order to expose the tolls surrounding racial stereotyping. Ninh conveys the significance of these impersonations without giving in to their salacious details. Rather, she seeks systemic explanations for individual behaviors while providing keen insights into the ways that racialization works as a form of psychic conditioning.”—Leslie Bow, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison“In Passing for Perfect, Ninh has written an important and provocative book about Asian American college imposters that implicates the aspirational nature of the model minority identity within some Asian American communities. Writing against scholars who argue that the model minority is a myth, Ninh asserts, ‘That which is partially true is not a myth (problematic or inconvenient, yes; uncalibrated or misleading, quite possibly; roundly deniable, no).’ This book should be read by scholars in ethnic studies and education, Asian American parents, and Asian Americans who have struggled to achieve model minority success.”—Stacey J. Lee, Frederick Erickson Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison"In a publishing environment where scholars are encouraged to imagine an audience beyond their field of specialization, Ninh’s conceit of a specifically Asian American reader challenges the conventions of the scholarly monograph. Her study seeks neither to spurn a stereotype nor to offer a truer alternative but to solicit a readerly reckoning. Instead of assuming a solidarity predicated on the mutual rejection of the model minority’s inauthenticity and complicity, Ninh binds scholar and reader through a mutual recognition of the emotional yearnings, social expectations, and family dynamics that motivate seemingly preposterous acts of passing."—American Literary History"Ninh examines the pressures of perfection and addresses the more significant issue of the 'model minority' as an identity. This engaging text offers readers a passing view of life for Asian Americans and provides a glimpse into why this phenomenon occurs.... Passing for Perfect tells a remarkable story full of cultural complexities that examines case studies and concludes with introspection.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Ninh convincingly argues that it is not pathological tiger parenting at the root cause of such inward- and outward-directed model minoritarian violence but the ideology of neoliberalism, which developed concurrently with the contemporary model minority. Altogether, Ninh has given us astonishing particularities to illustrate an uncomfortable universal, theorizing the college impostor as a figure inseparable from contemporary Asian America, and challenging us to find the college impostors that lurk within us and to treat them with compassion rather than disavowal."—Journal of Asian American Studies
£22.49
University of Toronto Press University Leadership and Public Policy in the
Book SynopsisDrawing on more than a decade of service as president of one of Canada's major research universities, Peter MacKinnon offers an insider's perspective on the challenges involved in bringing students, faculty, and governments together in the pursuit of excellence.Trade Review'Peter MacKinnon provides thoughtful discussions of problems facing Canadian universities and proposes solutions which (though at times controversial) merit careful attention.' -- Michael Hayden Canadian Journal of History, vol 50:03:2015 'Everyone with a stake in the readiness of Canadian universities for a global talent race should engage in this book... Highly recommended.' -- B.F.R.Edwards Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015 'This book is insightful and valuable... it will be an important secondary source when the next draft of history is written.' -- George Fallis Historical Studies in Education Spring 2016Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast: On Positioning and Differentiation 2. What's the Plan?: On the Pursuit of Goals 3. White Coats Make an Office Call: On Tuition and Financial Assistance for Students 4. Yes Minister: On Government Engagement, Academic Freedom, and Collective Advocacy 5. Grateful Dogs: On Philanthropy, Commercialization, and Partnerships 6. Let's Make a Deal: On Governance, Collegial Management, and Collective Bargaining 7. A Canadian Dilemma: Strong Science, Weak Innovation 8. Leadership with an Asterisk: On the Precarious Presidency Afterword: On the Global Talent Race
£22.49
University of Toronto Press British Universities
Book SynopsisSince the last war there have been enormous increases in the numbers of universities and of students. Yet it tends to be assumed that the concepts which were valid for the dozen or so universities and the tens of thousands of students of the 1900's are still valid for the fifty universities and the hundreds of thousands of students of today.Sir Sydney Caine was Director of the London School of Economics from 1957-67. Before that he had been for four years Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya and had served for twenty-five years in the Civil Service – in the Colonial Office, in the Colonial Service as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, and in the Treasury. He is thus equipped to give a balanced assessment of the state of British universities today when their almost complete financial dependence on the state makes the relationship between the universities and the Government one of the central topics in any such discussion.The book examines a number of int
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