Higher education, tertiary education Books
Harvard University Press The Gates Unbarred
Book SynopsisThe Gates Unbarred traces the evolution of University Extension at Harvard from the Lyceum movement in Boston to its creation by the newly appointed president A. Lawrence Lowell in 1910. For a century University Extension has provided community access to Harvard, including the opportunity for women and men to earn a degree.Table of Contents* Image Credits * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Harvard After Dark * Genesis: The Benefactor, John Lowell, Jr. * The Lowell Institute of Boston: John Amory Lowell, the First Trustee *Pro Bono Publico: President A. Lawrence Lowell and the Creation of the Commission on Extension Courses * The Formative Years of University Extension: James Hardy Ropes, Dean (1910-22) * University Extension at Steady State under Arthur F. Whittem, Director (1922-46) and George W. Adams, Director (1946-49) * A New Beginning for University Extension: The Early Years of Reginald H. Phelps, Director (1949-60) * The Commission on Extension Courses, WGBH-TV and the US Navy Create Collegiate Programs: From "Polaris University" to PACE (Program for Afloat College Education), (1960-72) * University Extension's Community Outreach in a Time of Crisis (1968-75) * The Second Half-Century: The Later Years of Reginald H. Phelps, Director (1960-75) * University Extension Unbound and Transformed: The Early Years * University Extension Unbound and Transformed: The Early Years of Michael Shinagel, Director and Dean (1975-85) * A Passage to India: Creation of the Indian Computer Academy in Bangalore, India * University Extension Courses Go Online: From Teleteaching to Distance Education (1984 to the Present) * Harvard University Extension in the Twenty-First Century: New Professional Degree Programs (2000 to the Present) * Conclusion: A Century of Service * Appendix A. Lowell Lecturers and Their Topics (1980-2009) * Appendix B. Text of Public Statement regarding Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education's Cessation of Affiliation with the Indian Computer Academy, Bangalore, India * Endnotes * Index
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Harvard University Press Explore Harvard The Yard and Beyond
Book SynopsisAs part of its 375th celebration, the University has created a new photo book, Explore Harvard: The Yard and Beyond. This collection of photographs, including contemporary images never before published and archival prints, brings to life the myriad intellectual exchanges that make Harvard one of the world’s leading institutions of higher education.
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Harvard University Press Scholarship and Freedom
Book SynopsisGeoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding that it make good on those same guarantees. Far from ivory-tower intellectuals, scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Linda Nochlin undertake the radical social act of questioning received wisdom.Trade ReviewGeoffrey Harpham outflanks those who believe that scholarship must resist political engagement and those who believe that politics cannot be avoided by scholars who live and work in the real world. Harpham argues persuasively that the scholar’s devotion to truth is itself a potent political act because it has the power to ‘clear the ground for a better set of arrangements based on truth.’ In short, the purer scholarship is, the more politically useful it will be. A bold and welcome thesis. -- Stanley Fish, author of The First: How to Think about Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald TrumpAn extraordinary paean to scholarship as an embattled Enlightenment ideal and as a practice devoted to the pursuit of reliable truths about human affairs, wherever that pursuit may lead. Harpham’s surprising argument is that scholarship inevitably leads to freedom—that independent thinking challenges calcified orthodoxies. His exempla, W. E. B. Du Bois, Bernard Lategan, and Linda Nochlin, give us ample reason to believe. A bracing book for dark times. -- Michael Bérubé, author of What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts?A distinctive and powerful book. A sharp introduction, three well-wrought case studies, and an eloquent conclusion offer the reader a brilliant, polemical account of why scholarship in the humanities and social sciences still matters. -- Anthony Grafton, author of Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
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Harvard University Press Practice for Life
Book SynopsisUndergraduates do not experience college as having a clear beginning and end. Their engagement with higher education is at best episodic. But as Practice for Life shows, the disruptions provide opportunities for reflection and course-correction as students learn to navigate the future uncertainties of adulthood.Trade ReviewUnlike many books on higher education, Practice for Life doesn’t rely on the usual ways of categorizing the undergraduate experience. The authors examine the most normal—even obvious—features of college life in new and insightful ways, showing how what students actually do in college can be profoundly important to how they live the rest of their lives. A satisfying read. -- Daniel Chambliss, coauthor of How College WorksI read this book first as a college president and then as a parent. In both respects, I found my views challenged as the authors opened up new avenues for thinking about and understanding how students experience college. By focusing on the daily decisions students make, the authors explore the ways college is practice for life and the strategies colleges (and parents) can use to deepen the learning that takes place across campus. -- Adam Weinberg, President, Denison UniversityAt a time when the value of college is a major subject of debate, this book answers the question: what do students really learn in college? The authors convincingly demonstrate that liberal education provides the critical framework needed for students to develop the ability to understand choices and make life-changing decisions. The depth of research reflected in this book, involving hundreds of students interviewed over the course of four years of college, makes it a unique resource for college and university administrators, professors, and students and families who seek to understand the nature of the college experience. -- Alison Byerly, President, Lafayette CollegeThis book…reminds us that a substantial amount of the learning that takes place—perhaps the majority of it—occurs outside of the college classroom. The arguments in this book will remain with me in the coming years in my role as a faculty adviser, or when I am meeting with students in my office hours, or even when I am considering how to invite students to connect more deeply with my courses. -- James M. Lang * Chronicle of Higher Education *[Practice for Life] has been invaluable as a way of thinking about helping my students adjust to college…For those interested in advising students, the vignettes collected here provide much food for thought. -- Jason B. Jones * Chronicle of Higher Education *
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Harvard University Press Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity
Book SynopsisBased on quantitative comparisons of colleges since the 1970s, Charles Clotfelter reveals that despite the civil rights revolution, billions spent on financial aid, and the commitment of colleges to greater equality, stratification in higher education has grown starker. He explains why undergraduate education—unequal in 1970—is even more so today.Trade ReviewAll of Charles Clotfelter’s books about higher education have been home runs, but Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity is a grand slam. Wonderfully well written, it should be read by everyone concerned with growing income inequality in the U.S. and the role our evolving higher education system has played in contributing to it. -- Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell UniversityClotfelter shows how the pattern of undergraduate education in the U.S. has, in the last four decades, done more to perpetuate economic inequality than to provide pathways for upward mobility. His analysis should concern anyone who cares about higher education, and spur efforts to address this complex issue more aggressively than we have in the past. -- Nannerl O. Keohane, Princeton UniversityClotfelter is one of the best-regarded researchers in the economics of education. His book is a must-read for anybody interested in how the undergraduate education market in the U.S. has evolved over the last forty years. -- Brian P. McCall, University of MichiganMost people connected to higher education are instinctively egalitarian, yet they work and study in a system that is saturated with inequality—in admissions, in resources, in prestige, and in outcomes. Clotfelter tells the story of these inequalities in a dispassionate and accessible way, but with exceptional lucidity and deep knowledge. -- Michael S. McPherson, President of the Spencer FoundationA deeply researched, stimulating, and thoughtful analysis of the role of undergraduate education in America in sustaining the growing inequalities of our nation. A treasure trove of relevant data and careful analysis. -- Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University
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Harvard University Press Next Gen PhD
Book SynopsisFor decades, top scientists in colleges and universities pursued a clear path to success: enroll in a prestigious graduate program, conduct research, publish papers, complete the PhD, pursue postdoctoral work. With perseverance and a bit of luck, a tenure-track professorship awaited at the end. In today's academic job market, this scenario represents the exception. As the number of newly conferred science PhDs keeps rising, the number of tenured professorships remains stubbornly stagnant. Next Gen PhD: A Guide to Career Paths in Science is a practical and thorough manual for the entire career transition process, from defining personal interests and deciding on a career path all the way to day one of a new job. Written by experienced career counselor Melanie Sinche, it is geared toward postdocs and graduate students who may not have access to effective career counseling or mentorship or are not satisfied with what they have received thus far.Teegan A. Dellibovi-Ragheb, ScienceWith itsTrade ReviewThis book is an essential guide to exploring and pursuing science career options, both within and beyond the academy, for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and all who work with them, including faculty and university administrators. Next Gen PhD brings together all that is needed for a scientist to embark on his or her career journey, whether in academia or beyond. -- Laura Stark, Harvard UniversityAn important book that is long overdue. Next Gen PhD displays broad experience and command of the most critical steps in the transition from academic researcher to working professional. A state-of-the-art, go-to book for science PhDs and those thinking of pursuing one. -- Andrew Green, University of California, BerkeleyAn excellent resource and timely companion for scientists learning to take on one of the most important questions of all: how to build a happy, productive career and a satisfying life. Melanie Sinche presents data, tools, and ways of thinking about the future that will be helpful for anyone considering what’s next after formal training as a researcher is complete. Readers who follow the book’s exercises and put thought into building their own career notebook will find themselves on a rational path through all the stages of moving from trainee to working professional, whether at the lab bench or in other work environments. With advice for self-reflection, career exploration, job search, negotiation of terms, and future growth, Next Gen PhD will be welcome reading for those thinking about their next career move and for those mentoring and training new scientists. -- Victoria McGovern, Burroughs Wellcome FundWith its focus on PhD level scientists, this book fills a gap in job search and career information literature. It’s a must-read for those contemplating or actively pursuing studies in the subject area, as well as those who provide guidance to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars. -- Alan Farber * Library Journal (starred review) *Next Gen PhD: A Guide to Career Paths in Science is a practical and thorough manual for the entire career transition process, from defining personal interests and deciding on a career path all the way to day one of a new job. Written by experienced career counselor Melanie Sinche, it is geared toward postdocs and graduate students who may not have access to effective career counseling or mentorship or are not satisfied with what they have received thus far. -- Teegan A. Dellibovi-Ragheb * Science *
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Princeton University Press The Making of Princeton University
Book SynopsisIn 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. This book tells how the University adapted and updated Wilson's vision to transform itself into the prestigious institution.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2007 Honor Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities "Do we really need another 600-plus pages about the University? The answer is yes--if the book in question is as good as this one is... [I]t's appeal transcends the alumni market. Besides being arguably the most readable account of Princeton ever written, this overview of college life is so illuminating on such a wide range of subjects, including administration, faculty, admission standards, scholarship, and life inside and outside the classroom, that it stands not only as the definitive work on its specific subject but as an invaluable study of the university experience in general."--Stuart Mitchner, Town Topics "Axtell's retelling is vivid, particularly as he tracks larger societal changes alongside the university's transformation. His explanation of Princeton's changing politics, style and patois serves as a fascinating guidebook to understanding the university through all its various permutations."--Iris Blasi, ForeWord Magazine "Mixing scholarly excellence with subtle humor, Axtell is both an excellent historian and storyteller... The Making of Princeton University is more than a mere institutional history: It is the story of the transformation of an American icon."--J. Gregory Behle, Journal of American History "An excellent and exceedingly well-written book... It is hard to imagine a better book on a single university. The Making of Princeton University is engagingly written, judicious in its use of materials, exceptionally well researched (here Axtell had the advantage of an outstanding archival collection), and wise in its understanding of how Princeton has become what it is."--Marvin Lazerson, Academe "Here we have finally an outstanding historian writing about a significant institution. The writing is lively; the case study is connected to the larger domains of American higher education. It provides an antidote to the familiar reasons that institutional history has been maligned or ignored. Axtell's story gets off to a great start due to his historical candor... Thanks to James Axtell's exciting, thorough history, a reader moves steadily to consider that it is daring for a university to be different and distinctive."--John R. Thelin, Journal of Higher EducationTable of ContentsIllustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Abbreviations xxxi CHAPTER ONE: The Dream Realized 1 CHAPTER TWO: From Gentlemen to Scholars 27 CHAPTER THREE: Getting In 111 CHAPTER FOUR: In Class 178 CHAPTER FIVE: Beyond the Classroom 238 CHAPTER SIX: A Charming Turbulence 310 CHAPTER SEVEN: Higher Learning 373 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Bookish Heart 436 CHAPTER NINE: The Tiger's Eye 487 CHAPTER TEN: Coin of the Realm 530 Conclusion: She Flourishes 593 Selected Bibliography 615 Index 623
£27.00
Princeton University Press The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences
Book SynopsisOffers a searing indictment of the many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities. The author best known for his critique of rational choice theory, argues that scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from - and perpetuates - a flight from reality. He also answers many critics of his views.Trade Review"In these probing essays ... Ian Shapiro offers a disturbing portrait of contemporary social science... [He] calls for academics to reconnect the academic enterprise to the real world by returning to problem-driven social inquiry--an urging that scholars of international relations and other fields should indeed ponder."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "Have you ever had difficulty talking to a political scientist about politics? If so, this book is for you. In a searing indictment of over-professionalization in the humanities and social sciences, Yale University's Ian Shapiro argues that across disciplines, academics have abandoned truth, so to speak, for method... The Flight from Reality lays the foundation for reengaging scholarship with the historical world, by reminding us of its necessary role in public life."--Tikkun Magazine "[B]oth political scientists and politicians can learn something from Shapiro's thoughtful reflections on the state of his discipline."--Alan Wolff, Chronicle of Higher Education "Shapiro's book is an important addition to recent debates about the proper practice of social inquiry. Its central thesis is undeniably important, and its engagements with influential thinkers and ideas is consistently stimulating. It therefore merits the careful attention of anyone who is interested in the state of the human sciences today."--Keith Topper, Ethics "Shapiro's book provides a very well annotated and fascinating, although not always easy to read, argument framework with easy to express practical implications."--Armando Geller, JASSSTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: Fear of Not Flying 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent by Ian Shapiro and Alexander Wendt 19 CHAPTER TWO: Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice by Donald Green and Ian Shapiro 51 CHAPTER THREE: Richard Posner's Praxis 100 CHAPTER FOUR: Gross Concepts in Political Argument 152 CHAPTER FIVE: Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong with Political Science and What to Do about It 178 CHAPTER SIX: The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin 204 Index 213
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Princeton University Press From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
Book SynopsisIs management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This title reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society. It shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have retreated from that goal.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2009 Gold Medal Book Award in Career, Axiom Business Winner of the 2008 Max Weber Award for Best Book, Organization, Occupations and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Business, Finance and Management, Association of American Publishers "If Prof. Khurana wanted to torment business--school deans, alumni and current students, he couldn't have picked a better way. Prof. Khurana has identified an important imbalance. In the current environment, many brilliant young MBAs don't aspire to be corporate chief executive officers, who struggle to uphold their agendas against pressure from all sides. These students would rather be consultants who earn big money fomenting change. Better yet, they want to be the powerful investors who hire and fire CEOs."--George Anders, The Wall Street Journal "The book is extremely well written and provides a detailed historical account of US business education from the 1880s to the present day...This text will help many of us in business schools to think about who we are and where we need to go in future. Rakesh Khurana has done a great service to management education with this scholarly and important book."--Gary L. Cooper, Times Higher Education Supplement "A fascinating history of business education."--The Economist "Is corporate management a real profession? The intellectual rigor that legitimized business schools and turned the M.B.A. into a recognized credential has fallen by the wayside, argues Khurana, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Instead of producing young professionals, he says, business schools are treating students as consumers and their education as a commodity. Exhaustively researched, Khurana's book examines the birth of the managerial class, the rise of the business school as an academic institution and what he calls its recent deterioration. This failure has created a climate ripe for corruption, and Khurana issues a call to arms for business schools to take back the high ground."--Tiffany Sharples, Time Magazine "Khurana's is an insightful work of sociology and of history. It is about the business school's many transformations in relation to professions and disciplines; in relation to the changing face of capitalism through its progressive, depressive, managerial and investor phases; in relation to societal and industrial expectations; and in relation to public interest and self-interest."--Malcolm Gillies, Times Higher Education "Khurana's meticulously researched account ends with a call for renewal of the idea of management as a profession... Coming as it does out of Harvard, the most iconic of business schools, From Higher Aims ... could hardly be a more provocative and timely intervention... Anyone remotely interested in management and its future should get hold of it--and ignore its lessons at their peril."--Simon Caulkin, Observer "Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands is an important and surprisingly disparaging look at business-school education in the U.S. from the late 19th century to the present...In the new volume, he strikes closer to home, concluding that 'fundamental questions exist as to whether business schools retain any genuine academic or societal mission'...As Khurana supplies layer upon layer of evidence in this admittedly dense work, it becomes increasingly difficult to disagree with his conclusions."--Hardy Green, BusinessWeek "Khurana presents his argument in rich detail and the book is worth reading by anyone interested in the current trends in the commercialization of academia."--Donald Stabile, EH.net "Rakesh Khurana's sweeping history of American business schools offers a bold overview and a moral message."--Neil Fligstein, American Historical Review "Khurana's criticism is measured--and is the more damning for it. His book is an impressive tour of the social and intellectual history of American university business schools...Drawing on rich archive material, Khurana traces how the fledgling American business schools confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the early 1900s and the Depression, the postwar boom years and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. The book is, however, more than just an historical odyssey; it is also a heartfelt plea for business schools to rediscover their higher purpose. The university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers akin to doctors and lawyers. But, he argues forcefully, they have retreated from that goal."--Des Dearlove, Times (London) "Rarely does one have the pleasure of reading a scholarly work as complete and as comprehensive as From Higher Aims to Hired Hands. Khurana presents a well-crafted social history of the plight of business school education in the context of a broader framework of American higher educationSKhurana exposes inadequacies in current business education programs and advocates for needed reforms."--J.B. Kashner, Choice "This is a powerful, compelling, and well-researched narrative... Far from a nihilistic rant about the state of American business education, Khurana paints a sympathetic but critical portrait of what this education has become."--Kevin T. Leicht, Journal of Higher Education "It is not uncommon today for critics to ask if business schools have lost their way, but Harvard's Rakesh Khurana poses the question against such a vivid, detailed, and compulsively researched historical background that it becomes more provocative than ever."--Biz Ed Magazine "Khurana has produced an excellent institutional history, albeit one in which many of the ingredients were already well-known from earlier accounts... However, these separate accounts had not been stitched together over such a broad canvas as Khurana constructs. The book should be compulsory reading for all Deans of business schools with a concern to learn from history."--Stewart Clegg, Australian Review of Public Affairs "In From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, Khurana, a management professor at the Harvard Business School best known for his writing on leadership, has produced an instant classic... [I]t is an evenhanded, comprehensive, and exhaustively documented work demonstrating how the history of the American business, reflecting the evolution from 19th-century entrepreneurial capitalism to mid-20th-century managerial capitalism to today's investor capitalism. Criticisms of today's business schools abound, but Khurana provides the historical perspective needed to understand how those institutions became what they are."--Strategy + Business "[U]ntil the publication of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, nobody had provided such a detailed historical survey leading to conclusions of great significance for American academia and, implicitly, for American corporations... Khurana's book will no doubt continue to stimulate debate on both sides of the Atlantic about both managerial professionalism and the role business schools ought to play in a modern, knowledge-based society."--John Wilson, Business History Review "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands provides an invaluable resource for those of us attempting to understand how the university continues to be shaped and transformed by a confluence of economic forces and political interests. For this reason, Khurana's book deserves to be widely read within academia, in the business school and beyond."--Nick Butler, Ephemera "[W]hether or not one agrees with the author's argument as to what went wrong and how it might have gone right, this is a highly important work that should be read by anyone with either an interest in the history of American business schools and American management, or a concern for their future roles in our society."--Richard Marens, Eastern Economic Journal "The book is an impressive and thouroughly researched work reviewing the social history of American business education."--Andrew May, Professional Manager "Not only is this book fully documented and well-written, but its author also achieves here a truly complete social science analysis... It is a pleasure to discover such a meticulous work that is not only methodologically strong but is also conceptually powerful. The quality of this historical work is enriched by its developments in social sciences which allow an exceptional production... [T]he work done here by Khurana remains both strong and riveting."--Yoann Bazin, Society and Business ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Business Education and the Social Transformation of American Management 1 I: The Professionalization Project in American Business Education, 1881-1941 1: An Occupation in Search of Legitimacy 23 2: Ideas of Order: Science, the Professions, and the University in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America 51 3: The Invention of the University-Based Business School 87 4: "A Very Ill-Defined Institution": The Business School as Aspiring Professional School 137 II: The Institutionalization of Business Schools, 1941-1970 5: The Changing Institutional Field in the Postwar Era 195 6: Disciplining the Business School Faculty: The Impact of the Foundations 233 III: The Triumph of the Market and the Abandonment of the Professionalization Project, 1970-the Present 7: Unintended Consequences: The Post-Ford Business School and the Fall of Managerialism 291 8: Business Schools in the Marketplace 333 Epilogue: Ideas of Order Revisited:Markets, Hierarchies, and Communities 363 Acknowledgments 385 Bibliographic and Methods Note 387 Notes 397 Selected Bibliography 483 Index 509
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Princeton University Press Economics for Lawyers
Book SynopsisWhether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. This title provides the essential tools to understand the economic basis of law. It focuses on a few key concepts and shows how they play out in numerous applications.Trade Review"Economics for Lawyers provides systematic instruction in economic theory relevant to law, starting with indifference curves and working its way through the basics of game theory... [It] is a very good textbook. It is comprehensive, well-organized, clearly written, and very usable... [T]he focus of the book is unique; I know of no other book that attempts to do the same thing."--G. Thomas Woodward, The Federal LawyerTable of ContentsIntroduction xv What Makes This Book Different xvii Recommended Supplementary Reading xviii Chapter 1: Finding the Optimal Use of a Limited Income 1 I. INDIFFERENCE CURVES 1 A. The Main Question 1 B. Indifference Curves Slope Downward 2 C. Other Things to Know about Indifference Curves 4 II. GAINS FROM TRADE USING THE EDGEWORTH BOX DIAGRAM 6 A. Construction of the Box 8 B. Pareto Superior Trades 10 C. The Contract Curve: Pareto Optimal Allocations 12 III. THE BUDGET LINE: THE ESSENCE OF THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM 14 A. Impact of Income Changes 16 B. Impact of Price Changes 16 IV. CONSUMER CHOICE: THE OPTIMUM USE OF A LIMITED INCOME 16 A. Determining the Optimal Solution 16 B. Portraying an Exact Solution 18 C. How a Change in Income Affects Choice 19 D. The Impact of a Price Change on the Optimum Solution 20 V. THE COMPENSATION PRINCIPLE: THE DOLLAR VALUE OF CHANGES IN UTILITY 20 A. Valuing the Utility Change from a Price Reduction 20 B. Anatomy of a Price Change: Income and "Price" Effects 23 VI. APPLICATIONS OF THE COMPENSATION PRINCIPLE 24 A. Buckley's Tulips and Mums Problem 24 B. Dominic's Report Card and Computer Games 33 Chapter 2: Demand Curves and Consumer Surplus 41 I. FROM INDIFFERENCE CURVES TO DEMAND CURVE 41 II. CONSUMER SURPLUS 46 A. An Intuitive Way to Understand Consumer Surplus 47 B. Using the Compensation Principle 49 C. Checking Back with the Indifference Curve Map 51 III. MARKET DEMAND CURVE 52 A. Consumer Surplus When Demand Curves Are Linear 55 B. Complements and Substitutes 57 C. Changes in Income 59 IV. DEMAND ELASTICITY 59 A. Calculating the Elasticity for a Linear Demand Curve 60 B. Relation of Elasticity to Total Revenue 63 C. Long-run versus Short-run Elasticity 67 V. APPLICATION: IMPOSITION OF A TAX 68 A. Showing the Distortion on Indifference Curves 68 B. Efficiency in a Kaldor-Hicks Sense 70 C. Showing the Distortion on the Demand Curve 73 D. Tax Burden: Application of Demand Elasticity 76 APPENDIX: CONSUMER SURPLUS AND UNCOMPENSATED DEMAND CURVES 80 Chapter 3: Supply Curves and the Flow of Resources Also Sunk Cost, Opportunity Cost, and Transactions Cost 82 I. THE WORLD MARKET FOR NICKEL 83 A. The Supply of Nickel with No Fixed Costs 83 B. Producer Surplus 85 C. The World Price for Nickel 86 D. Surpluses in Market Equilibrium 88 II. THE SOLUTION WITH FIXED COSTS AND MANY FIRMS 89 A. Constructing the Cost Curves 90 B. Sustainable Price: Equilibrium in a Long-run Sense 94 III. MARKET EQUILIBRIUM: ENTRY, EXIT, AND COMPETITIVE RETURNS 95 A. How to Evaluate the Sustainability of a Market Price 95 B. The Dynamics of Entry 96 C. The Concept of Long-run Supply 99 IV. PRODUCER SURPLUS, LONG AND SHORT RUN, AND ECONOMIC RENT 100 A. Producer Surplus in a Short-run Sense 100 B. The Concept of "Rent" 101 C. The Dynamics of an Increase in Rent 103 D. Portraying the Solution in the Market for Litigation Services 104 E. The Long-run Supply Curve 107 V. BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: RECONSIDERING A TAX ON ONE GOOD 111 A. Short-run Impact of the Tax 111 B. Long-run Impact of the Tax 113 VI. A FEW MISCELLANEOUS COST ISSUES 115 A. Sunk Cost 115 B. Opportunity Cost 120 C. Transactions Cost 122 APPENDIX: SHORT- AND LONG-TERM IMPACT OF A SUBSIDY 125 Chapter 4: Using Demand and Supply Curves to Evaluate Policy 127 I. SHIFTS IN DEMAND AND SUPPLY CURVES 128 II. IMPACT OF A MAXIMUM PRICE: THE CASE OF GASOLINE 131 A. Setting Up the Problem 131 B. The Queue for Gasoline 133 C. The Social Cost of the Queue 135 D. A First Lesson in Property Rights 137 E. A Candidate for an Even More Inefficient Solution: Regulation 139 III. THE ECONOMICS OF THE MINIMUM WAGE 140 A. Unskilled Workers Still Employed Gain Rent 141 B. Some Low-rent Workers Displace Some High-rent Workers 142 C. High-rent Workers Outhustle Low-rent Workers 143 D. Rent to Unskilled Workers 146 E. Effort Adds Value, Which Attenuates Job Losses 147 F. A Note on Unions 148 IV. PRICE SUPPORTS 148 A. Restriction on Output 149 B. No Restriction on Supply 151 Chapter 5: The Economics of Monopoly 153 I. THE PRICE DECISION 154 A. The Rule for Finding the Profit-maximizing Price 154 B. Finding the Optimal Price 156 C. Characteristics of the Monopoly Solution 159 II. THE SOCIAL COST OF MONOPOLY 161 A. Deadweight Loss 161 B. Market for Monopoly 163 C. Rent Erosion 164 III. MONOPOLY PRICE DISCRIMINATION 170 A. Two Markets: Ice Cream Monopoly 170 B. Perfect Price Discrimination 173 C. Other Ways to Extract Consumer Surplus 174 IV. PRICE DISCRIMINATION IN COMPETITIVE MARKETS 176 A. Movie Theaters 176 B. Other Examples 180 V. COMPETITION OF THE FEW 183 A. Cheating 184 B. Prisoner's Dilemma 185 APPENDIX A: PRICE DISCRIMINATION IN THE MILK MARKET 188 A. How Milk Regulations Work 188 B. The Social Cost of Regulation 191 APPENDIX B: THE MOVIE THEATER COST STRUCTURE 193 Chapter 6: Public Goods and Common Resources Toward Understanding the Economics of Property Rights 194 I. AN INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC GOODS 195 II. INNOVATIONS: CLASSIC PUBLIC GOODS 199 A. The Solution in an Ideal World 200 B. Patent Awards 203 C. How the Patent System Affects Societal Surplus 204 D. The Patent Quandary 208 E. Other Ideas about Patents 212 III. CONTRACTS UNDER DURESS: THE COMMON RESOURCE PROBLEM 214 A. Honor the Contract 216 B. Nullify the Contract and Impose a Reasonable Settlement 217 C. The Optimal Settlement Rule 217 D. The Main Problem: Setting Average Value to Marginal Cost 220 E. Another Way to Think about the Problem 221 IV. THE SOURCE OF RENT EROSION: POORLY DEFINED PROPERTY RIGHTS 222 Chapter 7: Externalities The Coase Theorem 228 I. WHY EXTERNALITY ISSUES ARE DIFFERENT 228 II. AIRPORT NOISE 230 A. Setting Up an Externality Model 230 B. There Is No Costless Solution to an Externality Problem 233 C. The Socially Optimum Level of Externality 234 III. THE COASE THEOREM 235 A. Airlines Own Noise Rights 235 B. Homeowners Own Noise Rights 236 C. What If Transactions Costs Are Not Zero? 237 D. Corrective Taxes 240 IV. ALLOWING FOR NOISE ABATEMENT 241 A. Stylized Abatement Technology 242 B. A Corrective Tax with Abatement 244 C. Coase with Abatement 245 D. Tradable Noise Permits 245 E. What If Homeowners Can Abate Some Noise? 246 Chapter 8: Pollution in the Workplace: Contract or Externality? An Introduction to the Rules of Law 247 I. COMPENSATION FOR EXPOSURE TO AIR PARTICULATES 248 A. Setting Up the Air Particulate Problem 249 B. The Demand for Clean Air 249 C. The Supply of Clean Air 250 D. The Socially Optimal Amount of Clean Air 251 II. HOW DO WE OBTAIN THE SOCIALLY EFFICIENT SOLUTION? 251 A. A Contract Solution (Buyer Beware) 251 B. Regulatory Solution 252 C. Strict Liability Standard 253 III. THE COMPENSATION PRINCIPLE AND ECONOMIC DAMAGES 254 A. Torts Are the Flip Side of Contracts 255 B. What If Judgment Amounts Are Not Economic Damages? 258 C. Transactions Costs Again 260 D. Value of Life in a Contract Setting 261 E. Value of Life in a Liability Setting 262 IV. NEGLIGENCE STANDARDS 267 A. An Efficient Negligence Standard 267 B. What If Workers Can Reduce Harm Themselves? 268 C. Contributory Negligence 269 D. Comparative Negligence 269 E. Strict Liability with Contributory Negligence 270 APPENDIX A: THE DECISION TO SMOKE AND RULES OF LAW 272 APPENDIX B: DRIVING AND ACCIDENTS 276 APPENDIX C: ABATEMENT WITH MASKS 280 Chapter 9: Lemons Markets and Adverse Selection Signals, Bonds, Reputation, and Tie-ins as Solutions 282 I. THE "LEMONS" MARKET PROBLEM 284 A. How a "Lemons" Market Arises 284 B. A Market for Information 287 II. BONDING A PROMISE OF HIGH QUALITY 288 A. Reputation Value 289 B. Quality Assurance Premium: Where Does Reputation Value Come From? 290 C. Specialized Investments 293 D. Advertising 295 E. Warranties 297 III. PROBLEMS WHEN THE SELLER IS UNINFORMED: ADVERSE SELECTION 299 A. Temporal Adverse Selection 300 B. Cross-section Adverse Selection 302 C. Some Market Solutions 305 D. A "Tie-in" Contract 307 E. The Employment Contract as a Tie-in 308 IV. ADVERSE SELECTION IN THE JOB MARKET 313 APPENDIX: AUCTIONS AS APPLICATIONS OF DEMAND THEORY AND BONDING 316 Chapter 10: Sorting as a Solution to Asymmetric Information Coaxing Market Participants to Divulge Valuable Information 321 I. BONDS THAT ALSO PERFORM SORTING: THE BECKER-STIGLER POLICE MODEL 324 A. A Becker-Stigler Pension Bond 324 B. An Indenture Premium 328 C. How Does the Bond Create a Sort? 328 D. An Alternative Bond: An Efficiency Wage 330 E. Putting the Two Bonds Together 332 II. THE SPENCE MODEL OF SORTING 334 A. The Idea in Brief 334 B. Application to Law School 335 C. Pursuing the Model One Step Further 335 III. OTHER SORTING DEVICES IN THE LABOR MARKET 336 A. The Not-so-free Free Sick Leave 336 B. Sorting on the Basis of Discount Rates 338 C. 401(k) Pension Plans: Another Sort on the Basis of Discount Rates 341 D. A Postscript on Becker-Stigler: Role of High Discounters 342 IV. MORE EXAMPLES OF SORTS AND BONDS 344 A. Slotting Allowances 344 B. Preparing for a Job Interview 345 Chapter 11: Moral Hazard and Agency Problems When Mispricing Affects Behavior 348 I. NOMENCLATURE 349 II. MORAL HAZARD 350 A. A Simple Water Meter Example 351 B. The Moral Hazard of Insurance 351 C. The Proverbial Free Lunch 354 D. Limits on Moral Hazard 356 E. Moral Hazard Is Not Necessarily a "Showstopper" 360 III. PRECOMMITMENT AS A SOLUTION TO EX POST MORAL HAZARD: THE CASE OF HEALTH INSURANCE 362 A. The Moral Hazard Problem 362 B. Consumer Surplus 364 C. Contracting for Efficient Care 366 D. What Happens If the ERISA Preemption Is Eliminated 367 IV. AGENCY COST: A CLOSE COUSIN TO MORAL HAZARD 369 A. What Are Agency Costs? 369 B. Examples of Agency Costs 369 V. AGENCY COSTS AND RENT EROSION: THE CASE OF TORT LAWYERS 375 A. The Reimbursement System 375 B. The Principal-Agent Problem 375 C. Implications of Rent Erosion 377 Chapter 12: Game Theory and Related Issues Strategic Thinking When Players Are Few and Information Is Poor 380 I. THE DATING GAME: BASIC CONCEPTS IN GAME THEORY 381 A. How the Game Works 381 B. Outcomes with Different Payoffs 385 C. Where Is Coase? The Role of the Cooperative Solution 389 II. BEYOND THE DATING GAME: OTHER PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 389 A. Games in the Hiring Process 390 B. Irrational Behavior: What If Signals Are Crossed? 393 C. Dick Gets Mugged in the Park 395 III. INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATIVE OUTCOMES 397 A. The Prisoner's Dilemma Reconsidered 397 B. Solving the Common Resource Problem: Holdups in the Building Trades 398 C. Solving the Public Goods Collection Problem: Protection for the Neighborhood 400 V. HOW LEGAL STANDARDS CHANGE THE PAYOFFS 401 A. Drivers and Cyclists 401 B. A Noise Problem 403 V. APPLICATIONS TO QUASI-MONOPOLY MARKETS: SOME SIMPLE GAME THEORY MODELS 407 A. The Cournot Model 408 B. Sequential Decision: Stackelberg 411 C. A Tit-for-tat Strategy 413 B. Index 417
£46.75
Princeton University Press Why Philanthropy Matters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFinalist for the 2014 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management "In The Gospel of Wealth (1889), Andrew Carnegie urged his prosperous contemporaries to avoid 'hoarding great sums' and to give their 'surplus' wealth away during their lifetimes, to strengthen an economic system that might thereby produce some riches for all. In the more measured tones of an economist, Mr. Acs is making much the same point: A capitalist economy not only enables but requires philanthropy. Through it, entrepreneurs can support the kinds of institutions that generate discoveries and that provide pathways for other people to make their own fortunes."--Leslie Lenkowsky, Wall Street Journal "While philanthropy is generally seen as a positive practice, few view it as a sustaining capitalistic force that drives the economy. Acs seeks to change this in an informative and enlightening ... look at philanthropy's many positive repercussions... Economists will find this book helpful in crystallizing the long-term impact of philanthropy and the degree to which it influences the American economy."--Publishers Weekly "Acs' effort to link philanthropy to greater income equality, opportunity and security is admirable and potentially important."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Tulsa World "The best pro-philanthropy book I know."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "Drawing on research conducted over 30-plus years, Acs's examination documents historically how philanthropy has affected and been affected by the entrepreneurial spirit unique to the American economic system... This is a worthwhile read for U.S. economists as well as those wishing to understand how American-style capitalism and philanthropy create innovation."--Elizabeth Nelson, Library Journal "Acs develops an interesting account of American economic history as he traces the activities of philanthropists across the decades."--Kirkus Reviews "Acs' major achievement here is to understand philanthropy's oft-neglected and uniquely American role in economic growth."--Evan Sparks, Philanthropy Magazine "[E]asily the best work on the subject I have read."--Luke Johnson, Financial Times "The book is fast paced and highly readable."--Kathi Coon Badertscher, Enterprise & Society "Acs offers a well-written, well-researched account of the evolution of American capitalism."--Choice "Why Philanthropy Matters is a useful book, appropriate to academics and an informed general readership as well as in undergraduate and graduate seminar-style classrooms (I myself am requiring it in a masters-level seminar this semester)... [I]t raises timely issues about the American economy, in particular the nexus of capitalism and philanthropy in America."--Gordon E. Shockley, Independent ReviewTable of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1. A Conversation 1 Chapter 2. Creating Opportunity 19 Chapter 3. Entrepreneurship and Innovation 46 Chapter 4. The Wealth of Nations 86 Chapter 5. Charity and Philanthropy 121 Chapter 6. American-Style Capitalism 149 Chapter 7. The Global Perspective 176 Epilogue Changing the Tax Laws 200 Pledge Letters 205 Notes 227 Index 241
£34.20
Princeton University Press Higher Education in America
Book SynopsisOffering a survey and evaluation of American higher education as a whole, this book provides a basis for a public discussion about what the system is doing right, what it needs to do better, and how the next quarter century could be made a period of progress rather than decline.Trade Review"Magisterial."--Stanley Fish, New York Times "A detailed progress report on the challenges and opportunities facing our nation's colleges and universities... Competition among schools produces benefits and causes problems. Most of the important ones are addressed in Bok's helpful volume. I hope he is right that we already have the ingredients in place to make the necessary reforms. I know we need university leaders like him to help activate those ingredients so that American higher education can continue to contribute in vital ways to our culture, our economy and our polity."--Michael S. Roth, Washington Post "A thought-provoking book that defies political stereotypes. Because of its nuances, the book is a refreshing change from the openly hostile diatribes attacking higher education in recent years."--Peter Sacks, Minding the Campus "Bok draws on the latest empirical research to set the record straight about systems of governance, undergraduate education, doctoral programs, medical schools, law schools, and business schools, teaching, research, and tenure, tuition, financial aid, affirmative action, the role of government, inter-collegiate athletics, online education, for-profit institutions, and what he calls 'matters of genuine concern.' Comprehensive, judicious, probing, and immensely informative, written for students, parents, and taxpayers as well as 'insiders,' it is one of the best books to appear on this subject in decades."--Glenn Altschuler, Huffington Post "Hold on to your mortarboard; [Higher Education in America has] got five fat sections on the state of instruction at the undergrad then graduate level, with umpteen analyses of market forces at each turn, plus five forewords and four afterwords! Despite this daunting breadth, Bok keeps it real."--Katharine Whittemore, Boston Globe "[Higher Education in America is] a magisterial yet often contrarian assessment of challenges facing university governance, teaching, and, indeed, survival."--Jim Sleeper, Huffington Post "In the past few years, UK government ministers have paid a lot of attention to the American higher education system, and some new ideas introduced in England, at least, have come directly from the US. Higher Education in America, written by a former president of Harvard University, serves to highlight the similarities between issues we face in the UK with those in the US... Easy to read and comprehensive... A useful overview of the state of US higher education in the early 21st century."--Mary Stuart, Times Higher Education "Monumental... [Bok's] assessment is measured and clear, and we may confidently refer young academics and administrators to Higher Education in America as a primer on current affairs."--Mark Bauerlein, Weekly Standard "One theme that I found particularly useful in Higher Education in America is Bok's treatment of undergraduate education and curriculum. Bok underlines the value of a broad university education at every level--for the individual, for the business who hires him or her, and for the society... The book is worth reading carefully by faculty leaders and university administrators as they make their best efforts to enhance the educational effectiveness of their programs."--Daniel Little, Understanding Society blog "Derek Bok asks all the right questions about higher education, and his experience, research, and staggering intelligence pervade every page. The real value here lies in Bok's thorough examination of some of the most urgent challenges facing higher education--and in his spot-on recommendations for what needs to be done to address these concerns. This is an important book for both academics and families looking at a future in higher education."--Grandparents.com "Highly recommended for education professionals, policy advocates, and the broad public as a thorough and thoughtful examination that assesses strengths and weaknesses and suggests paths to academic improvement."--Elizabeth Hayford, Library Journal starred review "Derek Bok ... has a breathtaking grasp of higher education worldwide, and he states his positions in a lucid and learned manner. Moreover, he presents copious evidence to back his assertions so that the reader who wishes to challenge him knows precisely what data support his contentions."--Edward P. Sheridan, PsycCRITIQUES "With more than two decades of service as president of Harvard University behind him, Derek Bok has views on higher education that must be taken seriously... Now in Higher Education in America, the Harvard professor offers a comprehensive and up-to-date volume that gathers analysis of these and numerous other topics in one place."--Choice "Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them."--David M. Brown & John Thelin, Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I The Context Foreword (I) 7 Chapter One The American System of Higher Education 9 Chapter Two Purposes, Goals, and Limits to Growth 28 Chapter Three The Governance of Nonprofit Universities 44 Afterword (I) 72 Part II Undergraduate Education Foreword (II) 77 Chapter Four Going to College and Earning a Degree 81 Chapter Five Paying for College: The Challenge for Policy-Makers and Academic Leaders 98 Chapter Six Entering the Right College 122 Chapter Seven The Expanding Audience for Higher Education 145 Chapter Eight What to Learn 166 Chapter Nine How to Teach 183 Chapter Ten Prospects for Reform 201 Afterword (II) 220 Chapter Eleven Graduate Education Part III Professional Education Foreword (III) 249 Chapter Twelve Medical Schools 256 Chapter Thirteen Law Schools 271 Chapter Fourteen Business Schools 287 Afterword (III) 306 Part IV Research Foreword (IV) 321 Chapter Fifteen "Publish or Perish" 328 Chapter Sixteen The Changing Nature of Scientific Research 342 Chapter Seventeen The Environment for Research 358 Afterword (IV) 377 Part V A Final Reckoning Foreword (V) 383 Chapter Eighteen Matters of Genuine Concern 387 The Last Word 408 Notes 413 Index 453
£27.00
Princeton University Press Between Citizens and the State
Book SynopsisThis book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political hiTrade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association "Loss has succeeded in a very ambitious project, and shows the many ways that higher education serves as a key intermediary between state and citizen. I hope other academics will take up the challenge and build on his very good start."--Nancy L. Ruther, Times Higher Education "Loss offers a well-researched, important narrative of the escalating involvement of federal policy in U.S. higher education from WWI through the 1970s and of the remarkable social outcomes or effects thereof... Loss's book merits a place on university library shelves as well on the reading lists of courses on public policy and on the history of American higher education."--Choice "Between Citizens and the State provides an accurate and cogent perspective on movements in American society that have led members of government and higher education to clash, but also to collaborate. Loss provides new insights on a one-hundred-year relationship that has largely been neglected by scholars."--Hani Morgan, Journal of American History "Between Citizens and the State is an ambitious history of the politics of higher education in the twentieth century... Exploring the linkage between politics as it affected higher education and the development of the social sciences is one of the significant achievements of this book."--Nannerl O. Keohane, Perspectives on Politics "Admirably ambitious in scope and engagingly written... Loss argues that political leaders and educational elites worked together to create a partnership between higher education and the state over the course of the last century. While historians of science have recognized this, Loss's important contribution to the discussion is to focus not on the collaboration's goal of producing experts and expert knowledge but on the goal of creating democratic citizens."--Rebecca Lowen, American Historical Review "Loss' book does more than chronicle the relationship between the government and higher education; it highlights the significance of higher education's place in providing citizens a space to develop their voice, power, and political and personal identities. In doing so, it raises important questions... Between Citizen and State, is an insightful and engaging look at the notion of citizenship and the political relationship that helped shape the citizen of the 20th century."--Ann Allen, Journal of Philosophy of Education "Between Citizens and the State is well-written and effectively highlights the complex relationships between federal policy goals, the implementation of those policies by higher education organizations, and the outcomes of those efforts. The author does an excellent job of weaving details about politics and policy with the resulting impact on higher education and American society from World War I through the 1960s... Institutional research professionals who have interest in the history of the politics that contributed to the growth of higher education in the United States will enjoy reading Between Citizens and the State."--Gary Lowe, Association of Institutional Research Data and Decisions "What is the state's interest in an educated citizenry? Given Americans' historical aversion to strong central government, how has our government intervened in higher education in order to achieve that interest? How has state interest in higher education changed over time? Christopher Loss tackles these questions in his insightful survey of state interactions with higher education in the twentieth century."--Beryl Satter, Academe "Loss offers his readers an opportunity to take a long view, narrating in his own way many elements of higher education's history that have not often been told. He provides a critical and illuminating look at the role of higher education ... between the federal government and citizens."--Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement "Loss deserves credit for moving beyond the usual benchmarks--the GI Bill of 1944, the National Defense Education Act of 1958, and the Higher Education Act of 1965--to illuminate a longer history of subtle governmental interventions in American higher education. His well-written study also demonstrates that time and again, students took whatever educational support governmental intervention allowed yet ignored the particular lessons of citizenship the government intended to impart. In the section on higher education from the 1960s onward, Loss ably details the uneven effects of Great Society measures meant to improve educational access."--Beryl Satter, American Association of University Professors "Institutional research professionals who have interest in the history of the politics that contributed to the growth of higher education in the United States will enjoy reading Between Citizens and the State."--Gary Lowe, Association of Institutional Research "Loss's account is relevant to state comprehensive universities as he focuses on how the university system shifted to meet the needs of the student which were at odds with what was expected from the state."--Liz Jacoby, Teacher-ScholarTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Appendix Charts ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1: Introduction: The Politics of American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century 1 Part I: Bureaucracy Chapter 2: Reorganizing Higher Education in the Shadow of the Great War 19 Chapter 3: Building the New Deal Administrative State 53 Part II: Democracy Chapter 4: Educating Citizen-Soldiers in World War II 91 Chapter 5: Educating Global Citizens in the Cold War 121 Part III: Diversity Chapter 6: Higher Education Confronts the Rights Revolution 165 Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Private Marketplace of Identity in an Age of Diversity 214 Appendix: A: Graphical Portrait of American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century 235 Notes 239 Index 303
£27.00
Princeton University Press Higher Education in America
Book SynopsisHigher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths asTrade Review"Magisterial."--Stanley Fish, New York Times "[Higher Education in America is] a magisterial yet often contrarian assessment of challenges facing university governance, teaching, and, indeed, survival."--Jim Sleeper, Huffington Post "A thought-provoking book that defies political stereotypes. Because of its nuances, the book is a refreshing change from the openly hostile diatribes attacking higher education in recent years."--Peter Sacks, Minding the Campus "Bok draws on the latest empirical research to set the record straight about systems of governance, undergraduate education, doctoral programs, medical schools, law schools, and business schools, teaching, research, and tenure, tuition, financial aid, affirmative action, the role of government, inter-collegiate athletics, online education, for-profit institutions, and what he calls 'matters of genuine concern.' Comprehensive, judicious, probing, and immensely informative, written for students, parents, and taxpayers as well as 'insiders,' it is one of the best books to appear on this subject in decades."--Glenn Altschuler, Huffington Post "Monumental... [Bok's] assessment is measured and clear, and we may confidently refer young academics and administrators to Higher Education in America as a primer on current affairs."--Mark Bauerlein, Weekly Standard "A detailed progress report on the challenges and opportunities facing our nation's colleges and universities... Competition among schools produces benefits and causes problems. Most of the important ones are addressed in Bok's helpful volume. I hope he is right that we already have the ingredients in place to make the necessary reforms. I know we need university leaders like him to help activate those ingredients so that American higher education can continue to contribute in vital ways to our culture, our economy and our polity."--Michael S. Roth, Washington Post "In the past few years, UK government ministers have paid a lot of attention to the American higher education system, and some new ideas introduced in England, at least, have come directly from the US. Higher Education in America, written by a former president of Harvard University, serves to highlight the similarities between issues we face in the UK with those in the US... Easy to read and comprehensive... A useful overview of the state of US higher education in the early 21st century."--Mary Stuart, Times Higher Education "Hold on to your mortarboard; [Higher Education in America has] got five fat sections on the state of instruction at the undergrad then graduate level, with umpteen analyses of market forces at each turn, plus five forewords and four afterwords! Despite this daunting breadth, Bok keeps it real."--Katharine Whittemore, Boston Globe "One theme that I found particularly useful in Higher Education in America is Bok's treatment of undergraduate education and curriculum. Bok underlines the value of a broad university education at every level--for the individual, for the business who hires him or her, and for the society... The book is worth reading carefully by faculty leaders and university administrators as they make their best efforts to enhance the educational effectiveness of their programs."--Daniel Little, Understanding Society blog "Derek Bok asks all the right questions about higher education, and his experience, research, and staggering intelligence pervade every page. The real value here lies in Bok's thorough examination of some of the most urgent challenges facing higher education--and in his spot-on recommendations for what needs to be done to address these concerns. This is an important book for both academics and families looking at a future in higher education."--Grandparents.com "Highly recommended for education professionals, policy advocates, and the broad public as a thorough and thoughtful examination that assesses strengths and weaknesses and suggests paths to academic improvement."--Elizabeth Hayford, Library Journal starred review "Derek Bok ... has a breathtaking grasp of higher education worldwide, and he states his positions in a lucid and learned manner. Moreover, he presents copious evidence to back his assertions so that the reader who wishes to challenge him knows precisely what data support his contentions."--Edward P. Sheridan, PsycCRITIQUES "With more than two decades of service as president of Harvard University behind him, Derek Bok has views on higher education that must be taken seriously... Now in Higher Education in America, the Harvard professor offers a comprehensive and up-to-date volume that gathers analysis of these and numerous other topics in one place."--Choice "Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them."--David M. Brown & John Thelin, Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsPreface to the Revised Edition ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I The Context Foreword (I) 7 Chapter One The American System of Higher Education 9 Chapter Two Purposes, Goals, and Limits to Growth 28 Chapter Three The Governance of Nonprofit Universities 44 Afterword (I) 72 Part II Undergraduate Education Foreword (II) 77 Chapter Four Going to College and Earning a Degree 81 Chapter Five Paying for College: The Challenge for Policy-Makers and Academic Leaders 98 Chapter Six Entering the Right College 122 Chapter Seven The Expanding Audience for Higher Education 145 Chapter Eight What to Learn 166 Chapter Nine How to Teach 183 Chapter Ten Prospects for Reform 201 Afterword (II) 220 Chapter Eleven Graduate Education Part III Professional Education Foreword (III) 249 Chapter Twelve Medical Schools 256 Chapter Thirteen Law Schools 271 Chapter Fourteen Business Schools 287 Afterword (III) 306 Part IV Research Foreword (IV) 321 Chapter Fifteen "Publish or Perish" 328 Chapter Sixteen The Changing Nature of Scientific Research 342 Chapter Seventeen The Environment for Research 358 Afterword (IV) 377 Part V A Final Reckoning Foreword (V) 383 Chapter Eighteen Matters of Genuine Concern 387 The Last Word 408 Notes 413 Index 453
£15.29
Princeton University Press Lesson Plan
Book SynopsisAmerican higher education faces some serious problems--but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises--from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being driven by administrative bloat--are exaggerated or simplyTrade ReviewOne of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 "Bachelor's degrees should be completed in three years. MOOCs should replace general education. Coding boot camps are the game changer. College should be free. Internships are more important than instruction. Eliminate administrative bloat and higher education will be prosperous. Pick your quick fix for higher education, but it won't be endorsed in Lesson Plan, a new book by William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson. They make clear early in the book that while higher education has serious problems, they find most punditry and political proposals for higher education to be wrong."--Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed "A masterly summary of the state of higher education... [Bowen and McPherson] bring together current research, broad conversations with experts, and their own perspective in a brilliant, coherent explanation of their conviction that academia continues to be a vital investment in human capital... A must-read for everyone concerned about price and quality in higher education."--Library Journal "Lesson Plan [is] a concise, compelling, and, at times, courageous analysis of the ways in which institutions of higher education are failing to provide equal opportunity and lay out an ambitious reform agenda."--Glenn Altschuler, Huffington Post "I recommend [this book] to anyone who wants a better understanding of the problems in higher education in the US, and especially to anyone who is working in higher education and wants to contribute to improving it."--Harry Brighouse, Crooked Timber "A short, yet disarmingly rich and precise, primer on higher-education policy and its compelling relevance for the future of our economy and democracy... [C]ombines the precision born of encyclopedic knowledge with the plain-spoken prose of experts for whom policy analysis is second nature."--Clayton Spencer, Harvard Magazine "A short and clearly written book about the problems facing higher education in the United States. It offers the reader a great deal of data and support for its claims, and it is comprehensive in its approach as its programme for change presents multiple proposals requiring action by federal and state governments as well as institutions."--Chris Mayer, Journal of Higher Education Policy and ManagementTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii PART I: Prelude 1 PART II: Pressing National Needs 11 Achieving Higher Levels of Educational Attainment 11 Raising College Completion Rate in the United States 21 Reducing Time-to-Degree 31 Reducing Disparities in Outcomes by Socioeconomic Status and Race or Ethnicity 34 Achieving Affordability 46 Strengthening Leadership Capacities 61 PART III: An Agenda for Change 73 Governmental Funding-Apart from Student Aid 73 Payments by Individuals-and Student Aid (Including Loans) 87 Increasing Efficiency 106 Putting High-Profile College Sports in Proper Perspective 118 Rationalizing Staffing: Supporting the Development of a "Teaching Corps" 121 Improving Teaching through Technology: Adaptive Learning 126 Enabling Stronger Leadership 134 References 141 Index 153
£26.68
Princeton University Press Winnebagos on Wednesdays
Book SynopsisWhy a strong mission and inspired leadership are vital to the success of America's colleges and universitiesIn 1998, soon after assuming the presidency of Tulane University, Scott Cowen was confronted with a setback. Despite an undefeated football season and putting the best financial deal on the table, Cowen was unable to retain the school'sTrade Review"Far from being another memoir recounting the accomplishments of a former university president, Winnebagos on Wednesdays offers an array of worthwhile ideas for how universities can better serve their students and society. Academic leaders and trustees will all find food for thought by reading this book."—Derek Bok, president emeritus of Harvard University and author of The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges"Education is about transforming lives and is an ever-evolving pursuit requiring transformational leadership. In this book, Cowen wisely reflects on his own leadership and that of others through engaging and thought-provoking stories—each offering important lessons for the educational leaders of today and tomorrow."—Edward Burger, president of Southwestern University and coauthor of The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking"In Winnebagos on Wednesdays, Cowen talks about presidential leadership in American higher education by exploring his own experiences at Tulane University as well as other examples across higher education. Highly effective and engaging, this book considers the successes, failures, and complicated issues of institutional leadership."—Catharine B. Hill, former president of Vassar College"From diversity to athletics, and metrics to medicine, this clear and comprehensive book examines the entire spectrum of America's diverse higher education ecosystem. With a keen and trained eye, Cowen brings together accounts from the most elite research universities, land-grant `multiversities,' small imperiled private colleges, and community colleges. No other former president or provost has ever provided such an extensive look."—Richard Chait, Harvard University
£22.50
Princeton University Press An Academic Life
Book SynopsisA compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taughtTrade Review"Readers interested in academic administration or the history of American universities would do well to spend a couple hours in Gray’s edifying company." * Kirkus *"An engaging recounting of Gray’s impressive academic and managerial skills that contributed to the advancement of American higher education through the second half of the 20th century."---Elizabeth Hayford, Library Journal"[An Academic Life] presents the eccentric, and often comedic, charm of the collegiate world. . . . Gray’s declarative style provides a frank portrayal of academic culture and a refreshing acknowledgment of the constant, changing tensions faced by universities in contemporary society. . . . [D]uring an era when levels of public distrust in universities are high, and the confidence of university leaders is low, her honest narrative reminds us of the importance of the scholarly enterprise—warts and all."---Justin Zaremby, New Criterion"[An Academic Life] contains magisterial reflections but is also sprightly, often playful, and chockful of entertaining anecdotes."---Robert E. Lerner, National Interest
£22.50
Princeton University Press Lets Be Reasonable
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The Wall Street Journal's Best of the February Bookshelf""An engaging apologia for liberal education. . . . [Marks] blends humor with argument as he makes his case for a renewed vision of higher learning."---John J. Miller, Wall Street Journal"Marks’s vision of a newly energized liberal education is appealing, and Let’s Be Reasonable is an important and timely book. Blending anecdote and theory in a superb accessible style, Marks comes across as the professor we all wish we had: the one who gets students excited about Plato or Rousseau, who challenges them to think more deeply and often gets them to meet that challenge."---Andrew Pessin, Commentary"Instead of attempting to rule our opponents out of line, we might try reasoning with them. Thankfully [Let’s Be Reasonable] explains and models how to do it"---Damon Linker, The Week"A thoughtful . . . contribution to debates about the value of higher education." * Kirkus Reviews *"Jonathan Marks’s Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education shows what higher education can be at its best. . . . Marks shows why academic freedom is worth fighting for – he documents what a liberal education can do."---Kenneth S. Stern, The Times of Israel"An important and timely book that should interest anyone, left, right, or center, concerned about higher education in general and the campus anti-Israel movement in particular. Let’s Be Reasonable is indeed a calming voice of reason amidst the frenetic shouting occurring both on and about campuses. Blending anecdote and theory in a superb and accessible style . . . Marks comes across as the professor we all wish we had."---Andrew Pessin, Times of Israel"Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education is, indeed, a reasonable book. . . . Everyone needs to be exposed to his ideas on higher education’s ultimate purpose."---Jay Schalin, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal"Marks’s dual status as both a man of the right and a longtime academic positions him well to argue that universities must commit themselves more fully to the task of shaping reasonable people and that, despite their present flaws, all is not lost. Marks can speak both to university insiders and to their outside (often right-leaning) critics."---Thomas Koenig, The Bulwark"In straddling both sides of the debate, Marks has his work cut out for him. It’s a tribute to his wit, good sense, and, indeed, reasonableness that he largely succeeds. . . . Marks’ hopeful argument is a timely rebuttal to the kind of scorched-earth conservatism now ascendant on the intellectual right."---Richard Aldous, American Purpose"Let’s Be Reasonable offers an incisive analysis of the terrain of the contemporary American university, one that anyone interested in understanding higher education should read."---Jenna Silber Storey, Society"Marked by good humor, engaging anecdotes, and reassuring evidence that all is not lost in higher education."---Matthew Stewart, University Bookman"Recommended." * Choice *
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Princeton University Press The Chapel of Princeton University
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Princeton University Press Leaving Academia
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book should be an eye-opener for junior researchers and PhD students alike and I would recommend reading it early in graduate school. Leaving Academia can prepare its readers for a potential career change at a later stage."---Eryk Walczak, LSE Review of Books
£18.00
Princeton University Press The Economists Craft
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mr. Weisbach shows how to understand economics in a way that’s entertaining for anyone who has ever been a student, or simply likes to read, write or talk economics. It is aimed at economics professors, and appears to give the inside scoop on teaching. In reality, anyone with a bit of curiosity is enticed to look at how it’s done."---John B. Taylor, Wall Street Journal"The Economist's Craft is indeed a value addition and can serve as a guideline . . . to develop a unique position within the academic society."---Satya Sahoo, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs
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Princeton University Press Roberts Rules of Order and Why It Matters for
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The major contribution of this text is in Loss’s essay, which is historically-interesting and will appeal to historians of education and those interested in understanding the ways in which voluntary and civic organizations came to embrace a standardized set of governing procedures."---Lauren C. Bell, Journal of Political Science Education
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Princeton University Press Young Gifted and Diverse
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An astoundingly thorough deep dive, which the reader is eased into with the help of easily digestible surveys, charts and graphs, interview excerpts and a very comprehensive reference section. . . . An extremely well thought-out, -researched, and -structured look into the lives of people who have had to endure caste-inspired stigma throughout their lives." * Library Journal *"This book has challenged us to take a more nuanced approach to diversity within the Black community and beyond."---Rebecca C. Franklin, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Princeton University Press Young Gifted and Diverse
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An astoundingly thorough deep dive, which the reader is eased into with the help of easily digestible surveys, charts and graphs, interview excerpts and a very comprehensive reference section. . . . An extremely well thought-out, -researched, and -structured look into the lives of people who have had to endure caste-inspired stigma throughout their lives." * Library Journal *"This book has challenged us to take a more nuanced approach to diversity within the Black community and beyond."---Rebecca C. Franklin, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Princeton University Press Changing the Game
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Princeton University Press Buying the Best
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Charles Clotfelter, an economist and former vice provost and vice chancellor at Duke University, examines the explanations for the rapid growth in spending in the nation's leading private research universities since 1976-77 ... Buying the Best is a thought-provoking and compelling analysis, with implications well beyond its focus on higher education."--Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesForewordPrefaceList of AbbreviationsCh. 1The Problem of Rising Costs1Ch. 2A Peculiar Institution20Appendix 2.1 A Simple Financial Model of a University51Appendix 2.2 Decomposing Rates of Growth in Expenditures57Ch. 3Boom Times for Selective Institutions58Appendix 3.1 Supplementary Tables for Chapter 377Ch. 4Patterns and Trends in Expenditures82Appendix 4.1 Dealing with Interdepartmental Transfers and Recharges117Appendix 4.2 Categories Used to Create Expenditure Tables121Appendix 4.3 Trends in Duke Expenditures from 1976/77 to 1983/84135Ch. 5The Sources of Rising Expenditures139Appendix 5.1 Supplementary Tables for Chapter 5159Ch. 6Administrative Functions162Ch. 7The Allocation of Faculty Effort179Appendix 7.1 Options for Providing Classroom Instruction205Appendix 7.2 Calculation of Classroom Teaching Loads and Course Characteristics206Appendix 7.3 Data on Committee Membership216Ch. 8Classes and Course Offerings218Appendix 8.1 Supplementary Tables for Chapter 8240Ch. 9Ambition Meets Opportunity247Notes to the Chapters265Bibliography285Index293
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Campus Hate Speech on Trial
Book SynopsisMakes the case that campus speech codes - no matter how well grounded in history, law, or philosophy - have tended to be overbroad, arbitrarily enforced, and used selectively to protect only certain groups at the expense of others. This title challenges academics and general readers to reconsider how we deal with this important issue.Trade ReviewA fair-minded and significant contribution to the study of an important public issue. Andrew Altman, author of Arguing about Law and Critical Legal Studies ""An accessible book that synthesizes the vast literature on this topic.... A model of clarity and fairness, it is an extremely valuable book for anyone interested in a balanced treatment of the background of campus speech codes, the experience under them, and the difficult issues they pose."" Journal of American History ""A well-written work [and] required reading for anyone interested in the debate."" Library Journal
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Succeeding Outside the Academy Career Paths
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSo how do you take your graduate training outside of academia? To start with, you read this book. Succeeding Outside the Academy is a great resource filled with useful instructions and advice on how to jump-start the new job search—and how to get excited about it. This book is enormously useful, filled with good stories, and altogether fun to read."" - Leonard Cassuto, professor of English, Fordham University, and author of The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Angry Politics Partisan Hatred and Political
Book SynopsisA backward glance - or a quick survey of so many retiring members of Congress - tells us that even in the past decade partisan rancor has grown exponentially. In Angry Politics, Stacy Ulbig asks why. More to the point, she traces the trend to the place where it all might begin - the college campus, among the youngest segment of the electorate.Trade ReviewAngry Politics provides a superb review of our national political polarization. Supported by an abundance of research, both scholarly and popular, Angry Politics explains the causes and consequences of our partisan divide. It is well written, thoroughly researched, and beautifully organized. Current and accessible for readers inside the classroom and out, Angry Politics offers an expansive and meaningful examination of our political polarization and provides optimistic suggestions for ways to bridge our national divide."" - Alison Dagnes, author of Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger""Ulbig has written a very fine book linking our contemporary political polarization to incivility among college students. She demonstrates that our dangerous national divides are in fact rampant within college populations, the pool of future American citizens and leaders. Angry Politics is required reading for anyone interested in how students think about politics and why university faculty and administrators must take heed before this new generation replicates the intolerant, destructive politics of their parents and grandparents."" - Susan Herbst, university professor of political science and president emerita, University of Connecticut
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Prophet of Harvard Law James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy
Book SynopsisAmid the halls of Harvard Law, a professor of legend, James Bradley Thayer, shaped generations of students from 1874 to 1902. The Prophet of Harvard Law draws from untouched archival sources to reveal the origins of the legal world we inhabit today. It is a story of ideas and people in equal measure.Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Thayer’s Origins 2. Thayer’s Scholarship 3. Theyer’s ProtÉgÉ: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 4. Thayer’s Students: Louis Brandeis, John Henry Wigmore, Roscoe Pound, and Learned Hand 5. Thayer’s Heir: Felix Frankfurter Conclusion Notes Index
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Pluto Press Free Speech and Koch Money
Book SynopsisThe demand for free speech on campus is a distraction, we need to follow the moneyTrade Review‘This deeply researched and urgent book reads like a detective mystery. A riveting self-defence manual for all who fear for the future of our country and our planet' -- Nancy MacLean, author of ‘Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America’‘Universities regularly conduct important discussions of free speech. And then there is the largely imaginary ‘campus free speech crisis’. This book is a detailed and valuable guide to the shadowy right-wing financial networks irresponsibly stoking the latter to the growing detriment of the former’ -- Hank Reichman, Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay‘An essential analysis of the amped-up culture wars over free speech’ -- ‘Times Higher Education’‘An insightful dive into the ways higher education has been impacted—indeed, manipulated—by conservatives. Read it and fight back’ -- Eleanor J. Bader, ‘The Progressive’'Deeply researched and well-argued' -- ‘Inside Higher Education’Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Overview of the Koch’s Campus Free Speech Machine 1. The Donor Strategy 2. The Student Groups 3. The Provocateurs 4. The Media Amplifiers 5. The Lawyers 6. Changing the Laws 7. The Academics 8. The Free Speech International Conclusion: Refusing the Plutocratic Free Speech Narrative Appendix 1: Koch Network Payments to Organizations Mentioned in the Text Appendix 2: Resources for Activists Notes Index
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Pluto Press Shut Down the Business School Whats Wrong with
Book SynopsisA clarion call to shut down the business school!Trade Review'This is a tour de force of contemporary critical management thinking. All too often, the textbooks and the MBAs get in the way of what should be the future for business - participative, value-creating and sustainable. Read, learn... and shut down the business school' -- Ed Mayo, Secretary General, Co-operatives UK'Business schools are at the centre of the malaise of financialized capitalism... Parker prescribes the nuclear option - termination. His replacement is a focus upon sustainable organising that champions alternatives to more-of-the-same hierarchical organisation, market-based forms of exchange and the necessity of management' -- Hugh Wilmott, Professor of Management, Cass Business School, City University LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. What Goes on in Business Schools? 2. Teaching Capitalism 3. What's Wrong with Management? 4. What's Wrong with the Business School? 5. The Business School and the University 6. What is 'Management' Anyway? 7. The School for Organizing 8. The Politics of Organizing 9. What do Students Want? 10. The Business School of Tomorrow Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The State Nobility
Book SynopsisIn this major work, Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power -- political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic -- by means of which contemporary societies are governed.Trade Review"Since the 1960s Pierre Bourdieu's terrific constancy has been there to hold us to the vision and divisions of criticism, detachment, reason, truth ... [This book is an] enormous addition to his vast architecture." Times Higher Education Supplement "This is a book ... which presents a stimulating argument." Sociology "If you wish to understand how France's grandes écoles have achieved such influence you need look no further than The State Nobility ... characteristic combination of original concepts, innovative analysis and a huge array of empirical evidence ... strongly recommended." British Journal of Sociology "Both The Rules of Art and State Nobility are dazzling examples of the way in which Bourdieu imposes order on an overwhelming wealth of empirical material ... these books represent important developments in Bourdieu's thought and confirm his status as one of today's most stimulating and bold sociological thinkers." European Journal of Social TheoryTable of ContentsForeword by Loïc J. D. Wacquant. Translator's Note. Prologue: Social Structures and Mental Structures. Part I: Academic Forms of Classification:. 1. Dualistic Thinking and the Conciliation of Opposites. 2. Misrecognition and Symbolic Violence. Part II: The Ordination:. 1. The Production of a Nobility. 2. A Rite of Institution. 3. The Ambiguities of Competence. Part III: The Field of the Grandes Écoles and its Transformations:. 1. A State of the Structure. 2. A Structural History. Part IV: The Field of Power and its Transformations:. 1. Forms of Power and their Reproduction. 2. Establishment Schools and Power over the Economy. 3 Transformations in the Structure of the Field of Power. Part V: State Power and Power over the State:. Notes. Index.
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Kogan Page Ltd How to Get Into Oxbridge
Book SynopsisDr. Christopher See is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge University. He currently works as an academic senior house officer in University Hospital Aintree and is a lecturer at Liverpool University. He is an experienced university applications tutor, helping students in all areas of their Oxbridge application in a range of diverse subjects. He is also the author of How to Get into Medical School, Succeed in your Medical School Interview and How to Master Your Medical School Finals, all published by Kogan Page.Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Why Oxbridge?; Chapter - 02: Principles of preparation; Chapter - 03: College selection; Chapter - 04: Organic development and independent thinking; Chapter - 05: Extracurricular activities map; Chapter - 06: Oxbridge strategy; Chapter - 07: Optimizing your UCAS form for Oxbridge; Chapter - 08: How to get a teacher reference; Chapter - 09: Sample written work submission and aptitude test essays; Chapter - 10: Special examinations; Chapter - 11: What to expect from your Oxbridge interview; Chapter - 12: Sample questions and answers; Chapter - 13: Speech, language and vocabulary; Chapter - 14: Fees, funding and bursaries; Chapter - 15: International students
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Kogan Page Ltd Succeed in Your Medical School Interview
Book SynopsisDr. Christopher See is a qualified doctor from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an innovator in the field of medical school applicant tuition, offering a fully comprehensive tuition from personal statements and exams, to video analysis interview preparation.Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Preparation for the interview; Chapter - 02: Interview macro-analysis – chain theory; Chapter - 03: Motivation for medicine; Chapter - 04: The Multiple Mini-Interview; Chapter - 05: Work experience and voluntary work; Chapter - 06: Personal attributes; Chapter - 07: Knowledge of the medical school; Chapter - 08: Medicine as a profession; Chapter - 09: Hospital life and the NHS; Chapter - 10: Medical knowledge; Chapter - 11: Ethics and law; Chapter - 12: International students; Chapter - 13: Graduate students; Chapter - 14: Oxbridge
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McGill-Queen's University Press Sir William C. Macdonald
Book SynopsisSir William Macdonald is the father of the Canadian tobacco industry and one of the country's foremost educational philanthropists. His contributions to McGill University transformed it into one of the world's foremost research and teaching institutions. This book takes a look at the development of engineering, physics, and law at McGill.
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University of British Columbia Press No Place to Learn
Book SynopsisArguing that too much emphasis is placed on specialized research and too little on teaching, this book contends that students seeking higher education in Canada are being short-changed.Table of Contents1 No Place to Learn2 The Canadian University: From College to Knowledge Factory3 Universities in Action: A Day in the Life4 University Teaching5 Research and Reflective Inquiry: Competing Principles6 Teaching and Research at Canadian Universities: The Myth of Mutual Enrichment7 Ethics in Canadian Universities8 Universities in Business: Issues and Prospects9 Pseudo-Problems and Pseudo-Solutions10 Real Problems, Real SolutionsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Student Affairs Experiencing Higher Education
Book SynopsisThis collection reveals how much institutional change has occurred in the social organization of postsecondary education, and how much more change is required to achieve equitable access and inclusion.Table of ContentsForeword / Neil GuppyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Today’s Post-Secondary Students -- Adding Faces to Numbers / Lesley Andres1 Equity in Access and Outcomes: Succeeding along the Science Pipeline / Maria Adamuti-Trache2 It’s No Five O’Clock World: The Lived Experience of Re/entering Mothers in Nursing Education / Sharon Liversidge3 A Tunnel of Hope: The Experiences of Student Mothers Attending a Community-College-Based Developmental Studies Program / Donna McGee Thompson4 Visitors in the Classroom: The Academic Experiences of Students Who Are Hard of Hearing / Ruth Warick5 Disciplinary Affiliation and the Experience of Community among Undergraduate Students / Colleen Hawkey6 Co-op Education: Access to Benefits or Benefits to Access? / Garnet Grosjean7 The Four Rs Revisited: Some Reflections on First Nations and Higher Education / Michael Marker8 Welcome to Canada? The Experiences of International Graduate Students at University / Regina Lyakhovetska9 The Transition from High School to Post-High-School Life: Views of the Class of ’88 / Gabriel PillayConclusion: From Research to Action / Finola FinlayContributorsIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Exchange University
Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Exchange University / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher1 The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/Learning Regime / Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades2 Academic Culture and the Research-Intensive University: The Impact of Commercialism and Scientism / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher3 The New Production of Researchers / Brigitte Gemme and Yves Gingras4 Public Policy in Ontario Higher Education: From Frost to Harris / Paul Axelrod5 How Fares Equity in an Era of Academic Capitalism? The Role of Contingent Faculty / Linda Muzzin 6 Reclaiming Our Centre: Toward a Robust Defence of Academic Autonomy / Janice Newson and Claire Polster7 “Gender at Work” in Teacher Education: History, Society, and Global Reform / Jo-Anne Dillabough and Sandra Acker8 The Political Economy of Legal Scholarship: A Case Study of the University of British Columbia Law School / Theresa Shanahan9 Keeping the Commons in Academic Culture: Protecting the Knowledge Commons from the Enclosure of the Knowledge Economy / Jennifer SumnerConclusion / Adrienne S. Chan and Donald FisherIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Unthinkable Thoughts
Book SynopsisThis book presents a case study of an academic conference where various actors sought to circumscribe the exploration of a controversial idea – the one-state model for Israel and Palestine – and it throws into stark relief the vulnerability and importance of academic freedom.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionAn Unintended Ethnography: Part 11 Outside Academia2 The Forbidden Question: “One State or Two?”An Unintended Ethnography: Part 23 Mixing Jurisdictions: Academic Foreign Policy4 Inside AcademiaAn Unintended Ethnography: Part 3 – Making Sense5 Accountability and Validity6 Academic Freedom and the Worthiness of IdeasConclusion: Epicycles and Political WorkAppendices: Correspondence and DocumentationNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Equity Myth
Book SynopsisChallenging the myth of equity in higher education, this is the first comprehensive, data-based study of racialized and Indigenous faculty members' experiences in Canadian universities.Trade ReviewThe Equity Myth is a necessary book that draws on new and existing statistical and qualitative data to describe the routine reproduction of race inequities in the academy. As they undercut the prevailing image of the university as an ivory tower insulated from the rest of the social world and its ills, including colonialism and racism, the authors provide devastating evidence of the institutionalization of whiteness and the ongoing marginalization of racialized minorities and Indigenous persons in the academy. -- Elaine Coburn, York University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *The Equity Myth paints a bleak picture in which the hegemonic whiteness and patriarchy of the institution show remarkable resilience through lip service and tokenism. [...]On the other hand, it recommends possible concrete solutions[...]a must-read for anyone interested in the social sciences, in discrimination, or simply in being decent and well-informed human beings. -- Sylvie Vrackx * Canadian Literature *The Equity Myth brings to the surface tensions that racialized faculty widely experience but seldom formally discuss in their workplaces. These include pay inequity, unequal hiring processes, a lack of visibility for racialized faculty in the professoriate, Euro-centric curricula and racial discrimination.Until now, those tensions have been felt only in the abstract or anecdotally. Statistics Canada does not collect data on racialized minorities as part of the data it compiles on faculty and students at Canadian universities; nor do provincial governments collect such information. There has been recent change on this front from the University of Toronto and Ryerson University, both of which have announced in the past year that they would start collecting race-based data about their students. But no data exists on the effectiveness of university employment equity policies or policies against discrimination, despite their ubiquity across Canadian campuses. -- Jackie Wong * University Affairs *[G]roundbreaking new research led by York University Professor Emeritus Frances Henry puts Canadian universities under the microscope. This new inquiry … shows that racialized and Indigenous faculty are low in numbers and even lower in terms of power, prestige and influence compared to non-racialized [white, male] counterparts within the university -- Megan Mueller, Manager, research communications, Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation * York University *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Setting the Context2 Representational Analysis: Comparing Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia 3 Differences in Representation and Employment Income of Racialized University Professors in Canada4 Academic Production, Reward, and Perceptions of Racialized Faculty Members5 “Would Never Be Hired These Days”: The Precarious Work Situation of Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Members6 The Everyday World of Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Members in Canadian Universities7 “You Know Why You Were Hired, Don’t You?” Expectations and Challenges in University Appointments8 Shifting Terrains: A Picture of the Institutionalization of Equity in Canadian Universities9 Mechanisms to Address Inequities in Canadian Universities: The Performativity of Ineffectiveness10 Disciplinary Silences: Race, Indigeneity, and Gender in the Social Sciences11 A Dirty Dozen: Unconscious Race and Gender Biases in the Academy12 Conclusion: Challenging the MythAppendix: List of Canadian Universities ReviewedNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The New Lawyer Second Edition How Clients Are
Book SynopsisThe New Lawyer analyzes the profound impact changes in client needs and demands are having on how law is practised. Most legal clients are unwilling or unable to pay for protracted litigation and count on their lawyers to pursue just and expedient resolution. These clients are transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client service, and the principles of legal practice. In this fully revised edition of the now classic text, Julie Macfarlane outlines how lawyers can meet new expectations by committing to lawyer-client collaboration, conflict resolution advocacy, and revised financial structures so that the legal profession can remain relevant in this rapidly changing environment.Table of ContentsForeword / Kari Boyle and Jennifer Muller1 Changes in the Legal Profession and the Emergence of the New Lawyer2 The Making of a Lawyer: How Professional Identity Develops3 What Lawyers Believe: Three Key Professional Beliefs4 Legal Negotiations5 The New Advocacy6 The Lawyer/Client Relationship7 The Shadow of the Law8 Ethical Challenges for the New Lawyer9 Where the Action Is: Sites of ChangeEpilogueNotes, Index
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University of British Columbia Press The New Lawyer Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe New Lawyer analyzes the profound impact changes in client needs and demands are having on how law is practised. Most legal clients are unwilling or unable to pay for protracted litigation and count on their lawyers to pursue just and expedient resolution. These clients are transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client service, and the principles of legal practice. In this fully revised edition of the now classic text, Julie Macfarlane outlines how lawyers can meet new expectations by committing to lawyer-client collaboration, conflict resolution advocacy, and revised financial structures so that the legal profession can remain relevant in this rapidly changing environment.Table of ContentsForeword / Kari Boyle and Jennifer Muller1 Changes in the Legal Profession and the Emergence of the New Lawyer2 The Making of a Lawyer: How Professional Identity Develops3 What Lawyers Believe: Three Key Professional Beliefs4 Legal Negotiations5 The New Advocacy6 The Lawyer/Client Relationship7 The Shadow of the Law8 Ethical Challenges for the New Lawyer9 Where the Action Is: Sites of ChangeEpilogueNotes, Index
£67.15
University of British Columbia Press Postsecondary Education in British Columbia
Book SynopsisPostsecondary Education in British Columbia is a thoughtful critical analysis of the role of social justice, human capital, and the market in the development of institutions and public policy in BC education since 1960.Trade ReviewCowin’s work serves as an exemplary contribution to Canadian higher education literature. -- Tamara Leary * Canadian Journal of Higher Education *[...]the author impressively balances breadth and depth across substantive content and theoretical analyses. -- Theresa Shanahan * Historical Studies in Education *Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Setting the Stage3 Policy Rationales4 Clear Intentions (1960–79)5 Assumptions Challenged (1980–99)6 Cynicism (2000–15)7 ConclusionNotes ReferencesIndex
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Its All Good Unless Its Not Mental Health Tips
Book SynopsisIt’s All Good (Unless It’s Not) explores frequent sources of undergraduate mental distress and the steps students can take to meet those challenges head-on.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Knowing You’re Not Alone1 Managing the Transition to University2 Valuing and Supporting Diversity 3 Understanding Mental Health4 Meeting Academic Hurdles Head-On5 Making Time for Friends and Extracurriculars6 Going Out and Staying In7 Doing It All and Still Having Time for You8 Recognizing the Signs of Mental IllnessConclusion: Keeping a Healthy MindSources; Index
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University of British Columbia Press You the U
Book SynopsisIf you're gearing up for university, you probably have a few fears and concerns. Am I smart enough? How do I know which major is a good choice? How can I make friends, get good grades, and still get enough sleep? Whether you're making the transition to university straight out of high school or have taken a gap year (or a few!), this guided tour through first year demystifies the process, from registering for class and making the most of orientation to knowing when to pull an all-nighter and making time to prep for exams. University is supposed to be challenging, but, as Janet Miller promises, it doesn't need to be stressful or overwhelming. As a university counsellor and registered psychologist with a behind-closed-doors view of university life, she understands that when students have guidance and support when they know what to expect they thrive. With wit and wisdom, she shares what she's learned from thousands of students who have walked the campus hallways Table of ContentsForeword: Blessings for All on Your Journey / Elder Roy Bear ChiefIntroduction: First-Year Guidance from a Friendly Student Counsellor1 What to Know before You Go2 Moving (Even If You’re Not)3 Orientation and Welcome4 Early Days on Campus5 Finding Your Peeps and Settling In6 The Crash (a.k.a. October, First Grades Back)7 Maybe I’m Not Smart Enough8 Time Machines and How to Use them9 Messed Up about Majors10 The Sh*t Has Hit the Fan11 All-Nighters and Late–Late-Nighters12 Managing the Stress and Coping with Outside Distractions13 End in Sight but Losing Steam14 Race-Day Strategies for Final Exams15 Planning for Second Semester and Second YearConclusion: Looking Forward to the Second SeasonA Quick Tour of Student ServicesNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Successful TA
Book SynopsisMaybe you're an undergraduate or graduate student who's just been appointed a TA. Or maybe you're a postdoctoral student or a new hire with limited teaching experience. In either case, you'll be expected with little to no training to excel at teaching and to enhance the learning experience of your students. Kathy Nomme and Carol Pollock recognize this gap between expectations and preparation and draw on decades of experience in teaching and TA training to offer practical advice on: interacting with course instructors dealing with nerves and anxiety preparing for the first session supporting student learning developing learning exercises engaging students with diverse needs and backgrounds using technology in the classroom assessing student work and providing feedback. The lessons and scenarios in this short, accessible guide can be applied to any discipline or teaching venue from large lecture Table of ContentsGetting Started1 Stepping into Your Role2 Preparing for Your First Session3 Designing Lessons and Learning Activities4 Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment5 Facilitating Classroom Interaction6 Teaching with Technology7 Assessing Student Learning8 Reflecting on Your Teaching PracticeWords of EncouragementAppendixFurther Resources
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