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Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership

Shows how authentic diversity and inclusive leadership practices can promote anti-racist, equitable, and transformational change in institutions of higher learning in the United States and beyond.

The Chosen We

Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.

Invisible Forces

By Pei Pei Liu
Subjects: Education

Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.

The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, Third Edition

Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.

Feminists Reclaim Mentorship

Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations.

Racial Equity on College Campuses

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

Black Campus Life

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.

Stakes Is High

A rich, authentic account of eight young Black men's experiences on their paths to and through college.

Creating a Culture of Mindful Innovation in Higher Education

Offers a vision for innovation in higher education focused on societal progress and human development, as well as for higher education's role within a broader culture of innovation.

Higher Education Systems Redesigned

Brings together scholars and higher education system leaders to highlight concrete examples of system change and realignment to advance student success.

Teaching, Tenure, and Collegiality

Questions universities’ increasing reliance on market-oriented metrics to determine their strategic directions and gauge faculty productivity.

Sisterlocking Discoarse

Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions

Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.

Super Schoolmaster

Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.

Teaching Race in Perilous Times

Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.

Transforming Higher Education in Asia and Africa

Analyzes twelve strategic planning efforts in higher education in eight countries in Asia and Africa.

University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism

A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.

Sankofa

Explores the complex interplay of race and culture in the doctoral experiences of African American students.

Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges, and Universities

Brings relational sociology to bear on educational research.

Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 3

Explores the impact of shared governance in times of campus and system transition.

Get Real

A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.

Shared Governance in Higher Education Set (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)

A trilogy exploring different aspects of shared governance in higher education.

Tuning the Student Mind

Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.

Bordered Writers

Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.

Catalyzing the Field

A rich collection of essays about the inner, shared experiences of participants engaged in second-person approaches to contemplative practice.

Trans People in Higher Education

Edited by Genny Beemyn
Subjects: Education

Addresses the experiences of trans college students, faculty, and staff in a single volume for the first time.

Black Women and Social Justice Education

Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

The Intersubjective Turn

Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education.

The Quest for Purpose

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.

Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 2

Edited by Sharon F. Cramer
Subjects: Education

Offers valuable insights into the governance process in higher education.

Being Black, Being Male on Campus

Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.

Staging Women's Lives in Academia

Argues that institutional change must accommodate women’s professional and personal life stages.

Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1

Edited by Sharon F. Cramer
Subjects: Education

Offers practical advice for achieving shared governance in higher education.

Sixty-Four Campuses—One University

Handsome, fully illustrated history of the sixty-four State University of New York campuses.

Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity

Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.

The Best Kind of College

Edited by Susan McWilliams & John E. Seery
Subjects: Education

Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.

In the Face of Inequality

First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.

The Problem of College Readiness

Examines how states, schools, and postsecondary institutions might best help improve college readiness and completion.

The Lure of Literacy

Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses.

Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Century

Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.

Expanding the Circle

Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.

Ernest L. Boyer

Edited by Todd C. Ream & John M. Braxton
Subjects: Education

Assesses the challenges plaguing our higher education system through selections of Ernest L. Boyer’s writings

Higher Education Reconsidered

Focuses on the opportunities and challenges of using the science of change to improve the academic enterprise.

Contemplative Learning and Inquiry across Disciplines

A wide-ranging consideration of the emerging field of contemplative education.

Beyond Banneker

An in-depth look at the lives, experiences, and professional careers of Black mathematicians in the United States.

Faculty Fathers

Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.

Building a Smarter University

Demonstrates how universities can use Big Data to enhance operations and management, improve the education pipeline, and educate the next generation of data scientists.

Black Passports

A resource guide that uses African American memoir to address a variety of issues related to mentoring and curriculum development.

College Girl

The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor.

Vernacular Insurrections

By Carmen Kynard
Subjects: Education

Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.

Higher Education Systems 3.0

An exploration of multi-campus higher education systems and their role in improving communities and their economies.

Running on Empty

Explores how Southampton College went from “the jewel in the university crown” to an “albatross around the university neck. ”

A Creature of Our Own Making

By Gary A. Olson
Subjects: Education

Witty, savvy, incisive, and entertaining short essays on the culture, mores, and practices of higher education.

Inside the Undergraduate Teaching Experience

Shows what kind of changes college faculty make to their teaching and why they make them.

Universities and Colleges as Economic Drivers

A comprehensive examination of the relationship between higher education, state government, and economic development.

Precipice or Crossroads?

Comprehensive treatment of the challenges faced by America’s public research universities, and of what those challenges may mean for the nation.

Integral Education

Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an integral perspective.

Intellectual Capital

Edited by Carole G. Basile
Subjects: Education

Stories from participants in Professional Development Schools.

Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice

Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.

Grade Inflation

Edited by Lester H. Hunt
Subjects: Education

An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.

College Life through the Eyes of Students

By Mary Grigsby
Subjects: Sociology

Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.

Breaking into the All-Male Club

Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.

The First Time Effect

A fresh look at study abroad programs on American college and university campuses.

When the Pot Boils

By David A. Paul
Subjects: Education

Tells the story of the decline and near bankruptcy of a major American university, and how its dramatic turnaround was quickly achieved.

The Way Literacy Lives

Challenges an autonomous model of literacy instruction in favor of one that recognizes and builds on students’ facility in navigating other rhetorical contexts.

Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

Thought Knows No Sex

Grounded in student experiences at nineteenth-century Alfred University, this social history explores the origins of women’s higher education and the rural roots of reform.

Always at Odds?

By Mary C. Wright
Subjects: Education

How faculty and administrators at research universities can create a shared sense of values.

Ideas That Work in College Teaching

Edited by Robert L. Badger
Subjects: Education

Fifteen authors from thirteen different disciplines discuss their varied approaches to teaching.

The Locations of Composition

Explores the concepts of space and place within composition studies.

Burning Down the House

A riveting analysis of the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California.

African Americans and College Choice

Assesses the influence of family and school on African American students' college decision-making processes.

Preparing for College

Analyzes and defines the parameters of effective college outreach programs.

Mixed Race Students in College

Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students.

Who's in Charge of America's Research Universities?

By Thomas J. Tighe
Subjects: Education

Goes to the heart of the challenges facing the nation's research universities.

Funding Public Colleges and Universities for Performance

By Joseph C. Burke
Subjects: Education

Looks at the progress, popularity, and problems related to states linking funding of public colleges and universities to performance.

Diversity, Multiculturalism and Social Justice

An interdisciplinary reader exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Increasing Access to College

Focuses on pre-college enrichment programs as a solution to the problem of minority and low-income student access to postsecondary education.

The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education

A revised edition of the classic text, illuminating the linkages between race and higher education.

The Quest for Equity in Higher Education

A critical examination of current sociopolitical issues surrounding equity and diversity and their impact on higher education.

Women Administrators in Higher Education

Shows the tenacious spirit and hard work of women administrators in their struggles to enhance opportunities for women on college campuses.

Transnational Competence

Offers the definitive study of United States-Japan educational exchange relationship.

Subject to Identity

Challenges the ways "lesbian academics" have been socially constructed.

Managed Professionals

Focuses on the ongoing negotiations of professional autonomy and managerial discretion and provides insight into the broad restructuring of faculty, with conclusions that extend beyond unionized faculty to all of academe.

Common Ground

This examination of feminist collaboration reconceptualizes ideas about creativity, cooperation, and competition in higher education.

Radical Interventions

Minority scholars offer a critical and often radical rethinking of fundamental questions concerning identity, politics, and difference/s as these inform educational theory and practice.

Promotion and Tenure

Articulates salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color. Offers a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

Ethnic Studies and Multiculturalism

Provides an overview of ethnicity and intergroup relations, profiles the development of multiculturalism and ethnic studies, and analyzes the issues related to diversity in higher education as they relate to ethnic studies and multicultural efforts.

Token Professionals and Master Critics

This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the ...

The Cold War and Academic Governance

This book examines the harassment of the Johns Hopkins University sinologist Owen Lattimore during the height of the Cold War on campus. It moves from detailing the specifics of Lattimore's case to a ...

Performance versus Results

This study examines the consequences of cultural development on the emergence of contemporary sport. The current preoccupation with statistics and reductionist theories has objectified athletic performance ...

The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960-1980

Clark Kerr, former President of the University of California and a leader in higher education policymaking, offers his views of the turbulent decades when colleges and universities scrambled to provide ...

The Higher Learning and High Technology

In this critical new work, Slaughter investigates how university involvement in high technology influences higher education policy. By conducting a case study of the Business-Higher Education Forum, a ...