Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff,Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significantand long overduecontribution to the development of the ......
A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein VeblensThe Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblens classic, thoroughly edited, annotated, and indexed. An extensive introduction discusses ......
A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblen's classic, thoroughly edited, annotated, and indexed. An extensive introduction ......
Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention, number of credits accrued, graduation, and job placement. The theory is that introducing market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient and effective. InThe Politics of Performance ......
Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America
One study after another shows American students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM fields - science, technology, engineering, and math. Business people and cultural critics such as Bill Gates warn that this alarming situation puts the United States at a serious disadvantage in the high-tech global marketplace of the ......
Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency
Within These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that impact higher education, federal and state government entities, and other stakeholders.
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administrations spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has this essential leadership position evolved over the ......
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administrations spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has this essential leadership position evolved over the ......
Since the election of Barack Obama to the US presidency in 2008, some people are under the illusion that we in America now live in a opost-racial society.o Author Rupert W. Nacoste knows all too well how far we are from that imagined utopia. As a professor of psychology and the campus oDiversity Doctor,o Dr. Nacoste counsels students on a regular ......
