Despite decades of effort by federal science funders to increase the numbers of women holding advanced degrees and faculty jobs in science and engineering, they are persistently underrepresented in academic STEM disciplines, especially in positions of seniority, leadership, and prestige. Women filled 47% of all US jobs in 2015, but held only ......
More Black women are graduating with advanced degrees than ever before. Despite the fact that their educational and professional opportunities should be expanding, highly educated Black women face strained and worsening economic, material, and labor conditions in graduate school and along their academic career trajectory. Black women are less ......
How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect Their Students
In the United States, college costs, especially tuition and fees, have increased much more rapidly than either the overall Consumer Price Index or median household income. This cost inflation has effectively closed the doors of higher education to many qualified students and contributed to a staggering $1.5 trillion in student debt. ......
How do we transfer the brilliance of university research results into new products, services, and medicines to benefit society? University research is creating the technologies of tomorrow in the fields of medicine, engineering, information technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence. These early-stage technologies need investment from ..
Resource for elementary health education teachers and administrators. Supplemental text for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in health education teaching methods.
Originally published in 1970. This book examines whether Weber's approach has a greater humanizing value than has been conceded by his opponents and will attempt to demonstrate the humanistic mission of the University and its usefulness for youth and democracy.
Toward Freedom and Dignity is a humanist's view of the humanities in an age of burgeoning technology. O. B. Hardison Jr. deals with the status of the humanities and their future'how they are regarded and how they may come to contribute to a genuinely humane society. He argues that humanistic studies are not a luxury in either education ......
Introduction to Teaching Physical Education delves into the theoretical, practical and inspirational aspects of teaching physical education. If offers the ideal starting point for undergraduates to learn about the field and get excited about teaching. Students are able to explore the field's history, purpose and concepts as well as learn teaching ......
